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Biden Steered $36 Billion In Taxpayer Money Into Teamster Union Pension Funds
Not only did he take our retirement money and use it to pay off his union backers, but he also probably helped his union cronies avoid prosecution, because, had those pension funds run out of money as they would have without this semi-secret taxpayer bailout, there would certainly have been some legal attention devoted to the question, WHERE DID THE MONEY GO?
But now the money is in the accounts where it was supposed to be all along so thanks to Joe Biden -- by which I mean, thanks to the US taxpayer, who was never consulted about any of this -- none of Joe Biden's union cronies have to worry about any forensic accounting investigations or prosecutions. And this sets a nice precedent for when all the rest of the unions' pensions begin failing one after the other -- you'll just have to pay for it all. They'll just take your retirement funds to "shore up" the unions' retirement funds. Isn't that the right thing to do? Aren't we all in this together? This has been the plan all along. This has been the plan for the past 30 years, when the unions realized they had spent all the money they were supposed to put into the pension funds on present benefits (and illegal payouts to the union officials). And now the plan goes into effect. Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist:"The largest private pension bailout in American history" gave each beneficiary of the Central States Pension Fund nearly $100,000.Just wait until the public sector unions pension funds start failing! Chicago's public sector unions' pension funds have barely any money in them! Neither do Detroit's! And they have promised to pay out billions and billions! Guess who's going to be funding those?! No, Guess! You're gonna love the answer!
Can Americans be bribed with their own money? The powers that be are certainly putting that question to the test. In recent years, we've seen inflation-inducing cash giveaways associated with "Covid relief." We've seen the ongoing attempts at profoundly inequitable student loan forgiveness. In December, we saw a $1.7 trillion pork pie omnibus appropriations bill passed by a Congress that had no time to read it. Lost in all of this has been one spectacular giveaway: $100,000 per beneficiary of the Central States Pension Fund (CSPF). The fund provides pension benefits to nearly 360,000 private-sector workers and retirees, mostly Teamsters Union members. U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, called the deal out in December, noting it was "the largest private pension bailout in American history" that benefited only "a tiny minority of workers." He suggested it resulted from the insanity of "allowing those who mismanaged pensions to determine whether their funds qualify for taxpayer assistance with no safeguards." The $36 billion comes almost two years after the passage of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. That "rescue" was the Biden administration's Covid spending bonanza. Biden signed it into law in the spring of 2021, when the economy was already well into recovery. The housing market was booming. The stock market was on a steady upward climb. It was obvious that the "rescue" would cause inflation. It was obvious Democrats were taking advantage of an opportunity to give away public largesse. And did they ever. Lest we doubt the ongoing influence of the Teamsters in American politics, the recent $36 billion giveaway says it all. It says to the union bosses, who make up half of the CSPF board: "You can watch the pension fund's health decline for decades. You can make unrealistic promises to employees. You can keep the plan below 75 percent funded. You can depend on a pyramid concept where imaginary new members keep coming in to pay for retired members. None of that matters now. The politicians you own will bail you out with the public's money. In fact, you can take such largesse that union workers in other multi-employer plans get left with only crumbs. Write yourself a check. And, as a bonus, we won't ask you to change anything." Workers of the world are not united here. This is a cash grab benefiting one group of roughly 360,000 (3 percent) of the 11 million participants in the multi-employer plans. And Covid, schmovid. Even before the panic and the lockdowns, the Congressional Research Service reported that the multi-employer pensions were underfunded by $650 billion. In 2018, CSPF had been projected to reach insolvency by 2025.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 23, 2023 03:36 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 23, 2023 03:36 PM (44ww/)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 23, 2023 03:36 PM (mZ3xv)
Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2023 03:36 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 23, 2023 03:37 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 23, 2023 03:37 PM (YwyqV)
Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2023 03:37 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 23, 2023 03:38 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill - Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 23, 2023 03:38 PM (S2Wbf)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 23, 2023 03:38 PM (NgqoH)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 23, 2023 03:38 PM (mZ3xv)
Donald Trump: I want 5 Billion to build a wall!
Mitch McConnell: Heh!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 23, 2023 03:38 PM (up/3i)
Posted by: Vince from Slapchop at February 23, 2023 03:38 PM (DfWVu)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 23, 2023 03:39 PM (JglZ8)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 23, 2023 03:39 PM (Xrfse)
How tidy.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 23, 2023 03:37 PM (lf83v)
Wait a minute. The Big Guy gets 10%. This is 0.1%. Where is the other 9.9%? I'm guessing it went directly to the Dems and Biden themselves, not their campaigns.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 23, 2023 03:39 PM (a/dOO)
Posted by: JT at February 23, 2023 03:39 PM (T4tVD)
Posted by: ... at February 23, 2023 03:39 PM (DfWVu)
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Sorry, have to be in the union to build lampposts.
Posted by: LearningToCode at February 23, 2023 03:39 PM (7BGok)
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California has a whopping debt overhang in their public sector pension fund, something like $300-500 billion, IIRC.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2023 03:40 PM (YqDXo)
No, Guess!
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I don't like the tenor of this demand. Do I really have to guess?' Cause I have a sneaking suspicion what the answer is going to be...
Posted by: Muldoon at February 23, 2023 03:40 PM (ykeLU)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 23, 2023 03:40 PM (sWM8x)
Simple.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 23, 2023 03:41 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at February 23, 2023 03:41 PM (TNyrE)
Posted by: Rope Braiders Local 1984 at February 23, 2023 03:41 PM (a/dOO)
Posted by: Muldoon at February 23, 2023 03:41 PM (ykeLU)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 23, 2023 03:41 PM (D25PY)
Posted by: Wally at February 23, 2023 03:41 PM (FJYfm)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 23, 2023 03:42 PM (anj39)
Posted by: Rope Braiders Local 1984 at February 23, 2023 03:42 PM (a/dOO)
Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2023 03:42 PM (ZdaMQ)
Dear AlaBAMA,
Thank you for the 100,000 dollars. Now I can afford shoes to walk to school in the snow, uphill both ways. I'll not be spending this unwisely, like on PBRs at Teddy's Bar.
Love,
Frank (CSPF Member since 1970)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 23, 2023 03:42 PM (mZ3xv)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2023
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On my local "news" this am, they ran a story that Ozempic ("Oh, oh, oh, O-zem-pic" to the tune of "It's Magic") has been prescribed for diabetics. Now it's a popular weight loss or weight control drug?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 23, 2023 03:42 PM (J2vNu)
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Sorry, have to be in the union to build lampposts.
Posted by: LearningToCode at February 23, 2023 03:39 PM (7BGok)
Then use the fucking trees. Got plenty of them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2023 03:42 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: redridinghood at February 23, 2023 03:43 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2023 03:42 PM (VwHCD)
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Non-union trees?!
Scab!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 23, 2023 03:43 PM (LvTSG)
Yeah, I see him like Rush Limbaugh on ESPN. They put him off in a corner, kept his mic shut off most of the time, and fired him the instant he said anything remotely not in the narrative.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2023 03:43 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Wally at February 23, 2023 03:41 PM (FJYfm)
Yes, but then the recipients would have to live in Detroit to benefit.
Okay, I'm trying to see the downside of this, given that half of them were probably ghost employees during their supposed employment, but I'm sure there's an issue with this somewhere.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 23, 2023 03:44 PM (a/dOO)
Posted by: The California Public Employees Retirement System! at February 23, 2023 03:44 PM (2tUFv)
Dear AlaBAMA,
Thank you for the 100,000 dollars. Now I can afford shoes to walk to school in the snow, uphill both ways. I'll not be spending this unwisely, like on PBRs at Teddy's Bar.
Love,
Frank (CSPF Member since 1970)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 23, 2023 03:42 PM (mZ3xv)
Don't forget the adowable UAW retiree bwanket!
Posted by: Obligatory at February 23, 2023 03:44 PM (BTgKJ)
Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill - Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 23, 2023 03:44 PM (S2Wbf)
Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2023 03:45 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2023 03:45 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 23, 2023 03:42 PM (J2vNu)
That song came out when I was a kid. We used to laugh that it sounded like they were saying "Oh oh oh, it's my dick"
I still sing it that way, at least when my wife's not around.
Posted by: Wally at February 23, 2023 03:45 PM (FJYfm)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 23, 2023 03:45 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: wth at February 23, 2023 03:45 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 23, 2023 03:45 PM (BTgKJ)
Lost in all of this has been one spectacular giveaway: $100,000 per beneficiary of the Central States Pension Fund (CSPF).
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So was this cash grab in the Ominbus that our lovely Republicans rammed through in the final hours of the last Congress?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 03:46 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Printing Presses and muh trillion dollar deficits at February 23, 2023 03:46 PM (NGGa8)
I still sing it that way, at least when my wife's not around.
Posted by: Wally at February 23, 2023
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A group called Pilot, YooToob says. I always pictured Liz Montgomery's Samantha singing it to Darrin when, at long last, her family was nowhere around.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 23, 2023 03:46 PM (J2vNu)
We have a weight problem in this country and you get to a certain weight where you need help. I don’t begrudge that. Where I get mad is people using these drugs without the corresponding change in behaviors to avoid gaining it all back once you stop the drugs.
Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2023 03:46 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 23, 2023 03:46 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 03:46 PM (t0OGg)
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*salutes flag*
*tear runs down cheek*
*adjusts Ukraine tie*
-Mitch McConnell
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 23, 2023 03:46 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 23, 2023 03:42 PM (J2vNu)
Apparently all the celebrities are using it, and causing shortages to people who really need it.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2023 03:46 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 23, 2023 03:46 PM (z1bdm)
We're screwed.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 23, 2023 03:46 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2023 03:47 PM (0hOvj)
Hi Sailor....
Posted by: Trillion dollar coin at February 23, 2023 03:47 PM (NgqoH)
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California has a whopping debt overhang in their public sector pension fund, something like $300-500 billion, IIRC.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2023 03:40 PM (YqDXo)
And if you think about the actual economics of this, all these shortfalls in public retirement plans and Social Security represent a real gap in actual future productivity and the future consumption plans of people(even if you try to steal more from people still working things just collapse faster). In short, people are going to become a lot poorer in old age then older people are now.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 23, 2023 03:47 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 23, 2023 03:47 PM (up/3i)
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So long as Union "political donations" go the right way.
Some of this $36 billion, probably several millions of dollars of it, is going to be funneled directly into the pockets of various politicians, PACs and NGOs - all of them on the left and probably the hardest side of the left.
Great work if you can get it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 03:47 PM (t0OGg)
>>The cookie jar is empty.
There is no cookie jar, they stole that too.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 23, 2023 03:47 PM (up/3i)
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There's an empty lockbox somewhere...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 23, 2023 03:48 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: bonhomme at February 23, 2023 03:48 PM (eyxn4)
Posted by: micky at February 23, 2023 03:49 PM (3byMq)
Posted by: bonhomme at February 23, 2023 03:49 PM (eyxn4)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at February 23, 2023 03:49 PM (TNyrE)
If you are a retired Oregon public employee, and live in Washington, Nevada, Texas, or some other state without a state income tax, you pay nothing.
Paychecks from Oregon count as Oregon income, but retirement checks from Oregon don't count as Oregon income.
Funny how that works.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 23, 2023 03:49 PM (2tUFv)
Posted by: ... at February 23, 2023 03:49 PM (7Ia3u)
Posted by: PG at February 23, 2023 03:49 PM (84jHt)
>>There's an empty lockbox somewhere...
Uhh...
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Actuary What Was Supposed To Look After The lockbox but can't seem to Find it or the IOU's That Were Inside.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 23, 2023 03:49 PM (up/3i)
Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2023 03:50 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 23, 2023 03:50 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 23, 2023 03:50 PM (uNylN)
Or are we going to do the shore-up every time we have a Dem president?
Posted by: PJ at February 23, 2023 03:50 PM (G1dq6)
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Actuary What Was Supposed To Look After The lockbox but can't seem to Find it or the IOU's That Were Inside.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 23, 2023 03:49 PM (up/3i)
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He sold the lockbox for child pron, didn't he?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 23, 2023 03:50 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 03:46 PM (t0OGg)
Don't worry! Now that the Republicans run the House, I'm sure that they will have steel spines and hold the line on any future bailouts snuck into giant pork-laden omnibus /gasp, urgf, blurg/
Sorry, I was almost able to get through that without gagging. Maybe next time.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 23, 2023 03:50 PM (a/dOO)
You have an empire that went from birth to global hegemony and riches in a staggeringly short time.
Then it set about to destroy itself from within.
It started in 1965.
Posted by: JmT at February 23, 2023 03:50 PM (M1RIk)
Chicago's public sector unions' pension funds have barely any money in them! Neither do Detroit's!
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Oh, they'll try. I have it as even money right now as to whether an attempted bailout of public retirement plans or Medicare will trigger the fiscal crisis first.
CalPERS alone would cripple the FedGov if the feds try to bail it out. CalPERS - optimistically - is about $200 billion in the hole. Many other states are even worse in terms of proportions. CalPERS is a huge system, but it's something like 80% funded last time I checked. The deficit is huge in dollar terms, but other states are way worse in relative terms.
It cannot be afforded. If we try to, it will cause a fiscal crisis almost immediately.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 03:51 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 23, 2023 03:51 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 23, 2023 03:51 PM (4WrxM)
Posted by: Muldoon at February 23, 2023 03:51 PM (ykeLU)
Posted by: The Junta at February 23, 2023 03:51 PM (AMIL/)
1) A self-licking ice cream cone for donations to leftoid candidates and PACs
2) Graft for the union bosses
Posted by: ballistic at February 23, 2023 03:52 PM (oXNqT)
Posted by: sockamster, footage at February 23, 2023 03:52 PM (MLrvz)
Speaking of which, there have been ads everywhere for this Washington State Working Families Tax Credit. WA STATE DOESN'T HAVE INCOME TAX.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2023 03:52 PM (DRSnL)
yeah we're at the point of the collapse of empire where the bureaucrats loot the treasury
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2023 03:52 PM (0hOvj)
https://bit.ly/3EtCjKD
Posted by: bonhomme at February 23, 2023 03:52 PM (eyxn4)
Posted by: redridinghood at February 23, 2023 03:53 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 03:51 PM (t0OGg)
The Fed: "Jokes on you, money printer goes 'brrr, brr'!"
Posted by: Thrawn at February 23, 2023 03:53 PM (Rl7KJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 23, 2023 03:51 PM (4WrxM)
There have been a number of trial balloons floated by various and sundry commie govt 'policy experts'.
This terrifies me.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 23, 2023 03:53 PM (NgqoH)
(or Monorail for half the price)
Posted by: wth at February 23, 2023 03:53 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill - Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 23, 2023 03:54 PM (S2Wbf)
Jean-Pierre: "Diversity and representation is really important to this president and the president is going to look at a highly diverse group."
Posted by: SMOD at February 23, 2023 03:54 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 23, 2023 03:54 PM (63Dwl)
"hey, we do more than that, we also ruin the economy and take a chunk of every worker's paycheck! We got laws passed to make sure many states you have to join the union or get fired! We protect pedo teachers! We do all kinda stuff!"
--Union rep from their third vacation home
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2023 03:54 PM (0hOvj)
I always wanted to be a Teamster. So lazy and surly.
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Whatever. They're polite and they work like stevedores, compared to a *REAL* labor org. There's not even that many child-rapists in that union.
Posted by: The NEA at February 23, 2023 03:54 PM (oINRc)
Sorry, I was almost able to get through that without gagging. Maybe next time.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 23, 2023 03:50 PM (a/dOO)
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Heh. Something tells me that the Republican House will not be fiscal hawks. I think they will, however, pretend.
:: dusts off crystal ball ::
This autumn, they will send some budget bill to the Senate. That bill will be lousy, but way less lousy than we have seen recently. The Senate will fight over it. McConnell and Schumer will direct their caucuses to make various loud noises. Eventually, they will pass the bill "under duress" and "for the good of the country." Then Biden will veto the bill. A week after that, the HoR will pass an appalling mess of a bill to avoid a "government shutdown" in these trying times. The Senate will pass it within four hours and Biden will immediately sign it. If the House is feeling obstinate, they may let it go into a "shutdown battle" and pass the same bill a week later.
:: puts away crystal ball ::
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 03:55 PM (t0OGg)
There is no cookie jar, they stole that too.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 23, 2023 03:47 PM (up/3i)
You don't need cookies. We supply you with tasty Soy Snax. And your monthly ration of Soy Snax has been increased from 10 to 8 delectable wafers!
Soy Snax - the delicious cookie replacement! Now with a pfree Pfizer mRNA booster in every box!
Posted by: Food and Drug Administration - "We Take Our Name Literally" at February 23, 2023 03:55 PM (h5TKJ)
Posted by: wth at February 23, 2023 03:53 PM (v0R5T)
Ooh! Tell me more. Has such a venture ever put a community on the map?
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 23, 2023 03:55 PM (a/dOO)
Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 23, 2023 03:55 PM (rn+Vx)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2023 03:52 PM (0hOvj)
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Yup, this is basically my take, too.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 03:55 PM (t0OGg)
https://bityl.co/HJii
Positions multiemployer plans that receive assistance to remain solvent through at least 2051 – with no cuts to earned benefits:
Before American Rescue Plan: over 200 multiemployer plans were on pace to become insolvent in the near term.
After: Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, every multiemployer pension plan that faced near-term insolvency and benefit cuts that receives Special Financial Assistance is projected to remain solvent through 2051, and for much longer.
Thanks a lot, fucking Republicans Senators.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2023 03:55 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2023 03:56 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2023 03:56 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 23, 2023 03:56 PM (YwyqV)
As bad as this is, Trump pretty much bailed out everything that's ever existed "because Covid", including student debt deferment that will probably go on forever.
Posted by: Blago at February 23, 2023 03:56 PM (SVCFM)
~ Residents of Springfield
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 23, 2023 03:56 PM (YwyqV)
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Is there a chance the track could bend?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 23, 2023 03:57 PM (LvTSG)
And don't think it isn't in their plans.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 23, 2023 03:57 PM (BdMk6)
About 2011 the Democrats held hearings on Government Retirement Accounts IIRC. The kick in the nuts would come after death of account holder, 50% of what remained would go to government.
Talk about incentive to go all Logan's Run with single payer and yeah be scared.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 23, 2023 03:57 PM (4WrxM)
Posted by: InZona at February 23, 2023 03:57 PM (s79RP)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 23, 2023 03:57 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: Thrawn at February 23, 2023 03:53 PM (Rl7KJ)
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That will still engender a fiscal crisis if they try it. It will be a different type - and a type more likely to result in violence, as the currency starts to collapse without a global backstop when international settlements in non-dollar currencies suddenly become much more popular - but it will still happen.
A fiscal crisis is inevitable at this point, unless we end up with some new industrial revolution to bail us out of the excess. I don't see one in the offing (though people rarely do), but barring that, a fiscal calamity is inevitable given our government's behavior. What form it will take is an open question.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 03:57 PM (t0OGg)
Years ago, Oregon tried to claim that state and local government pensions weren't Oregon income, but that Federal pensions were Oregon income.
Federal pensioners sued, and a compromise was reached - now Federal pensions aren't Oregon income either.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 23, 2023 03:57 PM (2tUFv)
Lampposts. Rope. Some assembly required.
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Sorry, have to be in the union to build lampposts.
Posted by: LearningToCode at February 23, 2023 03:39 PM (7BGok)
Then use the fucking trees. Got plenty of them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
Where's your environmental impact statement? EPA says they got bupkis.
Posted by: The Sierra Club at February 23, 2023 03:57 PM (n+4am)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2023 03:58 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 23, 2023 03:58 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 23, 2023 03:58 PM (lTGtQ)
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It'll chuck along for several more years, at least.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 23, 2023 03:58 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 03:55 PM (t0OGg)
Sorry Joe, I think your crystal ball needed a bit more polishing. It didn't show the inevitable "continuing resolutions" that keep punting the so-called shut-down for a few weeks at a time. I think your final visions was correct, but it takes place in December, not late-September.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 23, 2023 03:58 PM (a/dOO)
Posted by: N.Lurker at February 23, 2023 03:58 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 23, 2023 03:42 PM (J2vNu)
IIRC, Viagra started life as a heart disease or blood pressure drug. These things do happen all the time - "unintended consequences" or "happy accidents".
Personally, I am thrilled beyond words to have been able to lose 44 pounds since starting on Mounjaro back in September. And no, I am not diabetic - happily, taking this medication (and good genetics) will ensure that I never am.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at February 23, 2023 03:58 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Zelensky at February 23, 2023 03:58 PM (AmoqO)
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"Here, hold our Perrier." -- Califzuela
Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 23, 2023 03:59 PM (rn+Vx)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 23, 2023 03:59 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2023 03:55 PM (yQpMk)
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Yup. Thankfully, the likes of McConnell and McCarthy and Romney and McDaniel are history and the new Party leadership is making the difficult choices to return governance to a sensible footing so we can try to stave off catastrophe.
Oh, wait...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 03:59 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2023 03:59 PM (yQpMk)
I suspect that there are more "name" writers and commentators who read Ace than will admit it.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 23, 2023 03:59 PM (nfrXX)
1) Ukraine pensions
2) government pensions
3) union pensions
And ...
Well, that's it, nobody else I can think of ....
At least no mean tweets!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 23, 2023 04:00 PM (E2vbs)
Posted by: Archer at February 23, 2023 04:00 PM (gmo/4)
https://tinyurl.com/pd8sh84t
Joy Behar says East Palestine got what they deserved because they voted for Trump
"That's who you voted for!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2023 04:00 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: sockamster, footage at February 23, 2023 04:00 PM (MLrvz)
I worked for a company that provided software for stevedores to use. While I was in that job, I learned a lot about them. First, it's a very dangerous job. Lots of injuries. Second, their union will demand training and compensation if you change the shade of color of a button. Any change bigger than that and they really go apeshit. Third, they sabotaged their own equipment constantly. All the time. Not just "hmm, how did that happen." I mean full on leaving a knife sticking out of a touchscreen monitor. Fourth, it was completely unremarkable for them to go hide somewhere and take a nap. They're some of the laziest dickheads on the planet.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 23, 2023 04:00 PM (eyxn4)
Posted by: sockamster, footage at February 23, 2023 04:00 PM (MLrvz)
---------
"Not to worry, comrade Ace -- Ukraine will bail us out and pay our pensions, amirite?"
Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 23, 2023 04:01 PM (rn+Vx)
I think that is exactly what's happening.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 23, 2023 04:01 PM (Xrfse)
~ Residents of Springfield
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 23, 2023 03:56 PM (YwyqV)
==========
Is there a chance the track could bend?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 23, 2023 03:57 PM (LvTSG)
Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!
~ Residents of Springfield
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 23, 2023 04:01 PM (YwyqV)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2023 03:40 PM (YqDXo)
I have an offer - more like a pleading - to help out my old Cali employer. Funny story for the ONT. Does anyone know if that would open me up to California taxes in perpetuity and not just for that job even though I don't live there anymore? I feel like they would try to make it happen.
Posted by: InZona at February 23, 2023 04:01 PM (s79RP)
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 23, 2023 03:58 PM (a/dOO)
++++
Maybe. I think that's a coin flip. The Republicans *need* to pass a budget to avoid committing political suicide. It has been *the* major promise out of this Congress, and McCarthy's reign is predicated on it. I think the odds are good that they'll actually do a budget this year, but that budget will be awful, cut nothing, expand most things, and they'll come back with, "gee, we tried but we can only do so much with just one half of one third of government and we couldn't let a government shutdown go on forever."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 04:01 PM (t0OGg)
About 2011 the Democrats held hearings on Government Retirement Accounts IIRC. The kick in the nuts would come after death of account holder, 50% of what remained would go to government.
Talk about incentive to go all Logan's Run with single payer and yeah be scared.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 23, 2023 03:57 PM (4WrxM)
I recall that. I believe as recently as 2017 or 2018 a whitepaper was published outlining the policy. I will have to find it.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 23, 2023 04:01 PM (NgqoH)
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 23, 2023 04:02 PM (oE0yX)
Motherfucking McConnell signed off on this abomination.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2023 04:02 PM (yQpMk)
I don't care if they once served a useful purpose, or theoretically could still. They're simply a locus for corruption now.
Ban them. All of them.
Posted by: Brother Tim, still the worst commenter on the blog at February 23, 2023 04:02 PM (OUMaO)
I suspect that there are more "name" writers and commentators who read Ace than will admit it.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 23, 2023 03:59 PM (nfrXX)
*******
I think it started with Tucker using it.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 23, 2023 04:03 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at February 23, 2023 03:58 PM (SRRAx
—
Teresa! That is AMAZING! Congratulations. Medication or not, this isn’t easy to do.
Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2023 04:03 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2023 03:40 PM (YqDXo)
I have an offer - more like a pleading - to help out my old Cali employer. Funny story for the ONT. Does anyone know if that would open me up to California taxes in perpetuity and not just for that job even though I don't live there anymore? I feel like they would try to make it happen.
Posted by: InZona at February 23, 2023 04:01 PM (s79RP)
They might try to use it to claim you're still a resident and simply lying about your current residency. Other than that it doesn't create any new legal exposure above having lived there previously.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 23, 2023 04:03 PM (eYoxG)
They haven't taken the decisive step yet to destroy the dollar as the world's reserve currency - confiscate all of the Russians' currently frozen dollar reserve holdings and hand them to Ukraine, as many neo-cons are advocating.
The US does that, and of course no country that thinks that it might ever get crosswise with the US will hold dollars.
Give Biden time...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 23, 2023 04:03 PM (2tUFv)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2023 04:03 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2023 04:02 PM (yQpMk)
DeSantis will be able to get in there and change things lickety split.
Posted by: ... at February 23, 2023 04:04 PM (xKx+l)
Posted by: wth at February 23, 2023 04:04 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: sockamster, footage at February 23, 2023 04:00 PM (MLrvz)
-----------
Out: Shovel-ready jobs.
In: Hovel-ready digs.
Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 23, 2023 04:04 PM (JkdQ8)
https://tinyurl.com/pd8sh84t
Joy Behar says East Palestine got what they deserved because they voted for Trump
"That's who you voted for!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2023 04:00 PM (0hOvj)
Brain damaged and evil.
Posted by: N.Lurker at February 23, 2023 04:04 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2023 03:56 PM (ZdaMQ)
Unions are collectivist and so are disposed against the individual. That is my real problem with them.
Posted by: JmT at February 23, 2023 04:04 PM (M1RIk)
If their purpose is to recover money, and not say, harass the everloving shit out of people over pennies.
Posted by: ... at February 23, 2023 04:05 PM (xKx+l)
Posted by: bonhomme at February 23, 2023 04:05 PM (eyxn4)
1) Ukraine pensions
2) government pensions
3) union pensions
And ...
Well, that's it, nobody else I can think of ....
At least no mean tweets!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 23, 2023 04:00 P
Thank goodness for our betters.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 23, 2023 04:05 PM (oE0yX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 23, 2023 04:06 PM (J2vNu)
And that regulation was slapped on trains late in the Obama administration, wasn't necessary or useful.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2023 04:06 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2023 04:06 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 23, 2023 04:06 PM (fs1hN)
I assume that Onlyfans are sending 1099-K's to these women, because they are in a lot of trouble if they aren't.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 23, 2023 04:07 PM (2tUFv)
That's so fantastic! Congratulations!
Posted by: bonhomme at February 23, 2023 04:07 PM (eyxn4)
Joy Behar says East Palestine got what they deserved because they voted for Trump
"That's who you voted for!"
Be sure to tell her that if/when she gets mugged in NYC.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 23, 2023 04:07 PM (63Dwl)
Ya know, I used to tell myself that the reason I wasn't getting rich via scam, graft, grift, or fraud was that I was above that. Now I have to admit that it's just because I'm not imaginative enough.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 23, 2023 04:07 PM (nfrXX)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2023 04:07 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 23, 2023 04:07 PM (kFrCu)
Yeah, they are there to get waitresses and uber drivers. And to be an army that can be activated on any GOP donor or someone who complains too loud. Go viral for your speech at the local education board? Get raked over the coals.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2023 04:07 PM (0hOvj)
@tomselliott
Asked what the administration is doing to help entrepreneurs & small businesses,
@VP
Harris cites a program that teaches people how to pay taxes
https://tinyurl.com/bdz65db4
Posted by: redridinghood at February 23, 2023 04:08 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 23, 2023 04:06 PM (fs1hN)
++++
Apparently it was the Bill of Republican Betrayal at the end of the last Congress.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 04:08 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: wth at February 23, 2023 04:08 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Joker at February 23, 2023 04:08 PM (Mg79/)
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at February 23, 2023 04:08 PM (fs1hN)
I assume so as well but I think a lot of their big earnings are not through the site, but side stuff. Gifts.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2023 04:09 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 04:08 PM (t0OGg)
Omnibus bills - what can they NOT do?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 23, 2023 04:09 PM (YwyqV)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 23, 2023 04:06 PM (fs1hN)
They did, this is fully appropriated if not entirely funded with the aid of the Senate Republicans.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2023 04:09 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 23, 2023 04:06 PM (fs1hN)
And don't forget the episode called "Tyrannosaurus Debt".
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 23, 2023 04:09 PM (BTgKJ)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 23, 2023 04:09 PM (oWBc3)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 23, 2023 04:10 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: fd at February 23, 2023 04:10 PM (iayUP)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2023 04:10 PM (0hOvj)
Ya know, I used to tell myself that the reason I wasn't getting rich via scam, graft, grift, or fraud was that I was above that. Now I have to admit that it's just because I'm not imaginative enough.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 23, 2023 04:07 PM (nfrXX)
You're also not a hot chick.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 23, 2023 04:10 PM (eYoxG)
https://is.gd/xtYPMH
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 04:10 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2023 04:10 PM (xhxe8)
---
I get your snark and I agree
But the ashes in my mouth are:
There is and will not ever be constituency and possible coalition that will cut spending, eliminate waste or obey the law.
We really are fools pining for days past pretending there is some easy or even hard way out: There literally is no way out short of civil war or total collapse.
If we're lucky, we'll be dead before then, sorry kids.
Most likely, we'll all be destitute and bankrupt when it comes.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 23, 2023 04:10 PM (E2vbs)
Whoopsie! Just plum forgot to add that to the original report, but they totes found a gun!
Posted by: bonhomme at February 23, 2023 04:11 PM (eyxn4)
Motherfucking McConnell signed off on this abomination.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2023 04:02 PM (yQpMk)
.......
That's why we need Omnibus and soon: Megabus!
You can bury anything in 5,000 pages.
Posted by: wth at February 23, 2023 04:11 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: ... at February 23, 2023 04:04 PM (xKx+l)
This, unfortunately, does highlight the real limits that Trump faced and a future President Trump or President DeSantis would face. While an administration has great power, fighting the uni-party and corruption that passes in legislation is a Herculean task.
I think DeSantis would do a better job of clearing out lower-profile (but not necessarily lower harm) officials who resisted change and reform. But, either one will have to overcome legislation like this, as well as Obama and Biden judges eager to issue nationwide injunctions, to have a chance of making a change.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 23, 2023 04:11 PM (a/dOO)
Posted by: bonhomme at February 23, 2023 04:05
I saw that. LOEFFINGL. Scrunt.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 23, 2023 04:11 PM (oE0yX)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 23, 2023 04:11 PM (Y5qcH)
I thought Schoolhouse Rock taught me between Saturday morning cartoons that a bill had to be passed out of the legislative branch first.
Ha ha ha
https://youtu.be/JUDSeb2zHQ0
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 23, 2023 04:12 PM (63Dwl)
https://tinyurl.com/3ph4v9ec
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 23, 2023 04:12 PM (kFrCu)
Whispers of Dementia @mgEyesOpen · 16h Replying to @ChristinaPushaw
OMG. Vanity Fair did a fashion article on Sam Brinton featuring him in one of the stolen dresses. 😂 😂 😂
https://tinyurl.com/n45v7yun
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 23, 2023 04:12 PM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: Oddbob at February 23, 2023 04:12 PM (nfrXX)
"US is "very well" cooperating with Europe on the issue of replacing Russian oil and gas." - Victoria Nuland
We blow up your pipelines, and then we sell you much more expensive gas to replace the Russian gas!
What's not to like?
Posted by: Victoria N! at February 23, 2023 04:12 PM (2tUFv)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2023 04:13 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 23, 2023 04:13 PM (Cwz+L)
Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2023 04:06 PM (ZdaMQ)
Non-Public Unions are pretty much now the realm of white guys in the trades. Don't think the Democrats care much for them now but they will keep voting that way.
Posted by: JmT at February 23, 2023 04:13 PM (M1RIk)
https://is.gd/xtYPMH
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 04:10 PM (t0OGg)
........
I bet she likes monorail.
Posted by: wth at February 23, 2023 04:13 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: wth at February 23, 2023 04:04 PM
Yea, but Godzilla wearing a MAGA hat destroyed it and stepped on Jessie Smollet eating his Subway sushi.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 23, 2023 04:15 PM (oE0yX)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2023 04:15 PM (0hOvj)
The year I was born, (1956) the entire federal budget was ~$75 billion.
The accompanying graph should make y'all feel better... /s
https://tinyurl.com/fed-budget-history
Posted by: Muldoon at February 23, 2023 04:15 PM (ykeLU)
No, Guess!
You're gonna love the answer!
Posted by: Ace
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE WE ALREADY KNOW THE ANSWER
Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at February 23, 2023 04:15 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2023
***
Well, that's why I'm not leaving *now*. About 15 minutes earlier than the usual should be okay.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 23, 2023 04:16 PM (J2vNu)
Given that government produces absolutely no wealth, is only parasitic and destructive, they had no problems shutting down the wealth producing sectors indefinitely over a pretext virus.
At least we aren't yet proposing to throw in prison any government employee who goes to "work" during the shutdown.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 23, 2023 04:16 PM (l7lsb)
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at February 23, 2023 04:16 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Marcus T at February 23, 2023 04:16 PM (tDEa7)
Posted by: Linda Sina at February 23, 2023 04:17 PM (Grew6)
@disclosetv 7m
JUST IN - China in talks with Russia to supply combat drones, 100 could be delivered as soon as April — SPIEGEL
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 23, 2023 04:17 PM (XF9Gj)
https://tinyurl.com/3ph4v9ec
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 23, 2023 04:12 PM (kFrCu)
.........
Digme! Digme!
Dig me a grave.
Posted by: wth at February 23, 2023 04:17 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 23, 2023 04:17 PM (KbCG3)
After: More than 80,000 workers and retirees in MPRA plans who, through no fault of their own, had their pension benefits cut, are eligible to have those benefits fully reinstated – with their plans solvent through 2051. The Special Financial Assistance program ensures all MPRA plans that were forced to cut benefits are able to restore those cuts in full, maintain full benefits into the foreseeable future, and be projected to remain indefinitely solvent.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2023 04:18 PM (yQpMk)
Personally, I am thrilled beyond words to have been able to lose 44 pounds since starting on Mounjaro back in September. And no, I am not diabetic - happily, taking this medication (and good genetics) will ensure that I never am.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at February 23, 2023 03:58 PM (SRRAx)
//////
Teresa: Asking for a friend: will you have to take it for the rest of your life?
Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill - Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 23, 2023 04:18 PM (sHzd0)
>>This slender black lady in a bikini top shakes her head at the blatant corruption: https://is.gd/xtYPMH
She looks more normal than the typical pinup girls you post.
I like.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 23, 2023 04:18 PM (up/3i)
So glad we have people working in the WH that don't bother to read all the words.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 23, 2023 04:18 PM (Y5qcH)
The gay mayor Annise Parker penciled out retired employee heath care bennies when Obamacare passed with the expectation the state or feds would pay for it and the gay mayor Sly Turner got a $1.1 billion bond passed that covered about 6% of the debt in 2019.
Posted by: DanMan at February 23, 2023 04:18 PM (DB6tu)
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but leads only to death."
Proverbs 14:12
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2023 04:18 PM (0hOvj)
Jean-Pierre: "Diversity and representation is really important to this president and the president is going to look at a highly diverse group."
"Whether or not they can add or subtract, or know what 'interest rate' means"
Kareen Abdul-Jabber probably thinks this is fine. After all, it's how she got her job. She clearly didn't have to take a test to see how well she could lie, the primary skill for a Press Secretary, because she's just awful at it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 23, 2023 04:19 PM (bW8dp)
It started in 1965.
Posted by: JmT at February 23, 2023 03:50 PM
It started in the 1940s, accelerated in the mid 60s, pedal to the metal in the 2020s.
Posted by: Some Guy at February 23, 2023 04:19 PM (slrRB)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 23, 2023 04:19 PM (i+mOk)
https://tinyurl.com/3ph4v9ec
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 23, 2023
***
Her non-manipulated (or not obviously manipulated) pics show she was an attractive woman.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 23, 2023 04:19 PM (J2vNu)
I think DeSantis would do a better job of clearing out lower-profile (but not necessarily lower harm) officials who resisted change and reform. But, either one will have to overcome legislation like this, as well as Obama and Biden judges eager to issue nationwide injunctions, to have a chance of making a change.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 23, 2023 04:11 PM (a/dOO)
All they have to do is suck it up and veto the shit.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 23, 2023 04:19 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: gourmand du jour, gimpy edition at February 23, 2023 04:19 PM (jTmQV)
Posted by: Archer at February 23, 2023 04:19 PM (gmo/4)
Looks like an island girl. Very pretty.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2023 04:20 PM (0hOvj)
https://is.gd/xtYPMH
Very nice.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 23, 2023 04:20 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 23, 2023 04:20 PM (Cwz+L)
We may all have to join together to support Ukraine even more than ever.
Pro-Russian Twitter accounts are claiming that Ukraine is thinking of attacking Transnistria, the breakaway part of Moldova that has a Russian garrison.
Pro-Ukrainian Twitter accounts are claiming that Transnistria is thinking of attacking Ukraine.
Either way, a new front may be about to open.
Posted by: Victoria N! at February 23, 2023 04:20 PM (2tUFv)
Posted by: Archer at February 23, 2023 04:19 PM (gmo/4)
That's why I've been famine-proofing myself for years. No one can take my belly from me.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 23, 2023 04:21 PM (Y5qcH)
They're short sighted and could care less what happens down the road. They'll be fine, sequestered in the Capitol City with everything they need and plenty of barbed wire and fencing to keep the plebs out. For a while.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 23, 2023 04:21 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2023 04:03 PM (ZdaMQ)
The medication curbs your desire to eat, so it has been remarkably easy. It has something to do with overcoming insulin resistance. "Willpower" is practically automatic. I am thrilled, my doctor is thrilled. Rebecca, who is pre-diabetic, has been on it right along with me, and she has lost an impressive amount of weight as well, which is very hard for most people with Down syndrome to do.
Surprisingly enough, people who aren't diabetic tend to lose more weight on these medications than people who have already developed TIID, so there is something to the "preemptive" side of the equation - it's why they are fast-tracking research into using these drugs for weight loss.
I FINALLY might be able to not be morbidly obese - and even my mother once commented that she was amazed at how little I ate to be so big. It's all to do with insulin resistance - our 3rd daughter has PCOS, and we aren't sure what caused it, but she started gaining weight in earnest AFTER she started having trouble with that.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at February 23, 2023 04:21 PM (SRRAx)
"Since the new provision lets the FDA skirt the ban on interfering with the practice of medicine by banning devices for particular uses, the agency will likely claim this as a precedent allowing it to ban off-label uses of drugs as well," wrote Joel Zinberg, associate clinical professor of surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine and former Columbia law , who accused the FDA of "unwarranted intrusion into the physician-patient relationship."
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 23, 2023 04:22 PM (JglZ8)
1988 or so they passed a law that they had to be fully paid out, even if they were NOT fully funded (which of course they were not).
Thank you rest of the country for bailing IL/CA/NY (etc.) so we settlers don't have our lands confiscated to pay the outrageous golden pensions. (or maybe just pay a bounty for each left ear from a rich pensioner?)
Posted by: illiniwek at February 23, 2023 04:22 PM (Cus5s)
Bunch of miserable, thieving, cocksuckers they are.
Posted by: Ligma Balzak from Fuggencrass, Vulgaria at February 23, 2023 04:22 PM (JNTt1)
KJP: "President Obama announced that, pardon me, President Biden — Whoa! That is news!"
@Breaking911 · 1h
KJP: "The cabinet is a majority people of color. [...] The cabinet is majority female. [...] A majority of White House senior staff identify as female. 40%. [...] identify as part of their racially diverse communities & a record 7 assistants to the President are openly LGBTQ+"
@Breaking911 · 38m
REPORTER: "I'm struggling to understand why the president wouldn't go to East Palestine. Does it simply not meet the bar for a presidential visit?"
KJP: "I want to be very clear here. There's no reason to struggle — I don't think — on this question."
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 23, 2023 04:22 PM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: x at February 23, 2023 04:23 PM (ZBPE2)
Being 29, but still several years from retirement my future is probably bleak. I'll be getting old and feeble for the after the crash period when everything goes back to trading labor or goods for one's daily meal and it will be hard for me to hang on to whatever goods I possess unless I find a benevolent strong man who lets me into the compound in exchange for them.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 23, 2023 04:23 PM (3cGpq)
Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at February 23, 2023 04:23 PM (8uXjJ)
Posted by: naturalfake at February 23, 2023 04:24 PM (BXaBJ)
199 To add a little perspective to this $36 billion bail out,
The year I was born, (1956) the entire federal budget was ~$75 billion.
The accompanying graph should make y'all feel better... /s
https://tinyurl.com/fed-budget-history
Posted by: Muldoon at February 23, 2023 04:15 PM (ykeLU)
Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill - Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 23, 2023 04:24 PM (OL3rV)
Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2023 04:25 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: PaleRider at February 23, 2023 04:23 PM (3cGpq)
There is something along those lines. Insurance as well as regulation about funding for corporate pensions.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 23, 2023 04:25 PM (eYoxG)
BREAKING - Initial reports of explosions and anti-aircraft fire in Karaj, Iran
https://tinyurl.com/58469b5j
1:35 minutes video
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 23, 2023 04:26 PM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 23, 2023 04:26 PM (Cwz+L)
The year I was born, (1956) the entire federal budget was ~$75 billion. ...
Posted by: Muldoon at February 23, 2023 04:15 PM (ykeLU)
++++
Sure, but that's a bad way to compare because inflation and growth. The better ways to compare are requally devastating, though.
That year, the GDP was $425.5 billion, so the federal budget was 17.6% of GDP. That budget was smaller than revenue - one of the few times in American history that the government ran a budget surplus (undone bigly in 1958-1959, partly due to the big recession in 1957). The total debt at that time was $273 billion, or 64% of GDP.
In 2022, GDP was $26.13 trillion and total federal spending was about $5.05 trillion, or 19.3%. The deficit was $1.375 trillion. Total debt was $30.82 trillion, or 117.9% of GDP.
What a difference one working lifetime makes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 04:26 PM (t0OGg)
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That's not going to sit well with our LGTBQ community.
Posted by: wth at February 23, 2023 04:26 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 23, 2023 04:26 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 23, 2023 04:27 PM (s0x8E)
Yes that's right.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 23, 2023 04:24 PM
Yep. Like a sap I keep working in my small business and am held hostage to pay thousands of dollars every month so they can give my money to the people that flood them with money to line their pockets with. Fuck them.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 23, 2023 04:27 PM (oE0yX)
REPORTER: "I'm struggling to understand why the president wouldn't go to East Palestine. Does it simply not meet the bar for a presidential visit?"
I thought the President went yesterday.
Posted by: Some Guy at February 23, 2023 04:27 PM (slrRB)
We're over the target if China is complaining.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 23, 2023 04:27 PM (tDEa7)
I FINALLY might be able to not be morbidly obese - and even my mother once commented that she was amazed at how little I ate to be so big. It's all to do with insulin resistance - our 3rd daughter has PCOS, and we aren't sure what caused it, but she started gaining weight in earnest AFTER she started having trouble with that.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at February 23, 2023 04:21 PM (SRRAx)
Repeated insulin shock from sugar(so eating lots of candy regularly or drinking soda) tends to build insulin resistance.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 23, 2023 04:27 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: x at February 23, 2023 04:28 PM (ZBPE2)
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Do not take Transnistria if you are allergic to Transnistria.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 23, 2023 04:29 PM (BTgKJ)
https://tinyurl.com/pd8sh84t
Joy Behar says East Palestine got what they deserved because they voted for Trump
"That's who you voted for!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Well, it was being said on Twitterverse. It was just a matter of time before it went mainstream. The Biden Admin response said this without saying it.
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 23, 2023 04:29 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Fox2! at February 23, 2023 04:29 PM (0kjWS)
Posted by: TexasDan at February 23, 2023 04:29 PM (JMPQm)
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Yup, though we might have told you otherwise in our reporting, this is actually what we mean by norms being restored, which is exactly how we like it.
*sips cocktail*
Oh look, there's Mitch McConnell, gotta go suck up to him, we need a bailout.
Posted by: National Review at February 23, 2023 04:30 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill - Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 23, 2023 04:24 PM (OL3rV)
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They were still afraid because we were in a new world. The wild upswing in debt and total budget size happened after we left the golf standard and everything started to float. There's a reason we also had crippling inflation when that happened. Like today, there was a lot of funny money in the system that couldn't be papered over anymore and by the time we came out of it, everything had reset at a permanently higher level in dollar terms.
In addition, the Boomers were entering their peak earning years and productivity on average was getting a lot better pretty quickly, and that generated vast amounts of economic activity so there was also more to tax and spend away.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 04:30 PM (t0OGg)
We just need one good man in office! It will really work this time, honest!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2023 04:30 PM (0hOvj)
It also means that while they may be off the hook for civil liability due to contracts they signed, but they are definitely on the hook for millions of counts of criminal violations by knowingly concealing the harmful effects of their poisons. Also they are guilty of anti-trust, restraint of trade, violations for conspiring to get off-label use of Ivermectin stopped.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at February 23, 2023 04:30 PM (CecP5)
Posted by: polynikes at February 23, 2023 04:30 PM (h1KC2)
Because the power gets used regardless.
Posted by: blaster at February 23, 2023 04:31 PM (pwExq)
BREAKING - Initial reports of explosions and anti-aircraft fire in Karaj, Iran
https://tinyurl.com/58469b5j
1:35 minutes video
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 23, 2023 04:26 PM (Vwz3I)
It's those pesky Joos again.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 23, 2023 04:31 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 23, 2023 04:31 PM (3XQTX)
Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2023 04:32 PM (ZdaMQ)
The Republicans are funding this. Without them it isn't happening.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2023 04:32 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: william ferrin at February 23, 2023 04:32 PM (YxaX0)
In addition, the Boomers were entering their peak earning years and productivity on average was getting a lot better pretty quickly, and that generated vast amounts of economic activity so there was also more to tax and spend away.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 04:30 PM (t0OGg)
Yeah China has also been able to get away with huge levels of spending due to high productivity growth. Things are easier when future revenues are higher in real terms. This is no longer the case for the US as the appropriately named Gen Z is the last generation of meaningful size.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 23, 2023 04:33 PM (eYoxG)
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Transnistria is known to interact with Moldova. Ask your doctor if you can take Transnistria while taking Moldova. Known side effects include nuclear war and death.
Posted by: Pharmaceutical Commercial at February 23, 2023 04:33 PM (fs1hN)
That's the GoLo claim for weight loss. It's supposed to overcome the insulin resistance syndrome.
Posted by: polynikes at February 23, 2023 04:33 PM (h1KC2)
Posted by: polynikes at February 23, 2023 04:30 PM (h1KC2)
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I dunno if there's a line item for it, but we've shat about $26.5 billion onto Ukraine in straight cash. That's about 15% of their 2021 GDP. Total assistance of around $200 billion exceeds their 2021 GDP, but just the cash is a staggering amount when considered proportionally.
They can easily bail out their pensions with that kind of coin.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 04:33 PM (t0OGg)
Times of Israel said that Bibi was meeting with the military chiefs to discuss an attack on Iran, which is widely believed to now be able to build a nuclear weapon almost immediately.
Posted by: Victoria N! at February 23, 2023 04:33 PM (2tUFv)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 23, 2023 04:26 PM (Xrfse)
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Let? Short of guns and shooting I don’t know what else “we” could’ve done.
Sorta like blaming the rape victim for getting raped.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 23, 2023 04:33 PM (s0x8E)
Illinois is beyond bankrupt.
The Public Sector are going to be funded by what?
A dwindling and fleeing tax base?
Posted by: JmT at February 23, 2023 04:34 PM (M1RIk)
Per the article, it seems like that was exactly the case. Going all the way back to 2021. They wasted zero time after the election in steering money to their cronies. Probably with little oversight.
Lastly, was there a line item for "10% for the big guy"?
Posted by: Another Anon at February 23, 2023 04:34 PM (XRMQ8)
Biden claimed some of the "aid" money to Ukraine goes to that, yes. But then, he claims he drove a big rig and never lies, too. So who knows?
https://tinyurl.com/5fube2rc
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2023 04:34 PM (0hOvj)
Times of Israel said that Bibi was meeting with the military chiefs to discuss an attack on Iran, which is widely believed to now be able to build a nuclear weapon almost immediately.
Posted by: Victoria N! at February 23, 2023 04:33 PM (2tUFv)
I picked a bad time to get out of oil stocks...
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 23, 2023 04:35 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 23, 2023 04:35 PM (wagHN)
Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill - Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 23, 2023 04:18 PM (sHzd0)
Probably. I also have to wear glasses the rest of my life and take medication for Myasthenia Gravis the rest of my life as well. For whatever reason, my body has developed insulin resistance.
I wouldn't ask a diabetic to stop using insulin, and they have to take it for the rest of their life.
Hopefully, though, I might be able to stop taking blood pressure medication. And I won't have to start taking other medications for weight-related maladies if my weight gets low enough. And isn't that what doctors want us to do?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at February 23, 2023 04:36 PM (SRRAx)
Illinois is beyond bankrupt.
The Public Sector are going to be funded by what?
A dwindling and fleeing tax base?
Posted by: JmT at February 23, 2023 04:34 PM (M1RIk)
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A federal bailout.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 23, 2023 04:36 PM (s0x8E)
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 23, 2023 04:36 PM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 23, 2023 04:33 PM (eYoxG)
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Yup. With Red China, the lingo used to describe it is the "Demographic Dividend." We had one, too (as did most of the rest of the world) with the Boomers. We *should* have had a second when the next mega-generation - the Millennials - came online. We didn't get it, because of persistently high underemployment. The Millennials were starting to hit the job market in earnest in 2006, with the big upswing happening from about 2010-2015. The economy sucked the big one, which made employment harder even for the qualified people and put a ton of Millennials in a lower-earnings environment than they expected. That is continuing and will keep on continuing until they retire. The Millennials will never be as productive as they should have been on paper, partly due to the economy at the start.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2023 04:37 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 23, 2023 04:33 PM (eYoxG)
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What are we going to call the tens of millions of anchor babies born to the illegals streaming across the border now?
Gen Flee?
Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 23, 2023 04:39 PM (JkdQ8)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 23, 2023 04:39 PM (kFrCu)
Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2023 04:40 PM (xhxe8)
there is always asset acquisition .... stealing from the regualr citizenry. Or sure, federal bailout with the free infinite money ... but those COLA promises will be hard to keep if eggs are $100/dozen, milk $80/gallon, etc.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 23, 2023 04:48 PM (Cus5s)
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Posted by: GraniteLady at February 23, 2023 05:50 PM (vZMoS)
Posted by: butch at February 23, 2023 07:02 PM (rHpsR)
But, when a country becomes a Banana Republic and allows its most significant elections to be stolen by a political machine led by a blatantly corrupt and demented elderly figurehead, the citizens of that country deserve to get FU@KED good and hard, 24/7/365.
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