The Morning Report — 3/14/23

Good morning, kids. Somehow, it got lost in the sauce yesterday that along with the collapse of SVB, an institution known as Signature Bank also laid an egg. And it wasn't golden, either. While it's no laughing matter, at least one person might be having a mild chuckle at this:

Word that the New York state regulators had closed down the bank came on Sunday, just two days after the California-based Silicon Valley Bank collapsed. The activity has generated fears that jittery depositors could try to withdraw their savings from lenders around the country, potentially destabilizing the banking system. But back in 2021, Signature Bank didn’t want one billionaire’s business.

“We witnessed the President of the United States encouraging the rioters and refraining from calling in the National Guard to protect the Congress in its performance of duty,” Signature Bank said in a statement at the time. “At this point in time, to ensure the peaceful transition of power, we believe the appropriate action would be the resignation of the President of the United States, which is in the best interests of our nation and the American people.”

CNBC reported that Signature Bank was deeply invested in volatile cryptocurrency and had $110.4 billion in total assets and $88.6 billion in total deposits as of the end of 2022. After Sunday’s move by state regulators, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation took control of the bank.

Schadenfreude is a hell of a drug, but it'll fade since no doubt, the junta will bail these bastards out, mostly at our and our children's children's children's expense. It is inevitable, like the sun rising in the east, that the usual gang of idiot Leftists will blame America, capitalism, racism and of course Donald Trump on this and every other economic calamity under the sun. As a Jew, I feel insulted that Calypso Louie or even the Bro-Fo haven't opened their cake-holes to cast the blame on, you know who. Yet.

That said, the most noble, moral, upstanding individuals can create systems and processes, and over the course of thousands of years, cultures that lay the foundation for societies to grow and thrive. But even the best systems are always at the mercy of human nature, regardless of the safeguards that are put in place. And as history has shown us time and time again, we are always at the mercy of our foibles and frailties.

The blame game is underway. Banks are failing, they say, because it’s all Trump’s fault. Banks are failing because it’s all Biden’s fault. But here’s the truth: Banks are failing because, among other things such as the bank’s own bad risk management, politicians are greedy. Their greed and profligacy could wipe out a swath of tech innovation in the frenzy following the implosion of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).

Donald Trump spent like he was playing with house money. But he unleashed the economy that more than made up for it — until COVID. Then Joe Biden came to office and said hold my beer.

You can’t do much about the balance sheets of a first-tier bank that finances Silicon Valley start-ups, but you surely can do something about politicians who hastened that bank’s free fall into receivership.

I'll take issue with Victoria Taft in blaming Trump for the profligacy of the budget, which is the sole purview of a Congress that has not actually had a budget for years. The Chinese COVID bailouts are something else entirely and you can argue he was a victim of circumstance, or not. Continuing . . .

The Fauci-induced Black Swan event known as COVID-19 left us on our heels. Then Biden made things worse by leaving billions in materiel and America’s prestige and sacrifice on the flats of Bagram Air Base. And then he did the same thing to the American taxpayers. He forsook billions, maybe trillions, in lost productivity and prosperity by smothering our domestic energy business. That dunder-headed move immediately enriched and empowered Vladimir Putin and his oil oligarchs. Vlad was swimming in money. Putin adjudged that Biden was so dumb that he may as well pick off the rest of Ukraine to get the old USSR back together. But then Putin picked up the phone and called Beijing, and now Xi and Vlad are best buds. Nixon is rolling over in his grave. And Joe Biden is now Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s bagman. We’re spending billions to hold up the most corrupt nation in the world. Ask Victoria Nuland and the Bidens how corrupt it is. They’d know.

Or ask Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. In the days leading up to the SVB failure, she was Oprah in Kyiv, giving away more of our money. And you get a new dacha! And you get a new dacha!

Biden spent trillions for his global warming legislation to enrich all of his political cronies and NGOs who would do his party’s bidding for government money. The name of that bill mocked the American people to their faces. They called it the “inflation reduction act.” They were laughing at us.

These politicians knew the trillions in new expenditures would be like a millstone around the necks of the individuals who pay the bills around here. These greedy politicians (Democrats in this case) knew it would in fact trigger more inflation. And it did.

What came next? The Fed’s Jerome Powell had to rejigger interest rates to make money more expensive to tamp down demand. That, naturally, made everything more expensive for everyone. People who drive and wanted to buy a house and start their American Dream were back-burnered. The expensive money crowded out capital for other uses. And that more expensive money raised the cost of government, which put a greater burden on the little guy. It raised the cost of debt service on the U.S. debt. Within a few short years, by 2029, debt service will eclipse the amount we spend on our military. . .

. . . Podcast co-host and investor David Sacks said a lot of people in Silicon Valley didn’t stop spending and their bank didn’t stop loaning. You are right on track if you think that sounds a bit like the old “liar loans” of the 2008 Wall Street investment bank catastrophe.

Funny she should mention 2008. Mercifully, it's been a long time since the name Barney Frank was in the news, and while disgusted to read it again, I was not at all surprised.

The 82-year-old Democrat is on the board of directors at Signature Bank — a New York lender that was shut down by state regulators over the weekend, becoming the industry’s third major casualty since Silicon Valley Bank was abruptly shuttered on Friday and the crypto-focused Silvergate Capital shut down a week earlier.

In an interview with Bloomberg late Sunday, Frank partly blamed cryptocurrencies, which hadn’t existed when he and fellow lawmakers in Washington were grappling with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

“Digital currency was the new element entered into our system,” Frank told Bloomberg. “A new and destabilizing — potentially destabilizing — element is introduced into the financial system. What we get are three failures.”

Frank didn’t address the fact that crypto had become a key growth vehicle for Signature Bank under the direction of himself and others — despite widespread concerns about the risks of the notoriously volatile sector. . .

. . . Frank, a staunch Democrat and chair of the House Financial Services Committee during the 2008 crisis, was brought into Signature because of his deep understanding of the importance of financial regulation, according to the company’s website.

“Mr. Frank’s extensive experience as a Congressman, and particularly as Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, led the Board to conclude that he should be a member of the Board,” a statement about Frank’s appointment to the board reads.

Here's a little refresher on Frank from his lengthy and colorful rap sheet at Discover the Networks:

In 2004 Frank and 75 other House Democrats (including such notables as Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, and Charles Rangel) took exception to George W. Bush’s public expression of concern about the risky loans that Fannie Mae and and Freddie Mac were making. The Representatives sent the President a letter warning that “an exclusive focus on safety and soundness is likely to come, in practice, at the expense of affordable housing.”

In June 2005, Frank said the following about his – and the House Financial Services Committee’s – efforts to promote home-ownership for low-income people:

“Obviously, speculation is never a good thing. But those who argue now that housing prices are now at the point of a bubble seem to me to be missing a very important point. Unlike previous examples we have had, where substantial excessive inflation of prices later caused some problems, we are talking here about an entity, home ownership. Homes, where there is not the degree of leverage that we’ve seen elsewhere. This is not the dot-com situation, where you had problems when people invested in a business plan where there was no reality. People building fiber optic cable for which there was no need. Homes that are occupied may see ebb and flow of price at a certain percentage level, but you’re not going to see the collapse that you see when people talk about a bubble. So those of us on our committee will continue to push for home ownership.”

. . . In 2008 Frank was asked how the U.S. government ought to address the nation’s financial crisis. He replied:

“I think at this point there needs to be a focus on an immediate increase in spending, and I think this is a time when deficit fear has to take a second seat. I do think this is a time for a very important kind of dose of Keynesianism. Yes, I believe later on, there should be tax increases. Speaking personally, I think there are a lot of very rich people out there whom we can tax at a point down the road and recover some of this money.”

Frank endorsed the massive government bailouts of the banking industry (under the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP) in 2008 and 2009, saying: “This is equivalent to what FDR had to do … to save capitalism from its own excesses.” In February 2009, Frank pledged that he would not accept campaign donations from any banks that had received TARP money, or from political action committees (PACs) tied to such institutions. But in fact, he went on to take more than $40,000 in contributions from such banks and their PACs in 2009 and 2010.

And all of that is just the tip of the iceberg. By the way, look up Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick while you're at it. Barney Frank is not merely a know-nothing grifter. He's a rabid, ideologically-driven know-nothing grifter. And it's maniacs like him who have been in charge of our lives from within government at every level and more and more, in the less and less private sector.

Instead of being put in charge of the nation's finances and then given seats on the boards of banks, maybe Barney Fagg should run things he knows about and understands – like underage homosexual escort services. Meh. As Milton Friedman might say, if Barney Frank were put in charge of GLAAD, within 5 years, homosexual child molestation would cease to exist.

It is axiomatic that the more control these people have over our lives, the more catastrophes and calamities will explode, and most crucially, the more the blame will be placed on the things they railed against in the first place: America, the free market, limited government, individualism, western civilization and the Judeo-Christian ethic.

While I don't think he has a shot in hell, I'm liking a lot of things that this Vivek Ramaswamy guy is saying:

The normal rules of the road are clear: The first $250,000 are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. After that, the customer is liable for loss. But Silicon Valley wanted a different set of rules for itself.

So Sunday, venture capitalists and startup executives who stood to lose their SVB deposits worked overtime to push the narrative there would be a bank run Monday if the bank’s uninsured depositors weren’t bailed out by the government Sunday. Narrowly, the gambit worked: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced Sunday night that tech companies that deposited funds at SVB, even those that parked far too much money there without diversifying, would be made whole.

That’s crony capitalism — changing the rules after the fact to help a select few. What’s more? Ninety-eight percent of political donations from these bailed-out firms went to Democrats. When President Biden talks about bailing out “small-business owners,” most people don’t have in mind elite venture-funded firms in Silicon Valley. . .

. . . It’s a bailout, pure and simple. For years, SVB and its cronies lobbied for looser risk limits by arguing its failure wouldn’t create “systemic risk” and wouldn’t need special intervention by the US government. Yet now the same cronies claim SVB was “systemically important.”

A friendly reminder that everyday customers will have to shoulder the burden of this bailout through higher charges as they top up FDIC.

By selectively changing the rules after the fact for SVB, the US government incentivizes greater risk-taking by banks and depositors in the future.

There are real concerns about a potential bank run in America, but the right way to address those concerns isn’t to bail out tech startups who banked with SVB.

It’s by taking basic steps, like the Federal Reserve doing one of the few things it is actually supposed to do — serving as the lender of last resort to American banks.

The deeper problem is that the Federal Reserve has been trying to play God for too long. Except with a fat finger.

UPDATE: Ramaswamy is connected to the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship. Doesn't negate the gravamen of his discourse, but still.

All of this is of course true. But the cultural rot, lack of morals and ethics, and a will to power has turned us upside down and inside out. Everything is so corrupt now that I don't think anything short of a complete collapse is going to put a stop to the madness. And then a whole other kind of madness will rule the day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Michael Walsh: "In a battle between good and evil, with the law having gone over to the side of evil—as it had in the gangland Chicago of the 1920s and '30s—what are the good guys prepared to do? With the country-as-founded now being shot out from underneath us on a near-daily basis, how do concerned citizens fight back?"
  The Untouchables
  
• Robert Spencer: "Running hard to be the Mitt Romney of 2024, the controlled opposition establishment Republican nominee who will run for president and lose gracefully."
  Even as Jan. 6 Narrative Implodes, Pence Still Blames Trump for Endangering His Life
  
• Larry Elder: "Frustration might just not be racism."
  White Man Down

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
• "There is a clear through line from the spendthrift Biden [junta] policies to the current crisis. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan overstimulated the economy, pushing inflation up to the fastest pace in four decades. Excess savings flooded the banking system, pumping banks like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) full of what we now see are flight-prone supersized deposits."
  The Bidenflation Banking Crisis
  
• "The deeper problem is that the Federal Reserve has been trying to play God for too long. Except with a fat finger." (he wants your vote, but he nails the problem here - jjs)
  Vivek Ramaswamy Op-Ed: Big Tech Wins Unfair Advantage Over American Workers in SVB Scandal
  
• "[Financial expert Michael] Burry, best known for his portrayal by Christian Bale in hit movie “The Big Short,” has been signaling the alarm for an impending, massive recession for quite some time. After Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse Friday and Signature Bank’s shut down, Burry took to Twitter with one perfect statement: '2000, 2008, 2023, it’s always the same. People full of hubris and greed take stupid risks and fail. Money is then printed. Because it works so well.'”
  Financial Expert Explains Why the Economy is Collapsing in One Perfect Tweet
  
• Get this and laugh through your vomit: "Frank, a staunch Democrat and chair of the House Financial Services Committee during the 2008 crisis, was brought into Signature because of his deep understanding of the importance of financial regulation, according to the company’s website."
  Barney Frank Under Fire Over Role on Board of Doomed Signature Bank
  
• "What went wrong? In a word: Inflation. In a few more words: The higher interest rates needed to combat inflation smashed the cheap-money expectations that SVB’s bond portfolios required. Other sectors of the economy that have become addicted to historically low interest rates include high-tech, particularly startup firms, and the housing market."
  The Biden Economy Is Falling Apart, Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
  
• SVB reportedly failed to have someone in charge of risk assessment for some eight months, until January of this year, while the person in charge of risk assessment in the U.K. allegedly prioritized “pro-diversity initiatives” while neglecting her actual role, according to a Daily Mail report. The bank has pages on its website dedicated to showing off its DEI initiatives and “workforce diversity.”
  Failed SVB Criticized For Hyper-Focus on Woke DEI Initiatives, LGBT Activism
  * * * * *

• "CNBC reported that Signature Bank was deeply invested in volatile cryptocurrency and had $110.4 billion in total assets and $88.6 billion in total deposits as of the end of 2022. After Sunday’s move by state regulators, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation took control of the bank."
  Latest Bank To Fail Refused Then-President Trump’s Business In 2021
  
• "Who would have trusted their money to these guys after watching this video?"
  ‘Cringe’ Ads Go Viral From Failed Bank That Refused Trump’s Business: ‘A Circus Not A Bank’
  
• "These entrepreneurs either knew, or should have known, the risks they were taking, and the government should not be in the business of rewarding this arrogance and stupidity. A government bailout is nothing more than a backdoor that will leave taxpayers on the hook for the foolish decisions of so-called capitalists who are unwilling to pay the costs of risks gone awry."
  Silicon Valley Bank Bailout is Socialism for the Rich
  
• "I pressed the Biden administration today to commit not to bailout Chinese companies with money from Arkansas’s taxpayers, but they refused. Which tells you that’s exactly what [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden plans to do."
  Tom Cotton: Biden Junta Won’t Commit to Not Bailing Out Chinese SVB Investors
  
• "Corporate responsibility, huh?"
  Silicon Valley Bank Got Woke, Went Broke
  
• "It’s easy to blame an out-of-control-tech sector for recent financial failures, but Washington created the monster."
  Bro-Bank Blues
  
• "Donald Trump spent like he was playing with house money. But he unleashed the economy that more than made up for it — until [Chinese] COVID. Then Joe Biden came to office and said hold my beer. You can’t do much about the balance sheets of a first-tier bank that finances Silicon Valley start-ups, but you surely can do something about politicians who hastened that bank’s free fall into receivership."
  The Fault Line in Biden's Bank Failures Runs Through Washington's Greed
  * * * * *

• “The president's budget took my breath away. His numbers are extraordinary. We're going to run out of digits here. It’s a $6.9 trillion budget, $4.7 trillion in new taxes that will affect everyone over 10 years, $18 trillion in new debt, a cut to defense.”
  Sen. John Kennedy: "The Only Way I Know How to Improve the [so-called quote-unquote "president's"] Budget Is with a Shredder"
  
• ". . . real-estate companies have helped accelerate the trend of wealthier renters. Investment companies have begun buying thousands of suburban homes and then renting them out to high-income earners. Apartment complexes have stared amenity-focused buildings, and home builders are catering to 'single-family houses designed to be rented instead of sold,' reported The Journal."
  Report: 3 Million U.S. Households Making Over $150,000 a Year Are Still Renting

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• Julie Kelly: "Americans will hold accountable those responsible for the accelerating degradation of the U.S. justice system as the government's J6 narrative collapses and their wrongdoing becomes apparent." (I'd like to know how - jjs)
  A ‘Spill’ of FBI Secrets
  
• Robert Spencer: "Her interview at SXSW gives us a picture of someone who is resolutely determined not only to ignore reality, but to compel the rest of us to join her and ignore reality as well. Since delusion and fantasy are pandemic among Leftists these days, many will undoubtedly join her. Others, however, are more realistic."
  Of Course: Malig-Nancy Pelosi Is Still Pushing the Jan. 6 ‘Insurrection’ Hoax

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• "Silicon Valley Bank failed last week."
  Dem Senator Asked About Censoring Info That Would Cause Bank Run, Massie Says
  
• ". . . for two years, so-called experts told us that natural immunity didn’t offer as much protection as the [Chinese] COVID vaccines. And, even now, Facebook’s [Chinese] COVID policy prohibits posts claiming that “building immunity by getting [Chinese] COVID-19 is safer than getting the vaccine.”
  We Were Censored for Reporting on Natural Immunity. What's Next?
  
• Margot Cleveland: "Americans no longer view organizations profiting from the disinformation business as the good guys — especially when the money comes from their tax dollars."
  NewsGuard Claims Not to be Government-Funded, But a $750,000 Grant Suggests Otherwise
  
• "They are now loud and proud about their desire to crush dissent to 'save democracy.'”
  Censorship: The Week Democrats Finally Came Out
  
• "The New York Times is wrong again: Securing our borders does not prevent illegals from leaving."
  The Gray Lady Hits the Wall
  
• "Fox simply did what a good news outlet is supposed to do in the face of a controversial, national story: cover it from all sides."
  Dominion’s Lawsuit Against Fox News Is Unfounded

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• The Department of Interior discovered “the big new project would create annual emissions that equate to less than 1 percent of total U.S. annual emissions in 2019.”
  Biden Junta Approves ConocoPhillips 30-Year Willow Oil Drilling Project in Alaska
  
• "In some instances, the government responded to protestors with brutal force, deploying tear gas and dogs to break up demonstrations in cities such as Heerenveen. The response closely mirrored that of the Canadian government, which used similar tactics in abusing state authority to quash truckers protesting the country’s [Chinese] Covid jab mandates."
  If The Dutch Government Thought Its Farmers Would Submit To Environmental Statism Easily, It Was Wrong
  
• "Seven former Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrators said in a Sunday letter — obtained by WSJ — to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and several congressional committees that the government should seek assurances that automakers will keep the AM radio in their vehicles."
  Electric Car Manufacturers Remove AM Radios Claiming Safety Concerns
  
• "The fusion of green and red produces a lethal compound."
  The Toxic Intersection of Climate Alarmism and Communism
  
• "A friendly, handy, and thorough book that provides a straightforward approach to nullifying and disproving the claims of climate change fanatics."
  A Handbook for Climate Change Skeptics

  OHIO DERAILMENT, TOXIC CHEMICAL DISASTER

• “These railroad companies have gotten totally in bed with big government,” Vance said. “Most recently, three months ago, they were bailed out by the government in the form of the feds coming in, Joe Biden and others coming in and settling the labor union issue that the railroads have.”
  J.D. Vance: Railroad Companies Have ‘Gotten in Bed with Big Government,’ Biden Junta Making It More Difficult to Clean up East Palestine Mess

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "The news comes as the administration has seen a historic flood of millions of illegal immigrants pouring into the U.S. under its watch which is largely occurring because Biden’s policies are acting as magnets for the migrants and cartel smugglers."
  All Democrats on Homeland Security Committee Pull Out From Attending Hearing in the Field on Border Crisis
  
• “They did tell the women to bring contraceptives because they know that women are being raped.”
  Report: Red Cross Provides Illegals With Maps And Tips About How To Cross Border Into U.S.

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "A 25-year-old transgender-identified man has been charged with sexually abusing a baby while working at a daycare center in Kentucky." (he should be taken out and publicly executed - jjs)
  Transgender Daycare Worker Charged With Sexually Abusing a Baby
  
• "Cops aren’t happy, and locals feel let down by the police. How can faith in policing be restored?"
  Bringing Back Trust to America’s Streets
  
• "Sutherland was slapped with six counts of misdemeanor charges for child pornography in Montgomery County, Md., a 'sanctuary' county that was the site of a rash of sex crimes committed by illegal immigrants. Child pornography is a misdemeanor in a sanctuary county? Go figure."
  School Official Spray-paints 'Groomer' on Libraries, Then Gets Busted With Kiddie-Porn

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• "To put it simply, Whitmer didn’t just force deadly lockdowns that wrecked her constituents’ mental health. She also kept the people in her state from buying goods for an activity that is linked to physical and mental health benefits. Now Whitmer wants the public to buy her confession that her team went over the top on lockdowns. Not only is it three years too late, but it’s also clearly a cop-out."
  Michigan Gov. Wretched Whitmer Whitewashes Her Authoritarian Lockdowns With Whopper About Seed Sale Ban
  
• "Thousands of messages from the nation’s health secretary reveal the extent to which British leaders sought to scare, manipulate, and deceive the public."
  A Chinese Covid Reckoning in the U.K.
  
• "The horrifically mismanaged [Chinese] COVID response throughout the West calls for a reckoning. How about holding it in Milan, Italy?"
  The Looming Reckoning for Chinese COVID Tyrants
  
• So we paid the Chi-Coms to create and unleash a biological/psychological terror weapon and we got clipped in the bargain. What a country!
  Report: U.S. Govt. Made Duplicate Payments to Wuhan Lab in China, Potentially Losing Tens of Millions of Dollars

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Robert Spencer: ". . . the groundwork has been laid for an authoritarian state in which dissenting points of view are forcibly silenced. The nation’s youths have been thoroughly indoctrinated to welcome such a state."
  America’s Teens Are Dumber Than They’ve Been In 100 Years
  
• Robert Spencer Part Deux: "These people will soon be lawyers, and then, God help us."
  Stanford Law School Descends Into Barbarism
  
• "Jenny Martinez becomes the target of student ire for saying 'I’m sorry' to besieged judge Kyle Duncan."
  Student Activists Target Stanford Law School Dean in Revolt Over Her Apology
  
• "To me these actions appear to be desperate defensive holding actions against an aggressive opponent who has the initiative and is gaining ground at all points."
  The Sad State of Free Speech in America Illustrated by Three Top Universities
  
• “D.E.F.Y. is developing a series of programs and initiatives – starting with a New College Charter Chapter of D.E.F.Y. and expanding across Florida and nationally –to fight back against the Rick [sic] DeSantis’s and big government attacks on educational freedom,” the organization’s website reads. “Help us build a movement to keep partisan politicians (and their politics) out of our nation’s classrooms.”
  A Nazi Collaborator Soros-Funded Organization is Helping a Student Org Defy DeSantis’ Higher Education Reforms
  
• "The New Dark Age that is sending Western Civilization into decline scored an important victory at the highly-regarded Indiana University Medical School."
  Indiana University Medical School Caves to Trans Extremists in Required Course for All MD Students

  ABORTION

• "In response to a recent District Court case, the department wants to claim that children in the womb are disposable personal property, to be protected or destroyed subject only to the owner’s will."
  DOJ Attempts to Stake Abortion Rights on Commerce Clause

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• "Louisiana and Alabama were the first two states to suspend their participation in the program last year. Now, Florida, Missouri, and West Virginia have followed after ERIC failed to address their concerns and make proposed changes during a February board meeting."
  Media Slander GOP States as ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ for Rejecting Voter Database That Compels Pro-Democrat Outreach

  SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• "The criminal investigation into Trump’s payment to Daniels, who says that she had an affair with the former president, has lasted five years. The case involves a payment that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, who pled guilty to felony charges related to the payment, made to Daniels during the presidential race."
  Trump Has ‘No Plans’ To Testify In Grand Jury Investigation As Likelihood Of Being Indicted Increases: Report

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "Groups say ratings giant has not stamped out anti-Israel bias."
  Pro-Israel Groups Call for Sanctions on Morningstar for Blacklisting Companies That Aid the Jewish State
  
• "Wokeness, not Christianity, is the reigning mainstream religion."
  Welcome, Christians, to the ‘Negative World’
  
• "Just how crazy is Congresswoman Bush?"
  Meet Cori Bush’s ‘Spiritual Guru’ Nathaniel Davis

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "Citizen Action Wisconsin, which lobbies to end cash bail and abolish enforcement of drug crimes, endorsed Judge Janet Protasiewicz."
  Liberal Candidate in Wisconsin's Supreme Court Race Touts Endorsement From Anti-Police Group

  POLITICS

• Next to Democrats, the GOP are the last group of people we should let decide who runs.
  The GOP Is Already Tangling Over Who Should Run In 2024
  
• “Republicans are in the majority and on offense. We will grow our House majority by building strong campaigns around talented recruits in these districts who can communicate the dangers of Democrats’ extreme agenda,” said NRCC Chairman Richard Hudson (R-NC). “These House Democrats should be shaking in their boots.”
  House Republicans Release First List of 37 Democrat Targets for 2024
  
• "There’s really not much of an audience for Comedy Central, however. Recent guest host Sarah Silverman only managed to pull in an average of 370,000 viewers, while Fox News’s Gutfield was attracting an average of 2.1 million viewers. If Biden wants exposure, he should go on Fox. At least there would be people watching."
  Joe Biden Takes Things Seriously by… Going on Comedy Central?
  
• "McConnell’s office told NBC News that he expects to remain in rehab for one to two weeks before returning to the Senate. He is one of three senators facing a medical absence, along with Democrats Dianne Feinstein of California and John Fetterman of Pennsylvania."
  Mitch McChi-Com Discharged From Hospital After Concussion

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• "Billions in U.S. aid to Ukraine would be better spent here at home. The time for our country to be involved in regional conflicts that do not impact our own security is over."
  The Ukraine War Made Me a Hippie, Not a Putin Stooge

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "A CCP-friendly national committee still believes that a cold war isn’t inevitable."
  The Mirage of Détente With China Lives On
  
• "It's time."
  Destroy the Mexican Drug Cartels
  
• "Not my king."
  Britons Gather Outside Westminster Ahead of King Charles' Coronation
  
• "Anderson is a realist and a brave campaigner for truth, understanding perfectly well the menace that excessive Muslim immigration, no less than Woke ideology, poses to the unity and prosperity of the West. How could any sane and responsible Jewish group, having even the slightest knowledge of Islamic scripture and practice, object to her presence among us? As people say, 'unbelievable!'”
  An EU Parliamentarian Puts Canada to Shame

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "The timing of the contracts is certainly . . . odd."
  STRANGE: U.S. Embassy Handed Out Sensitive Data Contract to Now BANNED Chinese State-Owned Firm Just Days Before Trump’s Beijing Trip.
  
• "Garcetti’s nomination [as ambassador to India] has been held up in the Senate for over 20 months in the wake of allegations he helped cover up a sexual assault during his time as Los Angeles’ mayor. However, as the Senate is expected to take up Garcetti’s nomination in the coming days, experts on Chinese influence and intelligence operations are raising red flags about the former mayor’s ties to alleged CCP front groups."
  ‘Huge Red Flag’: Inside Biden Nominee Eric Garcetti’s Ties To Members Of Alleged Chinese Intel Front Groups

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• "After being slammed for being on vacation during last major storm, Gov. Newsom gets emergency declaration approved and wisely nixes permit requirements to store rainwater."
  ‘Pineapple Express’ Storm Rolls Over California, Causing Massive Floods
  
• "Californians were like the proverbial frog that's being slowly boiled to death one degree at a time."
  Will the Last One to Leave California Please Turn on the Lights (the lights will go out long before the last one leaves, if anyone will be allowed to - jjs)

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "The FDA should let the Department of Agriculture oversee regulation of genetically engineered food animals."
  Engineering Efficiency
  
• "The red regions of star formation are significant, as they indicate that even in a tiny galaxy like this it is possible for there to be enough gas and dust to coalesce into new stars."
  Hubble Looks at Nearby Dwarf Galaxy
  
• "Since none of these pseudo-companies will be vertically landing their first stages — at least not for several years — it means that numerous first stages will be coming down in many areas in China and Mongolia, most of which will be uncontrolled descents."
  Chinese pseudo-commercial rocket industry gearing up to launch numerous times from interior spaceport

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• "DeSantis has led an administration-wide effort to ban sex change treatments for minors. He has said doctors should be sued for performing sex changes on children and suspended a state attorney refusing to adhere to the child sex change ban."
  ‘Close To Sinful’: Biden Floats Possibility Of Nation-Wide Transgender Law
  
• "Nessa has a comedy YouTube channel with 32,000 subscribers where she posts funny videos. On Tik Tok, Nessa has seven million followers. The video she made that started this dispute was very effective at pointing out what Marsh does with kids. It’s weird, and he should stop. I’m sorry Nessa deleted her videos. They were effective. And perhaps that’s why she’s been targeted in such a heinous way."
  Muslim Comedian Under Attack for Calling Out Grooming Behavior by Non-binary Creep Jeffrey Marsh

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "Until the Woke Nazis infested Hollywood, the Oscars hit between 30 and 40 million viewers without breaking a sweat. Are we really going to grade on a woke curve where 16 million viewers means the Oscars are Back!.”
  Ratings Poison – Early Jimmy Kimmel Oscar Ratings Humiliating 16 Million
  
• "Unlike obnoxious, woke celebrities, Quan modeled genuine gratitude, humility, and grace during his acceptance speech." (Short Round FTW - jjs)
  "This is the American Dream": Ke Huy Quan Models How to Give a Perfect Oscars Acceptance Speech 
  
• They mean less and less because movies have less and less meaning.
  Director Paul Schrader Says ‘Oscars Mean Less Each Year,’ Cites Academy’s ‘Scramble to Be Woke’
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "They want to rewrite old books because they can’t equal them."
  Wokes Can’t Beat the Culture They’re Destroying
  
• "As soon as the David character in The Last Of Us started reading from the Bible I knew that he was going to be a horrific villain. Could there be a Bible-reading preacher on a show who is actually loving and kind?”
  The Office Actor Rainn Wilson Admits There’s ‘Anti-Christian Bias In Hollywood’ Following The Last Of Us Episode
  
• "American culture now gives preferential treatment to the constituencies who cry the most."
  The Power of Victimhood
  
• "Can our entanglement with online life be redeemed?"
  The Win Condition
  
• "The act of celibacy was put into effect in the 11th century as a way to ensure the clergy’s money would stay within the church, instead of with their family, according to the Daily Mail. The Vatican apparently enforces the rule among priests, but there has been growing pushback against the ban."
  Pope "Fiction" Francis Approaches Lifting Ban Against Celibacy for Catholic Priests, Calling It "a Temporary Prescription"
  
• Christian Toto: "Director Raoul Peck's alarming statement suggests exactly that."
  Will Upcoming Orwell Doc Miss Entire Point of 1984?

  HITHER & YON

• >We Southerners are infinitely grateful that a snow and cold weather event like the Blizzard of ’93 comes so rarely. I do realize that some of you Northerners are laughing or shaking your head at our once-in-a-blue-moon plight, and all I can say to that is, “:Cut us some slack!”
  Remembering the 'Storm of the Century': 30 Years Ago Today
  
• "At least for now, building new cities is most promising in the developing world."
  Freedom Cities Won’t Likely Be American

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 07:41 AM (BRHaw)

2 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2023 07:41 AM (7hGTC)

3 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 14, 2023 07:43 AM (T4tVD)

4 Yonder Horde.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2023 07:43 AM (Q4IgG)

5 Happy Tuesday, one and all!

Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2023 07:44 AM (4olE8)

6 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2023 07:44 AM (zhLdt)

7 I've got 41,000 hours of tapes for you, but only 4 minutes works.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 14, 2023 07:46 AM (KiBMU)

8 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2023 07:46 AM (Rl3IJ)

9 Of course big tech is gonna get a bailout over the little guy. Big tech is owned by the democrats just like GM got the sweetheart bailout deal from the obama administration in 2008.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 14, 2023 07:47 AM (uNylN)

10 Per the ONT I wonder if $250 in free tacos would induce depositors to not withdraw their money from failing banks.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 14, 2023 07:47 AM (+RSLh)

11 Sadly, Trump is not helping:

https://tinyurl.com/3tzc3auy

(Nitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2023 07:47 AM (Rl3IJ)

12 Our corgi, 3, is afraid of the dark. It's like where the wild things are out there here in SW FL. Bears, gators, coyotes, boar, eagles, and more.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 14, 2023 07:47 AM (KiBMU)

13 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2023 07:48 AM (YVQHy)

14
My name is Kurt, I live in a yurt, I eat dirt, wear a skirt . . . and gargle penis in a subway toilet.

Posted by: Paul [Kurt] at March 14, 2023 07:48 AM (4mj9D)

15
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 14, 2023 07:50 AM (ENBF0)

16 Zero Down Financing
He (Frank) is the Banking Queen.

Posted by: XTC at March 14, 2023 07:50 AM (UnA8+)

17 Eh, could be worse:

Captains Of The Head - The Captains Wife's Lament
https://youtu.be/JZGf3LMenU8
Not really NSFW, but if at work, keep the sounds down. Misunderstandings abound.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 14, 2023 07:50 AM (u82oZ)

18 Fuck Mike Pence and his Regime pals

Posted by: Republic Theatre, brought to you by Pfizer! at March 14, 2023 07:50 AM (V4vPN)

19 Former NY Yankee all-star first baseman Joe Pepitone has died at the age of 83.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 07:51 AM (Vwz3I)

20 "Big tech is owned by the democrats just like GM got the sweetheart bailout deal from the obama administration in 2008."

Hey! That's how Capitalism works. No joke.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at March 14, 2023 07:51 AM (iayUP)

21 Barney Frank's live-in boyfriend was running a gay prostitution service from the man cave in Barney's basement in Washington, and got himself brefily arrested. If that wasn't enough to embarrass Barney Frank, a bank failure surely is not either.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 14, 2023 07:51 AM (+RSLh)

22
RIP Dick Fosbury, he of the 'Fosbury Flop'

1968 Olympic gold medalist

Posted by: DB - shaping the zeitgeist at March 14, 2023 07:41 AM

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 14, 2023 07:51 AM (ENBF0)

23 Thanks JJ !

Posted by: JT at March 14, 2023 07:52 AM (T4tVD)

24
Former NY Yankee all-star first baseman Joe Pepitone has died at the age of 83.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 07:51 AM

yet another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 14, 2023 07:52 AM (ENBF0)

25 Barney Frank has always been a King of cock-ups, and we're witnessing the collapse of Green New Deal.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 14, 2023 07:52 AM (Jg7EG)

26 While I don't think he has a shot in hell, I'm liking a lot of things that this Vivek Ramaswamy guy is saying:
-

Reminder:

https://tinyurl.com/48fuzr63

There's lots more if you search for it.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2023 07:53 AM (Rl3IJ)

27 Before I turned 29 I once read Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Lots of historical similarities. Gibbon (incorrectly IMO) blamed (in part) the rise of Christianity, a soft religion which pushed out the traditional religions of the past and their martial spirits. What is definitely true today is that we have the new religion of wokism now pushing out traditional Judeo-Christian religion and our culture is collapsing. History doesn’t repeat but it rhymes…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 14, 2023 07:53 AM (iqzch)

28 19 Former NY Yankee all-star first baseman Joe Pepitone has died at the age of 83.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 07:51 AM (Vwz3I)


I remember the scandal when he wore his sideburns long.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2023 07:54 AM (x0n13)

29 I 'memba Barney Frank getting in the news for arguing about a missed $1 senior citizens discount for the ferry to Fire Island.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 14, 2023 07:54 AM (4I/2K)

30 9 Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

And they will have learned nothing.

We can add their names to the list.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 14, 2023 07:55 AM (u82oZ)

31 Barney Frank is a nasty old sodomite who the assholes in Massachusetts put into office for 32 years. That is all you need to know about that shithole state. Barney should be in prison but of course he isn't.

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Abolish The FDIC!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 14, 2023 07:55 AM (LAno9)

32 Up because Pooky was punching the mattress in his sleep again, for the second time in a week. (This is why we got a king-sized mattress, otherwise I'd be in the hospital every other month.) He has deceptive arm strength for never working out, and I'm glad I'm never on the other end of it when he's conscious. His therapist wants to revisit ways to treat his REM Behavioral Disorder, and I am heartily encouraging that, since it's a miracle I haven't gotten seriously injured yet.

Posted by: pookysgirl, lacking peaceful sleep at March 14, 2023 07:55 AM (dtlDP)

33 Sadly, Trump is not helping

Just Trump being Trump I guess.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 14, 2023 07:55 AM (wagHN)

34 18
yep double fuck him

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 07:55 AM (BRHaw)

35 26 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2023 07:53 AM (Rl3IJ)


He's a Soros stooge?

Ugh. That said what he wrote has a lot of truth to it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2023 07:56 AM (x0n13)

36 To read some of the headlines from statements of the finance "experts" the last view days, it seems as if they're actually trying to incite a bank run.

Posted by: Halfhand at March 14, 2023 07:56 AM (5nUVc)

37 Have a great day, everyone.

Chores await for me.

May you all be blessed in your own neighborhood, as we see the horizons fill with smoke.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 14, 2023 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

38 From previous thread:

911 operator: "What is your emergency?"

"An impenetrable army of cuteness has massed at my doorstep and is preventing me from going about my business. It appears they are readying themselves to take over the rest of the city as well! Please hurry!" 😱
https://t.co/ILbvSdW6ua

Posted by: Ciampino --- beer is better than queer at March 14, 2023 07:57 AM (qfLjt)

39 21 Barney Frank's live-in boyfriend was running a gay prostitution service from the man cave in Barney's basement in Washington, and got himself brefily arrested. If that wasn't enough to embarrass Barney Frank, a bank failure surely is not either.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 14, 2023 07:51 AM (+RSLh)


He was one of the co-conspirators that brought down the entire housing market in 2008. What the hell is one lousy bank? And he's still not only not in prison but a leftist hero.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2023 07:57 AM (x0n13)

40 Former NY Yankee all-star first baseman Joe Pepitone has died at the age of 83.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 07:51 AM

yet another grim milestone for the biden administration
Posted by: AltonJackson

LOL !

Preach it Brutha !

Posted by: JT at March 14, 2023 07:57 AM (T4tVD)

41 19 Former NY Yankee all-star first baseman Joe Pepitone has died at the age of 83.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 07:51 AM (Vwz3I)


I remember the scandal when he wore his sideburns long.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

he was the Fave player of a kid I grew up with.
(they both had the same schnozz)

Posted by: JT at March 14, 2023 07:59 AM (T4tVD)

42 A poorly run bank holding mostly Democrat's money, in a leftist state goes tits up and a leftist junta bails it out.

Had it been a bank in FL or TX I'm certain the situation would be different somehow.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2023 08:00 AM (Q4IgG)

43 >>Joe Pepitone

was he the guy that got the cover of Sports Illustrated after he got hit in the face by a pitch?

Posted by: DB - shaping the zeitgeist at March 14, 2023 08:00 AM (geLO8)

44 It was a good morning, until I read that Mitch was on the mend.

Posted by: EveR at March 14, 2023 08:00 AM (MUpk6)

45 44 It was a good morning, until I read that Mitch was on the mend.
Posted by: EveR at March 14, 2023 08:00 AM (MUpk6)

Evil Never Dies.

Posted by: XTC at March 14, 2023 08:02 AM (UnA8+)

46 Vivek would make a good Treasury Secretary under DeSantis.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2023 08:02 AM (wa6DW)

47 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.
Saint of the Day
St. Matilda (895-968 A.D.) was born in Prussia, and was raised and educated in a monastery by her grandmother. A marriage was arranged for her to Henry I, the future king of Germany. Henry and Matilda enjoyed a happy and blessed marriage. As the Queen of Germany, Matilda became the mother of five important historical figures: Holy Roman Emperor Otto I; Henry, Duke of Bavaria; St. Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne; Gerberga, wife of King Louis IV of France; and Hedwig, mother of Hugh Capet. The king adored his queen and reigned seventeen years, and their eldest son succeeded the throne and became Emperor Otto I. After her husband's death, Matilda's two eldest sons chastised her for her generous almsgiving. St. Matilda then took the possessions left to her by her husband and turned them over to her sons, and retired from court. Her sons immediately suffered misfortune. In order to repair this injustice and regain God's favor, St. Matilda was begged to return to court, which she did, forgiving her sons for their ill will. She continued to help the poor and build churches.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2023 08:02 AM (qoGsy)

48 A poorly run bank holding mostly Democrat's Chinese investment money, in a leftist state goes tits up and a leftist junta bails it out.

IMHO YMMV

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 14, 2023 08:03 AM (+2RzF)

49 He's a Soros stooge?

Ugh. That said what he wrote has a lot of truth to it.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2023 07:56 AM (x0n13)
-

Weeks ago, Jack Posobiec (a Trump groupie) posted quite a number of tweets on Ramaswamy. It's not pretty.

I commented back then with links. I suggest you go to Posobiec's Twitter feed and find them.

Leopard. Spots. As far as I'm concerned, Ramaswamy should be treated as an infiltrator.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2023 08:03 AM (Rl3IJ)

50 The normal rules of the road are clear: The first $250,000 are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. After that, the customer is liable for loss. But Silicon Valley wanted a different set of rules for itself.

Just a subtle point buy I went through this with some relatives that the fucking bank people did not know.
So you have Husband and Wife. So each would get $250k coverage. so $500k. Then at the same bank get a wife account and a husband account. That adds another $500k. Then adding a child or a fiduciary mgr. would also ad another $250k.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 08:03 AM (BRHaw)

51 Breaking911 @Breaking911 · 10h
TRUMP IN IOWA: "As President, I will immediately end the invasion of our southern border."

TRUMP: "I will immediately sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school that's pushing Critical Race Theory, transgender insanity, & other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children — they're children.”

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:04 AM (Vwz3I)

52 Remain calm. All is well.

Posted by: Chip Diller, Banking Regulator at March 14, 2023 08:04 AM (4I/2K)

53 A poorly run bank holding mostly Democrat's money, in a leftist state goes tits up and a leftist junta bails it out.

Had it been a bank in FL or TX I'm certain the situation would be different somehow.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2023 08:00 AM (Q4IgG)
======================
This covers it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 14, 2023 08:05 AM (WwJXd)

54 Christianity is not a soft religion. It is true it is not martial. There's a chasm in the difference. The collapse of our country/society is tied to rejecting the very "hard" concepts of our Judeo-Christian foundational concepts. The US cannot exist without a clear moral foundation, the ideas of the Founders don't work without them.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 14, 2023 08:05 AM (4kL7R)

55 The leftist darlings, Oprah along with Prince Harry and his succubus were rumored to have their money there, so no surprise an FDIC exception was made for SVB.

Posted by: Halfhand at March 14, 2023 08:06 AM (5nUVc)

56 So you have Husband and Wife. So each would get $250k coverage. so $500k. Then at the same bank get a wife account and a husband account. That adds another $500k. Then adding a child or a fiduciary mgr. would also ad another $250k.


So what? An account is an account. To get the same protection the same Husband & Wife could do multiple accounts across different banks. It is no different than people who have different credit cards in their wallet.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 14, 2023 08:06 AM (YXHzG)

57 His therapist wants to revisit ways to treat his REM Behavioral Disorder, and I am heartily encouraging that, since it's a miracle I haven't gotten seriously injured yet.
Posted by: pookysgirl

Prayers for healing pookysgirl.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2023 08:08 AM (qoGsy)

58 Pence told the Gridiron Club audience, “President Trump was wrong. I had no right to overturn the election. And his reckless words endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol that day.”

Nancy daughter gave away the secret hiding place and you blame PDT. You were running the GD senate and did not call for security.

You are a pussy!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 08:08 AM (BRHaw)

59 All of this is math-adjacent, and pretty early in the morning.

Posted by: tubal at March 14, 2023 08:08 AM (PCK5/)

60 @38 that is awesome.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 14, 2023 08:09 AM (p+1gI)

61 47 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.
Saint of the Day
St. Matilda (895-968 A.D.) was born in Prussia, and was raised and educated in a monastery by her grandmother. A marriage was arranged for her to Henry I, the future king of Germany.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2023 08:02 AM (qoGsy)

Given the years, that'd be the Old Prussians, before the region was Germanized by the Teutonic Order.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 08:09 AM (eYoxG)

62 Happy National Potato Chip Day!

Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2023 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

63 So what? An account is an account. To get the same protection the same Husband & Wife could do multiple accounts across different banks. It is no different than people who have different credit cards in their wallet.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 14, 2023 08:06 AM (YXHzG)

My point was 3 names on the account give you $750k.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 08:09 AM (BRHaw)

64 Also,
Happy International Day of Mathematics!

Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2023 08:10 AM (NpAcC)

65 Good morning. Late start today after a late night yesterday. I hate the DST time change. I don't know why it's different. I can cross a timezone or two or three and be okay, but for some reason the one-hour change at DST time screws me up.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:11 AM (t0OGg)

66 "Citizen Action Wisconsin, which lobbies to end cash bail and abolish enforcement of drug crimes, endorsed Judge Janet Protasiewicz."
Liberal Candidate in Wisconsin's Supreme Court Race Touts Endorsement From Anti-Police Group


She is horrid. And I hate the voice of the woman who does her ads. There's something not right there.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 14, 2023 08:12 AM (45fpk)

67 Every single person in that Signature Bank commercial should be beaten about the head and shoulder with a 12 lb sledge.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 08:12 AM (BRHaw)

68 65 Good morning. Late start today after a late night yesterday. I hate the DST time change. I don't know why it's different. I can cross a timezone or two or three and be okay, but for some reason the one-hour change at DST time screws me up.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:11 AM (t0OGg)

It is either circadian rhythmns, or a disturbance in the Force.

Posted by: tubal at March 14, 2023 08:12 AM (PCK5/)

69 Schadenfreude is a hell of a drug, but it'll fade since no doubt, the junta will bail these bastards out, mostly at our and our children's children's children's expense.
++++
They'll bail out the banks, yes. The executives will probably lose their jobs and the stock-based part of their compensation is now worth zero.

But all is not lost. They will lie low for a while before joining NGOs, writing books and going on speaking tours to talk about the Real Inside Story of the failure of the institution and "lessons for banking executives" at $500 per head.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:13 AM (t0OGg)

70 I didn't know nuke reactors were weapons of Mass Destruction.

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper · 1h
JUST IN - UN nuclear watchdog on Tuesday said it has to ensure that no proliferation risks will come from a nuclear-powered submarine pact by US, Australia and the UK
||“The legal obligations of the parties and the non-proliferation aspects are paramount,” Grossi added.

The United Kingdom and the United States, both nuclear-weapons states, have to report to the IAEA “international transfers of nuclear material” to non-nuclear-weapon states such as Australia, the press release said.

Australia, for its part, will have to make “an arrangement” with the UN watchdog to be able to use nuclear material “such as nuclear propulsion for submarines”, Grossi stressed.

“This process involves serious legal and complex technical matters,” Grossi said while promising to fulfill his mandate of verification and non-proliferation “in an impartial manner” and in all transparency.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:14 AM (Vwz3I)

71 Electric Car Manufacturers Remove AM Radios Claiming Safety Concerns

Yet another reason not to buy electric cards.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2023 08:14 AM (NpAcC)

72 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:11 AM (t0OGg)

The time change in the spring always messes me up but the one in the fall doesn't bother me for some reason.

Posted by: dantesed at March 14, 2023 08:14 AM (88xKn)

73 "Silicon Valley Bank failed last week."
Dem Senator Asked About Censoring Info That Would Cause Bank Run, Massie Says

Senator Kelly ought to have a talk with Chuck Schumer who talked IndyMac into insolvency. Schumer's action was an unprosecuted felony.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 14, 2023 08:14 AM (YXHzG)

74 Happy International Day of Mathematics!
Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2023 08:10 AM (NpAcC)
-

Obligatory:

https://youtu.be/9mc7eb1i9o4

Bonus:

https://youtu.be/lzxVyO6cpos

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2023 08:15 AM (Rl3IJ)

75 Banks are failing because, among other things such as the bank’s own bad risk management, politicians are greedy. Their greed and profligacy could wipe out a swath of tech innovation in the frenzy following the implosion of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).
++++
At least there's a silver lining. This is heretical given that high tech is my industry and I've done well at it, but I have come to the conclusion that the cost/benefit curve of high tech was crossed sometime in the late aughts (likely when Facebook became available to all comers and Twitter was created) and continued tech innovation results in further degradation of man and his culture.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:15 AM (t0OGg)

76 It is either circadian rhythmns, or a disturbance in the Force.
Posted by: tubal at March 14, 2023 08:12 AM (PCK5/)
----
Anyone seen Alderaan lately?

Posted by: Obi-Wan Kenobi at March 14, 2023 08:15 AM (YIVH2)

77 #70 ||Board Members for 2022-2023
The 35 Board Members for 2022-2023 are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, the Republic of Korea, Libya, Namibia, Pakistan, Qatar, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland, Türkiye, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America, Uruguay and Viet Nam.

Officers of the Board

The Chair of the Board for the unexpired term of office for 2022-2023 is Mr. Ivo Sramek, Governor from the Czech Republic.

He succeeds Mr. Ham Sangwook, former Governor from the Republic of Korea.

The Vice-Chairs are Mr Carlos Sérgio Sobral Duarte, Governor from Brazil and Mr Eoin O’Leary, Governor from Ireland.
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The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today reappointed by acclamation Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi for a second four-year term in office beginning in early December 2023.
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Rafael Mariano Grossi (born 29 January 1961) is an Argentine diplomat.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:15 AM (Vwz3I)

78 There's a video out today where Trump is praising Charlie Crist - not a good look for him at all. His obsession with DeSantis is going to do more to destroy him than anything the left has done.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2023 08:16 AM (wa6DW)

79 Senator Kelly ought to have a talk with Chuck Schumer who talked IndyMac into insolvency. Schumer's action was an unprosecuted felony.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 14, 2023 08:14 AM (YXHzG)


Now I have "Jimmy Mack" playing in my head.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 14, 2023 08:16 AM (45fpk)

80 House Republicans Release First List of 37 Democrat Targets for 2024
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Given the GOP's proven effectiveness, that means 37 Democrats can breathe more easily.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 14, 2023 08:16 AM (TgBWG)

81 I'll take issue with Victoria Taft in blaming Trump for the profligacy of the budget, which is the sole purview of a Congress that has not actually had a budget for years.
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I won't. He demanded a smaller budget. Congress didn't give it to him. He engaged in a shutdown battle to force the issue, then capitulated and signed the mega-bill. He might not have been happy about it, but he did it. That's on him.

It might have been politically suicidal to keep the shutdown running longer. I may be asking that he commit self-immolation in the name of reducing the budget. I understand that. But he didn't, and so he shares the blame.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:17 AM (t0OGg)

82 Electric Car Manufacturers Remove AM Radios Claiming Safety Concerns

Yet another reason not to buy electric cards.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2023 08:14 AM (NpAcC)
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I know I'm just a random Moron internet commenter, but I fail to see how AM radios pose more risk than FM radios, or radio at all, in a car (yes, radios do pose a risk of distraction, but so do all of the other buttons and features on the dashboard).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2023 08:17 AM (YIVH2)

83 Kevin Hassett reveals "there were buyers who were willing to step in & buy [SVB, but] the radicals at the @FDICgov basically weren’t going to allow that to happen ... the Biden Admin had a whitelist of companies that were allowed to buy the failed bank & companies that weren’t."

"They’re so concerned about some bank getting a little bit bigger that they have decided to put all the taxpayer monies at risk .. It does not ever exude any common sense. We’re here in the middle of a potential banking crisis, people willing to step up to the buy the company .."

https://is.gd/q8wsCE

Posted by: Ciampino - I have real copper pennies? at March 14, 2023 08:18 AM (qfLjt)

84 The gaslighting continues.

You start showing the normies that J6 was a hoax, so they "crash" a bank for Silicon Valley investors who will lose nothing just to return the proles back to their state of fear.

Oh no! I'll lose all my money! I better run around and bury my mason jars full of cash! Panic!

A borderline-retarded, semi-literate, illegal and feral human infested society will do whatever you will them to when you get them into a frenzy.

The only troubling aspect is this crosses 'financial crisis' off the hoax list. We've already used disease, insurrection and financial hoax. Nuclear is surely on the remaining short list.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 14, 2023 08:18 AM (WentF)

85 Given the years, that'd be the Old Prussians, before the region was Germanized by the Teutonic Order.
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Ice to see you.

Posted by: zombie alexander nevsky at March 14, 2023 08:18 AM (Vwz3I)

86 There's a video out today where Trump is praising Charlie Crist - not a good look for him at all. His obsession with DeSantis is going to do more to destroy him than anything the left has done.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2023 08:16 AM (wa6DW)
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Obsession is a hell of a drug...

Posted by: Khan Noonian Singh at March 14, 2023 08:19 AM (YIVH2)

87 “Mr. Frank’s extensive experience as a Congressman, and particularly as Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, led the Board to conclude that he should be a member of the Board,” a statement about Frank’s appointment to the board reads.
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No it didn't. Cronyism and corruption led to his appointment to the board, not his deep experience as a Congressional wastrel.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:19 AM (t0OGg)

88 81 I'll take issue with Victoria Taft in blaming Trump for the profligacy of the budget, which is the sole purview of a Congress that has not actually had a budget for years.
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I won't. He demanded a smaller budget. Congress didn't give it to him. He engaged in a shutdown battle to force the issue, then capitulated and signed the mega-bill. He might not have been happy about it, but he did it. That's on him.

It might have been politically suicidal to keep the shutdown running longer. I may be asking that he commit self-immolation in the name of reducing the budget. I understand that. But he didn't, and so he shares the blame.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:17 AM (t0OGg)

Well there's a narrative that Trump was the driver behind loose spending, which he wasn't.

It'd be fair to say that he tolerated it though he did not support it.

The "Trump is a big spender" thing seems to deflect blame away from many of those who actively supported big spending in the R legislature.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 08:19 AM (eYoxG)

89 81 It might have been politically suicidal to keep the shutdown running longer. I may be asking that he commit self-immolation in the name of reducing the budget. I understand that. But he didn't, and so he shares the blame.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:17 AM (t0OGg)

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Excusing every Republican for signing Congressional budgets that blow up the government's finances while damning every Democrat for doing the same thing is simple partisanship.

It's dumb.

Trump was never a small government Republican anyway. I remember people arguing that we shouldn't even bother with one because using the tools of government to fight the left was more important.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 08:19 AM (LvTSG)

90 Thank you, JJ.
Everything woke turns to shit.

Posted by: It's Not Votes, It's Not Ballots, It's Ballots Counted at March 14, 2023 08:20 AM (jV+aN)

91 Mornin’, All.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 14, 2023 08:20 AM (hTf8I)

92 Barney Frank is not merely a know-nothing grifter. He's a rabid, ideologically-driven know-nothing grifter. And it's maniacs like him who have been in charge of our lives from within government at every level and more and more, in the less and less private sector.
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He and those like him are not know-nothings. Most of them are dull-normals, but they have knowledge. They know a lot. They know extensive amounts about being evil little tyrants and ideological communists.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:20 AM (t0OGg)

93 86 There's a video out today where Trump is praising Charlie Crist - not a good look for him at all. His obsession with DeSantis is going to do more to destroy him than anything the left has done.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2023 08:16 AM (wa6DW)
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Obsession is a hell of a drug...
Posted by: Khan Noonian Singh at March 14, 2023 08:19 AM (YIVH2)
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See comment 11 for the link.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2023 08:20 AM (Rl3IJ)

94 I know I'm just a random Moron internet commenter, but I fail to see how AM radios pose more risk than FM radios, or radio at all, in a car (yes, radios do pose a risk of distraction, but so do all of the other buttons and features on the dashboard).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2023 08:17 AM

having a one square foot touch screen on the dash is a far bigger menace to navigation than having an AM radio

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 14, 2023 08:21 AM (ENBF0)

95 It is axiomatic that the more control these people have over our lives, the more catastrophes and calamities will explode, and most crucially, the more the blame will be placed on the things they railed against in the first place: America, the free market, limited government, individualism, western civilization and the Judeo-Christian ethic.
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Of course. The larger the state, the smaller the individual. They know it. They pursue it enthusiastically.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:21 AM (t0OGg)

96 19 Former NY Yankee all-star first baseman Joe Pepitone has died at the age of 83.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 07:51 AM (Vwz3I)


I remember the scandal when he wore his sideburns long.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

He was also one of the first players to grow his hair long.

Posted by: JT at March 14, 2023 08:21 AM (T4tVD)

97 @TheInsiderPaper · 2h
JUST IN - Taiwan unveils its first portable attack drone as China tensions rise

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:21 AM (Vwz3I)

98 A friendly, handy, and thorough book that provides a straightforward approach to nullifying and disproving the claims of climate change fanatics."
A Handbook for Climate Change Skeptics

I posted this earlier but here is BPs take on what renewables actually contribute:

https://tinyurl.com/2p98nxwf

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 08:21 AM (BRHaw)

99 97 @TheInsiderPaper · 2h
JUST IN - Taiwan unveils its first portable attack drone as China tensions rise
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:21 AM (Vwz3I)
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Very late in the game.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2023 08:22 AM (Rl3IJ)

100 One of the neatest things has been watching corporatism take hold, especially on the left. The same people who insist everyone get an experimental injection who were lamenting Big Medicine forcing procedures solely for profits a mere ten years ago.

Almost like nothing is true and everything is done or said only to achieve the goal at the moment, before chiding you if you ever hold the same position.

Almost like it's a core element of communism, and the freedom that existed in the US predictably allowed them to prosper and remove those freedoms.

Posted by: Remember when BBC reported WTC7 had fallen due to fire 20 minutes before it collapsed? at March 14, 2023 08:22 AM (A7TTs)

101 No, it was Tony Conigliaro

Posted by: DB - shaping the zeitgeist at March 14, 2023 08:22 AM (geLO8)

102 Second Junior woke at 4:30 this morning screaming after having thrown up in his bed.

I took care of it while Dolley remained in bed. When I finished cleaning everything up and putting Second Junior back to bed, I got a weak, "I love you," from my beautiful bride, so I guess that's good enough.

Oh, and I still had to wake up early because Dolley had an appointment at the hospital at 6:30, get Second Junior ready to leave, and deal with the two boys screaming at each other in the car for a solid 45 minutes until I could drop Junior off at school.

I am...not in a good mood.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 08:22 AM (LvTSG)

103 By selectively changing the rules after the fact for SVB, the US government incentivizes greater risk-taking by banks and depositors in the future.
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Why, it rhymes almost perfectly with the "moral hazard" arguments of the financial crisis of 2007-2010. And LTCM in 1998. And the S&L crisis in the 80s and 90s.

They always make the same decision. I don't know why they bother making the mouth noises.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:22 AM (t0OGg)

104

*burp*

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at March 14, 2023 08:22 AM (vwCZJ)

105 @TheInsiderPaper · 3h
ALERT - China warned that Australia, UK and the US were treading a "path of error and danger" after they unveiled a nuclear-powered submarines deal

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:24 AM (Vwz3I)

106 When I finished cleaning everything up and putting Second Junior back to bed, I got a weak, "I love you," from my beautiful bride, so I guess that's good enough.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 08:22 AM (LvTSG)
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Works every time.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2023 08:24 AM (Rl3IJ)

107 >JUST IN - Taiwan unveils its first portable attack drone as China tensions rise

'China tensions rise' is a semi-permanent story for the media

Posted by: DB - shaping the zeitgeist at March 14, 2023 08:24 AM (geLO8)

108 I know I'm just a random Moron internet commenter, but I fail to see how AM radios pose more risk than FM radios, or radio at all, in a car (yes, radios do pose a risk of distraction, but so do all of the other buttons and features on the dashboard).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2023 08:17 AM (YIVH2)

I think this has been done before when manufacturers cheapened the antennas so it was difficult to pick up AM stations a few years back. From what I understand, the powers that be like to shut down access to AM radio as it is mostly religious/gospel shows, conservation talk radio shows and the occasional leftist weirdos. You will listen to what they want you to listen to.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 14, 2023 08:25 AM (LAno9)

109 102 Second Junior woke at 4:30 this morning screaming after having thrown up in his bed.

I took care of it while Dolley remained in bed. When I finished cleaning everything up and putting Second Junior back to bed, I got a weak, "I love you," from my beautiful bride, so I guess that's good enough.

Oh, and I still had to wake up early because Dolley had an appointment at the hospital at 6:30, get Second Junior ready to leave, and deal with the two boys screaming at each other in the car for a solid 45 minutes until I could drop Junior off at school.

I am...not in a good mood.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 08:22 AM (LvTSG)

Ah, but you're with us now so things are only looking up from here. I think.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 08:25 AM (eYoxG)

110 Thanks TonyPete !

Posted by: JT at March 14, 2023 08:25 AM (T4tVD)

111 103 They always make the same decision. I don't know why they bother making the mouth noises.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:22 AM (t0OGg)

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Because hearing themselves talk is one of their favorite things.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens.
Hearing myself drone on like I'm singing
These are a few of my favorite things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 08:25 AM (LvTSG)

112 105 @TheInsiderPaper · 3h
ALERT - China warned that Australia, UK and the US were treading a "path of error and danger" after they unveiled a nuclear-powered submarines deal
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:24 AM (Vwz3I)

Was the announcement released inside of a stale folded cookie?

Posted by: tubal at March 14, 2023 08:25 AM (PCK5/)

113 Bill Maher made a point I hate because ... well, it's right:
Those pushing DeSantis tout him as "Trumpism without Trump." But that misses the motivation of Trump voters. Why go see the tribute band when the original act is still touring?

Politics today is not transactional, it's tribal.

"The base will come home" loser strategy of W, Rove and the GOPe as they foist upon them another loser candidate is dead-- the base will stay home and 2022 showed that.

Either Trump is the candidate or chooses the candidate. We are stuck with that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 14, 2023 08:25 AM (XuB58)

114 “If you went into the hardware store, if you go to the hardware store, we didn’t want people, you know, all congregating around the gardening supplies. People said, ‘Oh, she’s outlawed seeds.’”

what a cvnt

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 08:26 AM (BRHaw)

115 109 Ah, but you're with us now so things are only looking up from here. I think.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 08:25 AM (eYoxG)

=======

I think I have to accomplish some things at work today, too.

Well, at least I learned about my yearly bonus yesterday. That was nice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 08:26 AM (LvTSG)

116 Well there's a narrative that Trump was the driver behind loose spending, which he wasn't.

It'd be fair to say that he tolerated it though he did not support it.

The "Trump is a big spender" thing seems to deflect blame away from many of those who actively supported big spending in the R legislature.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 08:19 AM (eYoxG)
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That's all true. Trump was a big spender, just usually on different things. As TJM pointed out, Trump was never a small-government guy. He wanted to pour vast sums down the "infrastructure" rat hole, for example. Trump, in his own life and on some fronts in government, was profligate. I knew that going in when I voted for him. He was not a fiscal conservative, nor was he a philosophical advocate for small government. He doesn't shoulder all of the blame by any means and he did try to get Congress to reduce spending on some things so he could increase it on others. But he does share the responsibility for the spending during his administration.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:26 AM (t0OGg)

117 The same people who insist everyone get an experimental injection who were lamenting Big Medicine forcing procedures solely for profits a mere ten years ago.
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The only Big Pharma criticism I heard from a leftist brother during the plandemic was that they weren't giving Africa enough vaxxes and for free.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:27 AM (Vwz3I)

118 Electric Car Manufacturers Remove AM Radios Claiming Safety Concerns

Yet another reason not to buy electric cards.
Posted by: redridinghood

Nor electric cars neither.

Posted by: JT at March 14, 2023 08:27 AM (T4tVD)

119 108 I think this has been done before when manufacturers cheapened the antennas so it was difficult to pick up AM stations a few years back. From what I understand, the powers that be like to shut down access to AM radio as it is mostly religious/gospel shows, conservation talk radio shows and the occasional leftist weirdos. You will listen to what they want you to listen to.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 14, 2023 08:25 AM (LAno9)

That, and around here, a lot of sports stations.

Posted by: XTC at March 14, 2023 08:27 AM (UnA8+)

120 AM radio is where conservatives dominate talk radio, allowing hate and misinformation to be freely broadcast. It's obvious that's why they were told to ban AM radio.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 14, 2023 08:27 AM (iSZpJ)

121 "Big tech is owned by the democrats "

Or is it the other way around? Hard to say for sure.

Posted by: Ripley at March 14, 2023 08:27 AM (cUYo/)

122 113 "The base will come home" loser strategy of W, Rove and the GOPe as they foist upon them another loser candidate is dead-- the base will stay home and 2022 showed that.

Either Trump is the candidate or chooses the candidate. We are stuck with that.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 14, 2023 08:25 AM (XuB5

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This line of thinking assumes a cleanliness of elections that doesn't seem to fit with the facts in certain key locations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 08:27 AM (LvTSG)

123 Either Trump is the candidate or chooses the candidate. We are stuck with that.


When you couple that with the fact that elections are rigged and no longer matter, Republicans face an uphill battle in 2024.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 14, 2023 08:28 AM (WentF)

124 3 Million U.S. Households Making Over $150,000 a Year Are Still Renting...

If I could pull $150,000 a year for just one year I wouldn't have a morgage.
I bet both partners drive nice new cars with high payments, wear the best clothes. Eat at the finest restaraunts, drink the finest wine.

I drive $500 garbage cars, never eat out, wear the cheapest crap I can find at Tractor Supply and drink cheap shitty beer.

In about a year I will be solvent and I'm 53.

Am I winning or loosing?

Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2023 08:28 AM (Mslp/)

125 Just heard that the new environmental regulations covering washing machines force conditions so that the devices are incapable of removing bacteria and fecal matter.

Posted by: Remember when BBC reported WTC7 had fallen due to fire 20 minutes before it collapsed? at March 14, 2023 08:28 AM (A7TTs)

126 My local bank called me yesterday and suggested we put money that's in our checking account into a savings account due to "all the fraud" that's going on.
Unbelievable...stupidity.

Posted by: Ziba at March 14, 2023 08:28 AM (4h9M3)

127 86 There's a video out today where Trump is praising Charlie Crist - not a good look for him at all. His obsession with DeSantis is going to do more to destroy him than anything the left has done.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2023 08:16 AM (wa6DW)
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Obsession is a hell of a drug...
Posted by: Khan Noonian Singh at March 14, 2023 08:19 AM (YIVH2)
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See comment 11 for the link.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2023 08:20 AM (Rl3IJ)
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Huge mistake. When Charlie Crist runs for office again he'll be able to quote Trump giving him praise.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2023 08:29 AM (NpAcC)

128 It's OK. SVB's CEO apologizes:

https://tinyurl.com/4ewybujz

(Nitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2023 08:29 AM (Rl3IJ)

129 "Big tech is owned by the democrats "

Or is it the other way around? Hard to say for sure.
Posted by: Ripley at March 14, 2023 08:27 AM (cUYo/)
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It's a mutual system. They're all beholden to each other in one vast complex of power structures.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:29 AM (t0OGg)

130 126 My local bank called me yesterday and suggested we put money that's in our checking account into a savings account due to "all the fraud" that's going on.
Unbelievable...stupidity.
Posted by: Ziba at March 14, 2023 08:28 AM (4h9M3)

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Dolley does cybersecurity for a regional US bank, and she's told me the best way to do fraud is wire fraud at low levels. It's hard to track on the bank's side, and the low amounts prevent flags.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 08:30 AM (LvTSG)

131 Nor electric cars neither.
Posted by: JT at March 14, 2023 08:27 AM (T4tVD)
*******
Oops.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2023 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

132 The claim is that electromagnetic 'noise' from EV motors interferes with AM radio performance, making it largely unusable

Posted by: DB - shaping the zeitgeist at March 14, 2023 08:31 AM (geLO8)

133 Hey, TJM.

It sounds like you earned some Good Husband Points that you can cash in later.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 14, 2023 08:32 AM (sjxgf)

134 "Happy National Potato Chip Day!"

I remember when making potato chips, while delicious, wasn't cost effective. Now I think I buy 25 lbs. of spuds and a half gallon of shortening and come in cheaper than a "family size" bag.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 14, 2023 08:32 AM (76Foq)

135 133 Hey, TJM.

It sounds like you earned some Good Husband Points that you can cash in later.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 14, 2023 08:32 AM (sjxgf)

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She'll forget by the end of the day. I'll be back to square one by morning.

Le sigh...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 08:32 AM (LvTSG)

136 The claim is that electromagnetic 'noise' from EV motors interferes with AM radio performance, making it largely unusable
Posted by: DB - shaping the zeitgeist at March 14, 2023 08:31 AM (geLO
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There's a world of difference between "unusable" and "unsafe." Unless it's the AM radio signals that are interfering with the performance of the EV motors...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2023 08:33 AM (YIVH2)

137 She'll have a dream that she got up and took care of it

Posted by: Remember when BBC reported WTC7 had fallen due to fire 20 minutes before it collapsed? at March 14, 2023 08:33 AM (A7TTs)

138 133 Hey, TJM.

It sounds like you earned some Good Husband Points that you can cash in later.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 14, 2023 08:32 AM (sjxgf)

Yeah, about that…. Good Husband Points have a pretty short expiration date, I have found.

Posted by: tubal at March 14, 2023 08:33 AM (PCK5/)

139 The claim is that electromagnetic 'noise' from EV motors interferes with AM radio performance, making it largely unusable
Posted by: DB - shaping the zeitgeist at March 14, 2023 08:31 AM (geLO
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I think Tesla resolves this problem by Elon Musk ordering the installation of a SpaceX heat reentry shield between every Tesla's dashboard and front end.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2023 08:33 AM (Rl3IJ)

140 If I could pull $150,000 a year for just one year I wouldn't have a mortgage.
I bet both partners drive nice new cars with high payments, wear the best clothes. Eat at the finest restaraunts, drink the finest wine.

I drive $500 garbage cars, never eat out, wear the cheapest crap I can find at Tractor Supply and drink cheap shitty beer.

In about a year I will be solvent and I'm 53.

Am I winning or loosing?
Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2023 08:28 AM (Mslp/)

If they spend like that they're not going to be in great financial shape. Expensive high-end stuff is genuinely expensive. $150k is more like they can comfortably go out to Texas Roadhouse every weekend for steak, put kids through private school, and save for retirement.

$150k pre-tax doesn't go that far.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 08:33 AM (eYoxG)

141 The only thing Trump has said in the last 6 months that I find remotely news worthy are his comments about ginning up a ballot harvesting machine to rival the Democrats.

Everything else out of his mouth is ego stroking.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2023 08:33 AM (Q4IgG)

142 Wait, so electric vehicles are interfering with radio frequencies that we are specifically barred from interfering with?

Posted by: Remember when BBC reported WTC7 had fallen due to fire 20 minutes before it collapsed? at March 14, 2023 08:34 AM (A7TTs)

143 Back in the day, I had a shitbox Dodge forget the model but the AM radio could pick up Miami, Cuba, Canada and the odd Texas/Louisiana/Mexican station while driving the east coast from New Yawk to Jawja depending on where the sun was and if night or day.

It was hilarious.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 14, 2023 08:34 AM (LAno9)

144 Now I think I buy 25 lbs. of spuds and a half gallon of shortening and come in cheaper than a "family size" bag.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 14, 2023 08:32 AM (76Foq)



Making tortilla chips is definitely more cost effective.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 14, 2023 08:35 AM (WentF)

145 ... If I could pull $150,000 a year for just one year I wouldn't have a morgage.
I bet both partners drive nice new cars with high payments, wear the best clothes. Eat at the finest restaraunts, drink the finest wine. ...
Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2023 08:28 AM (Mslp/)
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I've been one of those people. Not quite that much money, but in the neighborhood. I lived well below my means, racked up an impressive savings rate, and rented the whole time. Where I lived - CO's Front Range - the real estate was appallingly expensive. I rented very cheap and lived in a place I would never buy: a basement apartment that was extremely good value so I could save my money until the time was right to move to a place where I could pay cash for a house. I could have gotten a mortgage and bought a house there. The total cost could have been well over double what I spent to rent and it would have made relocation more complicated and reduced the amount of capital I had to commit to that exercise when the time came.

A lot of people earning that much live in extremely expensive places and some of them are profligate but some have other plans they're financing and are living cheap to do it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:35 AM (t0OGg)

146 PHILIPSBURG, SXM--With seven operational licence holders, St. Maarten is home to approximately 360 number lottery ticket venues, resulting in an average of 22.5 registered vending locations and 6.9 lottery booths per square mile, as of February 2021, the Social Economic Council SER stated in its study on the social-economic impact of lottery booths in low-income areas.

Posted by: SMOD at March 14, 2023 08:36 AM (DMzOq)

147 Not the crazy Vietnamese city bus driver in Ottawa the few months ago but a new one. Pickup truck; 2 dead -- men in 60s to 70s; 2 seriously injured and 7 others injured, struck over 100s of yards. Cops haven't given a motive. The Gaspe Peninsula.

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper · 13h
BREAKING: Police say multiple people have been seriously injured after a vehicle plowed into pedestrians who were walking beside a road in Amqui, Quebec, Canada

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:36 AM (Vwz3I)

148 >Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2023 08:33 AM (YIVH2)

reading the article, the EV industry doesn't say exactly how or why poor AM reception is unsafe

but it just is
for realsies, guys

Posted by: DB - shaping the zeitgeist at March 14, 2023 08:37 AM (geLO8)

149 Dolley does cybersecurity for a regional US bank, and she's told me the best way to do fraud is wire fraud at low levels. It's hard to track on the bank's side, and the low amounts prevent flags.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 08:30 AM (LvTSG)
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Makes sense, and it explains something. My dad recently sent a small wire to someone because time was more important than the wire fee. The bank teller grilled him on it before sending it. She didn't explain why when he asked. "Because small wire transfers are a hotbed of fraud activity and we try to detect it to prevent our customers from being defrauded" would have been a pretty simple answer to give.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:38 AM (t0OGg)

150 135 But you’ve got your kid as a witness, right?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 14, 2023 08:38 AM (sjxgf)

151 #147 Update: 3 critical; 6 seriously injured, including a newborn baby to a 77-year-old; one dead man, 65, and the other, 73.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:39 AM (Vwz3I)

152 She'll forget by the end of the day. I'll be back to square one by morning.

Le sigh...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 08:32 AM (LvTSG)
++++
Is her favorite movie, "50 First Dates?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:39 AM (t0OGg)

153 150 135 But you’ve got your kid as a witness, right?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 14, 2023 08:38 AM (sjxgf)

========

The one who forgets that he enjoys his days at school every morning when I drop him off at school so he cries as I try to leave him with his teacher?

That one?!

I don't think he's going to be a reliable witness under cross examination.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 08:40 AM (LvTSG)

154 Have a washing machine touted as HE/energy efficient. It fills with just enough water to get clothes wet. I add a couple of gallons of water at the top so that the laundry can slosh around and I can see suds.
Worst machine I've ever had. Two rinse cycles are necessary for clean clothes.

Posted by: Ziba at March 14, 2023 08:40 AM (4h9M3)

155 Should banks and railroads owned by our elites have stricter Federal regulation?

Posted by: Paul at March 14, 2023 08:40 AM (4mj9D)

156 Regarding bank failures, I have a significant retirement/investment account in bank made up largely of individual stock. It is a mega-bank that is unlikely to ever go under (if it did we would really be in the burning times) but if they it did, I have ownership of those stocks and would not lose them or try to have the govt. bail me up to $250,000. I would have to somehow prove they are mine and get the paper trail to them and get direct control of them. Or am I missing something here?


(It does make me start thinking I need to start downloading and copying the paper trail just in case)

Posted by: Ripley at March 14, 2023 08:40 AM (cUYo/)

157 Where did Vivek Ramaswamy come from? I've seen his name in the last few weeks but I feel I keep up on right wing public figures and I didn't know him before that.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2023 08:40 AM (lc5cP)

158 Biden said Carter has asked him to do his eulogy. Why?

Posted by: grammie winger at March 14, 2023 08:41 AM (45fpk)

159 152 Is her favorite movie, "50 First Dates?"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:39 AM (t0OGg)

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Heh. She did have a DVD of it when we first met, something she picked up at a closing Blockbuster.

Her favorite movie is About Time. Highly recommended. We showed it to my mother a few months ago, and my mother was in tears by the end. I don't think I've seen that before from her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 08:41 AM (LvTSG)

160 157 Where did Vivek Ramaswamy come from? I've seen his name in the last few weeks but I feel I keep up on right wing public figures and I didn't know him before that.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2023 08:40 AM (lc5cP)

You may be looking in the wrong place.

Posted by: tubal at March 14, 2023 08:41 AM (PCK5/)

161
My local bank called me yesterday and suggested we put money that's in our checking account into a savings account due to "all the fraud" that's going on.
Unbelievable...stupidity.

Posted by: Ziba at March 14, 2023 08:28 AM

I was at my credit union yesterday and they lowered the funds you can withdrawal from the drive-by atm from $1,000 to $600. They claim that there's a bunch of fraud going on and they have to limit exposure. If I walk inside I can get $5,000 a day.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 14, 2023 08:42 AM (enJYY)

162 Pondered Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire years ago but was persuaded on the book thread it was all Christians than did it in. Guess welcoming the Goth illegals in open arms is what killed them.

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2023 08:42 AM (YVQHy)

163 Have a washing machine touted as HE/energy efficient. It fills with just enough water to get clothes wet. I add a couple of gallons of water at the top so that the laundry can slosh around and I can see suds.
Worst machine I've ever had. Two rinse cycles are necessary for clean clothes.
Posted by: Ziba at March 14, 2023 08:40 AM (4h9M3)
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If the motor isn't designed for the added water weight, you'll be getting a new washer that you always wanted pretty soon.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2023 08:42 AM (Rl3IJ)

164 "Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping"

2 Peter 2:2-3

Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2023 08:42 AM (HDGM5)

165 >Biden said Carter has asked him to do his eulogy. Why?

So it can be as confusing and f***-ed up as Carter's presidency

Posted by: DB - shaping the zeitgeist at March 14, 2023 08:42 AM (geLO8)

166 Joe Biden says Florida's prohibition against child sex changes is 'sinful'
"Ah transgender kids is a really harder thing. What's going on in Florida is, as my mother would say, close to sinful," Biden said.

https://tinyurl.com/bdzjuaj6

Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2023 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

167 Didn't Biden do the eulogy for Robert Byrd?

Posted by: dantesed at March 14, 2023 08:43 AM (88xKn)

168 166 Joe Biden says Florida's prohibition against child sex changes is 'sinful'
"Ah transgender kids is a really harder thing. What's going on in Florida is, as my mother would say, close to sinful," Biden said.

https://tinyurl.com/bdzjuaj6
Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2023 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

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I feel sorry for all the medieval kids who killed themselves because the local authorities wouldn't pay for sex change operations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 08:44 AM (LvTSG)

169 I was at my credit union yesterday and they lowered the funds you can withdrawal from the drive-by atm from $1,000 to $600. They claim that there's a bunch of fraud going on and they have to limit exposure. If I walk inside I can get $5,000 a day.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 14, 2023 08:42 AM (enJYY)
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Why the $5k limit? It's your money, and even the IRS reporting doesn't kick in until $10k and that isn't a ceiling, just a paperwork threshold.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:44 AM (t0OGg)

170 #147 #151 BTW, cameras on-scene show the weather is fine; and I missed adding that the cops have charged the driver with two murder counts so far.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:44 AM (Vwz3I)

171 156 Regarding bank failures, I have a significant retirement/investment account in bank made up largely of individual stock. It is a mega-bank that is unlikely to ever go under (if it did we would really be in the burning times) but if they it did, I have ownership of those stocks and would not lose them or try to have the govt. bail me up to $250,000. I would have to somehow prove they are mine and get the paper trail to them and get direct control of them. Or am I missing something here?


(It does make me start thinking I need to start downloading and copying the paper trail just in case)
Posted by: Ripley at March 14, 2023 08:40 AM (cUYo/)

Your bank is the custodian. I have heard of a fund manager with issues who used Lehman Brothers as a custodian for the investments they made and due to issues with the contracts ended up having to contest for possession of the assets when they went over.

Normally speaking the assets should straightforwardly be yours and not subject to seizure in a banking failure.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 08:44 AM (eYoxG)

172 Anyone had issues trying to put a sizable amount of money into their bank?

After my mom passed her kids each got a sizable amount of cash. I wasn't interested in cashing the bank check cut for me. Instead I wanted to deposit it. Had to go through some serious 3rd degree BS to get that done.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2023 08:44 AM (Q4IgG)

173 Silicon Valley Bank Bailout is Socialism for the Rich

Socialism is always for the rich. They get special rules, special treatment, special perks... everyone else gets ground down.

SSDD

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2023 08:44 AM (zhLdt)

174 Where did Vivek Ramaswamy come from?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2023 08:40 AM (lc5cP)
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See JJ's "UPDATE" on Ramaswamy.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2023 08:45 AM (Rl3IJ)

175 Frankly speaking, lol@cover pic

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2023 08:45 AM (Rl3IJ)

176 “If you went into the hardware store, if you go to the hardware store, we didn’t want people, you know, all congregating around the gardening supplies. People said, ‘Oh, she’s outlawed seeds.’”

what a cvnt
Posted by: rhennigantx


She made no sense whatsoever.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2023 08:45 AM (7hGTC)

177 173 Silicon Valley Bank Bailout is Socialism for the Rich

Socialism is always for the rich. They get special rules, special treatment, special perks... everyone else gets ground down.

SSDD
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2023 08:44 AM (zhLdt)

========

"Nu-uh...In socialism, we will eat the rich!"
-Doctrinal socialist

"Sure, dummy."
-The rich guy paying the doctrinal socialist's expenses for his own reasons

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 08:46 AM (LvTSG)

178 CPI report indicates real wage growth drops for 32nd consecutive month.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 14, 2023 08:46 AM (WentF)

179 Morning Horde. Gotten at least 4+,inches overnight and still snowing for several hours to go. At least I can stay in and watch the Feds play whack a mole with the various messes they're going to face in the financial world. Twelve years of crazy money policy and now the bill comes due for many different reasons.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2023 08:46 AM (ZPsfc)

180 My local bank called me yesterday and suggested we put money that's in our checking account into a savings account due to "all the fraud" that's going on.
Unbelievable...stupidity.
Posted by: Ziba


That's the exact same thing as having overweight carry on bags and having to check them.

IT'S STILL IN THE SAME PLACE YOU MORONS!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2023 08:47 AM (7hGTC)

181 155 Should banks and railroads owned by our elites have stricter Federal regulation?
Posted by: Paul at March 14, 2023 08:40 AM (4mj9D)


No. They should be prosecuted for bribery and malfeasance along with the Democrats they bribe and malfease.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2023 08:47 AM (x0n13)

182 Happy PI Day

Posted by: SMOD at March 14, 2023 08:47 AM (DMzOq)

183 Have a washing machine touted as HE/energy efficient. It fills with just enough water to get clothes wet. I add a couple of gallons of water at the top so that the laundry can slosh around and I can see suds.
Worst machine I've ever had. Two rinse cycles are necessary for clean clothes.
Posted by: Ziba at March 14, 2023 08:40 AM (4h9M3)
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If the motor isn't designed for the added water weight, you'll be getting a new washer that you always wanted pretty soon.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2023 08:42 AM (Rl3IJ)
*******
It's going to get much, much worse.
The Left wasn't happy with the stupid HE they already inflicted on us. They want us to suffer more.
Now you'll have even less water to clean your clothes and a much longer washing cycle.

We're all going to smell!

Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2023 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

184 169 I was at my credit union yesterday and they lowered the funds you can withdrawal from the drive-by atm from $1,000 to $600. They claim that there's a bunch of fraud going on and they have to limit exposure. If I walk inside I can get $5,000 a day.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 14, 2023 08:42 AM (enJYY)
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Why the $5k limit? It's your money, and even the IRS reporting doesn't kick in until $10k and that isn't a ceiling, just a paperwork threshold.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:44 AM (t0OGg)

Probably just to manage cash on hand.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 08:48 AM (eYoxG)

185 182 Happy PI Day
Posted by: SMOD at March 14, 2023 08:47 AM (DMzOq)

========

And on JJ's birthday, of all days.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 08:48 AM (LvTSG)

186 Biden said Carter has asked him to do his eulogy. Why?
Posted by: grammie winger at March 14, 2023 08:41 AM (45fpk)
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Because they were both together with Rosa Parks on that bus in Montgomery.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2023 08:48 AM (Rl3IJ)

187 Had a weird dream last night where I checked my retirement account and over half the money had disappeared.

Fortunately, when I checked on it just now, all the money seemed to still be there...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2023 08:48 AM (YIVH2)

188 Silicon Valley Bank Bailout is Socialism for the Rich
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LMAO.

ALL socialism is for the rich.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2023 08:48 AM (BXxcV)

189
Why the $5k limit? It's your money, and even the IRS reporting doesn't kick in until $10k and that isn't a ceiling, just a paperwork threshold.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:44 AM

They were talking about *cash* I could walk out of the bank with. She did say I could walk back in and get more, but reminded me of IRS and the 10k reporting requirement which would then kick in.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 14, 2023 08:48 AM (enJYY)

190 Pondered Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire years ago but was persuaded on the book thread it was all Christians than did it in.

Constantine was one of Rome's better Emperors.

I think the more accurate assessment is the increase in bureaucracy and a distant elite did Rome in.

They went from a cohesive patriotic society to eventually one where the German warlords were arguably fairer rulers then the rapacious "Roman" leaders.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2023 08:49 AM (lc5cP)

191 She made no sense whatsoever.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2023 08:45 AM (7hGTC)
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Yet she sounded very, very vice-presidential.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:49 AM (t0OGg)

192 Biden said Carter has asked him to do his eulogy. Why?

So it can be as confusing and f***-ed up as Carter's presidency
Posted by: DB


THREADWINNER!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2023 08:50 AM (7hGTC)

193 It's going to get much, much worse.
The Left wasn't happy with the stupid HE they already inflicted on us. They want us to suffer more.
Now you'll have even less water to clean your clothes and a much longer washing cycle.

We're all going to smell!
Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2023 08:48 AM (NpAcC)
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I have noticed that the spin cycle on my new washer isn't as efficient as it was on the old washer, so now it takes up to two cycles to dry my clothes.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2023 08:50 AM (YIVH2)

194 No. They should be prosecuted for bribery and malfeasance along with the Democrats they bribe and malfease.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2023 08:47 AM (x0n13)
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I'm sorry but the correct answer to Paul is "you dick!"

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2023 08:50 AM (Rl3IJ)

195 Probably just to manage cash on hand.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 08:48 AM (eYoxG)
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A bank with that little cash on hand is a red flag in my opinion.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:50 AM (t0OGg)

196 Colombian Navy says it found two dead bodies and more than 4 3 2 tons of cocaine on a makeshift submarine.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:50 AM (Vwz3I)

197 Had a weird dream last night where I checked my retirement account and over half the money had disappeared.

Fortunately, when I checked on it just now, all the money seemed to still be there...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel




But it is worth half as much.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2023 08:51 AM (lTGtQ)

198 Happy PI Day
Posted by: SMOD at March 14, 2023 08:47 AM (DMzOq)
******
Albert Einstein's birthday.
Today it's all about Math

Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2023 08:51 AM (NpAcC)

199 Am I winning or loosing?
Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2023 08:28 AM (Mslp/)

***

If you're happy you're winning.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at March 14, 2023 08:51 AM (flINI)

200 If you went into the hardware store, if you go to the hardware store, we didn’t want people, you know, all congregating around the gardening supplies. People said, ‘Oh, she’s outlawed seeds.’”


Let me guess - standing in a crowded Starbucks to get your sugar/coffee drink was ok though? Or going to the local convenience store and spending 10 minutes selecting your lottery scratch tickets?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2023 08:51 AM (lc5cP)

201 Albert Einstein's birthday.
Today it's all about Math
Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2023 08:51 AM (NpAcC)
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This calls for a mass celebration!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2023 08:52 AM (Rl3IJ)

202 Constantine was one of Rome's better Emperors.

I think the more accurate assessment is the increase in bureaucracy and a distant elite did Rome in.

They went from a cohesive patriotic society to eventually one where the German warlords were arguably fairer rulers then the rapacious "Roman" leaders.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2023 08:49 AM (lc5cP)

The Romans went through moral decay and then demographic collapse. They couldn't staff the legions anymore (and were largely dependent on immigrants for doing so).

The demographic collapse caused loss of knowledge which meant that those who hoped to resurrect the Roman empire, such as the Karlings(and prior to them the Merovingians), were largely unable to though they aped many of the institutions of the late empire.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 08:52 AM (eYoxG)

203 My bank is offering 3.9 percent interest if you open an account with $10,000 or more. But it has to be new money. I have a pot already deposited there earning one percent. I don't know why old customers are treated worse than new customers.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 14, 2023 08:52 AM (45fpk)

204 Had a weird dream last night where I checked my retirement account and over half the money had disappeared.

Fortunately, when I checked on it just now, all the money seemed to still be there...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

But it is worth half as much.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2023 08:51 AM (lTGtQ)
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Ah, so in my dream I was perceiving the "true" value in the account? That makes a sort of prophetic sense...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2023 08:53 AM (YIVH2)

205 The Fed’s Jerome Powell had to rejigger interest rates to make money more expensive to tamp down demand. That, naturally, made everything more expensive for everyone. People who drive and wanted to buy a house and start their American Dream were back-burnered.

Yeah, that already happened while the money was "free." My only hope at home ownership is a housing crash.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 14, 2023 08:53 AM (DTX3h)

206 Those pushing this fallacy the banking system is going to collapse are not just wrong, but irresponsible. Our economy has some fundamental issues, we spend too much and print too much money. No doubt that until someone in Congress has the courage to fix that, our malaise will continue. But the banking system isn't going under. Panicking people into believing that is insidious.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2023 08:53 AM (HDGM5)

207 183 There's an old school hardware store nearby. In the windows, they have items on display, like washtubs, washboards, milking buckets, other farm implements.These are not some sort of nostalgia items on display, they actually sell some.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 14, 2023 08:53 AM (lz5hY)

208 195 Probably just to manage cash on hand.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 08:48 AM (eYoxG)
++++
A bank with that little cash on hand is a red flag in my opinion.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:50 AM (t0OGg)

Internet says very small banks may keep only 50k or less on hand while larger banks may keep 200k.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 08:53 AM (eYoxG)

209 Another LOL

The Signature Bank song shouts in the middle "I stand for honesty! Stand for integrity!"

I have this "thing" about companies that go on and on about Honesty.

It is ALWAYS a red flag. Every time. Especially those ones that put Honest in their name. Run a fucking mile. They are telling you something.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2023 08:53 AM (BXxcV)

210 Sometimes, nature reminds us of the important things:
https://is.gd/51mh02

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:54 AM (t0OGg)

211 In some instances, the government responded to protestors with brutal force, deploying tear gas and dogs to break up demonstrations in cities such as Heerenveen.

I wonder if those soldiers/police have thought far enough ahead to ensure that they'll have food once all the farms are destroyed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2023 08:54 AM (zhLdt)

212 133 Hey, TJM.

It sounds like you earned some Good Husband Points that you can cash in later.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 14, 2023 08:32 AM (sjxgf)

You get husband points 1 at a time
You lose them all at once

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 08:54 AM (BRHaw)

213 After my mom passed her kids each got a sizable amount of cash. I wasn't interested in cashing the bank check cut for me. Instead I wanted to deposit it. Had to go through some serious 3rd degree BS to get that done.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Yes. Only 1K though. Dad had my name on an old account. They sent me the check. I tried to deposit it and took Dad's cert of death with me. Took about a half hour. PITA.

Posted by: Infidel at March 14, 2023 08:54 AM (tITEI)

214 203 My bank is offering 3.9 percent interest if you open an account with $10,000 or more. But it has to be new money. I have a pot already deposited there earning one percent. I don't know why old customers are treated worse than new customers.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 14, 2023 08:52 AM (45fpk)

They do offers like that when they have immediate cash crunch issues.

Such as when there have been runs on banks in the news lately...

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 08:54 AM (eYoxG)

215 It is ALWAYS a red flag. Every time. Especially those ones that put Honest in their name. Run a fucking mile. They are telling you something.
----
Wait...Are you saying Honest John's Car Dealership might be a tad shady?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2023 08:54 AM (YIVH2)

216 $150k pre-tax doesn't go that far.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 08:33 AM (eYoxG)

Wife and I streach $80,000 per year pretty far. She drives a nice SUV. Long paid off. I just hate owing money to anyone. Watch it like a hawk.
My moto is if I can't buy it with what is in my wallet I don't need it.

I don't live frugally, I live downright cheap as hell. I also have not in the last 10 years spent a single coin. I hoard coin. Pockets emptied into a 5 gallon botttle each night. I did roll a bunch for my local Haji mart guy when the great nickle shortage happened but I got free beer out of that deal.

I just can't fathom making $150000 and renting. Worst case I could save $50,000 of that per year and in 5 buy something cash.

$150000 is both partners pulling $36 ish per hour. I make that on OT.

Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2023 08:55 AM (iuZqZ)

217 My bank is offering 3.9 percent interest if you open an account with $10,000 or more. But it has to be new money. I have a pot already deposited there earning one percent. I don't know why old customers are treated worse than new customers.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 14, 2023 08:52 AM (45fpk)
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The money you already have on deposit is already in their capital structure. They want (or need) more money and so have to pay for it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:55 AM (t0OGg)

218 Our HE washer has a "bedding" setting. It uses a normal (for a front loader) amount of water. We use that for our clothes as well as bedding.

The problem is the shortest cycle for it is over an hour. So, more water AND electricity.

Progress comrades.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2023 08:55 AM (Q4IgG)

219 Had a weird dream last night where I checked my retirement account and over half the money had disappeared.

Fortunately, when I checked on it just now, all the money seemed to still be there...

-

Your dream was accurate and it was your brain trying to make sense of things.

Food costs twice what it did under Trump. Energy, services, etc have all increased 30-50%

Half of your money has disappeared.

Posted by: Remember when BBC reported WTC7 had fallen due to fire 20 minutes before it collapsed? at March 14, 2023 08:55 AM (A7TTs)

220 They do offers like that when they have immediate cash crunch issues.

Such as when there have been runs on banks in the news lately...

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 08:54 AM (eYoxG)


Ahh. Good to know. Sounds ominous.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 14, 2023 08:56 AM (45fpk)

221 I don't know why old customers are treated worse than new customers.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 14, 2023 08:52 AM (45fpk)


Because you haven't walked into the bank managers' office and said you'd like to close your account.

They are trained to ask why and you can tell them that another bank is offering you 3.5% interest to deposit your money there.

I'm sure things would change for you, but if you are unwilling to walk away, then they will continue to screw you over.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 14, 2023 08:56 AM (WentF)

222 I wonder if those soldiers/police have thought far enough ahead to ensure that they'll have food once all the farms are destroyed.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2023 08:54 AM (zhLdt)
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Maybe the Ukrainian farmers can bail them out...Oh, wait...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2023 08:56 AM (YIVH2)

223 209 Another LOL

The Signature Bank song shouts in the middle "I stand for honesty! Stand for integrity!"

I have this "thing" about companies that go on and on about Honesty.

It is ALWAYS a red flag. Every time. Especially those ones that put Honest in their name. Run a fucking mile. They are telling you something.
Posted by: ... at March 14, 2023 08:53 AM (BXxcV)

"The more he talked of his honor the faster we counted our spoons"

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 08:56 AM (eYoxG)

224 I have this "thing" about companies that go on and on about Honesty.

It is ALWAYS a red flag. Every time. Especially those ones that put Honest in their name. Run a fucking mile. They are telling you something.

Posted by: ...



To check your pockets.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2023 08:57 AM (lTGtQ)

225 215 Honest John's Car Dealership. Heh. I saw a car lot car called Fairly Reliable Bob's.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 14, 2023 08:57 AM (lz5hY)

226 I wonder if those soldiers/police have thought far enough ahead to ensure that they'll have food once all the farms are destroyed.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2023 08:54 AM (zhLdt)
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Possibly. Red China does that. There's an entire parallel food structure in that country - from the farm to the transportation to the processing to the store to the home or government office - to ensure supply and quality for the most important top dogs in the Party. The peasants and outer party members eat doctored trash, but the inner party has its own end-to-end network.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:57 AM (t0OGg)

227 226 Possibly. Red China does that. There's an entire parallel food structure in that country - from the farm to the transportation to the processing to the store to the home or government office - to ensure supply and quality for the most important top dogs in the Party. The peasants and outer party members eat doctored trash, but the inner party has its own end-to-end network.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:57 AM (t0OGg)

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It's where all the Smithfield hams go these days.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 08:58 AM (LvTSG)

228 220 They do offers like that when they have immediate cash crunch issues.

Such as when there have been runs on banks in the news lately...

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 08:54 AM (eYoxG)

Ahh. Good to know. Sounds ominous.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 14, 2023 08:56 AM (45fpk)

In our current context it's(the bank runs) the most likely reason, but banks run into this as a temporary issue with some regularity and you'll see offers like this at other times as well when there isn't a general cash crunch, just a localized one for that bank.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 08:58 AM (eYoxG)

229 My bank is offering 3.9 percent interest if you open an account with $10,000 or more. But it has to be new money. I have a pot already deposited there earning one percent. I don't know why old customers are treated worse than new customers.
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To everything, churn, churn, churn; There is a season, churn, churn, churn . . .

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 14, 2023 08:59 AM (MIKMs)

230 I'm sure things would change for you, but if you are unwilling to walk away, then they will continue to screw you over.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 14, 2023 08:56 AM (WentF)
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Yup. I keep my day-to-day money and the first part of my emergency fund at the local credit union. I want to be able to walk in and get cash on the spot if I need it.

The rest of my money is in various other banks, and I'm mercenary about who has it when. Those online banks compete with each other on interest rates, and I transfer between them at will based on whoever is paying more. I rebalance it monthly if needed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 08:59 AM (t0OGg)

231 A mark, a yen, a buck or a pound
A buck or a yen
A buck or a pound.
Is all that makes the world go around
That clinking, clanking sound
Can make the world go 'round

Money money money money
Money money money money
Money money money

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 08:59 AM (LvTSG)

232 Those pushing this fallacy the banking system is going to collapse are not just wrong, but irresponsible. Our economy has some fundamental issues, we spend too much and print too much money. No doubt that until someone in Congress has the courage to fix that, our malaise will continue. But the banking system isn't going under. Panicking people into believing that is insidious.

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No one in positions of power or influence believes that.

It is being used to move us to digital currency, and they'll have control over the money at a macro level. You'll have to have a digital identity, and your money can be locked. Or expire if not spent. Or blocked from certain purchases.

No one believes there's a threat. This is just the planes they'll fly into the buildings so they can sign the law they've got written.

Posted by: Remember when BBC reported WTC7 had fallen due to fire 20 minutes before it collapsed? at March 14, 2023 09:00 AM (A7TTs)

233 My bank is offering 3.9 percent interest if you open an account with $10,000 or more.
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Errrr... If you don't mind my asking, what bank?

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2023 09:00 AM (BXxcV)

234 A company talking about ,"honesty" is just as much bs as all other advertising. If a Corp is honest all they have to say is we're here to make money. Hopefully the goods and/or services we provide will get some of yours.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2023 09:00 AM (ZPsfc)

235 One "aw shit" wipes out a hundred "ata-boys."

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 14, 2023 09:01 AM (TXFi7)

236 >

Posted by: rickb223


It's an honor just to be nominated

Posted by: DB - shaping the zeitgeist at March 14, 2023 09:01 AM (geLO8)

237 Inflation rose 6% in February as Fed mulls more rate hikes amid bank chaos

https://tinyurl.com/5n6erj6h

Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2023 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

238 As much of a headache as Pookette is now (not entirely her fault, ADHD med supply issues), I have been grateful for ten years that she learned to sleep pretty much through the night by four weeks, and she didn't cry or scream very often.

Posted by: pookysgirl, pleasantly surprised at March 14, 2023 09:01 AM (dtlDP)

239 234 A company talking about ,"honesty" is just as much bs as all other advertising. If a Corp is honest all they have to say is we're here to make money. Hopefully the goods and/or services we provide will get some of yours.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2023 09:00 AM (ZPsfc)

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"Diverse diversity is the sort of diversity that diverses real diversity in our diversities."
-An alternative

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 09:01 AM (LvTSG)

240 There's a perfectly good reason why Biden stated Carter wanted Joe to give his eulogy.
Biden lies, like all the time.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 14, 2023 09:01 AM (76Foq)

241 The more he talked about his honesty, the faster we counted the spoons.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 14, 2023 09:01 AM (TXFi7)

242 Errrr... If you don't mind my asking, what bank?

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2023 09:00 AM (BXxcV)


A regional bank called Huntington Bank. Used to be TCF Bank. I think they are mainly in Wisconsin and Minnesota, at least they were when it was still TCF.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 14, 2023 09:02 AM (45fpk)

243 209 Another LOL

The Signature Bank song shouts in the middle "I stand for honesty! Stand for integrity!"

I have this "thing" about companies that go on and on about Honesty.

It is ALWAYS a red flag. Every time. Especially those ones that put Honest in their name. Run a fucking mile. They are telling you something.
Posted by: ... at March 14, 2023 08:53 AM (BXxcV)

Integrity
Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.

You take in money, your loan it out based on the ability to repays, and you make money that is reflected to the owners or stockholders.

Pretty fuking simple but you all failed!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 09:02 AM (BRHaw)

244 I just can't fathom making $150000 and renting. Worst case I could save $50,000 of that per year and in 5 buy something cash.

$150000 is both partners pulling $36 ish per hour. I make that on OT.

Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2023 08:55 AM (iuZqZ)

In most cases the family is probably living in a crazy expensive area, where higher salaries tend to be more common. Joe Mannix related such an experience above, where buying in the area just didn't make sense to him.

There are some people who live very lavishly on 150k, but they end up in debt when they're still old with nothing saved.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 09:03 AM (eYoxG)

245 Errrr... If you don't mind my asking, what bank?
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Brooklyn Bridge Investment Bank.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 09:03 AM (Vwz3I)

246 Truist used to be BB&T, Bubba's Bank and Trust.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 14, 2023 09:03 AM (TXFi7)

247 237 Inflation rose 6% in February as Fed mulls more rate hikes amid bank chaos

https://tinyurl.com/5n6erj6h
Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2023 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

Tbh more rate hikes would likely precede more bank failures. Usually the first few chuckleheads to go under because of rate hikes aren't the whole iceberg, they're just the most poorly positioned.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 09:04 AM (eYoxG)

248 Huntington is in the south as well, at least. They did my car loan a few years back and were very easy to deal with.

Posted by: American Hawkman at March 14, 2023 09:04 AM (skAOD)

249 Joe Biden says Florida's prohibition against child sex changes is 'sinful' "Ah transgender kids is a really harder thing. What's going on in Florida is, as my mother would say, close to sinful," Biden said.

If his mother were alive, Joe Biden's mother would be about 105 years old or more, and probably wouldn't be commenting about sex change operations in kids, but if she did, she's find it bizarre and probably not even close-but actually sinful.

His mother seems to function as the all knowing guru with whatever POV agrees with his.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2023 09:05 AM (FUVRY)

250 The inflation numbers are generated by the BLS

and you can't spell BLS without BS

Posted by: REDACTED at March 14, 2023 09:05 AM (us2H3)

251 There's an amazing thread on Twitter from a Robert Kennedy conversation with Jimmy Dore. He lays out how Anthony Fauci was funding all of the research in Wuhan with Pentagon money funneled through the NIH. It also explains the big cover up of China's involvement; if we didn't, they could turn around with proof that our Pentagon was actually paying for it all.

The Truth: the US and Chinese governments worked together to create this, and then oopsie! It got out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2023 09:05 AM (wa6DW)

252 Who was it who originated that “counting the spoons” quip?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 14, 2023 09:05 AM (DSB5h)

253 Brooklyn Bridge Investment Bank.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 09:03 AM (Vwz3I)

LOL

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2023 09:06 AM (BXxcV)

254 My bank is offering 3.9 percent interest if you open an account with $10,000 or more.
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Mine offered a 5% CD, 15 month. Any amount up to $250,000. I couldn't resist.

I hope that's not a bad sign.

It's a credit union though.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 14, 2023 09:06 AM (UuD2k)

255 A company talking about ,"honesty" is just as much bs as all other advertising.

Its complicated by the fact that so many people in their target demographic communicate through Trigger Language, that there isn't a trigger word that conveys the emotion or attribute of "honest".

They already ruined the skin suits they have taken from honest people and entities, and not a single one of the media/political/social types values honesty outside the manipulative powers it has, so honesty has just become a sound that no longer has meaning, or more importantly, a favorable emotion to those who are guided by emotions.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 14, 2023 09:06 AM (YXHzG)

256 A regional bank called Huntington Bank. Used to be TCF Bank. I think they are mainly in Wisconsin and Minnesota, at least they were when it was still TCF.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 14, 2023 09:02 AM (45fpk)

***

My first bank account ever was at Twin Cities Federal (TCF). I remember their pitchman was Bob Lurtzema from the Vikings. Benchwarmer Bob made appearances at the bank branches and I got to meet him at mine. Great memories

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at March 14, 2023 09:07 AM (flINI)

257 > Who was it who originated that “counting the spoons” quip?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus


sounds Churchillian

Posted by: DB - shaping the zeitgeist at March 14, 2023 09:07 AM (geLO8)

258 Posted by: grammie winger at March 14, 2023 09:02 AM (45fpk)

Thanks gram. Hope you are well.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2023 09:07 AM (BXxcV)

259 246 Truist is the result of the merger of BB&T with SunTrust.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 14, 2023 09:07 AM (DSB5h)

260 254 My bank is offering 3.9 percent interest if you open an account with $10,000 or more.
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Mine offered a 5% CD, 15 month. Any amount up to $250,000. I couldn't resist.

I hope that's not a bad sign.

It's a credit union though.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 14, 2023 09:06 AM (UuD2k)

5% is about market rate for that period of time(just check the treasury yield curve). Unless they're specifying new money only, it doesn't mean anything.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 09:08 AM (eYoxG)

261 Prayers for healing pookysgirl.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2023 08:08 AM (qoGsy)

Prayers are always appreciated. We presented a check last night to our church council as a thanks offering for the SSDI and VA 100% disability going through, and we acknowledged the prayers and support that's got us through the last year. Our pastor texted Pooky afterwards and said that we definitely made an impact.

Posted by: pookysgirl, grateful at March 14, 2023 09:08 AM (dtlDP)

262 The green light means Houston-based ConocoPhillips can start construction on its roughly $7 billion project in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, which the company expects will produce about 180,000 barrels of oil a day at its peak—equivalent to about 40% of Alaska’s current crude production.

The Interior Department said it would allow drilling on three of the five drill sites proposed by ConocoPhillips, which announced the Willow discovery in 2017.

Notice the slight of hand: They had rights to 5 sites in the Auctions but only ended up with 3. Thats why the number of leases is a bullshit number as touted by Biden. It means NOTHING without the permits.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 09:09 AM (BRHaw)

263 My first bank account ever was at Twin Cities Federal (TCF). I remember their pitchman was Bob Lurtzema from the Vikings. Benchwarmer Bob made appearances at the bank branches and I got to meet him at mine. Great memories
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at March 14, 2023 09:07 AM (flINI)
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That's almost always a bad sign. When a pro athlete is hawking financial products, run away as fast as you can. For a normal bank, perhaps it's okay. I've never seen that. I have seen a ton of athletes hawking investments and it has a very poor track record.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 09:09 AM (t0OGg)

264 Ally is offering an 18 month CD at 5%

I've parked cash there plenty of times and never had any problems

Posted by: REDACTED at March 14, 2023 09:09 AM (us2H3)

265 Mine offered a 5% CD, 15 month. Any amount up to $250,000. I couldn't resist.

I hope that's not a bad sign.

It's a credit union though.
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Credit unions here are offering 5% over IIRC 14 or 15 months too. Can't recall the minimum deposit though although probably not too high or I would have remembered.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 09:09 AM (Vwz3I)

266 Inflation rose 6% in February as Fed mulls more rate hikes amid bank chaos

The only way to stop the Bidenflation is steep spending cuts by the government.

I saw a thread on reddit on what is causing prices to go up and most of them ended at "the rich getting richer!" which is indirectly sort of true but they understand it in the wrong way.

A Bezos or Soros's comparative wealth is going up because

A) They can hedge inflation better then normal people
B) They are *getting* a significant portion of the money Biden is printing.

But the average redd-idiot thinks the answer is to raise taxes on the guy running a small business that lives next to him, because that guy makes 200K/year and he's "rich", and then give the redd-idiot a government hand out.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2023 09:09 AM (lc5cP)

267 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott

Former deputy Treasury secretary, Roger Altman, admits: With SVB, Biden Admin "effectively nationalize[d] ... the deposit base of the U.S. financial system ... Technically speaking, they haven’t [nationalized the banking system], but in a broad sense, they are verging on that."

As seen on CNN-
https://tinyurl.com/5e3tydp4

Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2023 09:09 AM (NpAcC)

268 Better than normal deals from a bank either means they're aggressively trying to expand(which just isn't done in poor economic conditions so read the context) or they're in need of cash(which does happen in the normal course of business since inflows and outflows tend to be uneven).

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 09:11 AM (eYoxG)

269 263 Isn’t Brady getting sued because he was promoting Sam Bankman-Fried’s stuff?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 14, 2023 09:11 AM (DSB5h)

270 Who was it who originated that “counting the spoons” quip?
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My vote is for Samuel Johnson.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 14, 2023 09:11 AM (MIKMs)

271 So, what other banks has Jim Cramer told people to buy in the past few months?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 09:11 AM (LvTSG)

272 270 Who was it who originated that “counting the spoons” quip?
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My vote is for Samuel Johnson.
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 14, 2023 09:11 AM (MIKMs)

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It was Emerson.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 09:12 AM (LvTSG)

273 Ally is offering an 18 month CD at 5%

I've parked cash there plenty of times and never had any problems
Posted by: REDACTED at March 14, 2023 09:09 AM (us2H3)
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It had problems before it was Ally - when it was GMAC. GMAC got spun off of GM and became Ally. Ally became a "bank holding company" overnight (like many other non-traditional banks did) in order to get access to Fed bailouts during the financial crisis.

Ally may or may not be sound (they have a long history of reckless management), but at the end of the day it won't matter because Uncle Sugar will have its back like always.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 09:12 AM (t0OGg)

274 My credit union has a 13 month CD @ 4.5% minimum $500. I might park a bit of cash in one. Better than earning zero.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2023 09:12 AM (Q4IgG)

275 So, DU has a fun discussion topic today...I'm getting Bulwark vibes...
who else thinks that sex has become too much work? I don't like it any more. My S.O. doesn't seem to mind. I'm getting up there in age. Trying to remember at what age I turned the corner... 58, maybe? Am I alone in this?

My plumbing died 10 years ago. And it is a relief. I can talk and live without the "thinking about sex" part.

My wife gave up on it many years ago. I still think about it and want to, but you're right. I don't know if its worth the effort since its hit or miss whether I can follow through on it.

Dildos and penis pumps: Swedish retirement home helps elderly spice up their sex lives Elderly residents at a care home in southern Sweden - some aged as old as 90 - are being given 'pleasure baskets' filled with lubricants, dildos, penis pumps and penis rings to spice up their sex life, AFP's Camille Bas-Wohlert reports.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at March 14, 2023 09:12 AM (JCZqz)

276 The Truth: the US and Chinese governments worked together to create this, and then oopsie! It got out.

More importantly, because of the Pentagram's involvement, we are essentially be informed that The Party military has silently been transferred to serve the interests of the CCP.

General Milley was doing us a favor when he confessed his treason by saying that he would let his superiors (CCP) know if Trump was going to do something to defend FUSA interests.

I just wonder when The Party would let We The People know that the DoD is a subsidiary to Beijing.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 14, 2023 09:12 AM (YXHzG)

277 no one gives a flying fuck about what people do to their dicks and tits.

What we do care about is the fucking with children on purpose as a goal to create a tribe of people that think like others in your cult.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 09:12 AM (BRHaw)

278 Isn’t Brady getting sued because he was promoting Sam Bankman-Fried’s stuff?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 14, 2023 09:11 AM (DSB5h)
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That sounds familiar. I haven't really followed the Brady part of that farce.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 09:13 AM (t0OGg)

279 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 09:09 AM (t0OGg)

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It was in the 70's where a lot of these athletes had to get jobs in the off season to make ends meet. A different time. I used to serve legal papers in college and even then there were athletes I served working second jobs. I used to serve Bill Goldsworthy (North Stars) a lot in his position as an insurance agent.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at March 14, 2023 09:13 AM (flINI)

280 On the warpath! All of a sudden.

@zerohedge · 22m
Senator Warren Calls For Powell's Recusal From Fed's Bank Failure Investigation

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 09:13 AM (Vwz3I)

281 Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at March 14, 2023 09:12 AM (JCZqz)
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"The sex lives of aging Democrat partisans" is a weird topic.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 09:14 AM (t0OGg)

282 224 I have this "thing" about companies that go on and on about Honesty. It is ALWAYS a red flag. Every time. Especially those ones that put Honest in their name. Run a fucking mile. They are telling you something.

Posted by: ...

To check your pockets.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2023 08:57 AM (lTGtQ)


"Why can't you be like ENDICOTT?!"

- - Kid Creole & the Coconuts

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2023 09:14 AM (x0n13)

283 Ally may or may not be sound (they have a long history of reckless management), but at the end of the day it won't matter because Uncle Sugar will have its back like always.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 09:12 AM (t0OGg)

yep GM was really a car loan company that made cars.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 09:14 AM (BRHaw)

284 Oh pretty please let Sundowner give Jimmy's eulogy, the story lies he tells will be a laughing riot

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2023 09:14 AM (YVQHy)

285 On the warpath! All of a sudden.

@zerohedge
Senator Warren Calls For Powell's Recusal From Fed's Bank Failure Investigation
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 09:13 AM (Vwz3I)
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Then she has an inside angle on some new horror she's trying to perpetrate.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 09:14 AM (t0OGg)

286 So, DU has a fun discussion topic today...I'm getting Bulwark vibes...
who else thinks that sex has become too much work?

One of the causes of Karen insanity is that she isn't having sex. Which makes her and her husband more angry and spiteful at the world.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2023 09:14 AM (lc5cP)

287 281 Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at March 14, 2023 09:12 AM (JCZqz)
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"The sex lives of aging Democrat partisans" is a weird topic.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 14, 2023 09:14 AM (t0OGg)

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Implied in it all, they now get their kicks out of thinking about cutting off the dicks of their nephews.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 09:14 AM (LvTSG)

288 I still say that "gender affirming" is the wrong way to treat gender dysphoria. It's a mental illness.

You don't put a guy that thinks he's Napoleon in charge of the French Army and let him invade Russia in winter.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 14, 2023 09:15 AM (UuD2k)

289 288 I still say that "gender affirming" is the wrong way to treat gender dysphoria. It's a mental illness.

You don't put a guy that thinks he's Napoleon in charge of the French Army and let him invade Russia in winter.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 14, 2023 09:15 AM (UuD2k)

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Let's give it a try and find out! Wait...France would need to raise an army first...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 09:15 AM (LvTSG)

290 269 263 Isn’t Brady getting sued because he was promoting Sam Bankman-Fried’s stuff?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 14, 2023 09:11 AM (DSB5h)

I think I recall hearing that. He was also invested I believe.

Rich people can be just as charmingly retarded with their money as the Robinhood types.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 09:15 AM (eYoxG)

291 I want the companies I buy from to tell me why their product is the best product of its type for the money and...that's it.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2023 09:15 AM (lc5cP)

292 Kind of impressive how this administration has managed to cover over one disaster by promulgating another and yet, nothing seems to stick.

Ukraine and classified docs and Hunter and East Palestine, etc...

Two banks collapsing should paper over this for a bit until the next disaster bails them out of this one.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 14, 2023 09:16 AM (KbCG3)

293 Dildos and penis pumps: Swedish retirement home helps elderly spice up their sex lives Elderly residents at a care home in southern Sweden - some aged as old as 90 - are being given 'pleasure baskets' filled with lubricants, dildos, penis pumps and penis rings to spice up their sex life, AFP's Camille Bas-Wohlert reports.
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at March 14, 2023 09:12 AM (JCZqz)
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That's not my bag, baby!

Posted by: Austin Powers at March 14, 2023 09:16 AM (YIVH2)

294 You don't put a guy that thinks he's Napoleon in charge of the French Army and let him invade Russia in winter.

This gets you on the list.

Posted by: lil Z at March 14, 2023 09:16 AM (lc5cP)

295
Who was it who originated that “counting the spoons” quip?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 14, 2023 09:05 AM

... the idiom to count one's spoons meaning, as others have noted, to check and make sure that nothing has been stolen by suspicious guests. The phrase can be traced back to James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791:

Edit (5/4/12): Note this passage has been turned up 23 years earlier in another Boswell book.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 14, 2023 09:16 AM (enJYY)

296 Two banks collapsing should paper over this for a bit until the next disaster bails them out of this one.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 14, 2023 09:16 AM (KbCG3)

No one is talking about who blew up Nordstream, are they?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 14, 2023 09:17 AM (UuD2k)

297 “Why can’t you be like ENDICOTT?!”


Who puts the “ape” in “apricot?”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 14, 2023 09:17 AM (DSB5h)

298 Colorado, Michigan, Illinois, and several other states reported jumps in their dropout rates this past year. This month, North Carolina officials said that the state’s dropout numbers were 17% higher than pre-pandemic.

My guess is it is much worse!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 09:17 AM (BRHaw)

299 291 I want the companies I buy from to tell me why their product is the best product of its type for the money and...that's it.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2023 09:15 AM (lc5cP)

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I once participated in a survey for Stella Artois about a commercial they were planning on running. It said nothing about the beer and was all about how they build wells in Africa, or something.

I ripped into them. "This doesn't convince me to buy beer. In fact, it makes me want to buy your beer less because it's obvious that you can't sell the beer on its own."

I saw the commercial on TV a few months later.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 09:17 AM (LvTSG)

300 The only way to stop the Bidenflation is steep spending cuts by the government.

The FUSA can't enjoy any fiscal sanity for as long as Japan and Europe are destroying their own currency.

Japan and Europe both suffer from terminal demographics in that the populations are getting older and they have sadists running their respective economies so as to keep some form of balance in currency strength, the FUSA must also trash its own.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 14, 2023 09:17 AM (YXHzG)

301 #280 addendum:

@zerohedge · 1h
“For the Fed’s inquiry to have credibility, Powell must publicly and immediately recuse himself from this internal review. It’s appropriate for Vice Chair for Supervision Barr to have the independence necessary to do his job,” Warren says in statement

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 09:17 AM (Vwz3I)

302 301 #280 addendum:

@zerohedge · 1h
“For the Fed’s inquiry to have credibility, Powell must publicly and immediately recuse himself from this internal review. It’s appropriate for Vice Chair for Supervision Barr to have the independence necessary to do his job,” Warren says in statement
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 09:17 AM (Vwz3I)

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Weird that investigation isn't obstruction anymore.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 09:18 AM (LvTSG)

303 You don't put a guy that thinks he's Napoleon in charge of the French Army and let him invade Russia in winter.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 14, 2023 09:15 AM (UuD2k)
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Well, there's a strategy that the Ukrainians haven't tried yet...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2023 09:18 AM (YIVH2)

304 How many ChiComs are involved in this bank robbery of the American taxpayers? San Fran and, by extension, Silicon Valley are basically a 21st Century Shanghai complete with drugged up American coolies living and dying on the streets. I am sure this amuses the ChiComs but I see no reason to renumerate their losses that they caused.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2023 09:18 AM (0chEi)

305 296 Two banks collapsing should paper over this for a bit until the next disaster bails them out of this one.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 14, 2023 09:16 AM (KbCG3)

No one is talking about who blew up Nordstream, are they?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 14, 2023 09:17 AM (UuD2k)

Knew I missed one. Oh, and 40,000 hours of J6 footage? Who can focus on that when banks are collapsing?!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 14, 2023 09:18 AM (KbCG3)

306 Eh, it's ok to be happy about it.

Of course, in our system, *we* will have to pay for the failure of the bank - in American big business, particularly in the finance sector, profits are private, and losses are public. The banks behave so recklessly because they are in a risk-free environment.

And so it goes for every major institution.

That said - the backs of the middle classes can only bear so much. Every dollar they squeeze from us or print themselves is one fewer for future future theft or counterfeiting. Every publicly-subsidized institutional failure is one step closer to the final collapse of all of it. In that sense, it's a good thing.

It's inevitable at this point that our ruling class is going to steal every last plugged nickel in the land and blow the whole country to flinders, so the sooner the better.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 14, 2023 09:19 AM (oINRc)

307 Jay Ersapah, Chief Risk Officer for the SVB in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, describes herself as a “queer person of color from a working-class background” and organized LGBTQ initiatives, including a month-long Pride campaign.

Not much time left to do banking shit!

Notice how DIE crowds out the real goals or purpose!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 09:20 AM (BRHaw)

308 306 It's inevitable at this point that our ruling class is going to steal every last plugged nickel in the land and blow the whole country to flinders, so the sooner the better.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 14, 2023 09:19 AM (oINRc)

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They just need Mitch McConnell to be the one to propose confiscating all of the 401ks. That makes it bipartisan.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 09:20 AM (LvTSG)

309 No one is talking about who blew up Nordstream, are they?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 14, 2023 09:17 AM (UuD2k)

Oh they answered that - the Skipper and Gilligan did it, with a bomb made out of coconuts that the professor threw together.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2023 09:20 AM (r46W7)

310 132 The claim is that electromagnetic 'noise' from EV motors interferes with AM radio performance, making it largely unusable

Posted by: DB - shaping the zeitgeist at March 14, 2023 08:31 AM (geLO
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What about existing wiper motor, alternator, any other .... don't seem to be a problem currently. Are the current EVs causing AM problems?

Posted by: Ciampino - AM FM MFM at March 14, 2023 09:21 AM (qfLjt)

311 I saw the commercial on TV a few months later

People that working in advertising can slowly advance their careers by marginally improving the sales of their customers.

But they can seriously advance their careers by getting some viral woke hit. The woker the better.

And as long as that is the case you'll see commercials that don't get normies to buy their products because it will help the person behind the ad even if it is bad for the company buying the ads.

Posted by: lil Z at March 14, 2023 09:21 AM (lc5cP)

312 308 306 It's inevitable at this point that our ruling class is going to steal every last plugged nickel in the land and blow the whole country to flinders, so the sooner the better.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 14, 2023 09:19 AM (oINRc)

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They just need Mitch McConnell to be the one to propose confiscating all of the 401ks. That makes it bipartisan.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 09:20 AM (LvTSG)

Tbh this is why I don't try to max out "tax-protected" accounts. You can get money out of them early but that has huge costs already built in.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 09:22 AM (eYoxG)

313 The commies are ripping this country up from every angle.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 14, 2023 09:23 AM (iOSQw)

314
One of the causes of Karen insanity is that she isn't having sex. Which makes her and her husband more angry and spiteful at the world.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2023 09:14 AM

What about the trannies? They cut that stuff off or try to create some freaky appendage they're never going to have the nerve endings to induce orgasm. They can pretend they're having sex but it's all a fantasy. So they get angry, hostile, and bossy. Not the greatest combination.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 14, 2023 09:23 AM (enJYY)

315 All we need to do now is have someone in CA find that sitting next to the magnetic fields of an EV motor for hours of a time causes cancer.

You know it's coming.

Of course, I've spent a fair amount of time around much larger motors.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 14, 2023 09:24 AM (UuD2k)

316 Like the pic JJ

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 09:25 AM (BRHaw)

317 ... the idiom to count one's spoons meaning, as others have noted, to check and make sure that nothing has been stolen by suspicious guests. The phrase can be traced back to James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791:
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Thanks. I won't go down a rabbit hole in the wrong century trying to find it, as I have done before.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 14, 2023 09:25 AM (MIKMs)

318 What about the trannies? They cut that stuff off or try to create some freaky appendage they're never going to have the nerve endings to induce orgasm. They can pretend they're having sex but it's all a fantasy. So they get angry, hostile, and bossy. Not the greatest combination.

Yes the idea of convincing someone to embrace their sex kink by cutting off the parts of their body that allow them to enjoy their sex kink is demonic.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2023 09:25 AM (lc5cP)

319 A couple years of insane inflation might be okay, as long as my salary keeps up. Should be easy to pay off the mortgage when it's in worthless Biden bucks.

Posted by: Money Moron at March 14, 2023 09:26 AM (JCZqz)

320 Japan and Europe both suffer from terminal demographics in that the populations are getting older and they have sadists running their respective economies so as to keep some form of balance in currency strength, the FUSA must also trash its own.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 14, 2023 09:17 AM (YXHzG)

China is down 50 to 100 Million women, maybe more.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 09:26 AM (BRHaw)

321 >What about existing wiper motor, alternator, any other .... don't seem to be a problem currently. Are the current EVs causing AM problems?

Posted by: Ciampino


that's what they're claiming

Posted by: DB - shaping the zeitgeist at March 14, 2023 09:27 AM (geLO8)

322 There was also the radar on the sub that had, "Do not stand directly in front", cast in the housing that we stood directly in front of for entire watches.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 14, 2023 09:27 AM (UuD2k)

323 China is down 50 to 100 Million women, maybe more.[/i


There is a solution to that problem you know.

Posted by: A Roman with a new Sabine wife at March 14, 2023 09:27 AM (lc5cP)

324

Posted by: A Roman with a new Sabine wife at March 14, 2023 09:27 AM (lc5cP)

325 Cops say Quebec pickup truck attack was "a voluntary act" -- already implied in their charging him with murder I suppose but still confirms not accidental at least.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 09:27 AM (Vwz3I)

326

Art is up.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2023 09:27 AM (x0n13)

327 323 China is down 50 to 100 Million women, maybe more.[/i


There is a solution to that problem you know.
Posted by: A Roman with a new Sabine wife at March 14, 2023 09:27 AM (lc5cP)

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The Chinese are pretty racist, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 09:28 AM (LvTSG)

328 It was Emerson.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 09:12 AM (LvTSG)

Are you sure it wasn't Lake or Palmer?

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2023 09:28 AM (BXxcV)

329 314 What about the trannies? They cut that stuff off or try to create some freaky appendage they're never going to have the nerve endings to induce orgasm. They can pretend they're having sex but it's all a fantasy. So they get angry, hostile, and bossy. Not the greatest combination.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 14, 2023 09:23 AM

I'm afraid you can only refer to male-identifying persyns as "bossy". Otherwise it's a hate crime.

Posted by: SJW Commissar at March 14, 2023 09:28 AM (JCZqz)

330 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 14, 2023 09:19 AM (oINRc)

Flinders.

My man, you just taught me a word.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2023 09:30 AM (BXxcV)

331 China is down 50 to 100 Million women, maybe more.

And since much of China has moved to the urban area, children are prohibitively expensive since they can't be monetized as farmhands.

This is going to be interesting culturally since children are expected to take care of their elders - this is a large reason why the FUSA has handed its military over to serve China's interest (to keep the shipping lanes open). Why doesn't China have a blue water navy? Because FUSA is supplying the arms and the manpower. China wants its few remaining young people to be available for taking care of their elders, not being cannon fodder over a Taiwan invasion.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 14, 2023 09:31 AM (YXHzG)

332 Biden's "Economic Plan" falls apart without a continuous stream of BIG Fed spending above the latest Omnibus Bill level. Bailing out a lot of banks is one way to increase Fed spending. Ugh.

Posted by: Gref at March 14, 2023 09:31 AM (AMIL/)

333 Joe Pepitone

was he the guy that got the cover of Sports Illustrated after he got hit in the face by a pitch?

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No, he's the guy that created Central Park in NYC so the Union soldiers could practice on grass.

Posted by: Kramer at March 14, 2023 09:35 AM (xcgjm)

334 t is being used to move us to digital currency, and they'll have control over the money at a macro level. You'll have to have a digital identity, and your money can be locked. Or expire if not spent. Or blocked from certain purchases.
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We already have a digital currency.
You think they can't do that already with the "cash" in your bank account?

Oh, and high inflation is a damned good way to "expire" your money if not spent.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 14, 2023 09:35 AM (XuB58)

335 Btw there was a question about bank failures and assets they were managing as a brokerage/custodian. Here's a finra page on it. That being said, I have seen this be an issue for a fund manager before with Lehman Brothers.

https://tinyurl.com/4hj5rnbd

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 14, 2023 09:35 AM (eYoxG)

336 If I remember correctly, Teslas on autopilot are targeting police cars. I wonder if cop cars transmit and receive wireless communications?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 14, 2023 09:48 AM (Jg7EG)

337
If I remember correctly, Teslas on autopilot are targeting police cars. I wonder if cop cars transmit and receive wireless communications?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 14, 2023 09:48 AM

There's a location very close to the road in a town near me where the cops always hide. Every time I go past them my Rav makes the weirdest noise for a split second. It's obviously something emanating from the police vehicle.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 14, 2023 09:55 AM (enJYY)

338 It is axiomatic that the more control these people have over our lives, the more catastrophes and calamities will explode, and most crucially, the more the blame will be placed on the things they railed against in the first place: America, the free market, limited government, individualism, western civilization and the Judeo-Christian ethic.
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The Fed Res was supposed to calm the boom and bust cycle and prevent recessions. The Great Depression came AFTER the Fed was implemented, and the boom and bust of GDP has oscillated more, and to higher spikes and deeper valleys.

Government cannot solve economic and social problems. It can only exacerbate them.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at March 14, 2023 09:58 AM (5IbdE)

339 While I don't think he has a shot in hell, I'm liking a lot of things that this Vivek Ramaswamy guy is saying:
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I don't. He uses vague terms andcrarely gets specific. When he does get specific it is clear he thinks he can use government to solve social and economic problems.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at March 14, 2023 10:00 AM (5IbdE)

340 Clever pic header...(golf clap)

Regarding corruption, here's an American who lived in Mexico for 5 years, evaded kidnapping and murder, lost everything in a 22 hour raid involving local police and now recommends that people stay out of Mexico entirely, even the resorts can't or won't stop crimes against us Gringos.

https://tinyurl.com/ehkb5dac

Posted by: Ju at March 14, 2023 10:05 AM (aTmM/)

341 I think we should just transport ourselves back to Feb 2020 when everything was right in the world. We had our top 3 most competent chief executive in history:

https://tinyurl.com/5fmy5jc3

Posted by: Danimal28 at March 14, 2023 10:25 AM (klw0w)

342 Someone said that Vivek Ramaswamy sounds like a conservative chatbot.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 14, 2023 10:53 AM (Mzdiz)

343 Dolley does cybersecurity for a regional US bank, and she's told me the best way to do fraud is wire fraud at low levels. It's hard to track on the bank's side, and the low amounts prevent flags.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at March 14, 2023 08:30 AM

This is true so long as the fraudsters do not mess up some mundane detail, like putting a decimal point in the wrong place.

Posted by: Michael Bolton at March 14, 2023 11:16 AM (Do5/p)

344 I thought that old fag Barney Frank was dead. Guess not.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 14, 2023 11:46 AM (ynpvh)

345 "In response to a recent District Court case, the department wants to claim that children in the womb are disposable personal property, to be protected or destroyed subject only to the owner’s will."

Dred Scott II

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 14, 2023 11:50 AM (ynpvh)

346 The criminal investigation into Trump’s payment to Daniels

It was an NDA, she agreed and signed it for $$$. It was not about illegal activity (an immoral one not illegal one).
Now do Joe, Jim, and Hunter Biden, NY, I dare you.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 14, 2023 11:53 AM (ynpvh)

347 Barney Frank gives new meaning to "B-FF"

Posted by: MikeG at March 14, 2023 12:32 PM (VsUo2)

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