Kamala Harris, The World's Greatest Orator and Polymath

A little palate-cleanser. Those videos below the fold.

And a little snack: James Comey has a new grift -- writing "crime novels."

LOL.

Mark Judge parodies and reviews James Comey's newest grift which allows a huge media corporation to pass even more unearned money to him.

I'd gotten home after a long day bartending at the Nest and was right at my hotel room door when I saw it. It was on the ground, up against the door. A package from Mysterious Press. Even though I left the Daily Dispatch Beacon last year--journalism is dead--I was still getting galleys of books to review. They'd even found me in this flea pit.
I brought the package inside and fixed myself a Maker's Mark. Then I tore it open. Probably some here-and-gone thriller with a gaudy cover, written by a hack.
Jesus. The new Jim Comey novel. Central Park West.
Comey was the communist tentpole who'd made my life hell in 2018. This beady-eyed pelican even tried to take down the President, and used some sleazy low-life tactics to try it. Then after he got shitcanned from the FBI--he was the top man--he cranked out a couple of nonfiction books about what a hotshot he is. Now he's trying crime fiction. He was part of taking down Gambino, which should make me respect him. Then I see those pictures of Comey jumping up and down like a schoolgirl or in a Biden-Harris t-shirt and I begin to doubt.
I mean, what kind of a punk goes after the President, not face-to-face but by leaking to The New York Times? A weasel. Not to mention what he did to me in 2018. I'll get to that.
Central Park West. The novel begins when Tony Burke, a former New York governor who left office tainted by a #MeToo scandal, is murdered in his Central Park West apartment. The killer dresses up like Tony's estranged wife, Kyra, to gain access to the building. Then assistant U.S. attorney Nora Carleton, who's prosecuting a mob case, has a star witness tell her the mafia was involved in Burke's death.
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I give Central Park West 20 pages. It's clunky and full of cliches. The opening scene where Kyra's impersonator takes out the governor is awful. She comes in and puts a gun to his neck and what does he do? He "finds his executive cadence" to speak to her. What's an executive cadence? I don't know. She replies: "For once, you're not in charge Mr. Governor. And the beauty of the top floor in a prewar building is--what's that expression?--nobody can hear you scream. You'd be much better off just doing what I say."
Fucking monologuing. Killers don't monologue unless it's a James Bond movie or a comic book. They're usually sneaky and quiet. They work quickly. The really smart ones pull levers behind the scenes so they don't have to get their hands dirty.
That's Comey.
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I try Central Park West again, but it's no use. Cliches, bad dialogue, awkward scenes. Patti's right. It ain't my fault it didn't grab me. It's Inspector Clouseau's.

The book is shat out upon the public on May 30. I contacted a couple of people I knew who were published authors and who might have a galley I could read to tide me over, but alas, they didn't.

James Comey leaks everything, but he's keeping this piece-of-shit locked down tight until he can expel it on May 30.

Also: Disney's stock price fell nine percent after their latest earnings report, in which they reported another four million cancellations of their D-Minus streaming "service."

Disney shares fell nearly 9% Thursday after the company reported subscriber losses at Disney+ during the most recent quarter.
The company, which posted profit and revenue for the period that were in line with Wall Street estimates, reported a loss of four million Disney+ subscribers. That downtick was offset by price increases, which led to a narrowing of operating losses at the streaming unit by $400 million for the fiscal second quarter.
Still, Wall Street expected a gain of more than one million Disney+ subscribers, according to StreetAccount, and the surprise subscriber loss spooked the Street.

WDW Pro says that Bob Iger attempted to explain away his failures by casting itself as the victim of the mean Ron DeSantis, who is punishing Disney for Virtue Signalling so beautifully. WDW Pro points out that Disney is highly selective as far as its Virtue Signalling: Bob Iger loves taking on the American cultural conservative movement, and gets off on antagonizing them and losing their business, but, on the other hand, he also refuses to take a similar "Fuck You" stance towards China. Who he coddles, who he thanks, who he sucks up to.

Why is Bob Iger at war with Ron DeSantis, but fastest friends with President Xi in China? Why is it necessary for Disney to push the trans agenda to America's children when it cuts out any gay content in their movies for their Chinese audiences? Why is Disney willing to accommodate itself to Communist China, but not Florida?

On that point:

This is very interesting from Midnight's Edge.

For a long time, I've known that ESG -- "Environmental, Social, Governance" -- scores based on the ratings of leftwing woke organizations were being used to pressure corporations into pushing the extremist left agenda.

But I didn't know what actual mechanism was being used to punish corporations for not having a high enough Woke Quotient.

This Midnight's Edge video explains it: Corporations do not have all the money they need for their operations on-hand most of the time. They routinely have brief shortfalls of millions of dollars. So they need revolving lines of credit to remain liquid when making payroll.

Financial institutions used to loan out to corporations just based on their ability to pay the short-term loans back.

But now they've become a Woke Cartel and have added a new prerequisite for a loan: You have to have an ESG rating of a certain level, or the Woke Cartel will deny you short-term financing and your company will go insolvent the first time it has to make payroll but doesn't have the cash-on-hand to pay it.

Watch the video starting from 11:00 to see this theory. (Although it's mostly only what I just described.)

Is Midnight's Edge right? Is this how corporations are being bullied by the left into pushing transgenderism and "equity" on the country? Is this why Tranheuser-Busch refuse to fire the woman who hired Dylan Mulvaney -- because the financial hit of losing their revolving line of credit would be an existential crisis, whereas losing a third of their customers is merely a belt-tightening ordeal?

Honestly, I don't know. Sorry. I've long known that ESG was being used to make corporations the enforcement arm of Marxism USA but I didn't know how. This explanation makes sense and is easily comprehensible, so it appeals to me.

But I'm not sure if Midnight's Edge is right or not. I'm just out of my depth.

Kamala Harris is a once-in-a-generation orator. pic.twitter.com/wn9xIzIrpJ
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 10, 2023

Kamala Harris announces that she's been traveling with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and discussing the works of rapper KRS-One. pic.twitter.com/W9lKBc4LRj
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 10, 2023

Kamala Harris: "My mother used to give us a hard time sometimes and she would say to us, 'I don't know what's wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?' Ha ha ha ha." pic.twitter.com/aGMFCGgKt6
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 10, 2023

Boy, this absolute idiot really think this One Line is a real mind-blower.

Kamala Harris is a borderline NPC programmed by A.I.

pic.twitter.com/nKnneBJVAh
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) May 7, 2023

In related news, watching that clip has made me Developmentally Disabled.

Ohhhhh, that explains it:

Karine Jean-Pierre says Biden "has been closely consulting" with Kamala Harris on the crisis at the southern border pic.twitter.com/9VsDvEDPUs
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 9, 2023

USA Today: Time is running out for White Men to Position Kamala for Success!!!

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Posted by: GF at May 12, 2023 04:03 PM (aJxr8)

2 Eleventeenth

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 12, 2023 04:04 PM (ZSK0i)

3 321 NOOD Kamala

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 12, 2023 04:03 PM (ZSK0i

Uncalled for!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2023 04:04 PM (6VKyY)

4 I was not aware that coconut trees abounded in Canada where kamala harris grew up.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 12, 2023 04:05 PM (ncXxy)

5 Harris 1st woman to deliver West Point commencement speech (AP)

https://tinyurl.com/3srxp4wj

The memes from that will be epic.

Posted by: SMH at May 12, 2023 04:08 PM (d8qOM)

6 A little palate-cleanser? You mean like some mouthwash?

Posted by: Kamala at May 12, 2023 04:08 PM (SYTee)

7 You know, even showing us her godless commie tits would not help that Great Oralator.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 12, 2023 04:08 PM (ufFY8)

8 I've come to the conclusion that it's best for me not to dwell on the breadth and depth of idiocy that permeates the junta.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 12, 2023 04:08 PM (Xrfse)

9 God forgive me, but hearing that woman speak makes me feel dumber afterwards.

Posted by: SMH at May 12, 2023 04:09 PM (d8qOM)

10 Come on, someone besides me has to want The Ho as President, it's not like anything would be different after all. But her word salads will be awesome to digest.

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2023 04:09 PM (xhxe8)

11 I hope Comey's prose is as awesome and fantastic as Tapper's

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2023 04:09 PM (9UlRk)

12 I'm kind of impressed how much empty speech Kamala can string together. That's one of those things that takes as much effort as actually learning material.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 12, 2023 04:09 PM (eYoxG)

13 7 You know, even showing us her godless commie tits would not help that Great Oralator.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 12, 2023 04:08 PM (ufFY

Yes, she's good with her mouth, but oration is not one of them. I hear she's an expert at dicktation, however.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 12, 2023 04:09 PM (ynpvh)

14 Uncalled for!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2023 04:04 PM (6VKyY)

I'll remember that complaint the next time y'all start bitchin' about no-noodin' bastiges.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 12, 2023 04:09 PM (ZSK0i)

15 Kamala Harris is the Cicero of our time.

Posted by: dantesed at May 12, 2023 04:10 PM (193FS)

16 "You have to have an ESG rating of a certain level, or the Woke Cartel will deny you short-term financing and your company will go insolvent the first time it has to make payroll but doesn't have the cash-on-hand to pay it."

It's almost like letting a tiny minority of oligarchs control the financial system is profoundly unwise. This was always going to happen. Hate my ideas about the impending collapse if you must, but only the most devoted NPC liberal is going to risk death to preserve the rotten bankster regime.

Posted by: trev006 at May 12, 2023 04:11 PM (78UcJ)

17 So her aides write out speeches for her to say, but instead just wings it instead but uses her favorite one liner?

Someone on another thread suggested that she might be an alcoholic? I don't know. My mother was a high functioning alcoholic. Didn't drink until she came home from work and she sounded nothing like Kamala.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2023 04:11 PM (Keyt1)

18 We are burdened by some seriously stupid fucks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 12, 2023 04:11 PM (Q4IgG)

19 "Fell out of a coconut tree'?

I am unfamiliar with any person of parentage that would utter such a phrase.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 12, 2023 04:12 PM (qoGsy)

20 Someone on another thread suggested that she might be an alcoholic? I don't know. My mother was a high functioning alcoholic. Didn't drink until she came home from work and she sounded nothing like Kamala.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Yeah, same here.

My mom didn't sound anything like her when she was three sheets to the wind.

She was quite fluent in swearing.

Posted by: SMH at May 12, 2023 04:12 PM (d8qOM)

21 And that little coconut was me

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2023 04:12 PM (9UlRk)

22 Come on, someone besides me has to want The Ho as President, it's not like anything would be different after all. But her word salads will be awesome to digest.
Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2023 04:09 PM (xhxe

Concur. It would be like “Good Times” and “Fat Albert And The Gang” on the Potomac.

Dy-No-Mite!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 12, 2023 04:13 PM (R/m4+)

23 On a lighter note, I just finished the last of my semester grading, so the school year is over for me. Time to drink.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 12, 2023 04:13 PM (bhRsz)

24 Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 12, 2023 04:08 PM (ufFY

I think tits are probably not either theists or atheists, but no, showing them probably wouldn't make people think more highly of her intellect.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2023 04:13 PM (Keyt1)

25 Karine Jean-Pierre says Biden "has been closely consulting" with Kamala Harris on the crisis at the southern border
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For once, I believe her.

Gee, Comey's book's release date is the same as Norman Friedman's next, British Coastal Forces. Which should I get?

Posted by: Eeyore at May 12, 2023 04:15 PM (TgBWG)

26 Midnight's Edge is correct.

Somewhere along the line a corporate actor with fiduciary duties is violating those duties in the name of "wokeness".

It may not be Disney. It may be "upstream" of Disney in the financial industry.

But it is necessarily happening somewhere.

Well, I suppose there may be some thing at the top of the pyramid without any fiduciary duty who has made the call to act non-economically....

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 12, 2023 04:15 PM (KbwJl)

27 Politico: As the border heats up, Dems fracture over a migration solution. Sherrod Brown is a stalwart progressive who doesn’t often partner with the likes of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. On the hot-button issue of immigration, though, the Ohio Democrat is siding with his caucus’ two most famous centrists.

Sens. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) argue the time for Title 42 authority has come and gone.

Fracture"? Really? Did they mean "disagree"? Because those are two different things. Typical Politico hyperbole.

Dems in Disarray! Don’t the purveyors of that meme ever get tired?

Democrats welcome alll immigrants no matter who they are or how they get here!! We have made our cities true beacons for everyone to come to with no reprisals unlike republican urban areas. We are the party of compassion and texas shipping people all over the country shows what truly callous and cold monsters they truly are. I'd guess this were Mary Clogginstein posting if there were more errors.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 12, 2023 04:15 PM (JCZqz)

28 Kamala Harris is the Cicero of our time.
Posted by: dantesed at May 12, 2023 04:10 PM (193FS)

Demosthenes, I would claim, but I doubt those are pebbles she stuffed in her gob.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 12, 2023 04:15 PM (xhaym)

29 Much better spewing of nonsense:

https://youtu.be/Wm0RbUdXDMM

Best bits of Uncle Colm from Derry Girls.

Warning: thick Irish accents!

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 12, 2023 04:16 PM (ufFY8)

30 Jeepers, kamala is an idiot.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 12, 2023 04:16 PM (EcZ7+)

31 Posted by: Dr. T at May 12, 2023 04:13 PM (bhRsz)

Congratulations; I'm sure the professors are just as glad as students for the semester to be over. Unfortunately, one of my son's professors lost most of his tests and quizzes, which he thankfully saved and they had to be scanned and sent to him/her? (Don't know their gender) today.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2023 04:16 PM (Keyt1)

32 I wonder where all the folks that used to claim Veep Throat was stunning and brave are these days?

Posted by: Tonypete at May 12, 2023 04:16 PM (qoGsy)

33 Just a reminder that the New York Times, Democrat leadership in both California and DC, and the tech industry billionaire financiers all knew Kamala before she launched her presidential campaign.

They were in meetings with her. They interviewed her. They spent time with her, getting to know her.

And she was their #1 choice for president in 2020.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 12, 2023 04:16 PM (LvTSG)

34 What are republican urban areas?

Didn't know there was such a thing.

Posted by: SMH at May 12, 2023 04:17 PM (d8qOM)

35 "But now they've become a Woke Cartel and have added a new prerequisite for a loan: You have to have an ESG rating of a certain level, or the Woke Cartel will deny you short-term financing..."

If the sun ever comes up again, there will be absolute hell to pay, civilly and criminally.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 12, 2023 04:17 PM (MkuC5)

36 The country is literally falling apart, yet what does my Senator in Indiana have to say?

I don’t endorse Trump. He is not strong on the war in Ukraine.

We need a red state to secede! Montana, Idaho, or Texas?!

Posted by: Cooldawg at May 12, 2023 04:17 PM (FvNw3)

37 Someone on another thread suggested that she might be an alcoholic? I don't know. My mother was a high functioning alcoholic. Didn't drink until she came home from work and she sounded nothing like Kamala.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2023 04:11 PM (Keyt1)

No chance in hell. She doesn't have the many other signs of long-term alcohol abuse. The idea that Willie Brown kept her chained up by his bed with the TV locked to whatever was on PBS before he returned in the evening for decades? It doesn't sound likely, but fuck me if I know of a drug that could otherwise make Kamala this retarded yet physically healthy.

Posted by: trev006 at May 12, 2023 04:17 PM (78UcJ)

38 27 Democrats welcome alll immigrants no matter who they are or how they get here!! We have made our cities true beacons for everyone to come to with no reprisals unlike republican urban areas. We are the party of compassion and texas shipping people all over the country shows what truly callous and cold monsters they truly are. I'd guess this were Mary Clogginstein posting if there were more errors.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 12, 2023 04:15 PM (JCZqz)

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This person has not heard that Eric Adams is shipping them out of NYC because there are too many and they are breaking the city's finances.

No True Democrat, I'm sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 12, 2023 04:17 PM (LvTSG)

39 It's not just that's she's lazy, incompetent, and only has a political career because she was good at sucking dick - she's also very dumb.

Posted by: Fix her image? Can't fix stupid. at May 12, 2023 04:18 PM (FEapg)

40 Oh, definitely. Why do you think a bunch of amoral gangsters like the ones running this racket of an """economy""" suddenly care so much about all this moralistic bullshit?

Because Wall Street is demanding they do so on behalf of the Party, or their funny money paper-chase ends at a brick wall. "Stuff your virtue signalling pockets. Or you'll find out what genderfluid means when your greased-up backhole gets filled with some. Your choice."

It's no different than Silicon Valley censorship. Our authoritarian regime just contracts its unconstitutional power grabs to its private sector partners.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 12, 2023 04:18 PM (oINRc)

41 Maybe her speech writers write what she wants to her and know she is dumber than a box of 🪨 🪨

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2023 04:18 PM (xhxe8)

42 I know so many retardate parents at my daughter's Christian school that decry the "sick perverts" and yet still maintain their yearly pilgrimage to Disney World.

They can't quit it. A lot of them men that would suck a dick before they'd upset wifey by cancellation Disney.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 12, 2023 04:18 PM (nx2KQ)

43 And a little snack: James Comey has a new grift -- writing "crime novels."

LOL.

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Protagonist will be a Druid Redwood Philosopher-Detective who excels at hiding behind curtains.

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 04:18 PM (/WbmY)

44 Yeah, same here.

My mom didn't sound anything like her when she was three sheets to the wind.

She was quite fluent in swearing.
Posted by: SMH at May 12, 2023 04:12 PM (d8qOM)

My sister used to do hour long whines on the phones and never bothered to figure out if I was listening.

she is 20+ years sober now, so things got better.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 12, 2023 04:18 PM (xhaym)

45 "It was a dark and stormy night. Ronald J. Drump was seated on his golden toilet pondering how best to screw America when suddenly the door burst open as the heroes of the FBI came to arrest the evil-doer before he could hire any more bed-urinating prostitutes."

Posted by: James Comey - Where's my book royalty advance? at May 12, 2023 04:18 PM (I/fAz)

46 But now they've become a Woke Cartel and have added a new prerequisite for a loan: You have to have an ESG rating of a certain level, or the Woke Cartel will deny you short-term financing and your company will go insolvent the first time it has to make payroll but doesn't have the cash-on-hand to pay it.
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Sounds like a great business opportunity for some financial institution.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 04:19 PM (YqDXo)

47 Kamala Harris is Occam's Idiot.

She talks like an idiot because she is one.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at May 12, 2023 04:19 PM (ppBhU)

48 Kamala on her knees, when the walls fell

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 12, 2023 04:20 PM (O8bOp)

49
Can a conservative US government prohibit lenders from applying those ESG standards? Or at least use tricks to sidetrack it? Unfortunately, it seems to me like banks can withhold money from whomever they want for whatever reason they want.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 12, 2023 04:20 PM (lCaJd)

50 The word we want to describe Kamala is Churchillian.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 12, 2023 04:21 PM (TgBWG)

51 What are republican urban areas?

Didn't know there was such a thing.
Posted by: SMH

The entire nation outside blue shitholes.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 12, 2023 04:21 PM (z5Neb)

52 Kamala is so stupid, she's now the VP and in line to be the next President.

Just because she says stupid shit doesn't mean she's stupid.

They all say stupid shit, and yet they are in power.

Posted by: davidt at May 12, 2023 04:21 PM (SYTee)

53 Never been to Disney. Never wanted to go to Disney and son never expressed an interest. Disney did some fine things way back win, but I don't even think we saw all the Disney films at the theatre when son was a youngster.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2023 04:21 PM (Keyt1)

54 2 I know so many retardate parents at my daughter's Christian school that decry the "sick perverts" and yet still maintain their yearly pilgrimage to Disney World.

They can't quit it. A lot of them men that would suck a dick before they'd upset wifey by cancellation Disney.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 12, 2023 04:18 PM (nx2KQ)

Sadly they know if they mix the Disney trip they won't even get twice-a-year pity sex from their wives.

Posted by: Extortionate but...nah just extortionate at May 12, 2023 04:22 PM (FEapg)

55 9 God forgive me, but hearing that woman speak makes me feel dumber afterwards.
Posted by: SMH at May 12, 2023 04:09 PM (d8qOM)
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The solution is to remember that you are brighter than that.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 12, 2023 04:22 PM (TgBWG)

56 50 The word we want to describe Kamala is Churchillian.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 12, 2023 04:21 PM (TgBWG)

Did you mean Chincillian?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 12, 2023 04:22 PM (ynpvh)

57 *nix

Fuck you autocucumber

Posted by: Extortionate but...nah just extortionate at May 12, 2023 04:22 PM (FEapg)

58 It was a dark and stormy night. Ronald J. Drump was seated on his golden toilet pondering how best to screw America when suddenly the door burst open as the heroes of the FBI came to arrest the evil-doer before he could hire any more bed-urinating prostitutes."
Posted by: James Comey

"...and then the murders began."

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 12, 2023 04:23 PM (iKBwy)

59 Can a conservative US government prohibit lenders from applying those ESG standards? Or at least use tricks to sidetrack it? Unfortunately, it seems to me like banks can withhold money from whomever they want for whatever reason they want.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 12, 2023 04:20 PM (lCaJd)

I would think the best way would be to relax the regulations shutting new banks out of the system. The consolidation of smaller banks by larger banks is not being offset by creation of new banks, so the choice of who to go to for loans is shrinking.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 12, 2023 04:23 PM (xhaym)

60 Was visiting the in-laws one weekend and my mother-in-law got into her cups a bit.

1 glass of wine - completely fine
2 glasses of wine - a bit happy but still coherent
4 glasses of wine - full Kamala

That's what we're seeing here. That coconut tree thing with the halting, oddly placed pause for laughter is a normal person just about to enter full-on drunk mode.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 12, 2023 04:23 PM (KbCG3)

61 @48 --

Kamala, kneeling at Willie.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 12, 2023 04:23 PM (MkuC5)

62
Someone on another thread suggested that she might be an alcoholic? I don't know. My mother was a high functioning alcoholic. Didn't drink until she came home from work and she sounded nothing like Kamala.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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I don't know about an alcoholic, but she does sound perpetually drunk, if there's a difference.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 12, 2023 04:23 PM (lCaJd)

63 They can't quit it. A lot of them men that would suck a dick before they'd upset wifey by cancellation Disney.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 12, 2023 04:18 PM (nx2KQ)

Not this guy.

I'm a pushover for the kids. I buy them all kinds of shit they don't need because I'm a sucker, and on the odd occasion I'm being recalcitrant, Lady YD can usually butter me up.

When they want Disney anything? Nope. Absolutely not. End of story. Fuck those commies perverts and the giant plague rat they rode in on.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 12, 2023 04:24 PM (oINRc)

64 39 It's not just that's she's lazy, incompetent, and only has a political career because she was good at sucking dick - she's also very dumb.
Posted by: Fix her image? Can't fix stupid. at May 12, 2023 04:18 PM

Sometimes, I think being very dumb is a bonus in politics. See also- AOC. Being very dumb, but not realizing it, means you can say the most outrageous things with complete sincerity and conviction, because you're too dumb to know it's all bullshit.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 12, 2023 04:24 PM (JCZqz)

65 Question:

Should we mock Comey's book on the Sunday Morning Book Thread?

Any Morons willing to take one for the team to "find" a copy and review it for us?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 12, 2023 04:24 PM (YIVH2)

66 The word we want to describe Kamala is Churchillian.
Posted by: Eeyore at May 12, 2023 04:21 PM (TgBWG)

Perhaps-Ward Churchillian, only not a fraction as articulate, as awful as Ward was/is?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2023 04:24 PM (Keyt1)

67 The word we want to describe Kamala is Churchillian.
Posted by: Eeyore at May 12, 2023 04:21 PM (TgBWG)

"Windowpane" Either licking it, or dropping it.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 12, 2023 04:24 PM (xhaym)

68 Keep waiting every day for Sundowner to stroke out

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2023 04:24 PM (xhxe8)

69
I would think the best way would be to relax the regulations shutting new banks out of the system. The consolidation of smaller banks by larger banks is not being offset by creation of new banks, so the choice of who to go to for loans is shrinking.
Posted by: Kindltot

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Yeah, tnks.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 12, 2023 04:24 PM (lCaJd)

70 54 Sadly they know if they mix the Disney trip they won't even get twice-a-year pity sex from their wives.
Posted by: Extortionate but...nah just extortionate at May 12, 2023 04:22 PM

Twice a year? Luxury!

Posted by: Most married men at May 12, 2023 04:25 PM (JCZqz)

71 Niche market.

Equality! Human Rights Campaign working with Lyft to give free rides only to trans and nonbinary POC

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 12, 2023 04:26 PM (FVME7)

72 I can't wait to be unburdened of this has-been.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at May 12, 2023 04:26 PM (wzAuc)

73 Should we mock Comey's book on the Sunday Morning Book Thread?

Any Morons willing to take one for the team to "find" a copy and review it for us?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

That would be "oh, hell no", sorry to disappoint.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 12, 2023 04:26 PM (z5Neb)

74 But now they've become a Woke Cartel and have added a new prerequisite for a loan: You have to have an ESG rating of a certain level, or the Woke Cartel will deny you short-term financing and your company will go insolvent the first time it has to make payroll but doesn't have the cash-on-hand to pay it.

This sounds extremely likely, or at least plausible. I do know that banks are being leaned on by the fed, and are leaning on companies.

But never fear, the Republicans are here to... do nothing about this and not care.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 04:27 PM (0hOvj)

75 How would a person sound who was smoking Pot before every public appearance?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2023 04:27 PM (Keyt1)

76 Apropos of nothing, I am about to enter the EV world. Someone gave me two electric bicycles. eZip Trailzs. A man's and a lady's model.

I have the battery packs on the charger but I don't have high hopes for them. On the bright side, only $70 gets me a 4-pack of SLAs to fix them.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 12, 2023 04:27 PM (aD39U)

77 Sometimes you feel like a coconut...

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 12, 2023 04:28 PM (63Dwl)

78 You know the best way to keep Car-Mella from talking?

Well I do.

Posted by: WILLIE BROWN at May 12, 2023 04:28 PM (jM1wU)

79 Fell out of a coconut tree
_______________

Said only by someone who's never seen a coconut tree. Think "palm tree" if you haven't seen a coconut tree. Only the very hardy can climb one.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 04:28 PM (YqDXo)

80 "Karine Jean-Pierre says Biden "has been closely consulting" with Kamala Harris on the crisis at the southern border"

That's like Stevie Wonder 'closely consulting' with Helen Freakin Keller !! (plus knee pads hehehehehe)

Posted by: Katfish at May 12, 2023 04:28 PM (+Z2md)

81 75 How would a person sound who was smoking Pot before every public appearance?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2023 04:27 PM (Keyt1)

From loooooong past experience, a true stoner can hide stonedness.

Drunks are obvious.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 12, 2023 04:29 PM (MkuC5)

82 Any Morons willing to take one for the team to "find" a copy and review it for us?

There is a bootleg pirate market out there with books on kindle but I don't think this one will rate enough for anyone to copy it over.

And I'm not gonna throw money at Comey to suffer through "his" book.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 04:29 PM (0hOvj)

83 Gotta be honest, the Disney saga doesn't even cause a blip on my concern-o-meter radar. *shrugs*

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 12, 2023 04:29 PM (Xrfse)

84 A Minneapolis teen was ruled incompetent to stand trial after shooting someone in the head. A few months later, he shot another person in the head.

https://bit.ly/42uza73

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Incompetent? Seems to me he knows what he's doing. I mean, two head shots. Of course, we don't know about the shots he missed.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 12, 2023 04:29 PM (FVME7)

85
Don't know about Midnight Edge's claims. Wouldn't put it past certain banksters, but it seems pretty actionable. What I do know is the SEC will require companies to provide ESG ratings to be listed at some time in the future. See here-
https://greenbusinessbureau.com/esg/sec-esg/
Currently this is being fought in court and I don't know where it stands today. I guess the idea is profit is so declasse and now the SEC will let you know which investments have Virtue

Posted by: Leon Sphinx at May 12, 2023 04:29 PM (UIngH)

86 He flushed the Bob Ucker guy (or who ever) and he's going to lose this Disney/RDS thing.

Hallie's offer is like her GOP polling. Zero.

This is the middle of May. These numbers are 6 weeks old. Pre workforce reduction and I assume more Disney + cancelations were after this quarterly report.

He better speed up the workforce reductions.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 12, 2023 04:29 PM (C3G19)

87 Question:

Should we mock Comey's book on the Sunday Morning Book Thread?

Any Morons willing to take one for the team to "find" a copy and review it for us?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 12, 2023 04:24 PM (YIVH2)
_____________

Wait for it to hit the remainder tables. Can't be much of a wait.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 04:30 PM (YqDXo)

88 I seriously doubt James Comey is actually writing anything. Maybe suggesting bits and pieces, but he ain't stooping to actually doing any writing.

He's not smart enough to string 3 paragraphs together let alone write a dime store crime novel.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 12, 2023 04:30 PM (Q4IgG)

89 Kamala is definitely on something with that last appearance and the cocoanut tree thing. It doesn't make any sense and goes nowhere, you can hear the audience just waiting for the punchline, or for it to resolve and she gives them nothing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 04:30 PM (0hOvj)

90 After watching those videos of Kamalalala speechifying, we now have scientific proof that swallowing large amounts of semen and smegma causes massive brain damage.

Posted by: Archer at May 12, 2023 04:31 PM (gmo/4)

91 A Minneapolis teen was ruled incompetent to stand trial after shooting someone in the head. A few months later, he shot another person in the head.

https://bit.ly/42uza73

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Incompetent? Seems to me he knows what he's doing. I mean, two head shots. Of course, we don't know about the shots he missed.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 12, 2023 04:29 PM (FVME7)
_____________

Also, we don't know whom he shot. He could be a patriot cleaning house.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 04:31 PM (YqDXo)

92 the modern dim party is a cabal of herders, each with own specific group of mindless sheeple following their every movement and word

Kameltoe is but one of these herders. She apeaks for and to her followers, just one of the many overlapping herds that make up the dim party and are forever faithful to the unknown cause

if it wasn't for the evil component and the outright ignorance that is preached to and revered amongst the herd, it would be a commendable plan

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2023 04:31 PM (us2H3)

93 #36 - "We need a red state to secede! Montana, Idaho, or Texas?! "

Don't forget South Dakota

I'm a Texan born & raised and would LOVE to see Us secede (not holding my breath)

Posted by: Katfish at May 12, 2023 04:31 PM (+Z2md)

94 Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 12, 2023 04:29 PM (MkuC5)

I think pot out there now is much more potent than pot of years ago, so I'm not sure you could disguise it that easily now.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2023 04:31 PM (Keyt1)

95 5 Harris 1st woman to deliver West Point commencement speech (AP)

https://tinyurl.com/3srxp4wj

The memes from that will be epic.
Posted by: SMH at May 12, 2023 04:08 PM (d8qOM)

Unfortunately for those involved, she can't remit outstanding punishment tours. Keep walking.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 12, 2023 04:31 PM (4GxJn)

96 Apropos of nothing, I am about to enter the EV world. Someone gave me two electric bicycles. eZip Trailzs. A man's and a lady's model.
I have the battery packs on the charger but I don't have high hopes for them. On the bright side, only $70 gets me a 4-pack of SLAs to fix them.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 12, 2023 04:27 PM (aD39U)

You could retrofit it with the WATT propane fuel cell system
Coming in at just 46 lbs not including fuel cylinder, it gives continuous 12v power at ~8 CF/hr

https://www.wattfuelcell.com/portable-power/watt-imperium/

Posted by: Kindltot at May 12, 2023 04:32 PM (xhaym)

97 When they want Disney anything? Nope. Absolutely not. End of story. Fuck those commies perverts and the giant plague rat they rode in on.

I just don't get it. One trip there. Perhaps.

But the every year, multiple times a year, I just don't understand.

Am I missing something? Is it great and I just don't know about it. Because it seems to me like it would be an overpriced visit to a theme park.

I live near Dollywood and I avoid the shithole like the plague.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 12, 2023 04:32 PM (nx2KQ)

98 Kamala is definitely on something with that last appearance and the cocoanut tree thing. It doesn't make any sense and goes nowhere, you can hear the audience just waiting for the punchline, or for it to resolve and she gives them nothing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 04:30 PM (0hOvj)
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Notice she cackles every 30 seconds or so. She could be giving a funeral oration and would still cackle that often.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 04:32 PM (YqDXo)

99 Disney+ lost like half a million subs in India last quarter. Down a lot less in the USA, but the data is really hard to get.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 04:32 PM (0hOvj)

100 And that little coconut was me
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2023 04:12 PM

Shut 'er down, folks.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 12, 2023 04:33 PM (Wnv9h)

101
Republican media attacks are hurting Kamala's popularity?
Strange. Democrat media attacks don't seem to hurt President Trump's popularity.

Posted by: Speller at May 12, 2023 04:33 PM (pSotA)

102 Should we mock Comey's book on the Sunday Morning Book Thread?

Any Morons willing to take one for the team to "find" a copy and review it for us?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 12, 2023 04:24 PM (YIVH2)

If it's on kindle unlimited, I'll do it.

*Trots off to check Amazon

Posted by: Dash My Lace Wigs! at May 12, 2023 04:33 PM (OX9vb)

103 The Soaring Future that Falls From Trees
By Kamala Harris - Vice President and noted stoner

What can be unburdened by what has been
The significance of the passage of time
For us at every moment in time, past, future
As my mother would say, what is wrong you with
You think you just fell out of a coconut tree,
Ha, ha, ha, ha.

Posted by: Lost In Space at May 12, 2023 04:33 PM (iGfKR)

104
Said only by someone who's never seen a coconut tree. Think "palm tree" if you haven't seen a coconut tree. Only the very hardy can climb one.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

===========

"Do you think you just fell out of a coconut tree"? I don't even know what that means. My mother never asked me if I thought I just fell off a rooftop or a ladder or a jungle gym or anything like that.

Of course Kamala covered it with laughter, as if everyone would get it, and they obliged her, and no one in the room knew what anyone was laughing about.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 12, 2023 04:34 PM (lCaJd)

105 Nope, not spending real money on that.

Posted by: Dash My Lace Wigs! at May 12, 2023 04:35 PM (OX9vb)

106 102 Should we mock Comey's book on the Sunday Morning Book Thread?

Any Morons willing to take one for the team to "find" a copy and review it for us?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 12, 2023 04:24 PM (YIVH2)

If it's on kindle unlimited, I'll do it.

*Trots off to check Amazon

Posted by: Dash My Lace Wigs! at May 12, 2023 04:33 PM (OX9vb)

I think Comey's book, "A Higher Loyalty" can be found in the fiction section...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 12, 2023 04:35 PM (ynpvh)

107 In my experience, people who smoke pot tend to be giggly (check) and vapid (check) but are very unmotivated and unfocused, easily distracted which she does not show signs of.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 04:35 PM (0hOvj)

108 What are republican urban areas?

Didn't know there was such a thing.
Posted by: SMH at May 12, 2023 04:17 PM

My thoughts, exactly. But, ya know...forget it...they're rolling.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 12, 2023 04:35 PM (Wnv9h)

109 Just back from the bathroom. I'm unburdened from what has been.

Posted by: fd at May 12, 2023 04:35 PM (iayUP)

110 "Corporations do not have all the money they need for their operations on-hand most of the time. They routinely have brief shortfalls of millions of dollars. So they need revolving lines of credit to remain liquid when making payroll."

idk, but many BigCorps were buying back stock because they were "cash rich". IF they did at times need to borrow in certain cash crunches, I think it was only more expedient than selling some stock they had bought back.

BUT there we made the oligarchs so flucking rich by bailing out the TooBigToFail/Jail and their billionaires, that they control boardrooms and can threaten to sell if the BigCorps do not push the WEF agenda (for instance).

It's a big (WEF/CFR/etc.) club, and the little people are not only not in it, they also have their retirements invested in The Big Club. (double entendre ... Big Club, think of the baby seals)

Posted by: illiniwek at May 12, 2023 04:35 PM (Cus5s)

111 If it's on kindle unlimited, I'll do it.

Big publishers almost NEVER put anything on kindle unlimited unless its quite old.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 04:36 PM (0hOvj)

112
"It's about a perspective. It's about a state of mind."
-- Kamala Harris

To be fair, it's almost like she understands The Horde.

Posted by: John Kerry at May 12, 2023 04:36 PM (a3Q+t)

113 Yes, corporations usually need some sort of short-term financing. I can confidently say longer-term financing doesn't really rely having good ESG scores to borrow, though the ESG folks have made it tighter at times for things like Oil and Gas.

Not personally familiar enough with short-term financing to say how much impact it'd have.

I suspect it's more of a personnel issue, which is how stuff tends to become woke in the first place. Colleges turn out woke people who go on to work in corporations, particularly HR.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 12, 2023 04:36 PM (eYoxG)

114 Well, I suppose there may be some thing at the top of the pyramid without any fiduciary duty who has made the call to act non-economically....
Posted by: Thesokorus at May 12, 2023 04:15 PM (KbwJl)

Blackrock and Vanguard.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at May 12, 2023 04:36 PM (GNPj+)

115 And that little coconut was me
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2023 04:12 PM
________________

Brown on outside, white on the inside? Uh, no. That's not Kamala Sutra.

Now a turd, that would be appropriate. Brown on the outside, brown on the inside, and dumb.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 04:36 PM (YqDXo)

116 Incompetent? Seems to me he knows what he's doing.

I am less concerned with that than the judge's ruling. If someone is too incompetent to stand trial, they are too incompetent to be out in public. But there was no mental health treatment or restraint just "OK go with your family".

This country desperately needs some manner of accountability for judges and lawyers to face. No more of this "well its not bad enough to impeach for but they probably won't advance in their career" crap.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 04:37 PM (0hOvj)

117 Daniel Perry's defense fund (GiveSendGo)

https://www.givesendgo.com/daniel_penny

Posted by: SMH at May 12, 2023 04:37 PM (d8qOM)

118 Biden could help her ?LOL....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 12, 2023 04:38 PM (bs+z0)

119 74 But now they've become a Woke Cartel and have added a new prerequisite for a loan: You have to have an ESG rating of a certain level, or the Woke Cartel will deny you short-term financing and your company will go insolvent the first time it has to make payroll but doesn't have the cash-on-hand to pay it.

This sounds extremely likely, or at least plausible. I do know that banks are being leaned on by the fed, and are leaning on companies.

But never fear, the Republicans are here to... do nothing about this and not care.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Not sure if you are discussing the corporate paper market or not. Basically very short term iou notes based on the corporation's reputation and size for such things that Ace mentions above. Not sure how ESG would apply unless banks are the main buyers of those instruments.

Posted by: whig at May 12, 2023 04:38 PM (3aLWR)

120 41 Maybe her speech writers write what she wants to her and know she is dumber than a box of 🪨 🪨

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2023 04:18 PM (xhxe

The only things Kamala knows about are abortion, race war, and attacking political enemies. She's completely filled-up her brain with that crap over her lifetime. She can talk about those topics in Angry Black Woman-speak for hours without problems. But that leaves only enough free space in her brain to store a few new sentences at a time. This explains why she talks like a drunken fool about all topics other than the ones listed at top.

Posted by: Gref at May 12, 2023 04:38 PM (AMIL/)

121 I've decided that only individual investors should have voting rights with their stock ownership. Institutional and brokerage houses need to be barred. Proxy voting needs to be removed.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at May 12, 2023 04:38 PM (GNPj+)

122 "Do you think you just fell out of a coconut tree"? I don't even know what that means. My mother never asked me if I thought I just fell off a rooftop or a ladder or a jungle gym or anything like that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 12, 2023 04:34 PM (lCaJd)
_______________

Maybe her mom was trying to give her (and us) a hint as to what's wrong with her.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 04:38 PM (YqDXo)

123 You could retrofit it with the WATT propane fuel cell system
Coming in at just 46 lbs not including fuel cylinder, it gives continuous 12v power at ~8 CF/hr

https://www.wattfuelcell.com/portable-power/watt-imperium/

Posted by: Kindltot at May 12, 2023 04:32 PM (xhaym)

Or you could just buy a vespa.

Posted by: Archer at May 12, 2023 04:38 PM (gmo/4)

124 very unmotivated and unfocused, easily distracted which she does not show signs of

Huh?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 12, 2023 04:39 PM (Xrfse)

125 idk, but many BigCorps were buying back stock because they were "cash rich". IF they did at times need to borrow in certain cash crunches, I think it was only more expedient than selling some stock they had bought back.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 12, 2023 04:35 PM (Cus5s)

Companies do not regularly issue stock to meet cash needs. Short-term financing might involve converting CDs(shorter term stuff than that often) to cash by borrowing rather than however many days it takes to sell. It's just a "something like cash" to "cash" as quick as possible thing.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 12, 2023 04:39 PM (eYoxG)

126 "Do you think you just fell out of a coconut tree"? I don't even know what that means. My mother never asked me if I thought I just fell off a rooftop or a ladder or a jungle gym or anything like that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 12, 2023 04:34 PM (lCaJd)

African or European Swallow?

Posted by: Archer at May 12, 2023 04:39 PM (gmo/4)

127 Just back from the bathroom. I'm unburdened from what has been.
Posted by: fd at May 12, 2023 04:35 PM

Now it's time to eat, so you can be burdened by what is to be.

Posted by: Kamala! at May 12, 2023 04:39 PM (a3Q+t)

128 > beady-eyed pelican

I just wanted to set this phrase out by itself, so it can be given proper admiration.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 12, 2023 04:39 PM (bW8dp)

129 Blackrock and Vanguard.
Posted by: Crom Laughs at May 12, 2023 04:36 PM (GNPj+)

Are they allowed to lose money for social benefit?

I doubt it.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 12, 2023 04:40 PM (KbwJl)

130 but are very unmotivated and unfocused, easily distracted which she does not show signs of.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

No offense. But you forgot the sarcasm off sugn?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 12, 2023 04:40 PM (C3G19)

131 KRS-One was an ok dude the one time I met him.

He used to show up at a lot of Living Colour / Black Rock Coalition shows back in the early 90s.

His first LP was great.

Posted by: garrett at May 12, 2023 04:40 PM (PglyB)

132 > Big publishers almost NEVER put anything on kindle unlimited unless its quite old.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 04:36 PM (0hOvj)

Works for me. Most of what comes out of big publishers today is boring, painfully "woke", or both.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 12, 2023 04:41 PM (bW8dp)

133 Not sure how ESG would apply unless banks are the main buyers of those instruments.

ESG is about investments, and the banks may -- probably are -- treating these companies like there's a social credit score based on their investing. Not enough ESG? Not woke enough publicly? NO loans for you!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 04:41 PM (0hOvj)

134

The only things Kamala knows about are abortion, race war, ,attacking political enemies, and giving strategic blowjobs. Gref
FIFY

Posted by: Speller at May 12, 2023 04:41 PM (pSotA)

135
I wonder who their favorite is for replacing Kamala.

They've spit on Black voters with impunity so many times they could easily shuffle in a gay white man like Buttigieg.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 12, 2023 04:41 PM (lCaJd)

136 Brown on the outside, brown on the inside, and dumb.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 04:36 PM

Part of that is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Willie B. at May 12, 2023 04:42 PM (a3Q+t)

137 Are they allowed to lose money for social benefit?

I doubt it.
Posted by: Thesokorus at May 12, 2023 04:40 PM (KbwJl)

Sure, because they are TBTF and get all manner of Fed funds shoveled their way. Who are you going to believe, economic theory or your lying eyes.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at May 12, 2023 04:42 PM (GNPj+)

138 The only things Kamala knows about are abortion, race war, and attacking political enemies.
__________

You left out, you know.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 04:42 PM (YqDXo)

139 Or you could just buy a vespa.

Posted by: Archer at May 12, 2023 04:38 PM

What about those of us who don't want to suck dick?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 12, 2023 04:42 PM (Wnv9h)

140 Are they allowed to lose money for social benefit?

I doubt it.
Posted by: Thesokorus

They are until a shareholder lawsuit says they're not.

Posted by: MkY at May 12, 2023 04:42 PM (cPGH3)

141 @NWStulsa 3m
A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for parts of Oklahoma and Texas until 11 PM CDT

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 12, 2023 04:43 PM (jzzG8)

142 Posted by: SMH at May 12, 2023 04:37 PM (d8qOM)

Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2023 04:43 PM (Keyt1)

143 My wife has big coconuts

Posted by: JOHN FETTERMAN at May 12, 2023 04:43 PM (jM1wU)

144
I don't know what's wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?

It never was a problem for me, mate.

Posted by: Keith Richards at May 12, 2023 04:43 PM (n+4am)

145 The only things Kamala knows about are abortion, race war, ,attacking political enemies, and giving strategic blowjobs. Gref
FIFY
Posted by: Speller at May 12, 2023 04:41 PM (pSotA)
______________

Just saw this. I decided to treat this point more delicately.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 04:43 PM (YqDXo)

146 You're welcome, Fen.

That Marine needs all the help (and prayers) he can get.

Posted by: SMH at May 12, 2023 04:43 PM (d8qOM)

147 E.S.G. is no more corporate piracy than the General Services Administration which sets a floor on prices for almost everything purchased in this country.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2023 04:43 PM (EZebt)

148 Interesting thing about Kamala… I have never seen her pissed off, or sporting RBF…

Posted by: tubal at May 12, 2023 04:43 PM (PCK5/)

149 You could retrofit it with the WATT propane fuel cell system
Coming in at just 46 lbs not including fuel cylinder, it gives continuous 12v power at ~8 CF/hr

https://www.wattfuelcell.com/portable-power/watt-imperium/

Posted by: Kindltot at May 12, 2023 04:32 PM (xhaym)

Or you could just buy a vespa.

Posted by: Archer at May 12, 2023 04:38 PM (gmo/4)

I was sitting here pondering how to recharge the battery with the grid down and was sort of envisioning a pedal powered generator, and then I went 'wait ... aren't I just reinventing the bicycle except with extra line losses?'. I could just pedal the bicycle.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 12, 2023 04:44 PM (aD39U)

150
African or European Swallow?

Posted by: Archer

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In Kamala's case, Swallow.

But I get it and I lol'ed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 12, 2023 04:44 PM (lCaJd)

151 >>>very unmotivated and unfocused, easily distracted which she does not show signs of

Huh?
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 12, 2023 04:39 PM (Xrfse

======

This is about me, isn't it? Wait, squirrel!

Posted by: Turn 2 at May 12, 2023 04:44 PM (JfxgE)

152 No offense. But you forgot the sarcasm off sign?

She's unmotivated and unfocused in her work, but here's how it would look in a speech:

They start out with a blank confused stare, start talking randomly, space out a while, forget what they were talking about, panic and try to come up with something the crowd will like, and walk away.

Kind of like Biden or Obama when the teleprompter shuts off.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 04:44 PM (0hOvj)

153 133 "Not sure how ESG would apply unless banks are the main buyers of those instruments."

ESG is about investments, and the banks may -- probably are -- treating these companies like there's a social credit score based on their investing. Not enough ESG? Not woke enough publicly? NO loans for you!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 04:41 PM (0hOvj)

There's not as of yet any sort of common scoring system. Since it's easy to cheat, that's what people have been doing.

Which is why oil and gas was the only one that was hit (and that mostly stopped last year), because it's easy for people to say don't buy oil and gas investments.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 12, 2023 04:44 PM (eYoxG)

154 @NWStulsa 3m
A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for parts of Oklahoma and Texas until 11 PM CDT
Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 12, 2023 04:43 PM

Just heard from a friend outside of Austin. She said it was so humid you could cut the air with a knife

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 12, 2023 04:45 PM (Wnv9h)

155 Not sure how ESG would apply unless banks are the main buyers of those instruments.
Posted by: whig at May 12, 2023 04:38 PM (3aLWR)

The banks are using ESG to partially determine a company's credit score. Low ESG means lower credit rating. That means higher interest or no loan at all.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at May 12, 2023 04:45 PM (GNPj+)

156 One hell of job she's doing as our Border Czar.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 12, 2023 04:45 PM (NpAcC)

157 Just saw this. I decided to treat this point more delicately.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 04:43 PM

We're doing delicately now? What's next, nuanced phrasing?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 12, 2023 04:45 PM (a3Q+t)

158 The only thing I can add about Kamala at this point is how gratifying and validating it has been to see the whole United States gain the same appreciation for her wit and wisdom as me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2023 04:45 PM (EZebt)

159 Interesting thing about Kamala… I have never seen her pissed off, or sporting RBF…
Posted by: tubal at May 12, 2023 04:43 PM

I think you need some degree of self awareness for that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 12, 2023 04:46 PM (Wnv9h)

160
Interesting thing about Kamala… I have never seen her pissed off, or sporting RBF…
Posted by: tubal

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Gads, you're right. I wonder what goes on behind closed doors that so many staffers have quit or are leaking portents of disaster.

Maybe she's so damn dumb she doesn't know enough to be pissed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 12, 2023 04:46 PM (lCaJd)

161 129 Blackrock and Vanguard.
Posted by: Crom Laughs at May 12, 2023 04:36 PM (GNPj+)

Are they allowed to lose money for social benefit?

I doubt it.
Posted by: Thesokorus at May 12, 2023 04:40 PM (KbwJl)

They have specific ESG funds that are delineated for that. Vanguard is mostly passive non-voting products to begin with.

Share voting hasn't been a primary lever here.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 12, 2023 04:46 PM (eYoxG)

162 Just saw this. I decided to treat this point more delicately.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 04:43 PM

We're doing delicately now? What's next, nuanced phrasing?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 12, 2023 04:45 PM (a3Q+t)
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Good point. I don't know what came over me.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 04:46 PM (YqDXo)

163 Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2023 04:45 PM (EZebt)

How long did you have to work with her?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2023 04:47 PM (Keyt1)

164 Are you suggesting that coconuts can migrate?

Posted by: scampydog at May 12, 2023 04:47 PM (2bFN5)

165 One hell of job she's doing as our Border Czar.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 12, 2023 04:45 PM (NpAcC)
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Maybe they meant "borderline personality czar."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 04:47 PM (YqDXo)

166 Forcing churches to pay for abortion coverage, violate conscience costs California $1.4M

ADF attorneys representing four churches successfully resolve two lawsuits challenging the state’s unconstitutional abortion-coverage mandate

https://tinyurl.com/2p93khyt

Posted by: redridinghood at May 12, 2023 04:48 PM (NpAcC)

167 The problem with trying to figure out who the hell to replace Biden or Kamala with is that this is the same smoke filled room of true believers that picked Biden and Kamala to begin with. They were not unknown quantities. And they still were picked on purpose.

With that in mind, pretty much ANYONE is good enough in their eyes, qualified and worth nominating. I mean they picked those losers to begin with, why change?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 04:48 PM (0hOvj)

168 The guy who is going to save the Dems from Biden

Governor Gavin Newsom announced Friday that the state’s budget deficit has ballooned by $9 billion, going from the initial January estimate of $22.5 billon to $31.5 billion, leading to more major cuts being implemented next fiscal year.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 12, 2023 04:48 PM (xPl2J)

169 "The significance of the passage of Biden, right? The significance of the passage of Biden. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of Biden ... there is such great significance to the passage of Biden."

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 04:48 PM (8P6nl)

170 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 04:47 PM (YqDXo)

LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2023 04:48 PM (Keyt1)

171 "But now they've become a Woke Cartel and have added a new prerequisite for a loan: You have to have an ESG rating of a certain level, or the Woke Cartel will deny you short-term financing and your company will go insolvent the first time it has to make payroll but doesn't have the cash-on-hand to pay it."

I don't know enough about those markets anymore to know whether that's true. I would say that for now, it's a little too far-fetched to be a thing.

That said, the new system makes it a lot easier for shenanigans like this to take place. It's sort of like the death of the blogosphere. It was really hard to control a lot of little blog gardens, but once Facebook and Twitter and Google consolidated these sites into their walled ecosystem, controlling them was barely an inconvenience for them. Finance controlling ESG does the same thing. Much easier to control a handful of oligarchs than to try and play Whack-A-Mole with scores of smaller players.

If this is not happening now, it will be happening imminently.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 12, 2023 04:48 PM (/iWhV)

172 That Marine needs all the help (and prayers) he can get.
Posted by: SMH at May 12, 2023 04:43 PM (d8qOM)

Penny needs broken out of prison, transported to a red state, and then protected there. Meanwhile, let the Feds and NY force a Constitutional crisis trying to get him back. It's Will To Power time.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at May 12, 2023 04:48 PM (GNPj+)

173 Nobody's mother, anywhere at any time, ever asked their child if they just fell out of a cocoa nut tree.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 12, 2023 04:48 PM (i7Q7S)

174 The big banks were politely asked by the brutal Party men whose ballsacks they're attached to like fat, oleaginous remoras to deny any sort of bank services *whatsoever* to legal gun and marijuana companies. And they did that, without reservation.

Asking them to deny lines of credit to someone or anyone is small potatoes by comparison to that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 12, 2023 04:49 PM (oINRc)

175 157 Just saw this. I decided to treat this point more delicately.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 04:43 PM

We're doing delicately now? What's next, nuanced phrasing?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 12, 2023 04:45 PM (a3Q+t)

Gaaaaaay.

Posted by: Buncha Kansas City faggitz... at May 12, 2023 04:49 PM (FEapg)

176 Nobody's mother, anywhere at any time, ever asked their child if they just fell out of a cocoa nut tree.
Posted by: Jay in PA
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I grew up in Hawaii, and I never heard that there from anyone, much less my mom.

Posted by: SMH at May 12, 2023 04:50 PM (d8qOM)

177 The subway guy is just screwed, no way around it. I can’t imagine a worst place for him to be.

Posted by: tubal at May 12, 2023 04:50 PM (PCK5/)

178 Even with all the bad actors in the Deep State I have a special place in my black heart for Jimmy Drama. Because he's so sanctiminious. He's a saint on earth, don't you see.

There are so many things I could recount, but let's not forget that he made his bones by putting Martha Stewart in jail. She didn't insider trade!. She deleted an e-mail on her laptop and then undeleted it. She did a humana humana to FBI agents who showed up unnanounced, per the agents 302s. That's it.

I hope he's writing bad books because he can't go out in polite society.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 12, 2023 04:50 PM (RqMSv)

179 Finance controlling ESG does the same thing. Much easier to control a handful of oligarchs than to try and play Whack-A-Mole with scores of smaller players.

If this is not happening now, it will be happening imminently.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 12, 2023 04:48 PM (/iWhV)

Private debt markets are ballooning with the death of small and medium sized banking. Most of the economy is going to be missed if trying to run things through the large banks.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 12, 2023 04:51 PM (eYoxG)

180 well, look at Michael Yon, he covered the invasion of Iraq and now he's covering the invasion of america.

he's got some tweets showing, you know, la-di-dah, masked Texas Army National Guard guys loading up the illegals for transport to their new tax payer funded homes

Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 12, 2023 04:51 PM (MLrvz)

181 About 3 years until she was elected DA.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2023 04:51 PM (EZebt)

182 "The killer dresses up like Tony's estranged wife, Kyra, to gain access to the building." There you have it; Comey's secret wished for scenario with himself as the killer. Does his daughter do the heavy lifting (work) behind the scenes? I've often thought she did.

Crazy K, so intersectional, checking even more boxes than O. A not unattractive woman with two parents born in other nations. Her mom, the doctor daughter of Indian diplomats; economics college professor dad of well-heeled Jamaicans. Allegedly she was born in the US; primarily educated as a child in Canada where mom was a doctor, and attended Howard University, one of the five largest HBCUs in the nation. Her dad became a naturalized US citizen & taught at Stanford. She went back to California for her law career and is married to a Jewish "gentleman," also a lawyer. Can't cover many other bases unless she heads LGBTQIA++ and that says it all nowadays.

Disney, etc. is more like Succession than the Foxie owners, and the SIL so reminds me of a J. Comey.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at May 12, 2023 04:51 PM (GshMh)

183 Maybe that's the Indian version of "just fell off the turnip cart".

Isn't her mom Indian?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 12, 2023 04:52 PM (nx2KQ)

184 >>>Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 04:47 PM (YqDXo)

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Way off topic, but since I see you here, wondering what your thoughts are on the new speed up rules in the mlb?

Posted by: Turn 2 at May 12, 2023 04:52 PM (JfxgE)

185 Not to worry.. Joe and Kamala are consulting with each other in regards to the border... I feel so much better knowing that... I'm surprised they even mentioned it...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 12, 2023 04:52 PM (bs+z0)

186 " You have to have an ESG rating of a certain level, or the Woke Cartel will deny you short-term financing"

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The end state goal here is to apply this to individuals.

Good luck getting a mortgage or car loan (they will simply stop financing gas vehicles anyway) when you can't document your commitment to the Climate Emergency or Black Lies Matter.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 12, 2023 04:53 PM (i7Q7S)

187 I just reinventing the bicycle except with extra line losses?'. I could just pedal the bicycle.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 12, 2023 04:44 PM (aD39U)

peddling the thing may be a better idea

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2023 04:54 PM (us2H3)

188 Maybe they meant "borderline personality czar."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 04:47 PM (YqDXo)
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This has been on the tip of my tongue for two years!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2023 04:54 PM (EZebt)

189 Kamala Harris is a borderline NPC programmed by A.I.

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"... and this is your brain on semen."

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 04:54 PM (8P6nl)

190 Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2023 04:51 PM (EZebt)

I bet it felt like muuuuch longer than that. My condolences.

And congratulations again on your retirement. Are you sleeping better?, because we don't see you as much on the tech thread. I hope you are because insomnia is just awful.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2023 04:54 PM (Keyt1)

191 And now, some George Kennedy.

Cool Hand Luke
https://tinyurl.com/5fcmpxsc

Airport 1970
https://youtu.be/7B8BBH2r5XI

Dallas - Carter McKay #12
https://youtu.be/nfziN9glDCk

Posted by: Lost In Space at May 12, 2023 04:55 PM (iGfKR)

192 Did the Marine get bail ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 12, 2023 04:55 PM (bs+z0)

193 Do Vespas have a pedaling feature?

Posted by: tubal at May 12, 2023 04:55 PM (PCK5/)

194 133 Not sure how ESG would apply unless banks are the main buyers of those instruments.

ESG is about investments, and the banks may -- probably are -- treating these companies like there's a social credit score based on their investing. Not enough ESG? Not woke enough publicly? NO loans for you!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 04:41 PM (0hOvj)

ESG is a metric. It goes into a basket of other metrics. It impacts what securities the institution holds in its own portfolio, what loans and credit lines are approved or rejected, which securities get recommended to clients, the whole nine yards.

And they measure it on themselves as well, so they don't get the treatment splashing back on themselves from other institutions.

We're already seeing it creeping into consumer accounts, or so I hear - despite the fact that every time I buy weapons or ammo it goes on a Discover or Amex account (just to piss 'em off) and they haven't rejected a transaction yet.

Gonna do B of A next. Should be fun.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 12, 2023 04:55 PM (MkuC5)

195 If this is not happening now, it will be happening imminently.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

Prezactly. Self finance. Don't go into debt. Don't be beholden.
Especially biznets.

Posted by: MkY at May 12, 2023 04:55 PM (cPGH3)

196 About 3 years until she was elected DA.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

We all can thank Loretta Sanchez for Kamala Harris.

Posted by: Lost In Space at May 12, 2023 04:56 PM (iGfKR)

197 Buy guns and ammo with cash only… you will still be tracked, but maybe not by your wife….

Posted by: tubal at May 12, 2023 04:57 PM (PCK5/)

198 George Kennedy was always great in everything. One of those character actors so good we all know his name.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 04:57 PM (0hOvj)

199 I want Kamala Harris to orate "War and Peace" in the original Swahili. On my penis.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 12, 2023 04:57 PM (KVGVf)

200 We all can thank Loretta Sanchez for Kamala Harris.
Posted by: Lost In Space

I'm looking at you!
~W.Brown

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 12, 2023 04:57 PM (z5Neb)

201
"Do-be-do-be-do"

-- Francis Albert Sinatra

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 12, 2023 04:58 PM (pNxlR)

202 Private debt markets are ballooning with the death of small and medium sized banking. Most of the economy is going to be missed if trying to run things through the large banks.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 12, 2023 04:51 PM (eYoxG)

Big banks don't have much interest in small loans. So to speak.

The end result will be "no credit for the small to mid-sized businessman" with or without ESG. Every other element of economic policy is geared toward large corporations with Party pull. Why should banking be any different?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 12, 2023 04:58 PM (oINRc)

203
Save up now and be ready to buy one of those many gasoline powered vehicles the U.S. military will be ditching to make way for their new all electric fleet.

Posted by: Speller at May 12, 2023 04:59 PM (pSotA)

204 197 Buy guns and ammo with cash only… you will still be tracked, but maybe not by your wife….
Posted by: tubal at May 12, 2023 04:57 PM (PCK5/)

Better yet, marry a girl that helps you pick stuff out.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 12, 2023 04:59 PM (MkuC5)

205 Kamala Harris is a borderline NPC programmed by A.I.

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Damn, a 3:30 minute GIF of repeating 7-second clips in different environments. Not only is she aiming to put the Babylon Bee out-of-business, but #DeepFake videos as well ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 05:00 PM (8P6nl)

206 I have yet to hear in what universe Harris is a "polymath"...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 12, 2023 05:00 PM (z5Neb)

207
On Derek Hunter's podcast, he is just brutal when it comes to KJP and it is most entertaining.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 12, 2023 05:00 PM (pNxlR)

208 I would like to see a debate between ChatGPT and Kamala.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 12, 2023 05:00 PM (Q4IgG)

209 Politico: As the border heats up, Dems fracture over a migration solution. Sherrod Brown is a stalwart progressive who doesn’t often partner with the likes of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. On the hot-button issue of immigration, though, the Ohio Democrat is siding with his caucus’ two most famous centrists.
******
All up for reelection in 2024.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 12, 2023 05:00 PM (NpAcC)

210 Kamala Harris is a borderline NPC programmed by A.I.

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Damn, a 3:30 minute virtual GIF of repeated 7-second clips in different environments. Not only is she aiming to put the Babylon Bee out-of-business, but the #DeepFake video industry as well ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 05:00 PM (8P6nl)

211 So uparmored humvees are going to be deep discount…

Posted by: tubal at May 12, 2023 05:00 PM (PCK5/)

212 The end result will be "no credit for the small to mid-sized businessman" with or without ESG. Every other element of economic policy is geared toward large corporations with Party pull. Why should banking be any different?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 12, 2023 04:58 PM (oINRc)

Why loan money to people you'd really just prefer go off and die under an overpass?

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 12, 2023 05:01 PM (MkuC5)

213 I have yet to hear in what universe Harris is a "polymath"

She can both add AND subtract. With a calculator. And a few tries to get it right.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 05:01 PM (0hOvj)

214 202 Private debt markets are ballooning with the death of small and medium sized banking. Most of the economy is going to be missed if trying to run things through the large banks.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 12, 2023 04:51 PM (eYoxG)

Big banks don't have much interest in small loans. So to speak.

The end result will be "no credit for the small to mid-sized businessman" with or without ESG. Every other element of economic policy is geared toward large corporations with Party pull. Why should banking be any different?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 12, 2023 04:58 PM (oINRc)

We're already seeing the end result being the emergence of private debt. Lending by non-banks. Which long run will present a serious control issue for them since the space is largely unregulated.

Interestingly we're seeing some of this in private equity as well, though less dramatically. Less of the economy may be accessible in the stock market in the future.

Both are disadvantages for small investors though.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 12, 2023 05:01 PM (eYoxG)

215
I have yet to hear in what universe Harris is a "polymath"...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Lineland

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 12, 2023 05:01 PM (pNxlR)

216 So uparmored humvees are going to be deep discount…
Posted by: tubal

Better have plenty of gas money if you plan on actually driving a humvee.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 12, 2023 05:01 PM (z5Neb)

217 I'm kinda shocked that Kameltoe is going back and taking DiFi place

that would a lifetime job

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2023 05:01 PM (us2H3)

218 So glad I am in a CU.

Posted by: Infidel at May 12, 2023 05:02 PM (kHtnd)

219 We all can thank Loretta Sanchez for Kamala Harris.
Posted by: Lost In Space

I'm looking at you!
~W.Brown
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

From the Harris / Sanchez Senate Race Debate.
https://youtu.be/1uuyTggFWYc

Posted by: Lost In Space at May 12, 2023 05:02 PM (iGfKR)

220 So uparmored humvees are going to be deep discount

I would prefer an uparmored bulldozer with a 100 gallon secondary tank.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 05:02 PM (0hOvj)

221 Wall Street expected a gain of more than one million Disney+ subscribers, according to StreetAccount, and the surprise subscriber loss spooked the Street

Insert Sad Trombone Sound Here

Posted by: Chuck C at May 12, 2023 05:03 PM (xttsV)

222 "Fell out of a coconut tree'?

I am unfamiliar with any person of parentage that would utter such a phrase.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 12, 2023 04:12 PM (qoGsy)

I've heard that expression before or some variation on it, like-

"Did you just fall out of an acorn tree?'

Though coconut tree is much much classier and brings an international flavor to the expression thus positioning Kamala for even greater success.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 12, 2023 05:03 PM (RJQ8g)

223 Fixing Kamala's image?

Guess what? Chrome plating a turd doesn't make the turd more appealing. If anything, it makes one wonder at the sanity of the person who did the chrome plating in the first place.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at May 12, 2023 05:03 PM (2YtOq)

224 It's funny because Polymath does not involve math...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 12, 2023 05:03 PM (z5Neb)

225 We're already seeing the end result being the emergence of private debt. Lending by non-banks.

Don't forget the vig.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 05:03 PM (0hOvj)

226 I would like to see a debate between ChatGPT and Kamala.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 12, 2023 05:00 PM (Q4IgG)

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That would likely result in an infinite loop that would crash the interwebs worldwide.

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 05:03 PM (8P6nl)

227 I actually put in a solid 6 hours of work today. I'm exhausted.

Posted by: Montec at May 12, 2023 05:04 PM (OalnH)

228 What has been , can never be again..

Posted by: Gonzotx at May 12, 2023 05:04 PM (MwHgU)

229 Buy guns and ammo with cash only… you will still be tracked, but maybe not by your wife….

Posted by: tubal at May 12, 2023 04:57 PM (PCK5/)

LOL!

Posted by: Archer at May 12, 2023 05:04 PM (gmo/4)

230 George Kennedy Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

https://youtu.be/UjIDrWn0DQ4

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 12, 2023 05:04 PM (xPl2J)

231 Way off topic, but since I see you here, wondering what your thoughts are on the new speed up rules in the mlb?
Posted by: Turn 2 at May 12, 2023 04:52 PM (JfxgE)
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Silly, especially the "runner on second" in extra innings business. Rob Manfred has been an unalloyed disaster as commissioner, IMO.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 05:04 PM (YqDXo)

232 Has Kamala ever been asked to explain a speech?

Posted by: That Northern skulker at May 12, 2023 05:04 PM (VdGjU)

233 223 Fixing Kamala's image?

Guess what? Chrome plating a turd doesn't make the turd more appealing. If anything, it makes one wonder at the sanity of the person who did the chrome plating in the first place.
Posted by: blake

I was thinking lipstick on a pig.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 12, 2023 05:05 PM (3bWKb)

234 We're already seeing the end result being the emergence of private debt. Lending by non-banks.

Don't forget the vig.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 05:03 PM (0hOvj)

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Make The Mafia Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 05:05 PM (8P6nl)

235 222 "Fell out of a coconut tree'?

I am unfamiliar with any person of parentage that would utter such a phrase.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 12, 2023 04:12 PM (qoGsy)

I've heard that expression before or some variation on it, like-

"Did you just fall out of an acorn tree?'

Though coconut tree is much much classier and brings an international flavor to the expression thus positioning Kamala for even greater success.

Nah, it’s did you fall out of a tree, plain and simple.

Posted by: Gonzotx at May 12, 2023 05:05 PM (MwHgU)

236
>Guess what? Chrome plating a turd doesn't make the turd more appealing.

No, but it does mean that you can polish it.

Posted by: Speller at May 12, 2023 05:05 PM (pSotA)

237
>Guess what? Chrome plating a turd doesn't make the turd more appealing.

No, but it does mean that you can polish it.

Posted by: Speller at May 12, 2023 05:05 PM (pSotA)

238 Yet another poll shows Trump beating Biden handily. The Dems are supposed to be in "full-throated f***ing panic", because using f***ing means you're genuine, tough, and keeping it real. (It's Jim Messina, so you know he's a man's man.)

I can't shake the feeling all of this is them setting us up.

https://tinyurl.com/57vp5zd5

Posted by: Archimedes at May 12, 2023 05:05 PM (eOEVl)

239 I suspect that Kamala is nothing more, or less, than a happy imbecile…

Posted by: tubal at May 12, 2023 05:06 PM (PCK5/)

240 Wall Street expected a gain of more than one million Disney+ subscribers, according to StreetAccount, and the surprise subscriber loss spooked the Street

Do these people not watch TV? Disney+ has vomited out an almost unimpeded firehose of absolute crap for years now. Many of these projects are making zero money. How the hell does that translate to increased subscriptions??

Disney used to be special because you didn't get to see their stuff very often and it was almost always great, or at least fairly entertaining. Now they have it all out there, and it all sucks. But by all means, puke out another woke remake of a beloved animation, guys. Maybe this time it will work.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 05:06 PM (0hOvj)

241 I'm sorry but I don't know what a polymath is.

Posted by: That Northern skulker at May 12, 2023 05:06 PM (VdGjU)

242 Mature companies can pay out some (or all) of their earnings to stockholders by paying dividends, and many do.

An alternative use of earnings is to buy back some shares, so some stockholders can elect to cash out. With fewer shares outstanding, the other holders should see the stock price rise.

Key executives are judged by share price increases and often have compensation tied to these increases. Which is why they love doing buybacks.

That hasn't been enough so many executives are getting paid for meeting bullsh*t ESG goals.

Nice work if you can get it.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 12, 2023 05:06 PM (RqMSv)

243
Strange. I've never had a double post on AoS before.

Posted by: Speller at May 12, 2023 05:06 PM (pSotA)

244
Maybe that's the Indian version of "just fell off the turnip cart".

Isn't her mom Indian?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

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You're being charitable. She's probably trying to sound Indian, and no Indian ever said that. It would be better if she did an Indian accent with it.

And isn't it supposed to be "Do you suppose I" -- I, not you -- "just fell off the whatever"?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 12, 2023 05:06 PM (lCaJd)

245 Way off topic, but since I see you here, wondering what your thoughts are on the new speed up rules in the mlb?
Posted by: Turn 2 at May 12, 2023 04:52 PM (JfxgE)
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Silly, especially the "runner on second" in extra innings business. Rob Manfred has been an unalloyed disaster as commissioner, IMO.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 05:04 PM (YqDXo)

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The only thing I like is the pitch clock and limiting batters' calling timeouts.

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 05:06 PM (8P6nl)

246 I would like to see a debate between ChatGPT and Kamala. Posted by: Martini Farmer

Not exactly ChatGPT but close enough. The whole debate is pretty epic TV. Loretta is wound as tight as a bag of jello.

https://tinyurl.com/5ar9shsc

Posted by: Lost In Space at May 12, 2023 05:07 PM (iGfKR)

247 Save up now and be ready to buy one of those many gasoline powered vehicles the U.S. military will be ditching to make way for their new all electric fleet.

Posted by: Speller at May 12, 2023 04:59 PM (pSotA)

I've got my eye on an one-owner low mileage M1A1.

Posted by: Archer at May 12, 2023 05:07 PM (gmo/4)

248 Silly, especially the "runner on second" in extra innings business. Rob Manfred has been an unalloyed disaster as commissioner, IMO.

I agree. Almost every change made in the last 10 years for baseball has been a disaster. But the sport is more popular than it was in the past, so what do I know.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2023 05:07 PM (0hOvj)

249
"Did you just fall out of an acorn tree?'

Posted by: Gonzotx

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Aka an oak tree?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 12, 2023 05:08 PM (lCaJd)

250 216 So uparmored humvees are going to be deep discount…
Posted by: tubal

not sure that he is now but war humper Jack Keene was the CEO of AM General, the maker of humvees

isn't that convenient

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2023 05:08 PM (us2H3)

251
ESG sounds like it is or certainly should be profoundly illegal.

Definitely in it's conspiratorial/monopolistic application.

But, I see this as no different than refusing to serve say, a Catholic or discriminate against a, horrors!!!, single Mom or cat owner.

The force of gov't, perhaps state gov't needs to be used to wip[e this ESG nonsense out.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 12, 2023 05:08 PM (RJQ8g)

252
I'm sorry but I don't know what a polymath is.
Posted by: That Northern skulker

They either work for crackers or they are crackers - it is hard to remember which

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 12, 2023 05:08 PM (pNxlR)

253 NOOD y'all.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 12, 2023 05:08 PM (Q4IgG)

254 Maybe that's the Indian version of "just fell off the turnip cart".

Her falling out of a coconut tree or any tree could account for her retardation. Her Mother asked a valid question

Posted by: It's me donna at May 12, 2023 05:08 PM (bs+z0)

255 >>>George Kennedy Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

>Kennedy was always good for a smile. I liked him in the Eiger Sanction as well.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 12, 2023 05:10 PM (KVGVf)

256 Remember, not long ago, when 'top of mind' became something akin to focused, concentrated, 100% and not a slip up to what many would have applied 'off the top of my head' which means more a vague thought or one that surfaces without much thought at all or time spent thought-ing.

Kamala should try her luck at Hallmark greeting cards when she's done straining credibility. Poor credibility did nothing wrong!

Posted by: micky at May 12, 2023 05:10 PM (3byMq)

257 As someone so eloquently stated before, "I've got pocket lint smarter than those three combined."

Now the trick question is who is the dumbest:

Kamalalamadingdong or Pedo Joe?

Yes, KJP is the least dumbest of the three by a hair.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at May 12, 2023 05:10 PM (QLMF6)

258 A polymath is someone exceptionally smart at many things.

My favorite example is John von Neumann. Smarter than Einstein, and told better jokes at Princeton parties.

He worked on the Manhattan Project where he did the calculus for how to make the chain reaction work -- in his head!, as there were no computers.

He invented Game Theory with John Nash as a side project. He used Game Theory to advise the US on Mutually Assured Destruction as a Cold War strategy. It worked!

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 12, 2023 05:11 PM (RqMSv)

259 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

Massive protest in South Shore, Chicago against new illegals arriving

One of their concerns? These new arrivals will diminish the black vote

“Politically, having over 500 people in our community will completely wipe out any interests we have”

https://tinyurl.com/2bb9hm9f

Posted by: redridinghood at May 12, 2023 05:11 PM (NpAcC)

260 Has Kamala ever been asked to explain a speech?
Posted by: That Northern skulker

If I'm ever called to testify in a Congressional hearing, I'm gonna have a blast trolling the bastards. "I'm sorry, but I don't understand the question, can you restate it please? Sorry, I still don't understand. No need to be rude Congressperson, I really want to answer the question, but I don't understand what you're asking. Can you explain using interpretive dance? Perhaps puppets will work."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 12, 2023 05:11 PM (Geq57)

261 Aka an oak tree?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 12, 2023 05:08 PM (lCaJd)

Oh...oh, sure, yeah, using your superior vocabulary to shame and demean me and my Dirt farming, cattle rustling Texas heritage.

Well, fie on you, ma'am!!! Fie, I say!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 12, 2023 05:12 PM (RJQ8g)

262 Livemint, 8/20, When Kamala Harris asked aunt in India to break coconuts for good luck at Temple

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at May 12, 2023 05:12 PM (GshMh)

263 >>>Silly, especially the "runner on second" in extra innings business. Rob Manfred has been an unalloyed disaster as commissioner, IMO.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 05:04 PM (YqDXo)

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Sure. It's like he's trying to turn the mlb into Vince McMahon's 2001's version of the XFL. The pitcher only being able to throw over twice really chaps my hide. Just think what Ricky Henderson would have done with these new rules.

Posted by: Turn 2 at May 12, 2023 05:12 PM (JfxgE)

264 Oral skills?

Posted by: Comma Lah at May 12, 2023 05:13 PM (DhOHl)

265 I wonder if the Chinese say "do you think I just fell off the noodle cart"?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 12, 2023 05:13 PM (nx2KQ)

266 Governor Gavin Newsom announced Friday that the state’s budget deficit has ballooned by $9 billion, going from the initial January estimate of $22.5 billon to $31.5 billion, leading to more major cuts being implemented next fiscal year.
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 12, 2023 04:48 PM (xPl2J)
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This is the guy who was crowing about erasing the budget deficit, what, a year or two ago? Which he did by shifting a lot of obligations off the state's books and onto local governments' books. Can't do that again, can he?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 05:15 PM (YqDXo)

267 >>>The only thing I like is the pitch clock and limiting batters' calling timeouts.
Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2023 05:06 PM (8P6nl)

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That may be the only rule change I have agreed with, though reluctantly. Nomar Garciaparra would have screwed. Not for time-outs obviously, just time to enter the box.

Posted by: Turn 2 at May 12, 2023 05:16 PM (JfxgE)

268 The pitcher only being able to throw over twice really chaps my hide. Just think what Ricky Henderson would have done with these new rules.
Posted by: Turn 2 at May 12, 2023 05:12 PM (JfxgE)
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Yeah, that's among the myriad perversions he's inflicted on MLB. The rule that batters can only call one time out (IIRC) is already being game by, e.g., Max Scherzer, who quick pitches batters after they've exercised their one time out.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2023 05:17 PM (YqDXo)

269 NOOD y'all.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Hell no, i dont want to see that. I've actually SEEN some of you jackwagons before.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 12, 2023 05:18 PM (Geq57)

270 238 Yet another poll shows Trump beating Biden handily.

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1. Polls more than a year out are as useless as a Kumala speech

2. There are also polls showing Biden winning. One came out today showing Biden winning by 2 vs Trump.

It's all over the place because its's a year and a half away and other than politics nerds like us, nobody is paying attention.

Posted by: Montec at May 12, 2023 05:26 PM (OalnH)

271 I like Mark Judge. Very Ace-like. Ace-licious.

Posted by: Cheri at May 12, 2023 05:33 PM (FGQ5G)

272 The real problem with ESG is that it destroys competitiveness. Our companies slowly bleed market share to over seas competition. Look at the comic industry or lack of it, since it should now be called the manga industry. Comics are still being sold, but they aren't American.

Posted by: DFCtomm at May 12, 2023 05:38 PM (NTi06)

273 'no Indian ever said that'

Do you speak Tamil? WTF are you guys on about? It's a typical Tamil saying, and Indians generally have lots of 'wise' quips about coconuts and trees which permiate their culture.

OTOH I pity you merkins having Kamala as VP, she's just weird.

Posted by: bob at May 12, 2023 05:39 PM (UXHk5)

274 Trump passed a rule for banks that they have to consider only financial terms and not ESG. Biden repealed it.

Posted by: MikeN at May 12, 2023 05:46 PM (XygMV)

275 "Is Midnight's Edge right? Is this how corporations are being bullied by the left into pushing transgenderism and "equity" on the country?"

It is EXACTLY FUCKING RIGHT.

But don't stop at the banks and financial institutions. THEY get loans as well, from the Fed and world bank. This shit is pushed down on THEM. They also have revolving credit issues. And this is barely noticeable - they'll still loan you the money with a low ESG score, just charge you a slightly higher interest rate. But when that rate is applied to $100 million it matters.

The amount a company pushes ESG bullshit is directly proportional to their debt. It's no coincidence Disney started pushing it when they bought Fox for $40 billion. Suddenly a half point in interest was a life or death thing.

Posted by: Inspector kemp at May 12, 2023 06:08 PM (t4ES/)

276
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Posted by: Melinda Rogers at May 13, 2023 02:39 AM (xZeT+)

277 Damn, can't wait until these clowns are has-beens and we're unburdened of them.

Posted by: leber at May 13, 2023 09:47 AM (E7KPo)

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