THE MORNING RANT: Harvard’s Endowment Is Having a Cash Crunch

Harvard has long been known as a multi-billion dollar hedge fund attached to an elite communist indoctrination camp. Wealthy donors should have cut the poison Ivy off a long time ago, but Harvard’s embrace of global Jew-hatred finally got their attention.

Headlines like these were welcome news:

“Another billionaire, Len Blavatnik, joins growing list to yank donations to Harvard amid antisemitism, plagiarism scandals” [NY Post – 12/21/2023]

“Harvard has lost a staggering $1 BILLION in donations over its handling of anti-Semitism on campus, alumni Bill Ackman claims” [Daily Mail – 12/11/2023]

“Harvard mega donor Ken Griffin has halted donations to school” [Reuters – 01/30/2024]

But Harvard is sitting on a $50 billion endowment. How much could it hurt Harvard to lose an incremental billon or two? The answer is, it could hurt a lot. It did hurt Harvard immensely.

While the endowment may be valued at $50 billion, it is apparently not weighted very heavily toward liquid investments such as stocks and bonds. Therefore, Harvard relies on the mega-donors’ recurring giving to provide the cash to pay the bills. When those donors closed their checkbooks, Harvard found itself in an asset-rich but cash-poor situation.

So, despite its massive endowment, Harvard finds itself having to rush a bond offering in order to raise the cash needed to keep the lights on.

“Harvard University Floats $1.65 Billion Upcoming Debt Sale” [Bloomberg – 02/26/2024]

Harvard University is considering the sale of as much as $1.65 billion of bonds, marking the latest Ivy League school to sell debt this year, and potentially providing a sign of how it’s financially faring after months of turmoil over allegations of antisemitism on campus.

Some of its most prominent benefactors have signaled they won’t commit more money to the school and it faces costly lawsuits and possible government actions that could take away financial support.

With interest rates the highest they’ve been in decades, this is obviously not the best time to be issuing new debt. The Harvard Crimson noted last week that this will put Harvard’s debt at almost $8 billion, which is higher than any time in recent history, including during the 2008 financial crisis.

The potential ten-figure bond sale, revealed in a University filing on Monday, would see Harvard’s debt reach $7.85 billion — higher than any point in recent history, including during the 2008 financial crisis.

Harvard will be entering a borrowing market plagued with high interest rates, making a potential debt raising effort extremely costly. When the University issued $750 million in bonds during the second quarter of 2022 the Federal Funds Rate sat at 100 basis points [1.00%], today the Federal Reserve is expected to hold steady in the range of 525 and 550 basis points [5.50%].

Chris Rufo has been a crusading disruptor to the woke university cartel, and he offered this insight a few days ago, “Last night I had dinner with a Harvard-educated hedge fund manager and he explained that Harvard’s $50 billion endowment has a relatively large share of illiquid investments. Hence, when donors suddenly pulled back, the need to raise cash. Good.”

Billionaire Bill Ackman wrote the following, which corroborates what Mr. Rufo said:

The substantial majority of the Harvard endowment is invested in illiquid assets, principally private equity, real estate, and venture capital. Not reflected on the balance sheet are commitments to new funds of the same type.
Like most endowments, Harvard models expectations of fund distributions when considering its liquidity and when making future commitments.
Harvard also makes assumptions about inflows from alumni donations.
The model likely did not predict a decline in liquidity events from private equity, real estate, and venture capital and the dramatic decline in donations. That is likely why Harvard announced this recent bond offering, which is being done in a substantially higher interest rate environment than where the funds could have been raised a couple of years ago.
It would be interesting to understand how much the modeled cash flows have declined since original expectations.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Harvard announce a substantial cost reduction program soon.
I suspect that alumni donations won’t be coming back for some time. At a minimum, alumni will want to know who the next president is, and the status of DEI and antisemitism on campus before resuming donations.

Why would those donors even think of resuming their funding of Harvard? Would they donate to the KKK? And for those thinking of buying Harvard’s bonds, would they buy bonds from Hamas? If not, why would they provide a financial lifeline to Hamas’ Jew-hating affiliate in Boston?

Stop donating to Harvard. Boycott its filthy bonds. Starve the beast.

*****

In other news related to Harvard’s endowment, a bill has been introduced in the Massachusetts legislature to ~~redistribute~~ tax it at a 2.5% annual rate. Let me offer my hearty endorsement.

“Proposed Mass. Bill Would Impose 2.5% Tax on Harvard Endowment” [Harvard Crimson – 02/09/2024]

Two Massachusetts lawmakers proposed a bill which would impose an annual excise tax of 2.5 percent on Harvard’s endowment.
The bill – titled An Act to Support Educational Opportunity for All – affects private educational endowments greater than $1 billion.
Given Harvard’s $50.7 billion endowment, per October’s Annual Financial Report, Harvard would be one of eleven Massachusetts private schools subject to the endowment tax. According to Bloomberg News, the tax would generate approximately $1.2 billion from Harvard, which would fund statewide education initiatives.

My principles wouldn’t normally have me endorsing the public looting of a private endowment, but since the communists at Harvard seem so enthusiastic about the various assaults on my personal and economic freedom, it would be good for them to go on defense for a while to protect their own economic interests.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 That’s a shame.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 08, 2024 11:00 AM (u73oe)

2 Called em.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 08, 2024 11:00 AM (u73oe)

3 Howdy Buck!

Posted by: Moonbeam at March 08, 2024 11:01 AM (rbKZ6)

4 Auction off the skull and bones.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 08, 2024 11:02 AM (C5B5U)

5 While the endowment may be valued at $50 billion, it is apparently not weighted very heavily toward liquid investments such as stocks and bonds. Therefore, Harvard relies on the mega-donors’ recurring giving to provide the cash to pay the bills. When those donors closed their checkbooks, Harvard found itself in an asset-rich but cash-poor situation.

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I'm unclear. What is the purpose of an endowment?

Like, the stated, legal purpose. Not the actual purpose.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 08, 2024 11:02 AM (GBKbO)

6 Tells you what a Harvard MBA is really worth. They should teach liquidity instead of DEI and ESG.

Posted by: henry at March 08, 2024 11:02 AM (JMDly)

7 Tax the eff out of Harvard.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 08, 2024 11:03 AM (9yWhg)

8 That's horrible.

Anyway.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 08, 2024 11:03 AM (q7hip)

9 4 Auction off the skull and bones.

Those are at Yale.

Posted by: henry at March 08, 2024 11:03 AM (JMDly)

10 Where's that fat kid on the Simpsons? HA HA

Posted by: jmel at March 08, 2024 11:03 AM (RWHIh)

11 That’s a shame.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Anway...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 08, 2024 11:04 AM (9yWhg)

12 Harvard Delenda Est.

When Big Bad Vlad drops the nukes on us, I hope he starts with Harvard.

Posted by: XTC at March 08, 2024 11:04 AM (UnA8+)

13 I'm not giving them any money either.

Posted by: BignJames at March 08, 2024 11:04 AM (AwYPR)

14 6 Tells you what a Harvard MBA is really worth. They should teach liquidity instead of DEI and ESG.
Posted by: henry at March 08, 2024 11:02 AM (JMDly)

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The value of a Harvard MBA is the connections, not the education.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 08, 2024 11:04 AM (GBKbO)

15 The excise tax on endowments is waaaay too low.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 08, 2024 11:04 AM (k6uu5)

16 I would buy Harvard, if I could, and then the Inquisitors would come in....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 08, 2024 11:05 AM (xcxpd)

17 BURN THIS BLIGHTED WHOREHOUSE TO THE GROUND. Then go after Yale. Then Berkeley. Then Stanford. Then . . . .

May all these cocksuckers rot in hell.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 08, 2024 11:05 AM (iFTx/)

18 I'm just so sad that Harvard has and is suffering from their own stupidity.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 08, 2024 11:05 AM (gRvjD)

19 Awwwww turrible newz.

So, anyway....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 08, 2024 11:05 AM (Q4IgG)

20 While the endowment may be valued at $50 billion, it is apparently not weighted very heavily toward liquid investments such as stocks and bonds.

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This is puzzling to me. I understand safety and what not, but the money is apparently a trophy more than anything. Why not put half in something that tracks the S&P 500 and sit back as the market goes to 80K, because surely I'm not smarter than Harvard folks in that I know it's not real and is propped up entirely by the feds for the sole purpose of people like the $50B Harvard folks.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 08, 2024 11:05 AM (k1AR8)

21 Harvard has made too much money.

Right, Barack?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 08, 2024 11:05 AM (q7hip)

22 It's not like there aren't a million other things that wealthy people can give to that are much more worthwhile causes.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 08, 2024 11:06 AM (r5tfK)

23 20 This is puzzling to me. I understand safety and what not, but the money is apparently a trophy more than anything. Why not put half in something that tracks the S&P 500 and sit back as the market goes to 80K, because surely I'm not smarter than Harvard folks in that I know it's not real and is propped up entirely by the feds for the sole purpose of people like the $50B Harvard folks.
Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 08, 2024 11:05 AM (k1AR

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I bet they own a bunch of slums. Harvard, slum lord, just seems on brand.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 08, 2024 11:06 AM (GBKbO)

24 um, did you mean "principles?"

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Freelance AoSHQ Copy editor at March 08, 2024 11:06 AM (PiwSw)

25 Hiya

Posted by: JT at March 08, 2024 11:07 AM (T4tVD)

26 Those are at Yale.
Posted by: henry at March 08, 2024 11:03 AM (JMDly)

Fuck Yale, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 08, 2024 11:07 AM (tkR6S)

27 .. and where did those Billions go ?

Democrat Rep. Katie Porter of California claimed Wednesday that the election for U.S. Senate had been rigged, after Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) boosted Republican rival Steve Garvey into second place to ensure a win in November.

Porter posted on X (formerly Twitter) that she had faced “an onslaught of billionaires spending millions to rig this election.”

... Welcome to the party, pal!

Posted by: SMOD at March 08, 2024 11:08 AM (RHGPo)

28 I'm looking forward to more reports on the total DEI spending at various universities. We saw UVA's yesterday, and it's roughly $20M, including DEI directors making more than $500K a year, all for a fake discipline, and academic rigor comprising mostly "I hate Whitey".

Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:08 AM (CsUN+)

29 I’m so sorry this is happening to you, Harvard. Good luck with that.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 08, 2024 11:08 AM (u73oe)

30 27 .. and where did those Billions go ?

Democrat Rep. Katie Porter of California claimed Wednesday that the election for U.S. Senate had been rigged, after Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) boosted Republican rival Steve Garvey into second place to ensure a win in November.

Porter posted on X (formerly Twitter) that she had faced “an onslaught of billionaires spending millions to rig this election.”

... Welcome to the party, pal!
Posted by: SMOD at March 08, 2024 11:08 AM (RHGPo)

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The DOJ should arrest her for misinformation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 08, 2024 11:09 AM (GBKbO)

31 Harvard’s losing money? Too bad.
I think I’ll get some more coffee and a cookie.

Posted by: Eromero at March 08, 2024 11:09 AM (NxC5+)

32 >>> 12 Harvard Delenda Est.

When Big Bad Vlad drops the nukes on us, I hope he starts with Harvard.
Posted by: XTC at March 08, 2024 11:04 AM (UnA8+)

DC and Hollywood first, with local Horde members on vacation, and assuming the OMG Russians' nukes are any better maintained than ours.

Hahvahd is one of the worst asshoe campuses:
America's Super-Elite Disconnect
https://shorturl.at/oLM48

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 08, 2024 11:09 AM (llON8)

33 Karma

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 08, 2024 11:09 AM (t/2Uw)

34 *pops corn*

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 08, 2024 11:09 AM (aD39U)

35 Porter posted on X (formerly Twitter) that she had faced “an onslaught of billionaires spending millions to rig this election.”

... Welcome to the party, pal!
Posted by: SMOD at March 08, 2024 11:08 AM (RHGPo)

Oink!

Posted by: BignJames at March 08, 2024 11:10 AM (AwYPR)

36 Damn, that's a shame.

Anyway...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 08, 2024 11:10 AM (Wnv9h)

37 23 20 This is puzzling to me. I understand safety and what not, but the money is apparently a trophy more than anything. Why not put half in something that tracks the S&P 500 and sit back as the market goes to 80K, because surely I'm not smarter than Harvard folks in that I know it's not real and is propped up entirely by the feds for the sole purpose of people like the $50B Harvard folks.
Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 08, 2024 11:05 AM (k1AR

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I bet they own a bunch of slums. Harvard, slum lord, just seems on brand.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 08, 2024 11:06 AM (GBKbO)
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I think a lot of it is in land and development rights. NYU for example owns entire blocks all over NYC. And I'm sure tons of the "fund" part of the endowment is in VC and PE funds and investments that are very difficult to get out of.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 08, 2024 11:11 AM (iFTx/)

38 27 Democrat Rep. Katie Porter of California claimed Wednesday that the election for U.S. Senate had been rigged, after Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) boosted Republican rival Steve Garvey into second place to ensure a win in November.

Porter posted on X (formerly Twitter) that she had faced “an onslaught of billionaires spending millions to rig this election.”

... Welcome to the party, pal!
Posted by: SMOD at March 08, 2024 11:08 AM (RHGPo)

Eat another twelve cheesecakes, Diabeastie.

Posted by: XTC at March 08, 2024 11:11 AM (UnA8+)

39 Two Massachusetts lawmakers proposed a bill which would impose an annual excise tax of 2.5 percent on Harvard’s endowment.
________
Henry VIII wants some credit for this idea.

A friend predicted this was coming years ago.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 08, 2024 11:11 AM (1bNHn)

40 Keep chipping away. This corrupt house of cards the left has built can't last.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2024 11:11 AM (LkLld)

41 Yes, Harvard, now is a great time to sell bonds - given that the idiots who align with your values have printed so much money that inflation has devastated bond prices.

Welcome to the world of the modest saver who is being hammered.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 08, 2024 11:11 AM (lTGtQ)

42 surely I'm not smarter than Harvard folks in that I know it's not real and is propped up entirely by the feds for the sole purpose of people like the $50B Harvard folks.
Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 08, 2024 11:05 AM (k1AR

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$50 billion in illiquid assets? Maybe just maybe some of those investments were used in fraudulent transactions. Such like a professor or administrator buying some property on the cheap then selling it to the foundation at a huge profit.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 08, 2024 11:11 AM (++4z6)

43 According to Bloomberg News, the tax would generate approximately $1.2 billion from Harvard, which would fund statewide education initiatives.

This seems fair.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 08, 2024 11:11 AM (aD39U)

44 London Bridge is falling down. falling down

London Bridge is falling down.

My fair lady

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 08, 2024 11:11 AM (qRe8u)

45 Fire sale!

The hubris of Massachusetts attacking Harvard's elite status, though.

Posted by: Ribbed at March 08, 2024 11:12 AM (u3NjE)

46 According to Bloomberg News, the tax would generate approximately $1.2 billion from Harvard, which would fund statewide education initiatives.

This seems fair.

I dunno. Are they paying "their fair share". Methinks no.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:12 AM (CsUN+)

47 If and when student loans cease it Buh Bye Haavad!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 08, 2024 11:13 AM (qRe8u)

48 46 According to Bloomberg News, the tax would generate approximately $1.2 billion from Harvard, which would fund statewide education initiatives.

This seems fair.

I dunno. Are they paying "their fair share". Methinks no.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:12 AM (CsUN+)

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Make if 75%.

If it saves just one life.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 08, 2024 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

49 In other news related to Harvard’s endowment, a bill has been introduced in the Massachusetts legislature to redistribute tax it at a 2.5% annual rate. Let me offer my hearty endorsement.

The left: TAX THE RICH

Also the left: But not me!

Posted by: Rich Leftists at March 08, 2024 11:13 AM (ibTVg)

50 I wonder how many 'Anyway' we're going to get?

Anyway.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 08, 2024 11:13 AM (gRvjD)

51 15 The excise tax on endowments is waaaay too low.
Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 08, 2024 11:04 AM

Yep! Make the rich pay their fair share!

Posted by: Moonbeam at March 08, 2024 11:13 AM (rbKZ6)

52 "Are they paying "their fair share"."

Not their fault they have better tax shelters than you.

Posted by: Ribbed at March 08, 2024 11:14 AM (u3NjE)

53
Loot it! Knock it down! Make the rubble bounce!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 08, 2024 11:14 AM (xG4kz)

54 I'll bet anyone any amount of money that the $50B endowment that Harvard brags about ain't really worth anywhere near that. The size of endowments are bragging rights for these elitist pricks. I'm sure the value is far more inflated than anything Trump ever submitted to any bank.

The fact that they can't easily liquidate the endowment suggests (i) they're pulling the value out of their assholes and/or (ii) a lot of the supposed value is in hard-to-value assets like property, VC, and PE.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 08, 2024 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

55 Ha-ha!

Progressives Furious at Biden for Describing Laken Riley’s Murder Suspect as ‘Illegal’: ‘Incendiary and Wrong’

https://tinyurl.com/yaf5we76

Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:14 AM (CsUN+)

56 25 Hiya
Posted by: JT at March 08, 2024 11:07 AM

Howdy JT!

Posted by: Moonbeam at March 08, 2024 11:14 AM (rbKZ6)

57 Huzzah!

Buck is now turning his sights on academia!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 08, 2024 11:15 AM (gSZYf)

58 I understand safety and what not, but the money is apparently a trophy more than anything. Why not put half in something that tracks the S&P 500 and sit back as the market goes to 80K, because surely I'm not smarter than Harvard folks in that I know it's not real and is propped up entirely by the feds for the sole purpose of people like the $50B Harvard folks.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's

As a general rule, equities are for growth and bonds are for protection of principle. So if you have a lot of money, enough to not need additional growth, you start moving into bonds. The only time bonds don't protect principle is when interest rates are rising quickly - like now.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 08, 2024 11:15 AM (lTGtQ)

59 Harvard dorms could be used to house illegals. Just sayin.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 08, 2024 11:15 AM (u73oe)

60 The furious impotent rage of the radical left in a protest election. Turns out you're all useful idiots.

Posted by: Ribbed at March 08, 2024 11:15 AM (u3NjE)

61 I vote we turn the bursars office into a refugee welcome center and dorms into housing for them..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 08, 2024 11:15 AM (qRe8u)

62 Progressives Furious at Biden for Describing Laken Riley’s Murder Suspect as ‘Illegal’: ‘Incendiary and Wrong’

This reminds me of when the left got mad about people "misgendering" that school shooter in TN but didn't care that a tranny murdered a bunch of Christians.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2024 11:16 AM (ibTVg)

63 Not a cell in me bleeds for them

Posted by: Skip at March 08, 2024 11:17 AM (/R4+2)

64 Harvard, not as well endowed as thought ??

Posted by: runner at March 08, 2024 11:17 AM (V13WU)

65 Auction off the skull and bones.

Those are at Yale.
Posted by: henry
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potato...patatoe...

Posted by: lin-duh at March 08, 2024 11:17 AM (YSTo5)

66 I, for one, welcome our new compassionate and visionary overlords.

Stephen Colbert Says Big Tech Will Program AI With “Compassion and Vision” – “I’m Ready for the Machines to Tell Us What to Do”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 08, 2024 11:17 AM (FVME7)

67 I vote we turn the bursars office into a refugee welcome center and dorms into housing for them..

I'm sure their dining halls aren't being used full time. They could be turned into soup kitchens.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:17 AM (CsUN+)

68 Harvard probably bought a lot of 'Art' which fairly illiquid.
(especially if they bought some 'Hunters')

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 08, 2024 11:17 AM (gRvjD)

69 "Harvard, not as well endowed as thought ??"

Turns out it was a sock all along.

Posted by: Ribbed at March 08, 2024 11:18 AM (u3NjE)

70 Given Harvard’s $50.7 billion endowment, per October’s Annual Financial Report, Harvard would be one of eleven Massachusetts private schools subject to the endowment tax. According to Bloomberg News, the tax would generate approximately $1.2 billion from Harvard, which would fund statewide education initiatives.

My principals wouldn’t normally have me endorsing the public looting of a private endowment, but since the communists at Harvard seem so enthusiastic about the various assaults on my personal and economic freedom, it would be good for them to go on defense for a while to protect their own economic interests.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton

Since my ass has been raped every year since 1991 on school taxes without ever having had a child, my principles are just fine.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 08, 2024 11:18 AM (uiWTm)

71 44
I thought when I read London Bridge is falling down meant KC III was mort. Isn't that the code for a deceased British monarch, or was that just for QE II?

Posted by: jmel at March 08, 2024 11:18 AM (RWHIh)

72 When I think big tech, I think compassion and vision, certainly.

Posted by: Ribbed at March 08, 2024 11:18 AM (u3NjE)

73 So, despite its massive endowment, Harvard finds itself having to rush a bond offering in order to raise the cash needed to keep the lights on.

Try a bake sale.

Posted by: t-bird at March 08, 2024 11:18 AM (aCiWx)

74 Stephen Colbert Says Big Tech Will Program AI With “Compassion and Vision” – “I’m Ready for the Machines to Tell Us What to Do”

Of course, he doesn't really believe that. He's just saying it because it'll get him attention, since he's so boring even having a late night talk show isn't getting him eyeballs.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:19 AM (CsUN+)

75 $50 billion in illiquid assets? Maybe just maybe some of those investments were used in fraudulent transactions. Such like a professor or administrator buying some property on the cheap then selling it to the foundation at a huge profit.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 08, 2024 11:11 AM (++4z6)

I would be shocked to discover that the everything to do with those endowments was legitimate.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 08, 2024 11:19 AM (tkR6S)

76 Try a bake sale.
Posted by: t-bird at March 08, 2024 11:18 AM (aCiWx)

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Toe licking.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 08, 2024 11:20 AM (u73oe)

77 If Harvard has $50 billion in in illiquid assets, It means the don't need the money, Massholes should tax it at 50 %.
If they don't need the $50 billion, they won't need the $25 billion left.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 08, 2024 11:20 AM (FjlUt)

78 Try a bake sale.
Posted by: t-bird at March 08, 2024 11:18 AM (aCiWx)

Or toe-licking.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 08, 2024 11:20 AM (tkR6S)

79 73 So, despite its massive endowment, Harvard finds itself having to rush a bond offering in order to raise the cash needed to keep the lights on.

Try a bake sale.
Posted by: t-bird at March 08, 2024 11:18 AM (aCiWx)
__________

Toe and armpit licking contest

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 08, 2024 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

80 I'm sure their dining halls aren't being used full time. They could be turned into soup kitchens.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:17 AM (CsUN+)

Bluto Blutarski has entered the chat*

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 08, 2024 11:20 AM (qRe8u)

81 Harvard is not a true non-profit...
Harvard is a brainwashing factory for the elite and a destructive force on America...

Tax away.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 08, 2024 11:21 AM (exHjb)

82 Horde mind.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 08, 2024 11:21 AM (u73oe)

83 Ha-ha!

Progressives Furious at Biden for Describing Laken Riley’s Murder Suspect as ‘Illegal’: ‘Incendiary and Wrong’

MTG deserves credit for planting that little petard.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 08, 2024 11:22 AM (sNc8Y)

84 Harvard is not a true non-profit...

*Most* nominal non-profits in the US exist to make their leadership rich. Its a hell of a tax loophole and our betters abuse it with gusto.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2024 11:22 AM (ibTVg)

85
Progressives Furious at Biden for Describing Laken Riley’s Murder Suspect as ‘Illegal’: ‘Incendiary and Wrong’

Okay, "the murder suspect was incendiary, wrong, and illegal"

Are you happy now?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 08, 2024 11:23 AM (xG4kz)

86 They could start selling bricks from their buildings. We need a lot of housing built for illegals.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 08, 2024 11:23 AM (lTGtQ)

87 "Harvard, not as well endowed as thought ??"

That's what she SAID!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 08, 2024 11:23 AM (uiWTm)

88 Horde mind.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 08, 2024 11:21 AM (u73oe)

How does a Harvard President hold her liquor?

By the ears.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 08, 2024 11:23 AM (tkR6S)

89 Toe and armpit licking contest

College Students?!?

TOO
OLD

Posted by: Our betters at March 08, 2024 11:23 AM (ibTVg)

90 >>Progressives Furious at Biden for Describing Laken Riley’s Murder Suspect as ‘Illegal’: ‘Incendiary and Wrong’

Murder is still illegal.

Posted by: Roy at March 08, 2024 11:23 AM (z+ik4)

91 Stephen Colbert Says Big Tech Will Program AI With “Compassion and Vision” – “I’m Ready for the Machines to Tell Us What to Do”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 08, 2024 11:17 AM (FVME7)
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He was misquoting Donald Fagen's IGY. Which is ironically wistful.

Posted by: Axeman at March 08, 2024 11:23 AM (krQz2)

92 Not just the ivys with the big endowments. University of Texas has a $44 billion endowment. A lot of that is land with mineral wealth (oil). I remember that every time they raise tuition and fees, and then send emails begging for money.

Posted by: brak at March 08, 2024 11:23 AM (AR07F)

93 Good. Everybody makes a big deal about Harvard's endowment, but that cannot fund Harvard's activities in perpetuity. That's not how endowments work. A lot of that is probably earmarked to support *specific* functions and if they try to move that money around, legal problems will soon follow.

The university flagship where I work found that out the hard way when money earmarked for specific functions (like hiring faculty in certain programs) was used to hire faculty who didn't fulfill the core mission tied to that money. Lawsuits then followed from angry alumni who funded those programs.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 08, 2024 11:24 AM (7fElN)

94 Harvard bake sale: peanut butter and toe jam sandwiches.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 08, 2024 11:24 AM (Q4IgG)

95 HAHAH! Ackman is exactly right (this is from their 22 FS)

"As the University’s single largest contributor to
revenue, 45% of this year’s income arose from
philanthropy—9% from current use gifts, which have
an immediate impact on operations, and 36% from the ongoing support of distributions from the endowment. We want to thank all the alumni and donors who gave to the University—past and present—as Harvard’s excellence in teaching, scholarship, research, and generous financial aid is made possible through philanthropy. We are deeply appreciative of this extraordinary support."

Posted by: runner at March 08, 2024 11:24 AM (V13WU)

96
If Harvard has $50 billion in in illiquid assets, It means the don't need the money, Massholes should tax it at 50 %.
If they don't need the $50 billion, they won't need the $25 billion left.
Posted by: Joe Biden

Race to the bottom! The bottom is $0 billion!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 08, 2024 11:24 AM (xG4kz)

97 And for those thinking of buying Harvard’s bonds, would they buy bonds from Hamas?

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BREAKING: F. Joe Mugabe Announces Multi-Trillion Dollar Bailout for Hamas Bond Offering. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 08, 2024 11:25 AM (XUhl+)

98 “My principles wouldn’t normally have me endorsing the public looting of a private endowment, but since the communists at Harvard seem so enthusiastic about the various assaults on my personal and economic freedom, it would be good for them to go on defense for a while to protect their own economic interests.“

Besides, Buck, doesn’t Hahvahd WANT this to happen? Why, you’d think they would donate large chunks of the endowment to Boston to do with it as they please. They LOVE ever bigger and more powerful government, no?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 08, 2024 11:25 AM (L8s/5)

99 Not just the ivys with the big endowments. University of Texas has a $44 billion endowment. A lot of that is land with mineral wealth (oil). I remember that every time they raise tuition and fees, and then send emails begging for money.

If you've got tens of millions for DEI nonsense, you don't need my money. GFY.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:25 AM (CsUN+)

100 Start selling your assets, Harvard.

Posted by: runner at March 08, 2024 11:25 AM (V13WU)

101 84 Harvard is not a true non-profit...

*Most* nominal non-profits in the US exist to make their leadership rich. Its a hell of a tax loophole and our betters abuse it with gusto.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2024 11:22 AM (ibTVg)

Yup.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 08, 2024 11:25 AM (exHjb)

102
"Would you want to live in a world without a Harvard?!"

"Sounds cool -- I'm good!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 08, 2024 11:25 AM (xG4kz)

103 I thought when I read London Bridge is falling down meant KC III was mort. Isn't that the code for a deceased British monarch, or was that just for QE II?

Posted by: jmel at March 08, 2024 11:18 AM (RWHIh)

I thought the nursery rhyme was about Mary Queen of Scots..."take the keys and lock her up".....wiki makes no mention.

Posted by: BignJames at March 08, 2024 11:26 AM (AwYPR)

104 Harvard should whore out their staff. Supposedly, with all the trannies running around they should be busy every day.

Posted by: Roy at March 08, 2024 11:26 AM (z+ik4)

105 We at The Human Fund would never abuse our status as a non-profit to enrich ourselves.

Donate today!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 08, 2024 11:26 AM (GBKbO)

106 "Would you want to live in a world without a Harvard?!"

"Sounds cool -- I'm good!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 08, 2024 11:25 AM (xG4kz)

You could have an AT-6 Texan instead.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 08, 2024 11:26 AM (tkR6S)

107 Start selling your assets, Harvard.

Posted by: runner at March 08, 2024 11:25 AM (V13WU)
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20 bucks, same as in town.

Posted by: Axeman at March 08, 2024 11:26 AM (krQz2)

108 A serious Secretary of Education would make federal loan and grant money to ANY college or university dependent on meritocratic admission standards. The ugly secret for the Ivies is that only a very small percentage of kids get in on merit once the nepo babies and DEI kids get spots. Tell them 10% for legacy admissions, 90% meritocracy with admissions policies to be audited by the feds.

Or they can just not take fed money, which is fine too.

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at March 08, 2024 11:27 AM (5C4od)

109 ? We sang it as children. My mother was from Hull on the Channel.

London Bridge Is Falling Down is a nursery rhyme and a singing game1that dates back to the 18th century England1. It was first published in 1744 in the “Pretty Song Book” collection by Tommy Thumb1. The rhyme may have been inspired by the historical event of the London Bridge being pulled down by a Viking leader in 10142.
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Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 08, 2024 11:27 AM (qRe8u)

110 My company's Slack is going nuts about how great women are on this International Women's Day.

Would be great if men could celebrate by taking a step back and allowing women everywhere to just take over for the day. Do all the jobs. Men can sit this one out. Nothing but KWEENS just SLAYING all day long!

Oh, but the caveat should be that they can only use things built by women.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 08, 2024 11:27 AM (KbCG3)

111 99 Not just the ivys with the big endowments. University of Texas has a $44 billion endowment. A lot of that is land with mineral wealth (oil). I remember that every time they raise tuition and fees, and then send emails begging for money.

If you've got tens of millions for DEI nonsense, you don't need my money. GFY.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:25 AM (CsUN+)

Amen. Trim all the fat and THEN get back to me about your woes...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 08, 2024 11:27 AM (exHjb)

112 "Would you want to live in a world without a Harvard?!"

It's always interesting to see who replaces them. Prestige is in a lot of ways arbitrary.

Posted by: Ribbed at March 08, 2024 11:27 AM (u3NjE)

113 @disclosetv

JUST IN - United Boeing 737 MAX suffers gear collapse after landing in Houston, Texas.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2024 11:27 AM (LkLld)

114 Tell them 10% for legacy admissions, 90% meritocracy with admissions policies to be audited by the feds.

Are you insane? They're the ones pushing DEI.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:28 AM (CsUN+)

115 Speaking of the poison ivies . . .

Men’s Basketball Team at Dartmouth College Votes to Unionize

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Their demands are no more teachers, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 08, 2024 11:28 AM (FVME7)

116 71 44
I thought when I read London Bridge is falling down meant KC III was mort. Isn't that the code for a deceased British monarch, or was that just for QE II?
Posted by: jmel at March 08, 2024 11:18 AM (RWHIh)

? We sang it as children. My mother was from Hull on the Channel.

London Bridge Is Falling Down is a nursery rhyme and a singing game1that dates back to the 18th century England1. It was first published in 1744 in the “Pretty Song Book” collection by Tommy Thumb1. The rhyme may have been inspired by the historical event of the London Bridge being pulled down by a Viking leader in 10142.
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Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 08, 2024 11:28 AM (qRe8u)

117 Yes, Harvard is struggling, but they're not alone. USC was rocked last night by the unexpected death of their football coach.

Posted by: Wally at March 08, 2024 11:28 AM (MgkkV)

118 Remember when the left was all in on attacking for-profit universities a few years ago?

That was fun.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 08, 2024 11:28 AM (GBKbO)

119
Stephen Colbert Says Big Tech Will Program AI With “Compassion and Vision” – “I’m Ready for the Machines to Tell Us What to Do”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

Big 'Chine to Colbert: "Slice off your balls and jam them down your throat!"

Colbert: "Whaaaaat?"

Big 'Chine: "Hey, you offered!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 08, 2024 11:28 AM (xG4kz)

120 USC was rocked last night by the unexpected death of their football coach.

100% protected from COVID now

Posted by: Pfizer at March 08, 2024 11:28 AM (ibTVg)

121 Having enjoyed Oberlin getting taken down a notch by the Gibson Bakery family, I'm really gonna like watching this go down.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 08, 2024 11:28 AM (0EOe9)

122 Hiya Moonbeam !

Have a nice weekend !

Posted by: JT at March 08, 2024 11:28 AM (T4tVD)

123 We at The Human Fund would never abuse our status as a non-profit to enrich ourselves.

Donate today!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 08, 2024 11:26 AM (GBKbO)
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Do you give out a free copy of your book with every donation?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 08, 2024 11:28 AM (7fElN)

124 Yes, Harvard is struggling, but they're not alone. USC was rocked last night by the unexpected death of their football coach.
Posted by: Wally at March 08, 2024 11:28 AM (MgkkV)

The Clot Shot claims another one.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 08, 2024 11:29 AM (tkR6S)

125
Imagine there's no Harvard
It's easy if you do
One less source of experts
To propaganda-spew

Posted by: Axeman at March 08, 2024 11:29 AM (krQz2)

126 *Most* nominal non-profits in the US exist to make their leadership rich. Its a hell of a tax loophole and our betters abuse it with gusto. Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2024 11:22 AM (ibTVg)

In law school, I took an an elective class on Nonprofit, Cooperative, and Mutual Organizations, primarily because it was first thing in the morning and fit my schedule. As you might expect, 90% of the class was the granola-crunching type who expected to eschew the grubby capitalist world. To their surprise, the class turned out to be mostly about how the organization form can be used to avoid taxes and enrich the managers. For example, the NFL is a nonprofit (all profits pass through to the teams that own it). Mutual insurance companies are in theory owned by the policyholders and pay no taxes. Ocean Spray and Sunkist are giant agricultural coops owned by the growers. At the time (although it's not true any more, as they've IPO'ed), Visa and MasterCard were the biggest nonprofits in the world. It was worth it to see the heads exploding.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 08, 2024 11:29 AM (r5tfK)

127 Where would the FBI find their corrupt elitist vermin without the Ivys?

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 08, 2024 11:29 AM (rWwta)

128 123 Do you give out a free copy of your book with every donation?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 08, 2024 11:28 AM (7fElN)

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We at The Human Fund would never use our positions for rank self-promotion.

No, we just take the money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 08, 2024 11:30 AM (GBKbO)

129 113 @disclosetv

JUST IN - United Boeing 737 MAX suffers gear collapse after landing in Houston, Texas.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2024 11:27 AM (LkLld)

Is this the one that lost a tire or another one?

Posted by: Nova Local at March 08, 2024 11:30 AM (exHjb)

130 Yes, Harvard is struggling, but they're not alone. USC was rocked last night by the unexpected death of their football coach.
Posted by: Wally at March 08, 2024 11:28 AM (MgkkV)

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Linked-in Riley. Yeah I mentioned him.

Posted by: President Charlie Foxtrot at March 08, 2024 11:30 AM (krQz2)

131
The rhyme may have been inspired by the historical event of the London Bridge being pulled down by a Viking leader in 10142.

Perhaps it is the FUTURE Vikings that are dark complected and Asian in appearance.

Is Gaggle's Hegemini really a portal into the future?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 08, 2024 11:30 AM (xG4kz)

132 "Would you want to live in a world without a Harvard?!"

It's always interesting to see who replaces them. Prestige is in a lot of ways arbitrary.
Posted by: Ribbed at March 08, 2024 11:27 AM (u3NjE)
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In many ways their REAL currency is reputation. They've taken a big hit in reputation, allowing one of the other Ivies to take the lead (although the Ivies as a whole seem to have suffered a hit to reputation).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 08, 2024 11:30 AM (7fElN)

133 108 A serious Secretary of Education would make federal loan and grant money to ANY college or university dependent on meritocratic admission standards. The ugly secret for the Ivies is that only a very small percentage of kids get in on merit once the nepo babies and DEI kids get spots. Tell them 10% for legacy admissions, 90% meritocracy with admissions policies to be audited by the feds.

Or they can just not take fed money, which is fine too.
Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at March 08, 2024 11:27 AM (5C4od)

That is un-American. America revels in corruption. All you need to do is invoke the national motto “It’s not what you know it’s WHO you know!”

Merit is anathema to this country.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 08, 2024 11:31 AM (L8s/5)

134 84 Harvard is not a true non-profit...

*Most* nominal non-profits in the US exist to make their leadership rich. Its a hell of a tax loophole and our betters abuse it with gusto.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2024 11:22 AM (ibTVg)
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Change "most" to "all" and there you have it. Even the "legitimate" charities spend a huge portion of their budget on fundraising which usually involves fancy galas and dinners and other exotic (and expensive) events to get donors to open their wallets. So even if leadership isn't siphoning off the money directly in the form of salaries and hiring their own businesses as consultants etc, they are still living large on the charity's money.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 08, 2024 11:31 AM (iFTx/)

135 When Joe took the podium last night, it was all over except for the shouting.

Posted by: Axeman at March 08, 2024 11:31 AM (krQz2)

136 Posted by: Elric Blade at March 08, 2024 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

Sounds like the Letitia James of MA needs to go after then for inflating the valuations of their holdings...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 08, 2024 11:31 AM (kVkSk)

137 114 Tell them 10% for legacy admissions, 90% meritocracy with admissions policies to be audited by the feds.

Are you insane? They're the ones pushing DEI.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:28 AM (CsUN+)

You didn't see my caveat on "Serious Secretary of Education". Obviously that is not happening with this administration, but only the feds can put the right type of strings on fed money. That's how a Trump administration could put the squeeze on these guys - no legislation required, just a "rule" from the Ed Sec.

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at March 08, 2024 11:31 AM (5C4od)

138 Annasaurus Wrecks @ 66- Steven Colbert neve saw Terminator or Matrix.

Posted by: Eromero at March 08, 2024 11:31 AM (NxC5+)

139 I can't think of a single institution or industry that has as much trust as it did five years ago. And in every instance they deserve very little.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 08, 2024 11:31 AM (cf/0E)

140 To their surprise, the class turned out to be mostly about how the organization form can be used to avoid taxes and enrich the managers

And...a lot of these non-profits exist to launder government dollars. Wonder how Uncle Sugar can throw billions at some problems and get no results? Well, because they "partnered" with a bunch of NGOs...

Its about as corrupt as one could imagine.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2024 11:32 AM (ibTVg)

141 It takes a lot to kill a 400 year old reputation, but they are doing a good job !

Posted by: runner at March 08, 2024 11:32 AM (V13WU)

142 Nobody in my family in 4 generations. (Since my ancestors migrated to the USA in the early 1900’s) went to an Ivy League College. I want reparations!!

Posted by: Bang-a-gong at March 08, 2024 11:32 AM (nGRKK)

143 The ugly secret for the Ivies is that only a very small percentage of kids get in on merit once the nepo babies and DEI kids get spots. Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at March 08, 2024 11:27 AM (5C4od)

Don't forget the athletes.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 08, 2024 11:32 AM (r5tfK)

144 136 Posted by: Elric Blade at March 08, 2024 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

Sounds like the Letitia James of MA needs to go after then for inflating the valuations of their holdings...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 08, 2024 11:31 AM (kVkSk)

I mean, wouldn't it be fraud to use false valuations in their bond offerings?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 08, 2024 11:33 AM (kVkSk)

145 Annasaurus Wrecks @ 66- Steven Colbert neve saw Terminator or Matrix.
Posted by: Eromero at March 08, 2024 11:31 AM (NxC5+)
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Or he saw them as instruction manuals.

"I can't wait to be as useful as a battery!"

Posted by: Axeman at March 08, 2024 11:33 AM (krQz2)

146 113 @disclosetv

JUST IN - United Boeing 737 MAX suffers gear collapse after landing in Houston, Texas.
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Kinda sounds like someone is after Boeing? Glowies?

Posted by: ET at March 08, 2024 11:33 AM (5p/Kp)

147 Change "most" to "all" and there you have it. Even the "legitimate" charities spend a huge portion of their budget on fundraising which usually involves fancy galas and dinners and other exotic (and expensive) events to get donors to open their wallets. So even if leadership isn't siphoning off the money directly in the form of salaries and hiring their own businesses as consultants etc, they are still living large on the charity's money.

We have no idea what you're talking about.

Posted by: Wayne LaPierre and Ronna McDaniel at March 08, 2024 11:33 AM (CsUN+)

148 139 I can't think of a single institution or industry that has as much trust as it did five years ago. And in every instance they deserve very little.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 08, 2024 11:31 AM (cf/0E)

Small town community banks?

Posted by: Nova Local at March 08, 2024 11:33 AM (exHjb)

149 139 I can't think of a single institution or industry that has as much trust as it did five years ago. And in every instance they deserve very little.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 08, 2024 11:31 AM (cf/0E)

Institutions or industries? No.

Nutters who were labeled as such because they questioned everything the proper authorities told them? Yes.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 08, 2024 11:33 AM (KbCG3)

150 That's how a Trump administration could put the squeeze on these guys - no legislation required, just a "rule" from the Ed Sec.

right --- if you use DEI in admission, that's illegal discrimination = students no longer eligible for federal student loans, and no federal grant money

that's game over for DEI at universities

Posted by: brak at March 08, 2024 11:33 AM (AR07F)

151
It takes a lot to kill a 400 year old reputation, but they are doing a good job !
Posted by: runner

Gradually, then suddenly and all at once.

Anheuser-Busch and Disney will start keeping a seat warm for you, Har-Har-Har-Vard.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 08, 2024 11:34 AM (xG4kz)

152

Too bad, so sad.

*uck them all.

Posted by: four seasons at March 08, 2024 11:35 AM (PisyI)

153 JUST IN - United Boeing 737 MAX suffers gear collapse after landing in Houston, Texas.
Posted by: JackStraw

Yesterday . . .

JUST IN: Watch this Boeing 777 lose a tire during takeoff in San Fran. The tire crushed two cars!

https://tinyurl.com/3tp6anr2

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I guess it's true. The wheels are coming off.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 08, 2024 11:35 AM (FVME7)

154 You didn't see my caveat on "Serious Secretary of Education". Obviously that is not happening with this administration, but only the feds can put the right type of strings on fed money. That's how a Trump administration could put the squeeze on these guys - no legislation required, just a "rule" from the Ed Sec.

I suppose it depends on who's defining "serious", and for that reason, I wouldn't let the Feds, any of them, near this process.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:35 AM (CsUN+)

155 Mutual insurance companies are in theory owned by the policyholders and pay no taxes. Ocean Spray and Sunkist are giant agricultural coops owned by the growers. At the time (although it's not true any more, as they've IPO'ed), Visa and MasterCard were the biggest nonprofits in the world. It was worth it to see the heads exploding.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 08, 2024 11:29 AM

Dear God, Marlin Perkins was a lying grifting scammer? Next you are going to tell me that Jim was in on it as well.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 08, 2024 11:35 AM (QNSds)

156 I can't think of a single institution or industry that has as much trust as it did five years ago. And in every instance they deserve very little.

I wonder are there any good books on Soviet science after they dropped Lysenkoism?

They were still highly politicized, but it would be interested to say how they went from batshit insane back to just normal levels of communist crazy. Because we would be so lucky to do the same in Soviet America

Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2024 11:35 AM (ibTVg)

157
JUST IN - United Boeing 737 MAX suffers gear collapse after landing in Houston, Texas.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2024 11:27 AM (LkLld)

Is this the one that lost a tire or another one?
Posted by: Nova Local at March 08, 2024 11:30 AM (exHjb)
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Another one. The tire was in San Francisco.

Posted by: WisRich at March 08, 2024 11:36 AM (G0vdT)

158 No love for Hahvahd but where were the donors when they decided to get on board with DEI and a hatred of straight white males?

Posted by: GOP sux at March 08, 2024 11:36 AM (Zzbjj)

159 Dear God, Marlin Perkins was a lying grifting scammer? Next you are going to tell me that Jim was in on it as well. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 08, 2024 11:35 AM (QNSds)

Since he did all the work, I don't see how that conclusion can be avoided.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 08, 2024 11:36 AM (r5tfK)

160 right --- if you use DEI in admission, that's illegal discrimination = students no longer eligible for federal student loans, and no federal grant money

that's game over for DEI at universities
Posted by: brak at March 08, 2024 11:33 AM (AR07F)

Yes. We need to get comfortable wielding the levers of power to punish our enemies when we have the chance. No more "oh fed gov is icky". Fuck that. War

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at March 08, 2024 11:36 AM (5C4od)

161 Dear God, Marlin Perkins was a lying grifting scammer? Next you are going to tell me that Jim was in on it as well.

Pretty sure Jim was just a patsy.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 08, 2024 11:37 AM (sNc8Y)

162 Thanks for the feel good story of the morning!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 08, 2024 11:37 AM (17s+e)

163 r.e. Change your country to Saudi Arabia in Microsoft products:
I'll STRONKLY consider this when they post my NATIVE country "Elbonia" which is fluent in 22,000 communications protocols, but NOT my native Esperanto.

Posted by: Ray Mota at March 08, 2024 11:37 AM (sw3xv)

164 No love for Hahvahd but where were the donors when they decided to get on board with DEI and a hatred of straight white males?

good point

for the public schools no one complains and they keep donating as long as the football team keeps winning

Posted by: brak at March 08, 2024 11:38 AM (AR07F)

165 right --- if you use DEI in admission, that's illegal discrimination = students no longer eligible for federal student loans, and no federal grant money

that's game over for DEI at universities

But then they'll just say they aren't using DEI in admissions, just as they are doing now with AA. However, since SCOTUS left them a huge opening by saying you could consider what the students have overcome, it's all meaningless. Nothing will matter until admission is based on standardized tests only.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:38 AM (CsUN+)

166 I can't think of a single institution or industry that has as much trust as it did five years ago. And in every instance they deserve very little.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 08, 2024 11:31 AM (cf/0E)

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Seems to me that conservatives have innate trust in institutions--but no necessary trust in any.

Once a conservative feels burned by that institution, it becomes distrusted.

Meanwhile, the progressive starts out saying to distrust institutions and authority and ends up requiring you to trust the institutions they've captured.

No reason. It's just that institutional capture is just not as useful if people lose faith in that institution. And progs are all about effect.

Posted by: Axeman at March 08, 2024 11:38 AM (krQz2)

167 158 No love for Hahvahd but where were the donors when they decided to get on board with DEI and a hatred of straight white males?
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Without straight white males (the natives) who would they project their sins on? Donors are Richie Rich.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 08, 2024 11:38 AM (gLYp7)

168 JUST IN: Watch this Boeing 777 lose a tire during takeoff in San Fran. The tire crushed two cars!

https://tinyurl.com/3tp6anr2

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I guess it's true. The wheels are coming off.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 08, 2024 11:35 AM (FVME7)

They are very lucky that the wheel did not kill anyone on the ground. Probably a failure on the part of maintenance.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 08, 2024 11:38 AM (tkR6S)

169
I suppose it depends on who's defining "serious", and for that reason, I wouldn't let the Feds, any of them, near this process.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:35 AM (CsUN+)

With respect, when we have the chance to strangle these fuckers, we need to take it. Again, see 160

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at March 08, 2024 11:38 AM (5C4od)

170 160 right --- if you use DEI in admission, that's illegal discrimination = students no longer eligible for federal student loans, and no federal grant money

that's game over for DEI at universities
Posted by: brak at March 08, 2024 11:33 AM (AR07F)

Yes. We need to get comfortable wielding the levers of power to punish our enemies when we have the chance. No more "oh fed gov is icky". Fuck that. War
Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at March 08, 2024 11:36 AM (5C4od)

It has to be all encompassing.
No pictures of applicants allowed
No pronouns requested
No essays that approach race, sex, gender, or anything related
No request for info on extracurricular clubs that deal with race, sex, gender, or anything related
Etc, etc...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 08, 2024 11:39 AM (exHjb)

171 University of Texas has a $44 billion endowment. A lot of that is land with mineral wealth (oil). I remember that every time they raise tuition and fees, and then send emails begging for money.

Texas A&M and University of Texas are land grant universities that were founded a long time ago, and the state didn't have a lot of money. What the state had was a lot of land, and they gave hundreds of thousands of acres of worthless land to the universities. Worthless land in West Texas.

A few decades later, the largest oilfield in the continental US was found beneath that land.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 08, 2024 11:40 AM (lTGtQ)

172 Dear God, Marlin Perkins was a lying grifting scammer? Next you are going to tell me that Jim was in on it as well.
Posted by: Mister Scot

He was the bag man. Why do you think Marlin was always trying to get him bumped off by a lion?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 08, 2024 11:40 AM (uiWTm)

173 They were still highly politicized, but it would be interested to say how they went from batshit insane back to just normal levels of communist crazy. Because we would be so lucky to do the same in Soviet America Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2024 11:35 AM (ibTVg)

In my little neck of the woods, the Soviets had a geological theory that the Earth is generating hydrocarbons. For the West, using geology to find ancient lakes and river deltas under the ground from millions of years ago works well. But it does not disprove the Soviet theory. (Both could be true.) After all, as one friend pointed out, there are whole planets out there with methane atmospheres, and to the best of his knowledge they didn't have any dinosaurs.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 08, 2024 11:40 AM (r5tfK)

174 144 136 Posted by: Elric Blade at March 08, 2024 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

Sounds like the Letitia James of MA needs to go after then for inflating the valuations of their holdings...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 08, 2024 11:31 AM (kVkSk)

I mean, wouldn't it be fraud to use false valuations in their bond offerings?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 08, 2024 11:33 AM (kVkSk)
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I'm sure the MA AG is all over this!

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 08, 2024 11:40 AM (iFTx/)

175 With respect, when we have the chance to strangle these fuckers, we need to take it. Again, see 160

And what will happen when they resume power after an election? Don't get me wrong, I'd love to demolish these asshoes, but as long as the government is involved, bad things will eventually happen. The only solution is to keep them out of it.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:41 AM (CsUN+)

176
Meanwhile, the progressive starts out saying to distrust institutions and authority and ends up requiring you to trust the institutions they've captured.

As a conservative when someone lies to me that's it...I'm not going to trust them anymore.

The fascinating thing with the left is they WANT institutions and office holders to lie to them as long as its "for the greater good"

Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2024 11:41 AM (ibTVg)

177 Good; John Harvard would be turning over in his grave at what the school has become.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 08, 2024 11:41 AM (Ki//m)

178 Nothing will matter until admission is based on standardized tests only.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:38 AM (CsUN+)

Works for me. Like I said, the Ed Sec could issue a rule, saying nothing about DEI, and say 80% of admissions are to be based on the SAT and nothing more if you want fed funds.

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at March 08, 2024 11:41 AM (5C4od)

179 The economist at Lotus Eaters interviewed someone talking about the book The Mandibles, and I am horrified though I never read it.

Basically a Venezuela type crash in the US, with very little saving normal modern conveniences.

He says that unlike other fiction, where the premise is outlandish (EG Kelly Turnbull story could happen, but more likely not to), the story generally is more likely to happen than any alternative.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 08, 2024 11:41 AM (cf/0E)

180 After all, as one friend pointed out, there are whole planets out there with methane atmospheres, and to the best of his knowledge they didn't have any dinosaurs.
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I had a burrito and taco yesterday. You should beware of my methane field.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 08, 2024 11:42 AM (gLYp7)

181
BREAKING: F. Joe Mugabe Announces Multi-Trillion Dollar Bailout for Hamas Bond Offering. Developing ...
PoIsis hsted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (Asychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 08, 2024 11:25

Counter Terrorist militias have formed in Africa to fight Isis.
West African juntas set up joint anti-terrorism force

https://tinyurl.com/6kba3ra5

The junta-led Sahel states of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali, have agreed to establish a joint anti-terrorism force to deal with an Islamist insurgency that has spread across the region.

US-led body flags S/African bank laxity in anti-terror financing

The US-led Counter ISIS Finance Group (CIFG) has warned that the Islamic State is capitalizing on Africa’s weak counter-terrorism architecture to raise funds on the continent, with South Africa being one of the major conduits for moving money.

https://tinyurl.com/3cj6pm4p

How do you like me now?
- British colonialists

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 08, 2024 11:42 AM (qRe8u)

182 Not an expert, but an endowment is not exactly a "donation". There are spending restrictions for example and many donors endow a specific chair - Harry F. Balls chair of Economics or something. There are laws too, regulating endowments , so if someone is more familiar with the topic please chime in.

Posted by: runner at March 08, 2024 11:42 AM (V13WU)

183
They are very lucky that the wheel did not kill anyone on the ground. Probably a failure on the part of maintenance.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

United is poaching the maintenance crew members from Ikea.

"Hey, should we be worried about these left over lug nuts?"

"Nah, that always happens, brah"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 08, 2024 11:42 AM (xG4kz)

184 Yes. We need to get comfortable wielding the levers of power to punish our enemies when we have the chance. No more "oh fed gov is icky". Fuck that. War

I'd like to see the Trump admin, if he does win, come up with a set of payouts for conservative voters paid by leftists.

One of the reasons the left has captured everything is they have unlimited funds from we the taxpayers.

Trump's limitation of mortgage deductions is a good start, but he should come with 100s of similiar proposals...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2024 11:42 AM (ibTVg)

185 While the endowment may be valued at $50 billion, it is apparently not weighted very heavily toward liquid investments such as stocks and bonds.

The vast majority of it is likely the actual campus, land and buildings.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 08, 2024 11:43 AM (2ocoG)

186 Thankfully, the tire in San Francisco stopped when it hit a giant pile of human feces. No one was injured, but several homeless were splattered.

Posted by: Wally at March 08, 2024 11:43 AM (MgkkV)

187 They are very lucky that the wheel did not kill anyone on the ground. Probably a failure on the part of maintenance.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Or sabotage

Posted by: It's me donna at March 08, 2024 11:43 AM (Akjoo)

188 Biden To Deploy U.S. Military To Gaza To Help Palestinians

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They could call them the Special Squad. You know, the SS.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 08, 2024 11:44 AM (FVME7)

189 United is poaching the maintenance crew members from Ikea.
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There is a limit with what a hex screw can do.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 08, 2024 11:44 AM (gLYp7)

190 Stopped giving to my alma mater about 10 years ago when they invited bigot and general creep Dan Savage to speak on campus. I was a generous donor and told them exactly why they could no longer count on my annual donation when they reached out to me. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 08, 2024 11:44 AM (GTqXr)

191 Laken Riley's Parents Decline Invite to SOTU From GOP Rep. Because They Wouldn't Be Able to Stand Watching Biden

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Can't blame them.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 08, 2024 11:45 AM (FVME7)

192 As a conservative when someone lies to me that's it...I'm not going to trust them anymore.

The fascinating thing with the left is they WANT institutions and office holders to lie to them as long as its "for the greater good"
Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2024 11:41 AM (ibTVg)
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I think it's more that they want institutions to lie to YOU, they're already on board with what they are doing. It's the "Good in their heart" that they pardon members of the left with.

Posted by: Axeman at March 08, 2024 11:45 AM (krQz2)

193 Counter Terrorist militias have formed in Africa to fight Isis.
West African juntas set up joint anti-terrorism force

https://tinyurl.com/6kba3ra5

The junta-led Sahel states of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali, have agreed to establish a joint anti-terrorism force to deal with an Islamist insurgency that has spread across the region.

US-led body flags S/African bank laxity in anti-terror financing

The US-led Counter ISIS Finance Group (CIFG) has warned that the Islamic State is capitalizing on Africa’s weak counter-terrorism architecture to raise funds on the continent, with South Africa being one of the major conduits for moving money.

https://tinyurl.com/3cj6pm4p

How do you like me now?
- British colonialists
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 08, 2024 11:42 AM (qRe8u)
_______________

"Fuck you, we were there first!"

Afrikaners

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 08, 2024 11:45 AM (iFTx/)

194 There is a limit with what a hex screw can do. Posted by: Pudinhead at March 08, 2024 11:44 AM (gLYp7)

You mean you can't build an airplane with a little Allen wrench?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 08, 2024 11:45 AM (r5tfK)

195 The only solution is to keep them out of it.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:41 AM (CsUN+)

Unless you have a time machine, that ain't happening. That's "wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first" territory

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at March 08, 2024 11:46 AM (5C4od)

196 Laken Riley's Parents Decline Invite to SOTU From GOP Rep. Because They Wouldn't Be Able to Stand Watching Biden

Did anyone invite Lincoln Riley's parents?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 08, 2024 11:46 AM (r5tfK)

197 You mean you can't build an airplane with a little Allen wrench?
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 08, 2024 11:45 AM (r5tfK)

You can if you use 1000’s of little bolts!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 08, 2024 11:46 AM (YwyqV)

198 "Fuck you, we were there first!"

Afrikaners
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Except for the Bushmen, this is true. Same deal with Argentina.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 08, 2024 11:46 AM (gLYp7)

199 So stupid to try to take over the whole World.
Think they'd have a super dooper country if they'd focus on just one if they were smart.
The contrast of a lot of fun in country A fears upon fears in country B.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 08, 2024 11:46 AM (jMf8X)

200 JUST IN: Watch this Boeing 777 lose a tire during takeoff in San Fran. The tire crushed two cars!

https://tinyurl.com/3tp6anr2

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I guess it's true. The wheels are coming off.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 08, 2024 11:35 AM (FVME7)

They are very lucky that the wheel did not kill anyone on the ground. Probably a failure on the part of maintenance.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 08, 2024 11:38 AM

We were on a deployment in 86 or 87 when our CO came in to land on the Midway with a F/A-18. He hit the deck and the left landing gear strut broke completely off. Luckily he caught the wire just as it happened and was stopped. That thing carved a huge gouge on the flight deck about 40 feet long. IIRC they determined it was something to do with the metal not being properly heat treated or something like that. The broken strut kept on going and went overboard.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 08, 2024 11:46 AM (QNSds)

201 Or sabotage
Posted by: It's me donna at March 08, 2024 11:43 AM (Akjoo)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE

Posted by: Axeman at March 08, 2024 11:46 AM (krQz2)

202 66
‘ Stephen Colbert Says Big Tech Will Program AI With “Compassion and Vision” – “I’m Ready for the Machines to Tell Us What to Do”’

I’m sure you are, faggot.
Compassion and Vision = programmed by democrats.
Tell Us What to Do = put AI on a pedestal to tell everyone what to do.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 08, 2024 11:47 AM (jbnUc)

203 Did anyone invite Lincoln Riley's parents?
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 08, 2024 11:46 AM (r5tfK)

The Dems are having a cow because Joe called the murderer what he is .. An illegal... Kudos to MTG for causing Joe to short circuit

Posted by: It's me donna at March 08, 2024 11:47 AM (Akjoo)

204 The Doobie Brothers to Release Their First Album With Michael McDonald in 44 Years as They Reunite on Tour

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Except now they'll be known as the Geritol Brothers.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 08, 2024 11:48 AM (FVME7)

205 184 Yes. We need to get comfortable wielding the levers of power to punish our enemies when we have the chance. No more "oh fed gov is icky". Fuck that. War

I'd like to see the Trump admin, if he does win, come up with a set of payouts for conservative voters paid by leftists.

One of the reasons the left has captured everything is they have unlimited funds from we the taxpayers.

Trump's limitation of mortgage deductions is a good start, but he should come with 100s of similiar proposals...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2024 11:42 AM (ibTVg)

Educational excise tax on university endowments paid to parents of non-public school educated children and adults who never attended college...who never benefited from public support of the education system...

One time tax on EV car holders to pay a one-time rebate to all of the gas driving car holders who have overpaid for the roads through their gas taxes...

I can keep going...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 08, 2024 11:48 AM (exHjb)

206 It's entirely plausible the woes Boeing/United are experiencing are deliberate. It's becoming something of a standard tactic with the left/woke.... sabotage. Fuck shit up and make people bend to your whims.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 08, 2024 11:48 AM (Q4IgG)

207 According to Bloomberg News, the tax would generate approximately $1.2 billion from Harvard, which would fund statewide education initiatives.

This seems fair.

I dunno. Are they paying "their fair share". Methinks no.
Posted by: Archimedes

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"fair share" would have to *start* at 10%. Seeing that everyone becomes communists once they get ridiculously wealthy I'm getting closer to 99% over a billion, though.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 08, 2024 11:48 AM (k1AR8)

208 Kinda sounds like someone is after Boeing? Glowies?

Boeing should have spent their DEI money on Quality Control. But this is also over-reporting of events that often are not as loudly reported simply because they include the word "Boeing".

Posted by: Chuck C at March 08, 2024 11:48 AM (yOPBE)

209 I'd like to see the Trump admin, if he does win, come up with a set of payouts for conservative voters paid by leftists.

One of the reasons the left has captured everything is they have unlimited funds from we the taxpayers.

Trump's limitation of mortgage deductions is a good start, but he should come with 100s of similiar proposals...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2024 11:42 AM (ibTVg)

Yes, cut off the $ to the NGOs and start subsidizing the working class as much as humanly possible - his constituency. This is the game now. Play it or die

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at March 08, 2024 11:49 AM (5C4od)

210 I think it's more that they want institutions to lie to YOU, they're already on board with what they are doing. It's the "Good in their heart" that they pardon members of the left with.

They are happy about that as well, but for example I've had leftists tell me its good the government minimized the dangers of the clot shots because otherwise people, including them, wouldn't have gotten them.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2024 11:49 AM (ibTVg)

211 The only solution is to keep them out of it.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:41 AM (CsUN+)

Unless you have a time machine, that ain't happening. That's "wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first" territory

Eeeeew.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:49 AM (CsUN+)

212 We were on a deployment in 86 or 87 when our CO came in to land on the Midway with a F/A-18. He hit the deck and the left landing gear strut broke completely off. Luckily he caught the wire just as it happened and was stopped. That thing carved a huge gouge on the flight deck about 40 feet long. IIRC they determined it was something to do with the metal not being properly heat treated or something like that. The broken strut kept on going and went overboard.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 08, 2024 11:46 AM (QNSds)

Did the medic give the CO a colonoscopy to check for horseshoes?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 08, 2024 11:49 AM (tkR6S)

213 The junta-led Sahel states of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali, have agreed to establish a joint anti-terrorism force to deal with an Islamist insurgency that has spread across the region.

Is Biden gonna send the military to defend those Muslims too?

Posted by: Ian S. at March 08, 2024 11:50 AM (2ocoG)

214 Certainly hope MIT gets to share in the love.

Posted by: Kyle Kiernan at March 08, 2024 11:50 AM (6qhWL)

215 It's entirely plausible the woes Boeing/United are experiencing are deliberate. It's becoming something of a standard tactic with the left/woke.... sabotage. Fuck shit up and make people bend to your whims.

Similarly, the "wildfires started by utility companies" is too much of a pattern not to be an organized op now. Especially since each of the fires has been useful to the WEF agenda.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 08, 2024 11:51 AM (2ocoG)

216 They are really lucky that airplane wheel didn't kill anyone. I've seen car wheels come off and rip through other cars and shit like a cannonball. A much bigger and faster airplane wheel would do far more damage. It'd be like being hit with an AGM.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 08, 2024 11:52 AM (iFTx/)

217 it was something to do with the metal not being properly heat treated

Forged in Fire!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 08, 2024 11:52 AM (k+M5d)

218 I'd like to see the Trump admin, if he does win, come up with a set of payouts for conservative voters paid by leftists.

One of the reasons the left has captured everything is they have unlimited funds from we the taxpayers.

Trump's limitation of mortgage deductions is a good start, but he should come with 100s of similiar proposals...
Posted by: 18-1

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Someone posted a link to a high-pitched voiced communist chick who I think is trying to pretend to be a man that made a video detailing all of Trump's evil plans.

She accidentally created a nearly-perfect campaign ad:

https://tinyurl.com/25px52q9

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 08, 2024 11:52 AM (k1AR8)

219 JUST IN: Watch this Boeing 777 lose a tire during takeoff in San Fran. The tire crushed two cars!

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Old & Busted: "It's raining cats and dogs!"
New Hotness: "It's raining tires and cogs!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 08, 2024 11:53 AM (hBPsH)

220 Similarly, the "wildfires started by utility companies" is too much of a pattern not to be an organized op now. Especially since each of the fires has been useful to the WEF agenda.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 08, 2024 11:51 AM (2ocoG)

Yeah. If I were to shoot out an insulator on a rural power line, and cause a 15kV line to drop to the ground, it would be the utility's electricity that starts the fire, so they "have a role".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 08, 2024 11:54 AM (tkR6S)

221 Is Biden gonna send the military to defend those Muslims too?
Posted by: Ian S. at March 08, 2024 11:50 AM (2ocoG)

Black folks killing Black folks, invisible to Democrats

Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at March 08, 2024 11:54 AM (EcHpA)

222 A plane landing gear failure just occurred in Texas.
737 Max.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 08, 2024 11:54 AM (MeG8a)

223 Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power

Wapo, behind a pay wall, but you get the gist from the title. Who could ever have seen this coming?

A major factor behind the skyrocketing demand is the rapid innovation in artificial intelligence, which is driving the construction of large warehouses of computing infrastructure that require exponentially more power than traditional data centers. AI is also part of a huge scale-up of cloud computing. Tech firms like Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft are scouring the nation for sites for new data centers, and many lesser-known firms are also on the hunt.... It also threatens to stifle the transition to cleaner energy, as utility executives lobby to delay the retirement of fossil fuel plants and bring more online.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:54 AM (CsUN+)

224 Here's another gimme tax...

5% tax on all REVENUE earned overseas for multinational companies who conduct any business in the US into perpetuity. Usable solely to pay down the national debt. Any funds not needed for this purpose will be refunded to American citizen taxpayers located in the US who have taxable income.

5% tax on all SALARIES paid for workers overseas on companies who conduct business in the US. Extra 5% tax on all SALARIES of workers in the US who are not US citizens. Usable solely to pay down the national debt. Any funds not needed for this purpose will be refunded to American citizen taxpayers located in the US who have taxable income.

I can keep going.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 08, 2024 11:55 AM (exHjb)

225 It also threatens to stifle the transition to cleaner energy, as utility executives lobby to delay the retirement of fossil fuel plants and bring more online.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 11:54 AM (CsUN+)

Hahahahahahahaha

Posted by: It's me donna at March 08, 2024 11:55 AM (Akjoo)

226 It's becoming something of a standard tactic with the left/woke.... sabotage. Fuck shit up and make people bend to your whims.

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And then call it "late-stage Capitalism" in part of their repetition that free markets are destined to die just like in Marx's imagination.

Posted by: Axeman at March 08, 2024 11:56 AM (krQz2)

227 Educational excise tax on university endowments paid to parents of non-public school educated children and adults who never attended college...who never benefited from public support of the education system...

One time tax on EV car holders to pay a one-time rebate to all of the gas driving car holders who have overpaid for the roads through their gas taxes...

I can keep going...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 08, 2024 11:48 AM (exHjb)

Yes and yes and yes

Punish your enemies, reward your friends. The days of small fed gov vs big fed gov is over. We lost. Adapt or die. This is why I tell people conservatism is dead. We have to be in counter-revolution mode or else this whole project is toast. Read your history. The progs will kill us all if given the opportunity, remember that

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at March 08, 2024 11:56 AM (5C4od)

228 Meanwhile, in the Britain Formerly Known As Great . . .

Anti-Israel protesters destroy painting of Lord Balfour at Cambridge

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 08, 2024 11:56 AM (FVME7)

229 >Seems to me that conservatives have innate trust in institutions--but no necessary trust in any.
>Once a conservative feels burned by that institution, it becomes distrusted.
>Meanwhile, the progressive starts out saying to distrust institutions and authority and ends up requiring you to trust the institutions they've captured.
>No reason. It's just that institutional capture is just not as useful if people lose faith in that institution. And progs are all about effect.

I hate it when people talk about pendulums swinging back, because it does not happen. And it takes agency and purpose away from people.

What does happen is that the trust that was built over 100 years is lost forever.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 08, 2024 11:56 AM (cf/0E)

230
She accidentally created a nearly-perfect campaign ad

She's angling for a Cabinet position

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 08, 2024 11:56 AM (xG4kz)

231 Laken Riley's Parents Decline Invite to SOTU From GOP Rep. Because They Wouldn't Be Able to Stand Watching Biden

"Laken"?

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 08, 2024 11:56 AM (yOPBE)

232 How about a new rule:

Universities are not allowed endowments at all.

They must be funded from tuition costs collected within the previous 12 months.

Any monies kept after 12 months get burned in a literal fire.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 08, 2024 11:57 AM (GBKbO)

233 I like the idea of all non-profits and endowments being taxed after like $100+ million. All those big ones are left-wing anyway and most non-profits are a scam.

Posted by: Blago at March 08, 2024 11:57 AM (wMRY8)

234 I have so many United miles save up. Sigh.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 08, 2024 11:57 AM (KAi1n)

235 I wonder what controls the government is going to try to put on the rate at which you can downsize your product.

Posted by: Axeman at March 08, 2024 11:57 AM (krQz2)

236 A major factor behind the skyrocketing demand is the rapid innovation in artificial intelligence, which is driving the construction of large warehouses of computing infrastructure that require exponentially more power than traditional data centers. AI is also part of a huge scale-up of cloud computing. Tech firms like Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft are scouring the nation for sites for new data centers, and many lesser-known firms are also on the hunt.... It also threatens to stifle the transition to cleaner energy, as utility executives lobby to delay the retirement of fossil fuel plants and bring more online.

Posted by: Archimedes

Elon Musk made this point a few days ago, between AI and EV there isn't enough power for both, not to mention AC and lighting. I guess we need to go back to living in caves to offset the needs of AI.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 08, 2024 11:57 AM (lTGtQ)

237 "The junta-led Sahel states of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali, have agreed to establish a joint anti-terrorism force to deal with an Islamist insurgency that has spread across the region."

That's a very odd part of the world. It's like Thunderdome with some rich areas thrown in. You have insane bloodthirsty Muslims who want to chop off infidel heads and clip their daughters' clits. You have insane bloodthirsty warlords and tribal factions who want to chop off their enemies' heads and rape their women. You also have a growing class of affluent to very rich businessmen and landowners. Put all three of these in a blender, and what do you get?

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 08, 2024 11:58 AM (iFTx/)

238 The junta-led Sahel states of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali, have agreed to establish a joint anti-terrorism force to deal with an Islamist insurgency that has spread across the region.

Is Biden gonna send the military to defend those Muslims too?
Posted by: Ian S. at March 08, 2024 11:50 AM (2ocoG)

With all the slaughtering and mutilation of their loved ones I,m thinking the Nationalists are going to get all Gurkha on Isis

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 08, 2024 11:58 AM (qRe8u)

239 She accidentally created a nearly-perfect campaign ad

She's angling for a Cabinet position
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:

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It's worth a watch just to see how ignorant the communists are, like when trying to make fun of Trump re: flying cars:

1:45
"he believes that we could create a car that vertically takes off"

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 08, 2024 11:58 AM (k1AR8)

240 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at March 08, 2024 11:58 AM (R1C4k)

241 Elon Musk made this point a few days ago, between AI and EV there isn't enough power for both, not to mention AC and lighting. I guess we need to go back to living in caves to offset the needs of AI.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 08, 2024 11:57 AM (lTGtQ)

AI will be the black pillar/obelisk thing and we’ll be the monkeys smashing bones around it!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 08, 2024 11:59 AM (YwyqV)

242 A major factor behind the skyrocketing demand is the rapid innovation in artificial intelligence, which is driving the construction of large warehouses of computing infrastructure that require exponentially more power than traditional data centers.
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Get them gerbils running.

Posted by: Richard Gere at March 08, 2024 11:59 AM (krQz2)

243 She accidentally created a nearly-perfect campaign ad:

https://tinyurl.com/25px52q9
Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 08, 2024 11:52 AM (k1AR

Pretty hard to find fault with any of those proposals. Flying cars? A little out there, but better than EVs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 08, 2024 11:59 AM (tkR6S)

244 Laken? LIKA, as in Bob Seeger's LIKA FOX, amiright? Amiright?

- Joe Biden

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 08, 2024 11:59 AM (k1AR8)

245 233 I like the idea of all non-profits and endowments being taxed after like $100+ million. All those big ones are left-wing anyway and most non-profits are a scam.

Posted by: Blago at March 08, 2024 11:57 AM (wMRY

Just tax them all. Even if it hits Churches. Get rid of all the graft possibilities. 28-35% is a huge graft opportunity.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 08, 2024 12:00 PM (exHjb)

246 239
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It's worth a watch just to see how ignorant the communists are, like when trying to make fun of Trump re: flying cars:

1:45
"he believes that we could create a car that vertically takes off"
Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 08, 2024 11:58 AM (k1AR

It's called a helicopter.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 08, 2024 12:00 PM (llON8)

247 That's a very odd part of the world. It's like Thunderdome with some rich areas thrown in. You have insane bloodthirsty Muslims who want to chop off infidel heads and clip their daughters' clits. You have insane bloodthirsty warlords and tribal factions who want to chop off their enemies' heads and rape their women. You also have a growing class of affluent to very rich businessmen and landowners. Put all three of these in a blender, and what do you get?
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 08, 2024 11:58 AM (iFTx/)

So basically Chicago amirite?

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 08, 2024 12:00 PM (qRe8u)

248 Is it time to take from the rich to give to the poor? The hockey stick graph introduced to the climate issue startled enough to start the trend to deal with it. That same immoral shape is what most countries now suffer in their socio-economic demographic pyramids, with a relatively small poor sector when compared to the whole; and especially when compared to the rich.

It should've been done 20 years ago. Another way of looking at it is that billionaires are a monopoly of sorts and they might need to be broken up into smaller bits.

Last night president Biden could ask billionaires to donate a portion of their money towards the federal debt. That’d help our country immensely especially the future. There are 756 billionaires in the United States, if half donate, that’d help big time.

A wealth tax is the wrong way to do it. Tax wealth directly, and the ultra rich will move the money where it can't be reached. The better way is to indirectly shape corporate behaviors so that wealth really does trickle down. Tax employers based on employee retention. Create penalties for overreliance on contract workers, especially offshore ones.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 08, 2024 12:00 PM (JCZqz)

249 "WHY ARE TIRES ALWAYS BLACK, BIGOTS! Wheels be racist, yo ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 08, 2024 12:00 PM (ZC7qa)

250 Laken? LIKA, as in Bob Seeger's LIKA FOX, amiright? Amiright?

- Joe Biden
Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 08, 2024 11:59 AM (k1AR

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My name is Lika
I live on the seventh floor...

Posted by: Lika at March 08, 2024 12:00 PM (krQz2)

251 Pretty hard to find fault with any of those proposals. Flying cars? A little out there, but better than EVs.

There are a few things in there that sound like Trump overreached. Government does NOT need to be building cities. Compared to Biden, of course, he's Adam freakin' Smith.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 12:01 PM (CsUN+)

252 I wonder if AI demands for energy make the younger generations more "flexible" on where we get our electricity.

We know they dont want to work and the AI that's going to do their work, needs electricity.

We really could have solved our energy needs generations ago with nuclear energy, but a terrible Jane Fonda movie ruined it.

Posted by: Blago at March 08, 2024 12:01 PM (wMRY8)

253 Your prayers have been answered!

IHOP and Applebee's are combining and I am pleased to report that the jokes have already begun

https://tinyurl.com/2ps9v5ek

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 08, 2024 12:02 PM (FVME7)

254 Put all three of these in a blender, and what do you get?

Posted by: Elric Blade

Well, it sure isn't gluten free, I can tell you.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 08, 2024 12:02 PM (lTGtQ)

255 249 "WHY ARE TIRES ALWAYS BLACK, BIGOTS! Wheels be racist, yo ..."
Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 08, 2024 12:00 PM (ZC7qa)

WHY ARE YOU PUTTING WHITE PAINT ON THE SIDE OF THE TIRES? ARE BLACK TIRES NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU, RACIST?!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 08, 2024 12:02 PM (YwyqV)

256 Off the top of my head, Dr Lysenko had a wonderful office and salary, but at the last portion of his career was far away from anything relevant. Quietly sequestered, but never punished for the harm he caused.

This is my prediction for that rat Fauci.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 08, 2024 12:03 PM (cf/0E)

257 See, I told you that robots are cool.
I want a raise.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 08, 2024 12:03 PM (iRIR3)

258 224 Here's another gimme tax...

5% tax on all REVENUE earned overseas for multinational companies who conduct any business in the US into perpetuity. Usable solely to pay down the national debt. Any funds not needed for this purpose will be refunded to American citizen taxpayers located in the US who have taxable income.

5% tax on all SALARIES paid for workers overseas on companies who conduct business in the US. Extra 5% tax on all SALARIES of workers in the US who are not US citizens. Usable solely to pay down the national debt. Any funds not needed for this purpose will be refunded to American citizen taxpayers located in the US who have taxable income.

I can keep going.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 08, 2024 11:55 AM (exHjb)

Love it

This is what I mean. 20 years ago I'd be all "well let's consider the secondary and tertiary effects of allowing the federal government to tax in this manner"

Now it's "moar please"

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at March 08, 2024 12:03 PM (5C4od)

259 Good point about flying cars. We're "supposed to have" flying cars, but the 21st century brings us cars heavier than our previous cars.

Posted by: Axeman at March 08, 2024 12:03 PM (krQz2)

260 Elon Musk made this point a few days ago, between AI and EV there isn't enough power for both, not to mention AC and lighting. I guess we need to go back to living in caves to offset the needs of AI.

Yeah, I posted it in a comment. Which, you know, means I thought of it.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 12:03 PM (CsUN+)

261 Pretty hard to find fault with any of those proposals. Flying cars? A little out there, but better than EVs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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The design she's making fun of? Toyota and Hyundai have fairly mainstream news articles about their patents and designs.

Here's a random grab about others:

"U.S. companies occupy 11 spots among the top 15 application submitters. The roster includes Amazon Technologies and Wing Aviation, a subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet. Aircraft manufacturers Bell Helicopter Textron and Boeing also made the list, as well as leading retailer Walmart."

They don't know what they don't know, and they hate the people who do.

See also: Drink bleach

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 08, 2024 12:03 PM (k1AR8)

262 JUST IN - United Boeing 737 MAX suffers gear collapse after landing in Houston, Texas.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2024 11:27 AM (LkLld)

24 hour rule.

It may have wandered off the runway and hit soft ground, which caused the collapse.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 08, 2024 12:04 PM (gSZYf)

263 My idea is if college should be free then the college pays for it, no other funds unless the person wants to pay

Posted by: Skip at March 08, 2024 12:04 PM (R1C4k)

264 260 Elon Musk made this point a few days ago, between AI and EV there isn't enough power for both, not to mention AC and lighting. I guess we need to go back to living in caves to offset the needs of AI.

Yeah, I posted it in a comment. Which, you know, means I thought of it.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 12:03 PM (CsUN+)

Elon Musk: AoSHQ lurker confirmed

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 08, 2024 12:04 PM (YwyqV)

265 259 Good point about flying cars. We're "supposed to have" flying cars, but the 21st century brings us cars heavier than our previous cars.
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Heavy Metal is heavy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 08, 2024 12:04 PM (byWhc)

266 I kinda wondered how much of our electrical generation goes to our IT/Telcom infrastructure.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 08, 2024 12:04 PM (++4z6)

267 I thought Harvard's operating budget was from student fees, they charge an arm and a leg as it is. It seems they have become used to living beyond their means and dependent on the goodwill of strangers.

Perhaps they will have to streamline their staffing and only employ academics and a few admin people, like other businesses. They are far too top heavy with useless hangers on.

Posted by: Decaf at March 08, 2024 12:05 PM (unUNN)

268 I guess we need to go back to living in caves to offset the needs of AI.
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Only the people of color. Whitey will be exterminated by AI.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 08, 2024 12:05 PM (byWhc)

269 Meet the Meathead!

Rob Reiner
@robreiner
We’re watching our current and future President speak the truth with clarity and strength. So proud of President Biden. Republicans under the thumb of Trump are an embarrassment. When you can’t even applaud America’s success, you have no business serving in Congress.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 08, 2024 12:05 PM (FVME7)

270 IHOP and Applebee's are combining and I am pleased to report that the jokes have already begun

https://tinyurl.com/2ps9v5ek
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 08, 2024 12:02 PM (FVME7)

ChemJeff hardest hit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 08, 2024 12:05 PM (tkR6S)

271 Just tax them all. Even if it hits Churches. Get rid of all the graft possibilities. 28-35% is a huge graft opportunity.
Posted by: Nova Local
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I think $100 million plus is an easier sell specifically for that reason. I don't really like the idea of every local Church having to pay taxes. You would have every pastor and priest marching against it.

Giant endowments with tens of billions in assets and they get to do it tax free? Way more outrage over that.

Posted by: Blago at March 08, 2024 12:05 PM (wMRY8)

272 Meet the Meathead!

Rob Reiner
@robreiner
We’re watching our current and future President speak the truth with clarity and strength. So proud of President Biden. Republicans under the thumb of Trump are an embarrassment. When you can’t even applaud America’s success, you have no business serving in Congress.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 08, 2024 12:05 PM (FVME7)
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That's one smooth brain.

Posted by: Axeman at March 08, 2024 12:06 PM (krQz2)

273 Giant endowments with tens of billions in assets and they get to do it tax free? Way more outrage over that.
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Works well for Family Trust Funds as well. See the Clinton Global Initiative on how it works.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 08, 2024 12:06 PM (byWhc)

274 I kinda wondered how much of our electrical generation goes to our IT/Telcom infrastructure.

I own some timber land in southern VA, which is in a county being overrun with data centers. I get offers to buy my land every couple of weeks. I'm not an idiot, though. There's an electrical right of way through it. I'm expecting a big payday someday.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 12:06 PM (CsUN+)

275 IHOP and Applebee's are combining

Ch-m J-ff hardest hit. (Or was that Chili's)

Posted by: Chuck C at March 08, 2024 12:06 PM (yOPBE)

276 Someone posted a link to a high-pitched voiced communist chick who I think is trying to pretend to be a man that made a video detailing all of Trump's evil plans.

She accidentally created a nearly-perfect campaign ad:

I...need a cigarette after listening to that.

Oh, and "flying cars" already exist. They are mostly illegal though I think I did see one that managed to legally hit everything to be a car and everything to be a plane.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2024 12:06 PM (ibTVg)

277 The value of a Harvard MBA is the connections, not the education.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 08, 2024 11:04 AM (GBKbO)

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Ah, it's always about snobbery.

Posted by: Decaf at March 08, 2024 12:07 PM (unUNN)

278 IHOP and Applebee's are combining and I am pleased to report that the jokes have already begun

https://tinyurl.com/2ps9v5ek

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 08, 2024 12:02 PM (FVME7)
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In Ebonic centers, they'll be branded I-B

Posted by: Axeman at March 08, 2024 12:07 PM (krQz2)

279
‘ Stephen Colbert Says Big Tech Will Program AI With “Compassion and Vision” – “I’m Ready for the Machines to Tell Us What to Do”’

A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young

https://youtu.be/Ueivjr3f8xg

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 08, 2024 12:08 PM (63Dwl)

280 "That's one smooth brain."

More like an inner forehead.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 08, 2024 12:08 PM (a1415)

281 > IHOP and Applebee's are combining and I am pleased to report that the jokes have already begun
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Octagon fight ring in the middle for the true, urban dining experience.

Cool.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 08, 2024 12:08 PM (Q4IgG)

282 That's one smooth brain.
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Reiner is another Akhenaten.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 08, 2024 12:08 PM (byWhc)

283 It may have wandered off the runway and hit soft ground, which caused the collapse.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 08, 2024 12:04 PM (gSZYf)
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There's a picture online. Looks to be on concrete.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 08, 2024 12:08 PM (ZwV1c)

284 1:45
"he believes that we could create a car that vertically takes off"
Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 08, 2024 11:58 AM (k1AR

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Nobody tell her about Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 08, 2024 12:08 PM (ZC7qa)

285 Another tax idea - 1% carbon tax on the value of all single family home residences with a bigger inside footprint than 10000 ft - too much power usage.

I've got ways to keep folks from abusing this through rezoning, but those would be in the follow on...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 08, 2024 12:09 PM (exHjb)

286 I kinda wondered how much of our electrical generation goes to our IT/Telcom infrastructure.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken

There is a Fascistbook data center near Southlake TX that was built a few years ago. A 3 story structure that contains 1.5 million square feet. There are approximately 24 chilling towers for the building, as it is completely filled with servers. It needed its own power lines. Now multiply that by a few thousand.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 08, 2024 12:09 PM (lTGtQ)

287 Is there a doctor in the house?

What's your guess on the combo of drugs used on Joe last night?

Posted by: Gref at March 08, 2024 12:09 PM (5fDan)

288 JUST IN - United Boeing 737 MAX suffers gear collapse after landing in Houston, Texas.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2024 11:27 AM (LkLld)

24 hour rule.

It may have wandered off the runway and hit soft ground, which caused the collapse.

But the report has the words "United", "Boeing", and "737 Max" in it so it must be true

Posted by: The Media at March 08, 2024 12:09 PM (yOPBE)

289 Oh, and "flying cars" already exist. They are mostly illegal though I think I did see one that managed to legally hit everything to be a car and everything to be a plane.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2024 12:06 PM (ibTVg)

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Yep, they're called helicopters. Put wheels on them and off you go.

Posted by: Decaf at March 08, 2024 12:10 PM (unUNN)

290 248 Last night president Biden could ask billionaires to donate a portion of their money towards the federal debt. That’d help our country immensely especially the future. There are 756 billionaires in the United States, if half donate, that’d help big time.

A wealth tax is the wrong way to do it. Tax wealth directly, and the ultra rich will move the money where it can't be reached. The better way is to indirectly shape corporate behaviors so that wealth really does trickle down. Tax employers based on employee retention. Create penalties for overreliance on contract workers, especially offshore ones.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 08, 2024 12:00 PM (JCZqz)

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Yes. Eat the rich. Stop listening to them and their media sources. Stop using their products.

They want the earth to burn. Rebel against them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 08, 2024 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

291 278 IHOP and Applebee's are combining and I am pleased to report that the jokes have already begun

https://tinyurl.com/2ps9v5ek

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 08, 2024 12:02 PM (FVME7)
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In Ebonic centers, they'll be branded I-B
Posted by: Axeman at March 08, 2024 12:07 PM (krQz2)
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Other companies already do this, I think. They have one common kitchen and back area and two separate "fronts" usually with separate entrances. It sounds good in theory. I don't know if it actually works in practice. My guess is not.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 08, 2024 12:11 PM (iFTx/)

292 Yeh, that Houston 737 departed the runway while making a right turn from the runway to get to the gate.

Folks with the big brains at Aviation Forums suspect a skid made it go straight instead of continuing to turn. And once off the runway the main gear sunk into the ground after heavy rain in the area for several days.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 08, 2024 12:11 PM (a1415)

293 When I'm king, all these universities will become prison camps for the ancien regime. First few years of their hard labor sentences will be the systematic physical dismantling of all facilities. The endowments will be liquidated to plant Confederate statues in every neighborhood in the country, to replace TR with Trump on Rushmore, fund gay conversion therapy centers and mandatory gender retransitioning, and so on.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Snow Roach at March 08, 2024 12:11 PM (0FoWg)

294 Yes. Eat the rich. Stop listening to them and their media sources. Stop using their products.
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A-1 Sauce pairs well with a roasted Karen.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 08, 2024 12:11 PM (byWhc)

295 Sawyer Hackett
@SawyerHackett
President Biden: "I told him, Bibi, and don't repeat this, but you and I are going to have a ‘come to Jesus’ meeting."
“I’m on a hot mic here. Good. That’s good.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 08, 2024 12:11 PM (FVME7)

296 Other companies already do this, I think. They have one common kitchen and back area and two separate "fronts" usually with separate entrances. It sounds good in theory. I don't know if it actually works in practice. My guess is not.

Eh. We aren't talking haute cuisine here.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 12:12 PM (CsUN+)

297 New one. SOTU.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 12:13 PM (CsUN+)

298 IHOP and Applebee's are combining and I am pleased to report that the jokes have already begun
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How are we gonna reconcile an IHOP 6 with an Applebee's 5? Or vice versa?

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 08, 2024 12:13 PM (iFTx/)

299 People fucking around with IHOP is dangerous.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 08, 2024 12:13 PM (byWhc)

300 Other companies already do this, I think. They have one common kitchen and back area and two separate "fronts" usually with separate entrances.

There have been combo KFC/Taco Bells since the 90s.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 08, 2024 12:13 PM (2ocoG)

301 there's a really basic diner nearby, it does great business, sometimes the owner tries to introduce some ethnic type foods, but it's really basic and has a $6.99 breakfast special that is awesome in these Bidenflationary days.

They cater to the breakfast/lunch crowd, but the owner has decided to test market a dinner hour. Accordingly , the menu for that evening has expanded. His regular cook, who has been with him for 7 years, a lifetime in diner world, came running into a nearby business, yelling:

"I NEVER COOKED A FUCKING CLAM! I NEVER COOKED A FUCKING MUSSEL? WHAT THE FUCK DOES PESCATORE MEAN, I DON'T EVEN KNOW??!!?"

After she calmed down and left I said to my associate, "well I guess I won't be ordering the seafood plates."

Posted by: kallisto at March 08, 2024 12:13 PM (dCxaZ)

302 Eh. We aren't talking haute cuisine here.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 08, 2024 12:12 PM (CsUN+)

...and by the time it gets to your table, it's barely hot cuisine.

Posted by: browndog doing the snidely whiplash laugh at March 08, 2024 12:13 PM (TTAGa)

303 President Biden: "I told him, Bibi, and don't repeat this, but you and I are going to have a ‘come to Jesus’ meeting."
“I’m on a hot mic here. Good. That’s good.”

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IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE NEITHER OF THEM BELIEVES IN JESUS.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at March 08, 2024 12:14 PM (FVME7)

304
Eat the rich, eat the rich
Don't you know life is a bitch
Eat the rich, eat the rich
Out of the palace and into the ditch

Posted by: Axeman at March 08, 2024 12:14 PM (krQz2)

305 How are we gonna reconcile an IHOP 6 with an Applebee's 5? Or vice versa?

The combined restaurants are only in Mexico (I actually read the story), so only Mexican weather girls would be affected.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 08, 2024 12:14 PM (2ocoG)

306 Oh, and "flying cars" already exist. They are mostly illegal though I think I did see one that managed to legally hit everything to be a car and everything to be a plane.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2024 12:06 PM (ibTVg)

Well, you did have a few "roadable airplanes". Some even made it to (very) limited production.

Thing is, they just aren't practical. Everyone fantasizes about sitting in the traffic jam on the freeway, and then pulling a lever, and flying off into the Great Blue Yonder. Of course, if your car could do that, why would you get into freeway traffic at all?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 08, 2024 12:15 PM (tkR6S)

307 237 "The junta-led Sahel states of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali, have agreed to establish a joint anti-terrorism force to deal with an Islamist insurgency that has spread across the region."

That's a very odd part of the world. It's like Thunderdome with some rich areas thrown in. You have insane bloodthirsty Muslims who want to chop off infidel heads and clip their daughters' clits. You have insane bloodthirsty warlords and tribal factions who want to chop off their enemies' heads and rape their women. You also have a growing class of affluent to very rich businessmen and landowners. Put all three of these in a blender, and what do you get?
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 08, 2024 11:58 AM (iFTx/)

The banks are involved so I suspect we found Irans money. By we I mean us here reading the report. The money trail may lead back to DC.

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 08, 2024 12:15 PM (qRe8u)

308 Apple-Hop

Posted by: Axeman at March 08, 2024 12:16 PM (krQz2)

309 Good morning! Everybody hanging in there? I wasn’t able to muster much sympathy for Harvard. There is a very simple fix- return to education being the goal and the rest of the nonsense having no place on a campus. Not caring if you are black, white, purple. Just that you have the brains and academic rigor to keep up. Also, no more hurt feelings zones and anything labeled a microaggression gets met with finger pointing and laughter.

Posted by: Piper at March 08, 2024 12:16 PM (ZdaMQ)

310 I think I've eaten in maybe one Applebee's in my entire life. With a few exceptions, I'm so totally not a fan of those chain restaurants, but Applebee's was especially dogshit. You'd have to pay me to go back.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 08, 2024 12:16 PM (iFTx/)

311 A wealth tax is the wrong way to do it. Tax wealth directly, and the ultra rich will move the money where it can't be reached.

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Good, they can then infest some other shithole and not interfere in everything here.

Posted by: Decaf at March 08, 2024 12:16 PM (unUNN)

312 Of course, if your car could do that, why would you get into freeway traffic at all?
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Imagine the parking lot for flying cars!

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 08, 2024 12:16 PM (byWhc)

313 Sawyer Hackett
@SawyerHackett
President Biden: "I told him, Bibi, and don't repeat this, but you and I are going to have a ‘come to Jesus’ meeting."
“I’m on a hot mic here. Good. That’s good.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 08, 2024 12:11 PM (FVME7)

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The only thing better would have been a "come to Allah meeting."

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 08, 2024 12:16 PM (ZC7qa)

314 310 I think I've eaten in maybe one Applebee's in my entire life. With a few exceptions, I'm so totally not a fan of those chain restaurants, but Applebee's was especially dogshit. You'd have to pay me to go back.
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Applebee's is the new Shoney's. Personally, I always liked that fat boy with the doolop hairdo.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 08, 2024 12:18 PM (byWhc)

315 new thread up about State of POTATUS address

Posted by: kallisto at March 08, 2024 12:19 PM (dCxaZ)

316 Good rant.

Wonder how Yale and others are fairing.

Yale News, Nov 14, 2023
Donor publicly withdraws support, alumni raise concerns in wake of alleged anti-Israel event at Yale
In an email to those involved in coordinating fundraising for the University, Yale Alumni Fund managing director wrote about a “growing number of alumni” voicing concerns following a controversial Nov. 6 panel discussion and ensuing opinion column in the Wall Street Journal. At least one alumnus has decided to halt his annual donations — which he described as “minor” — to the University.

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Regardless, they all seem to keep up on pledges to strengthen partnerships with HBCUs & oppose state bills to ban legacy preference.

Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at March 08, 2024 12:19 PM (GshMh)

317 Apple-Hop

Posted by: Axeman at March 08, 2024 12:16 PM (krQz2)

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Could be a sequel to Bubba Ho-Tep.

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 08, 2024 12:20 PM (ZC7qa)

318 317 Apple-Hop

Posted by: Axeman at March 08, 2024 12:16 PM (krQz2)

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Could be a sequel to Bubba Ho-Tep.
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I'd go with Imhotep.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 08, 2024 12:21 PM (byWhc)

319 Gee what's the old saying. Go woke, go broke.

Posted by: vic at March 08, 2024 12:25 PM (A5THL)

320
The Doobie Brothers to Release Their First Album With Michael McDonald in 44 Years as They Reunite on Tour

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Except now they'll be known as the Geritol Brothers.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 08, 2024 11:48 AM (FVME7)

I'm pretty sure this is Reunion Tour #12 or so for them. Pat Simmons must be running low on cash.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 08, 2024 12:44 PM (n+4am)

321 WTF? A 50 Billion US Dollar endowment and they need donations to pay rent? That sort of financial strategy would get your kicked out of you C suite in Wall Street all the way back to whatever state is west of New Jersey that isn't California (New Yorker Mag joke there).

I mean, what they do? Invest in secret Century long Treasury bills? It sounds like their portfolio is like Citibanks in the 80s, right before all those South American bonds became worth nothing.

Or do they think Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) actually works, and they want to print out Harvard Guilders to continue functioning?

Something really stinks if they can't pay rent off of 50 billion stashed.

Posted by: ZilWerks at March 08, 2024 12:44 PM (0MpOC)

322 There are a lot of anti-American, anti-male, anti-capitalist, anti-Christian, and anti-White things a University’s faculty and alumni can do without injuring its financial position.

But there’s one sure fire way to hurt the bottom line. Curious, that.

Posted by: Deceased Head Football Coach Howard Schnellenberger at March 08, 2024 12:51 PM (/Ky9z)

323 322 There are a lot of anti-American, anti-male, anti-capitalist, anti-Christian, and anti-White things a University’s faculty and alumni can do without injuring its financial position.

But there’s one sure fire way to hurt the bottom line. Curious, that.
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Almost as if the degenerate/anti-white culture is reflective of the donor class, until they were on the receiving end.

"Our shared values".

Posted by: Ben Shapiro's Dildo at March 08, 2024 01:38 PM (zQ+aL)

324 Do I understand the situation correctly? Harvard has $50 Billion in assets yet has to borrow money to keep its doors open so they can charge over $50,000 per year (undergraduate) to teach students how to manage money and our government? And then they claim the people who fight to pay that money to that institution "The Best and Brightest".

Posted by: timactual at March 08, 2024 05:13 PM (krsvl)

325 Harvard was Mr. Howells Alama Matter it looks like those Yale men took it over

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at March 08, 2024 05:34 PM (wGqjj)

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