1 1st?

2 Yesss! Hey, CBD. I cull the otters.

3 Top 5?

4 Carbon Apocalypse?

Is that like Heat Death?

5 Except when a corporation HAS to raise money on the debt markets because they are running out of cash, because their products suck and the airline industry is becoming suspicious of the conspicuous lack of quality control in their design and production.
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Corporate debt is, in essence, no different from personal debt or government debt. "Why" matters most of all.

If you're borrowing to make capital investments, that's often not a bad thing. The investment might not pan out and so you go bankrupt and your investor (the lender) loses his money, but that's the risk involved.

If you're borrowing for consumption, that's a bad thing. That indicates you're not living (or operating, if an institution) within your means, and are eroding capital. You can kick the can for a goodly while, but it only ends one way.

Borrowing to enable consumption is death.

6

NASDAQ Composite (^IXIC)
15,915.62 -67.46 (-0.42%)
As of 10:23AM EDT. Market open.

7 >> Every time Boeing hires a software engineer because of his/her/its skin color or sexuality, it degrades its brand and endangers its customers. . . .

Every time it outsources part of its development cycle to a foreign country/foreign workers it degrades its brand and endangers its customers

8 I told everyone at work when it comes to any future business travel plans

If it’s Boeing, I’m not going

9 How to put a bean counter/s in charge and ruin your company in one easy lesson.

10 Willowed:

"AI" is the new "iBullshit" fad.

I like Varney, but, my God, the crazy-ass commercials on Fox Business channel.

I realize why I haven't seen him in a while.

11 "Investors and analysts have said Boeing could tap bond markets to get ahead of more than $12 billion in combined debt coming due in 2025 and 2026."

That I think is the more serious issue. The $10B they raise now is only a hole-filling placeholder for an even bigger hole they have to fill over the next two years. And over those two years, I think it's highly likely there will be even more failures and revelations of poor quality control.

12 Also: Every time it murders has its own employee whistleblowers found dead in a parking garage it degrades its brand.

13 If I were buying a plane, I'd want a reliable plane....fuck all that other bullshit.

14 crap

15 Every time it outsources part of its development cycle to a foreign country/foreign workers it degrades its brand and endangers its customers

Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2024 11:03 AM (cCVOS)

Yup. That list could go on and on and on...

16 I am glad I dumped my BA stock a month or so ago.

My buddy, through no undue influence of my own, did the same.

17 Boeing has lost its way, just like many American corporations that value a progressive, Woke, "Just" culture over the old cultures of competence and great products that drove American manufacturing for 100 years.
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We are, essentially, a fascist country now (at least in terms of the major enterprises). None of that shit matters. The mega-corps aren't run to produce goods or services. All that is secondary. The mega-corps are being run to satisfy the demands of the Party, and to enrich the ruling class through extracting the capital and moving it into their pockets.

18 Get ready for a nice fat government bailout!

19 Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2024 11:05 AM (cCVOS)

I'll fix it.

20 Every time it outsources part of its development cycle to a foreign country/foreign workers

*************

Sometimes there’s no avoiding it either

See Microsoft Windows

Every time I deal with an issue on Windows I can almost literally smell the elephant shit wafting off the code

21 The software design of the new 737 was poorly done...

Perhaps, one day in the far distant future, someone will write about this for management students with the warning that, when human life and safety are at risk it is unwise to find the cheapest, marginally competent software engineers possible.

Of course, by then, AI will do all the coding for us so we'll have to await a new generation of the Wright brothers to re-learn powered flight.

22 They should have tapped the debt market two years and 3 percent ago.

23 Boeing gets about 40% of it's revenue from military projects. That's the reason they went woke.

24 Didn't think this was going to be about a safe place to put my money and get good returns.

25 Every time I deal with an issue on Windows I can almost literally smell the elephant shit wafting off the code
Posted by: The Grounded Unvaxxed

We are doing the needful, yes?

26 Every time it cuts engineering and production budgets and increases lobbying and advertising and DEI and financial auditing budgets, it starves its core competency and feeds the very thing that is destroying a 108 year old company.
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But it makes the Party happy, and the executives can rest assured that the enterprise is Too Big to Fail. If the worst happens, they'll be bailed out. The executives may (probably will) lose their jobs in the process, but they can ride off into the sunset with a fair chunk of the formerly successful corporation's capital and then go into another C-suite or the consulting racket.

27 Thanks, CBD!

28 So can someone who knows or understands a, lot more than me about this (read: everyone) put me some knowledge?

Let me get this straight - our government is buying up large amounts of single family homes through shell corporations funded by taxpayer dollars which they will eventually rent out as multifamilies once local zoning laws are federally overridden around the country - and the renters by and large will be the millions large influx they have burst through the border and scattered around the country, likely subsidized or paid directly by even more taxpayer dollars, turning every neighborhood in the country into an inner city, leaving profits for the skimmers at the top.

Have I got that remotely right? I feel like I'm missing a piece or two but this seems to be the plan.

29 Idiocracy addressed every one of these points.

30 19 Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2024 11:05 AM (cCVOS)

I'll fix it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 30, 2024 11:06 AM (d9fT1)

Wow, what level of membership scores you post-side COB assistance?

31 Boeing's slide started when they merged with MDD and then adopted MDD's managerial culture. Followed by making management Chateau Generals by moving to Chicago and thus far away from their main production centers.

As for as the current 737 Max fiasco with the Alaska Airlines door blow out. Boeing has not released to the NTSB the names of the people who worked on fixing the door seal after Spiritus merely painted over the misplaced rivets. In fact the way Boeing went about fixing the door and its seal was deliberately chosen to avoid creating documentation on the repair.

32 Carbon Apocalypse?

Is that like Heat Death?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 30, 2024 11:02 AM (RIvkX)

Well...heat rash, anyway.

33 Boeing is 108 years old? No wonder it's tottering on the brink of collapse...

Is there an old-corporations home we can slip Boeing into so it can retire gracefully from the public eye?

34 Boeing has lost its way, just like many American corporations

A lot of ostensibly American corporations American aren't anymore. Boeing has subsidiaries/operations abroad. So in addition to the domestic cancer, a multinational company is gonna have to play ball with the other host nations, particularly in heavily regulated industries, and accommodate those nations' values. Who thinks those values are likely to jibe with the traditional values of the US?

35 The real problem Boeing faces is that its debt is garbage, having been rated at just a step above speculative. (Insty)

Both Moody’s and S&P have Boeing just a notch away from a speculative-grade (or “junk” credit rating, which would substantially reduce the pool of money that would be allowed to purchase its bonds and notes. Moody’s reiterated its wariness in the rating it put on the new borrowings, giving the notes a “Baa3" rating, also one step above speculative-territory.

This is a 500 pound canary.

36 Every time it outsources part of its development cycle to a foreign country/foreign workers

Same with GE.
Once they started sucking China's dick in an effort to access market share, it was going down. I couldn't believe they GAVE China their latest research on generator design. I read this in their annual report decades ago.

Unbelievable.
Slit your own throat.

37 26 Every time it cuts engineering and production budgets and increases lobbying and advertising and DEI and financial auditing budgets, it starves its core competency and feeds the very thing that is destroying a 108 year old company.
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But it makes the Party happy, and the executives can rest assured that the enterprise is Too Big to Fail. If the worst happens, they'll be bailed out. The executives may (probably will) lose their jobs in the process, but they can ride off into the sunset with a fair chunk of the formerly successful corporation's capital and then go into another C-suite or the consulting racket.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 30, 2024 11:07 AM (HnUIn)
________

Hertz needs a new CEO!

38 Idiocracy has a background scene with a crashed airliner IIRC.

39 Wow, what level of membership scores you post-side COB assistance?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher



Lizzy sends CBD helpful sous-vide tips.

40 Borrowing to enable consumption is death.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 30, 2024 11:03 AM (HnUIn)

The economy has been, basically, monotonically increasing for 40 years. Do you have any idea the kind of rampant fuckery that would be required to jigger that up?

-- C-Suite folks verifying that their golden parachute doesn't include company stock

41 Boeing's quality problems started more than 25 years ago. I worked for a company that made aircraft grade honeycomb panels. I was The QC engineer for a plant that employed 500 people. We were getting panels back from Boeing for having surface scratches all over the panel. I knew for a fact we weren't sending scratched up panels. Finally Boeing went out to the floor to discover one of their imbeciles was unboxing the panels, then dragging them 50 feet across the cement floor to the layup area. Viola! surface scratches.

42 Sadly, I feel like Lockheed is not only watching, but taking notes with plans to follow suit.

Look at their Board of Directors.

43 What exactly is a "debt market?"

44 A lot of ostensibly American corporations American aren't anymore. Boeing has subsidiaries/operations abroad. So in addition to the domestic cancer, a multinational company is gonna have to play ball with the other host nations, particularly in heavily regulated industries, and accommodate those nations' values. Who thinks those values are likely to jibe with the traditional values of the US?

And they're surprised that the knowhow they gave to China has now led to China making its own airplanes. Who could have guessed?

45 The America of the 50s would be shocked at how poorly the America of the 2020s does even with the aide of modern computing.

46
From the sidebar:

We need you to be "Mamala" of the country.

Prepare to cringe. [CBD]


When did Oprah become a wee, skinny, white girl?

47 Biden Admin Has Cemented $1 Trillion Worth Of Rules And Regs In 2024, Analysis Finds

48
Wow, what level of membership scores you post-side COB assistance?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo

The unobtanium level of course!

49 What exactly is a "debt market?"
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

In town?

50 Let me get this straight - our government is buying up large amounts of single family homes through shell corporations funded by taxpayer dollars which they will eventually rent out as multifamilies once local zoning laws are federally overridden around the country - and the renters by and large will be the millions large influx they have burst through the border and scattered around the country, likely subsidized or paid directly by even more taxpayer dollars, turning every neighborhood in the country into an inner city, leaving profits for the skimmers at the top. ...
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2024 11:07 AM (LH3Hv)
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Not exactly. There isn't all that much taxpayer money involved in this scheme, at least not directly.

The big funds have lots of access to capital, and can command better interest rates than most others. Some of that is due to political connections, and they can call in (or buy outright) favors from government types.

But it all runs on cheap money, crucially that the funds' access to money is cheaper than *your* access to money, which allows them to outbid you. I suspect this strategy is running out of runway. Rates will kill them, too.

51 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 30, 2024 11:05 AM (HnUIn)

I would write a scathing retort to this if I could refute any of it.

52 Hertz needs a new CEO!
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 30, 2024 11:08 AM (iFTx/)

I have resumed running through airports.

53 Boeing's military?

How does $7 billion in loses on the fixed cost contract for the KC-46 Pegasus sound?

Not too healthy there either.

Plus the KC-46 still has SIX Category One deficiencies that could cause the loss of an aircraft.

54 We were getting panels back from Boeing for having surface scratches all over the panel. I knew for a fact we weren't sending scratched up panels. Finally Boeing went out to the floor to discover one of their imbeciles was unboxing the panels, then dragging them 50 feet across the cement floor to the layup area. Viola! surface scratches.

An article I read about Boeing's descent related that a new CEO decided that all the technically proficient people making their planes were too expensive, and started hiring idiots off the street because they were cheaper. Now, I take a back seat to nobody in my contempt for unions, but in a business where a bad product kills people, lots of them, this is galactic level stupidity. Obviously, you want to get rid of the parasite unions, but you don't do it by hiring morons.

55 >>We are, essentially, a fascist country now (at least in terms of the major enterprises). None of that shit matters. The mega-corps aren't run to produce goods or services. All that is secondary. The mega-corps are being run to satisfy the demands of the Party, and to enrich the ruling class through extracting the capital and moving it into their pockets.


I would add to it that they are doing this to satisfy a globalist agenda. The CEOs of this huge, international corporations go to Davos and other international meetings (Clinton Global Initiative, U.N, etc.), and there, in partnership with other CEOs and global leaders, they agree to certain goals and values to 'save the planet' or whatever.

Whenever I see a goal to do 'X' by 2030 or 2035 I know that this is something set by a globalist organization, such as the U.N., WEF, or other. Yes, the corporations are pressured by the US government, but they are also pressured by foreign leaders as well as peer pressure from other CEOs - if they aren't already happily embracing all this woke/climate change crap already.

56 Every time it outsources part of its development cycle to a foreign country/foreign workers it degrades its brand and endangers its customers

Posted by: Lizzy



May I suggest the prescient Airframe, by Michael Crichton, written nearly 30 years ago about aircraft manufacturers outsourcing.

57 the America of the 2020s does even with the aide of modern computing.

***************

Voyager still kicking it after 40+ years and 55 billlion miles away

Meanwhile my phone freezes once a day and my laptop thinks I’m in Japan

58 2 Yesss! Hey, CBD. I cull the otters.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 30, 2024 11:01 AM (9yWhg)

From the river(s) to the sea(s)...

59 It's not just Boeing. It's almost every major company. They have all cut costs through some combination of downsizing, off-shoring, out-sourcing, using cheaper contractors, buying cheaper drugs and whores for the C-Suites, and basically every other accounting gimmick and trick.

In many cases, there actually was fat to be trimmed, and the overall quality wasn't noticeably affected, or the products or services were such that a drop in quality wouldn't be easily noticed.

In other cases, such as Boeing, it's been catastrophic.

60 It's amusing to me that the "PROFIT ABOVE ALL!!!" MBAs have ensured that the profits disappear.

It's also why you shouldn't have people who don't intimately know your business to RUN your business. Because they will only think about the short time they plan on being at your business.

We've had 40+ years of stupidity in both our government and our business, with the opinion of "in the long run, we're all dead!"

Well, the long run is here now. Reap the whirlwind. (And the rest of us will as well.)

61 CBD, a suggestion for adding to the sidebar:

"Someone at UCLA set up a giant screen across from the protesters with the October 7th attack playing on loop"

https://notthebee.com

62 A debt market is the market for bonds and notes.

A company issues a bond (basically a promise to pay), and someone buys it (in increments of 1k-19k). Then that buyer might want to sell it on the secondary market, for various reasons.

The debt market is much larger than the stock market, by value.
At least it used to be

63 The economy has been, basically, monotonically increasing for 40 years. Do you have any idea the kind of rampant fuckery that would be required to jigger that up?

-- C-Suite folks verifying that their golden parachute doesn't include company stock
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2024 11:10 AM (T7iTv)
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Yup. The games have been hot and heavy since Nixon and they've getting ever more absurd and insane, and sticksave after sticksave have been exhausted. The biggest - and likely final - is petering out now in real time (the ability to sequester excess monetary and credit emissions in international trade flows).

The end of a credit cycle is brutal, and the more fuckery that has gone on (or goes on) to extend it, the worse it gets. You can reduce the frequency of events, but you do so at the expense of increasing their amplitude. Had we taken our medicine in the 70s and said, "nope, we can't afford this anymore" we'd be better off today. We didn't. We cheated. We've been cheating for decades, and so has everyone else.

64
Whenever I see a goal to do 'X' by 2030 or 2035 I know that this is something set by a globalist organization, such as the U.N., WEF, or other. Yes, the corporations are pressured by the US government, but they are also pressured by foreign leaders as well as peer pressure from other CEOs - if they aren't already happily embracing all this woke/climate change crap already.

Posted by: Lizzy



Note that the G20 has agreed to outlaw coal by 2035 this week. I don't recall voting for this, or voting for anyone who agreed to it.

65
Old and busted: corporations use money to manufacture products.

New and shiny: corporations use products to manufacture money.

66 The software design of the new 737 was poorly done

*sniff* *sniff* smells like agile

67 Naming that tiny test return capsule Starliner; a thing that was intended to compete with Musk's rockets (which they don't have) and return capsule which was already operational was fool hardy then failing was icing on the cake.

68 These two carbon units walk into a bar.

69 Of note, Costco refuses to hire outside executives to run their business.

You have to have worked up through the business at Costco.

I don't know of any other major corporation that does that.

70 “…the reality based transportation field.” Heh! That is some concise mockery and humor. I love it.

71 Boeing's quality problems started more than 25 years ago.

The McDonnell merger was closer to 30 years ago. The Big Govt move to Chicago was 20 years ago. That was mentioned here, but most waved the flag and chanted the mantra. What we're seeing now is a lynch mob caused by commenters realizing how wrong they were for so long, and trying to yell over it.

72 Wow, what level of membership scores you post-side COB assistance?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 30, 2024 11:07 AM (T+Iwg)

Depends on whether it's "before post 100" on the art thread or not... and how you define "assistance".

73 An article I read about Boeing's descent related that a new CEO decided that all the technically proficient people making their planes were too expensive, and started hiring idiots off the street because they were cheaper. Now, I take a back seat to nobody in my contempt for unions, but in a business where a bad product kills people, lots of them, this is galactic level stupidity. Obviously, you want to get rid of the parasite unions, but you don't do it by hiring morons.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 30, 2024 11:14 AM (CsUN+)
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Bean counters should *not* have the final say in matters that are literally life and death.

74 Hey have they got rid of Biden and Kamala yet? She's so unpopular!!!

75
To the MBAs, a plane is a widget is a sausage.

76 *sniff* *sniff* smells like agile
Posted by: anachronda at April 30, 2024 11:15 AM (v3pYe)
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GCAS? Feature-out. Seattle's pride parade is a pop-up we have to focus on!

77 These two carbon units walk into a bar.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 30, 2024 11:16 AM (J8LnB)

Hey, anybody here got a "carbonator"...a Soda Stream or some such?....Like it? Use it?

78 In many cases, there actually was fat to be trimmed, and the overall quality wasn't noticeably affected, or the products or services were such that a drop in quality wouldn't be easily noticed.

In other cases, such as Boeing, it's been catastrophic.

Those companies should have had people whose jobs were to ensure that quality wasn't affected, and competence was ensured. To make extra sure, they would all work together in one place. We could call those people the C-Suite.

79 Of note, Costco refuses to hire outside executives to run their business.

You have to have worked up through the business at Costco.

I don't know of any other major corporation that does that.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian


Costco seems like a pretty sensible company, for now. No DIE from them yet.

80 Get ready for your new George Floyds. A stolen car with 4 black teenagers in it, 3 of whom had warrants and 2 of whom were wearing ankle monitors, was PIT maneuvered into a concrete pole by Florida Highway Patrol at over 110 MPH and all 4 died.

The media is omitting all of the useful detail and showing their elementary school photos as usual. They really do only have one plan for election years.

81 "Mamala" has no children because she swallowed all the seeds.

82 Trump find on contempt! would do be placed on fucking jail! american justice against traitors!!!!

83 >>Note that the G20 has agreed to outlaw coal by 2035 this week. I don't recall voting for this, or voting for anyone who agreed to it.


Exactly!
And. . . yikes, WTF?!?!

2035 is going to be a magical year!! /sarc

84 Of note, Costco refuses to hire outside executives to run their business.

You have to have worked up through the business at Costco.

I don't know of any other major corporation that does that.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 30, 2024 11:16 AM (N1tpc)
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It's rare, and honestly, it's rare for a reason. There is a benefit to bringing in "new blood" and that is the basis of the sensible - albeit distant - root of the "diversity is our strength" mantra.

An outsider might be able to see what you literally *can't* see, because you don't know how to see it because you only know what you know and all your experience is in how it has always been. This is called "idiosyncratic risk" and it can be managed through occasional infusion of outside knowledge and experience.

Bringing in outsiders has risks, too. It's all about balancing those risks. Costco has done a pretty good job of it.

85 I remember reading about Southwest Airlines and how it initially was run by people who actually built or worked on the planes in some fashion

Then eventually management got replaced by accountants who knew fuck all about planes and just looked at numbers to crunch out a profit in every conceivable cut corner way

Then lop on 800 pound wide load land whales getting extra seats for free while paying customers get booted and low and behold here’s another airline in crisis

Magic

86 Posted by: Sid at April 30, 2024 11:19 AM (x1SVA)

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In what way is he a traitor? Selling American stockpiles of uranium to Russia variety?

But sure, let's Nelson Mandela him. That'll turn the people against him.

Great plan.

87 Not exactly. There isn't all that much taxpayer money involved in this scheme, at least not directly.

The big funds have lots of access to capital, and can command better interest rates than most others. Some of that is due to political connections, and they can call in (or buy outright) favors from government types.

But it all runs on cheap money, crucially that the funds' access to money is cheaper than *your* access to money, which allows them to outbid you. I suspect this strategy is running out of runway. Rates will kill them, too.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 30, 2024 11:12 AM (HnUIn)
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There has been a mad rush in big hedge-fund capital -- and other loosely-regulated capital -- over the last 5 years or so to buy up any assets considered distressed or undervalued. It was the Big New Thing and money flowed into these funds.

I don't think it was well thought-out and, to my knowledge, none of these schemes have panned out. I'm skeptical that the big real estate play will be any different. The spike in interest rates is not helping. The play will, however, contribute to the general fucking-over of vast numbers of normal people looking to buy homes.

88 it was all downhill after Braniff folded

89 ...Boeing has lost its way, just like many American corporations that value a progressive, Woke, "Just" culture over the old cultures of competence and great products that drove American manufacturing for 100 years...

Boeing didn't make this decision unilaterally. Summing up American business in the first three quarters of the 20th century, Milton Friedman said that the main job of business is to maximize profit while selling a superior product, and let the do-gooders use the charitable contributions to improve society. One by one, America's business schools repudiated that simple precept by saying it was the corporations' job to improve society for all 'stakeholders'. First the MBAs, and then the McKinseys all told corps that this was the way to go. Education went woke first, and then infected society by educating people in the commanding heights of society. Boeing had to follow suit.

90 Timeline for the door blow out.

The door itself was made in Malaysia and shipped to Spiritus in Kansas.

The door was installed in the fuselage in Kansas and then the whole fuselage was shipped to Boeing.

Boeing did a QC check and found that some rivets next to the door were not correctly positioned so told Spiritus to fix them.

After the problem was fixed Boeing did another QC to find in fact the problem was not fixed. Spiritus admitted they had merely painted over the rivets but while doing this said they had damaged the plug door seal.

Boeing had two options to replace the seal. One would generate paperwork. Other wouldn't. They chose Option B, replaced the torn seal, and as Boeing photos have shown forgot to reinstall the four lock bolts.

91 A stolen car with 4 black teenagers in it, 3 of whom had warrants and 2 of whom were wearing ankle monitors, was PIT maneuvered into a concrete pole by Florida Highway Patrol at over 110 MPH and all 4 died.


Posted by: Ian S. at April 30, 2024 11:19 AM (2ocoG)

Were they wearing seatbelts?....I bet not.

92 Boeing is not your father's Oldsmobile

93 Costco is the one store I can think of where would actually be devastated if they ever closed.

I still miss Sears honestly. I have a Kenmore standup freezer from 2002 that is still chugging.

94 Hey, anybody here got a "carbonator"...a Soda Stream or some such?....Like it? Use it?

I have a SodaStream. The various flavors of soda are pretty good, plus you can do things like carbonated orange juice that's fun.

The bonus is that it's made by an Israeli company. Famously, they were forced to fire all of their Palestinian employees because the factory was on "settler territory" and they were going to be banned by Obama and the EU otherwise. It's almost like these activists don't actually care about the Palestinians.

95 ++++
But it makes the Party happy, and the executives can rest assured that the enterprise is Too Big to Fail. If the worst happens, they'll be bailed out. The executives may (probably will) lose their jobs in the process, but they can ride off into the sunset with a fair chunk of the formerly successful corporation's capital and then go into another C-suite or the consulting racket.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Boeing will lumber along like Microsoft maintaining its existence by buying up the competition. Unlike Microsoft there is Airbus and if they choose to enter the market Embraer.

96 Boeing could tap bond markets to get ahead of more than $12 billion in combined debt coming due in 2025 and 2026.

"We can't repay our loans. Could we borrow some money from you?" is just the marketing pitch I wanted to hear! Where can I sign up?

97 Slight mistake in your narrative there. They are moving AWAY from a profit driven culture. DEI explicitly places profit as a low priority objective due to their heavy socialist influences.

98
it was all downhill after Braniff folded
Posted by: yikes at April 30, 2024 11:21 AM (us2H3)

__________

After Allegheny vanished.

99 They had bad teachers in Gaza.
They teach death.
Same teachers here.

100 A stolen car with 4 black teenagers in it, 3 of whom had warrants and 2 of whom were wearing ankle monitors, was PIT maneuvered into a concrete pole by Florida Highway Patrol at over 110 MPH and all 4 died.

Posted by: Ian S.


So, anyway, did anyone see the new ad about an oven cleaner?

101 Remember "clean natural gas" and "clean coal"?

Yeah so that was a lie.

102 The biggest - and likely final - is petering out now in real time (the ability to sequester excess monetary and credit emissions in international trade flows).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 30, 2024 11:15 AM (HnUIn)

Enter the new BRICS currency...

https://youtu.be/M0JVAxrlA1A

103 >>A stolen car with 4 black teenagers in it, 3 of whom had warrants and 2 of whom were wearing ankle monitors, was PIT maneuvered into a concrete pole by Florida Highway Patrol at over 110 MPH and all 4 died.


Cue Obama telling us it's easier for inner city youth to steal a car then get books, so this is somehow OUR fault.

104 83 >>Note that the G20 has agreed to outlaw coal by 2035 this week. I don't recall voting for this, or voting for anyone who agreed to it.


Exactly!
And. . . yikes, WTF?!?!

2035 is going to be a magical year!! /sarc

surprised they didn't go for 2038 so we can enjoy the collapse of the grid while we're also enjoying the collapse of the 32-bit time_t.

105 What’s a few thousand airline deaths in the big scheme of things? Every revolution has casualties right?

106 it was all downhill after Braniff folded
Posted by: yikes


The big red bird with the brass ass.

107 68 These two carbon units walk into a bar.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot
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I know, meat, right?

108 ... I don't think it was well thought-out and, to my knowledge, none of these schemes have panned out. I'm skeptical that the big real estate play will be any different. The spike in interest rates is not helping. The play will, however, contribute to the general fucking-over of vast numbers of normal people looking to buy homes.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 30, 2024 11:21 AM (iFTx/)
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I am of a similar opinion. The distortions they are causing in certain local markets are real, but they will not last forever.

109 104 83 >>Note that the G20 has agreed to outlaw coal by 2035 this week. I don't recall voting for this, or voting for anyone who agreed to it.


Has anyone told China ?

110 95 Boeing will lumber along like Microsoft maintaining its existence by buying up the competition. Unlike Microsoft there is Airbus and if they choose to enter the market Embraer.

tanned, rested, and ready

111 "DEI explicitly places profit as a low priority objective"

We have billions. We could afford to burn some for social justice.

112
See Microsoft Windows

Every time I deal with an issue on Windows I can almost literally smell the elephant shit wafting off the code

Posted by: The Grounded Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger at April 30, 2024

I've been using a Linux variant for so long that someone used the acronym BSOD recently and I had to look it up. I had forgotten all about the blue screen of death.

113 Oh and did you know that EU has already outlawed projector lamps because they contain, get this, mercury.

Yep. The same people who forced the mercury bulbs on us in the first place seem to have conveniently noticed that mercury is bad.

They are truly the scum of the planet.

114 The imbecile I mentioned before, that was Sid.

115 Trump found in contempt! WILL be placed in fucking JAIL! American justice against traitors!!!!

Posted by: Sid

I don't usually quote Sid, but I was compelled to point out that Sid is apparently now on the Trump train. People know a kangaroo court when they see one, and this will do nothing but help Trump. Think back on all those civil rights protesters who were proud of having been arrested and jailed (even Joe Biden - in his imagination). Trump is now a martyr. Well done, lefties.

116 stolen car with 4 black teenagers in it, 3 of whom had warrants and 2 of whom were wearing ankle monitors, was PIT maneuvered into a concrete pole by Florida Highway Patrol at over 110 MPH and all 4 died.

—

It’s Toyota’s fault for making the cars so easy to steal.

117 Hey, anybody here got a "carbonator"...a Soda Stream or some such?....Like it? Use it?
Posted by: BignJames at April 30, 2024 11:18 AM (AwYPR)

I have a Soda Stream. Like it and use it.

118 Commenting present

119 It's not "just" the manufacturing of jets or whatever. It's the fact that woke is now in every facet of technology and engineering. That doesn't bode well for civilization down the road that will depend on infrastructure designed and built by the "Didn't Earn It" culture and a follow-on culture that can't maintain it.

Hell, even now finding someone competent to work on a small engine or home appliance is becoming a chore. And I'll note that the competent ones are as old as I am.

120 >>I don't think it was well thought-out and, to my knowledge, none of these schemes have panned out. I'm skeptical that the big real estate play will be any different. The spike in interest rates is not helping. The play will, however, contribute to the general fucking-over of vast numbers of normal people looking to buy homes.

There's a guy on twitter who is in the commercial real estate market and he's been posting some recent transactions. Just the other day a hotel complex in DC or NYC (I forgot which dump) that was in a foreclosure auction valued at $85 million went to the note holder for a price of $18 million.

There are examples like this happening in cities across the country. Commercial real estate in major cities is getting crushed as people and companies are fleeing cities.

121
The Carboxyclipse!

122 I noted that Boeing's "Starliner" capsule is set to return from the ISS via a "hard landing" in the American southwest on May 6.
One wonders just how hard a landing it will be.

123 80 Get ready for your new George Floyds. A stolen car with 4 black teenagers in it, 3 of whom had warrants and 2 of whom were wearing ankle monitors, was PIT maneuvered into a concrete pole by Florida Highway Patrol at over 110 MPH and all 4 died.

The media is omitting all of the useful detail and showing their elementary school photos as usual. They really do only have one plan for election years.
Posted by: Ian S.
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I can't breathe is a better slogan than I can't drive.

124 Jailing Trump might be problematic... Do his SS go with him ? maybe they would give him home detention.. He'd like that

125 Slight mistake in your narrative there. They are moving AWAY from a profit driven culture. DEI explicitly places profit as a low priority objective due to their heavy socialist influences.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at April 30, 2024 11:23 AM (P7Iz+)

True, but they believe that corporate profits can be maintained by cutting manufacturing, engineering, and design costs.

They are wrong.

126 Boeing will lumber along like Microsoft maintaining its existence by buying up the competition. Unlike Microsoft there is Airbus and if they choose to enter the market Embraer.

*cues Jaws theme*

127 Posted by: Ian S. at April 30, 2024 11:22 AM (2ocoG)


Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2024 11:25 AM (T7iTv)

thanks!

128 One wonders just how hard a landing it will be.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 30, 2024 11:27 AM (i9ffA)

Rapid Unplanned Disassembly.

129 Enter the new BRICS currency...

https://youtu.be/M0JVAxrlA1A
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2024 11:23 AM (T7iTv)
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I'm not buying it. It could happen, I suppose, but I doubt it will last long if it happens at all.

This is still fighting the last war. "The reserve and settlement currency is under distress, so what will be the new one to replace it" is probably the wrong way to look at it.

I would bet that there won't be a next one. Reserves and international trade settlement will not follow the existing structure. It will be mutli-lateral instead. A bunch of currencies and probably also a commodities mix will be involved. Baskets of stuff, determined by the counterparties. Some will rise to be general-purpose, but I doubt there will be a single means anymore.

The IMF has schemed this for years with their Special Drawing Right (SDR) scheme, which is a psuedo-currency backed by a bunch of currencies. Like most of the globalists, the IMF will see their vision come to fruition, and won't like it very much because they aren't going to be running it.

130 >>>Those companies should have had people whose jobs were to ensure that quality wasn't affected, and competence was ensured. To make extra sure, they would all work together in one place. We could call those people the C-Suite.
Posted by: Archimedes
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You don't need unions but you need competent people and programs. Allowing bean counters authority over that is certain failure.

131 Boeing will lumber along like Microsoft maintaining its existence by buying up the competition. Unlike Microsoft there is Airbus and if they choose to enter the market Embraer.
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The innovation and production at Airbus is something that Boeing can only dream of at this point.

132 Engineering school was harder 30 years ago, but still too hard for DEI candidates.

133 112 I've been using a Linux variant for so long that someone used the acronym BSOD recently and I had to look it up. I had forgotten all about the blue screen of death.

just wait until you see mine!

134 There has been a mad rush in big hedge-fund capital -- and other loosely-regulated capital -- over the last 5 years or so to buy up any assets considered distressed or undervalued. It was the Big New Thing and money flowed into these funds.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 30, 2024 11:21 AM (iFTx/)

Saw a video the other day which opined that these were a genius idea... right up until the 2nd one entered the scene. Now they're bidding against each other to get the "distressed" assets... which raises the price and they're frequently too stupid to bow out when the price gets too high.

135 Hell, even now finding someone competent to work on a small engine or home appliance is becoming a chore. And I'll note that the competent ones are as old as I am.
Posted by: Martini Farmer


searshomeservices.com (seriously)
870-953-2094

They work on everything.

136 There are examples like this happening in cities across the country. Commercial real estate in major cities is getting crushed as people and companies are fleeing cities.

Posted by: JackStraw


There is a huge crash coming in CRE. I am frankly surprised it hasn't crashed yet, though I am sure it would not be reported on outside of the financial networks.

Plus, JP Morgan and Wells just wrote off over a billion in unrecoverable credit card debt.

137 There's a guy on twitter who is in the commercial real estate market and he's been posting some recent transactions. Just the other day a hotel complex in DC or NYC (I forgot which dump) that was in a foreclosure auction valued at $85 million went to the note holder for a price of $18 million.

There are examples like this happening in cities across the country. Commercial real estate in major cities is getting crushed as people and companies are fleeing cities.

The best one is the office building in St. Louis, which sold for $205 M in 2006, then for $3.6 M in 2024.

https://tinyurl.com/mryuf36t

138 118 Commenting present

no wrapping paper? no nice little bow? not much of a present.

139 Will Boeing be the White Star Line of the 21st Century?

140 >>Plus, JP Morgan and Wells just wrote off over a billion in unrecoverable credit card debt.

They just write it off, Jerry.

141 Ubuntu

I should learn Ubuntu

142 121 The Carboxyclipse!

carbon acropolis > carboxyclipse

143 I have a SodaStream. The various flavors of soda are pretty good, plus you can do things like carbonated orange juice that's fun.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 30, 2024 11:22 AM (2ocoG)

Be sure to read the fine print carefully. Some of them cannot carbonate anything other than plain water so attempting to do something like OJ will make a huge mess.

144 Imagine being the lien holder for a hotel, mall or other business in San Francisco.

Whole areas of that city are a wasteland (literally and figuratively.)

145 You don't need unions but you need competent people and programs. Allowing bean counters authority over that is certain failure.

Posted by: Braenyard

Precisely.

146 "We are, essentially, a fascist country now...
We have been for at least a hundred years or more.
Take a look at your government buildings and architecture in the Capitol. See all those bundles of reeds held together with straps? Like in the interior rooms of the Senate, for instance.
What do you think they symbolize?

147 stolen car with 4 black teenagers in it, 3 of whom had warrants and 2 of whom were wearing ankle monitors, was PIT maneuvered into a concrete pole by Florida Highway Patrol at over 110 MPH and all 4 died.

—

It’s Toyota’s fault for making the cars so easy to steal.
Posted by: Montec at April 30, 2024 11:25 AM

Nah, it was the asphalt.

148 ... There are examples like this happening in cities across the country. Commercial real estate in major cities is getting crushed as people and companies are fleeing cities.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 30, 2024 11:26 AM (LkLld)
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It's an unfolding disaster and it's going to involve a lot of consequences.

There are areas now - Seattle is an example - where decent (not top, just decent) office space in the suburbs is more expensive on a per-square-foot basis than office space in Class A buildings in the central business district. Some cities are so unappealing that businesses would rather spend more money to be somewhere else, even if still in the area.

And with the big reductions in value for commercial real estate will come a drop in local revenues, and the localities can't afford it.

149 Commenting present
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2024 11:25 AM (t+cmM)

Reading past

150 134 There has been a mad rush in big hedge-fund capital -- and other loosely-regulated capital -- over the last 5 years or so to buy up any assets considered distressed or undervalued. It was the Big New Thing and money flowed into these funds.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 30, 2024 11:21 AM (iFTx/)

Saw a video the other day which opined that these were a genius idea... right up until the 2nd one entered the scene. Now they're bidding against each other to get the "distressed" assets... which raises the price and they're frequently too stupid to bow out when the price gets too high.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2024 11:30 AM (T7iTv)
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Yea, and a lot of the incentive to make the investments was the political pull the big funds had to make regulatory changes in the relevant markets. Buy up Asset X and then bribe the powers-that-be to make the regulatory environment more favorable.

It worked to some extent in some plays -- for example the funds buying up tens of thousands of NYC taxicab medallions -- but overall I think most if not all of these schemes ran headfirst into Biden's economy and big spikes in interest rates.

151 The best one is the office building in St. Louis, which sold for $205 M in 2006, then for $3.6 M in 2024.

https://tinyurl.com/mryuf36t

Posted by: Archimedes




$2.50 per square foot is a pretty good deal.

152 Take a look at your government buildings and architecture in the Capitol. See all those bundles of reeds held together with straps? Like in the interior rooms of the Senate, for instance.
What do you think they symbolize?
Posted by: gourmand du jour

Faggots?

153 151 $2.50 per square foot is a pretty good deal.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 30, 2024 11:34 AM (lTGtQ)

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Cleaning the blood stains from the carpet is a hidden price, though.

154 118 Commenting present
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2024 11:25 AM (t+cmM)

Are you typing/deleting?

155 I am also tapping the debt market for $10B. Unfortunately no takers so far.

156 It's a bit long, but here's an interesting article on a developer in NYC whose specialty is turning old office buildings into apartments geared towards young people starting out. Lack of sunlight is a particular issue.

https://tinyurl.com/3c7xsf5x

157 It worked to some extent in some plays -- for example the funds buying up tens of thousands of NYC taxicab medallions -- but overall I think most if not all of these schemes ran headfirst into Biden's economy and big spikes in interest rates.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 30, 2024 11:34 AM (iFTx/)
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Conspiring to corner a market is illegal, not that it matters.

But conspiracies to corner markets usually don't work out well for the conspirators, and that matters quite a bit more.

158
I talked with a former Boeing employee regarding the window blowout fiasco and the growing distrust of Boeing products. He (mildly) protested that what was happening was piling on every little glitch in Boeing products.

First, a "glitch" that could knock an aircraft out of the sky isn't "little".

Second, had Boeing exercised sounder practices, they likely would not have this genesis event that is going to hurt them extremely badly in months to come.

How far from having power at Boeing are those who actually make the aircraft?

159 Ubuntu

I should learn Ubuntu

Posted by: The Grounded Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger




Probably better to learn esperanto.

160 The Left just went temporarily crazy in 2016. Once Trump goes away, everything will go back to normal.

161 The IMF has schemed this for years with their Special Drawing Right (SDR) scheme, which is a psuedo-currency backed by a bunch of currencies. Like most of the globalists, the IMF will see their vision come to fruition, and won't like it very much because they aren't going to be running it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix


Ulitmate Reserve currency?

Gold. Then silver. Has been for 5,000 years.

Old habits die hard.

162 141 Ubuntu

I should learn Ubuntu
Posted by: The Grounded Unvaxxed
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Ubuntu is the corporate package of Linux but essentially it is GUI plus some Ubuntu specific software extensions over a particular linux distribution (Debian).

Even within Ubuntu, there is a cottage industry of alternative look and feel like Kbuntu, Cinnamon, and so on.

Want fairly boring dependability--Ubuntu LTS is what you want. Want bleeding edge performance, then look around as there are a LOT of linux distributions and at least one BSD (different flavor of unix for small computers and what Apple's GUI is based upon).

163 147 stolen car with 4 black teenagers in it, 3 of whom had warrants and 2 of whom were wearing ankle monitors, was PIT maneuvered into a concrete pole by Florida Highway Patrol at over 110 MPH and all 4 died.

—

It’s Toyota’s fault for making the cars so easy to steal.
Posted by: Montec at April 30, 2024 11:25 AM

Nah, it was the asphalt.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2024 11:33 AM (Wnv9h)

I thought it was the stolen car's fault, b/c it wasn't an EV...although now maybe it's at fault just for being a car...

164 160 The Left just went temporarily crazy in 2016. Once Trump goes away, everything will go back to normal.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2024 11:36 AM (LH3Hv)

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We just need a better candidate.

Also, Kavanaugh raped a chick and Romney gave a woman cancer.

165 Borrowing to enable consumption is death.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 30, 2024 11:03 AM (HnUIn)

Mom's main dictum: when you are buying groceries on credit, you are in a serious hole.

166 It’s getting to where I might be better off buying commercial real estate and simply converting it into a residence instead of buying a house which Im now priced out of ever getting

It would be classy and luxurious

167 >>And with the big reductions in value for commercial real estate will come a drop in local revenues, and the localities can't afford it.

Well we do have 10 million newcomers to house. Maybe they can make a deal with the government to convert some of this space to government funded housing.

I wonder if anyone in our corrupt government has thought of this?

168 I read that there is a crossover problem, caused by un-same fonts, between Apache/Libre & Microsoft Office. Seems to be a big hurdle in attracting commercial use of Linux Distributions.

169 Ulitmate Reserve currency?

Gold. Then silver. Has been for 5,000 years.

Old habits die hard.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2024 11:36 AM (9wVL0)
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If I had to bet, I think that it will have its place in the overall scheme. Commodities will part of settlement, and gold will be in those commodity baskets. Oil probably will, too. Agricultural products will also be represented if I had to guess.

170 Note that the G20 has agreed to outlaw coal by 2035 this week. I don't recall voting for this, or voting for anyone who agreed to it.
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Has anyone told China ?
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2024 11:24 AM (Akjoo)

China would be happy to sign that agreement. Then they'd laugh their asses off that anyone was stupid enough to actually believe they meant it.

171 Boeing will be the Black Star Line of the 21st Century.

172 151 $2.50 per square foot is a pretty good deal.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 30, 2024 11:34 AM (lTGtQ)

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Cleaning the blood stains from the carpet is a hidden price, though.

Yup. It's in a "struggling" area, which pretty much describes all of St. Louis.

173 It is sad what has become of Boeing. I used to work there as an engineer in the 90s. They were already a very diverse workforce without any DEI. Because they have so many employees in Everett, hiring women and minorities was a necessity, not some fad.

174 If there was protection for whistleblowers, you wouldn't believe what you would hear. Having worked for a supplier who built their avionics, I could tell you things. It's not just Boeing, the whole system is corrupt.

175 170 China would be happy to sign that agreement. Then they'd laugh their asses off that anyone was stupid enough to actually believe they meant it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2024 11:37 AM (T7iTv)

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Would anyone actually believe that China meant it?

I mean, the other signatories. Not some randos on Twitter.

176 The best one is the office building in St. Louis, which sold for $205 M in 2006, then for $3.6 M in 2024.

https://tinyurl.com/mryuf36t
Posted by: Archimedes at April 30, 2024 11:31 AM (CsUN+)

I noted that one interim plan called for turning that tower into mostly residential units. That's a plan that always sounds wonderful, but is absolutely impractical in actual practice. Comes down to plumbing and electric wiring, there is no way to do that without completely gutting the property and rebuilding it from scratch; and at that cost you might as well demolish it and start from scratch.

177
A lot of talk about when it all started, but it's clear that the big jump to Fascism Classic (TM) began with adopting DEI Goals to improve the corporation's ESG Score.

ESG is simply a scam to steal corporate profits from stockholders and reinvestment to give to some leftist/commie org or greedy, corrupt politician.
And it gives cover to call this illegal(?) theft a technical sounding name.

You'd think stockholders would be suing over this grotesque misuse of funds/profits but ...nope.

This is not just Boeing either. Pretty much every major corp is all in on the ESG scam.

178 It’s getting to where I might be better off buying commercial real estate and simply converting it into a residence instead of buying a house which Im now priced out of ever getting

It would be classy and luxurious

See my #156. It's not as simple as it seems.

179 Take a look at your government buildings and architecture in the Capitol. See all those bundles of reeds held together with straps? Like in the interior rooms of the Senate, for instance.
What do you think they symbolize?
Posted by: gourmand du jour

Faggots?
Posted by: Tonypete at April 30, 2024 11:34 AM (WXNFJ)

From Kansas City ?

180 Ulitmate Reserve currency?

Gold. Then silver. Has been for 5,000 years.

Old habits die hard.
Posted by: rickb223
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My guess is that the coming std is more likely to be based on more useful commodities like energy. Can't really devalue a kilowatt for example and unlike mined products, energy can grow with the economy.

The gold and/or silver had its own devaluation and often mining discoveries or a sudden influx from invasion etc. created its own massive economic problems. Gold from the Americas deranged the Euro finances of Western Europe for example and massive silver deposits discovered in the Comstock lode caused panics aka depression during the 1890's where JP Morgan had to rescue a desperate Sec. of Treasury and President Grover Cleveland and the dollar.

181 Well we do have 10 million newcomers to house. Maybe they can make a deal with the government to convert some of this space to government funded housing.

I wonder if anyone in our corrupt government has thought of this?
Posted by: JackStraw at April 30, 2024 11:36 AM (LkLld)
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All the time. Reality gets in the way. Converting an office tower to a residential tower, or converting a big-box store to an apartment building, etc. is non-trivial to say the least. It isn't a matter of carving units out of the space. Big commercial buildings are built differently. HVAC, plumbing, power, etc. - major systems - aren't usually compatible with the residential scenario. They were never designed to be. Not to mention other stuff, like how the windows don't usually open.

This is one of those unbeatable schemes that breaks time and again on the rocks of reality.

182 Ok, OK!

$5B

183 I noted that one interim plan called for turning that tower into mostly residential units. That's a plan that always sounds wonderful, but is absolutely impractical in actual practice. Comes down to plumbing and electric wiring, there is no way to do that without completely gutting the property and rebuilding it from scratch; and at that cost you might as well demolish it and start from scratch.

You also need to read the article at #156. It's quite interesting.

184 I noted that one interim plan called for turning that tower into mostly residential units. That's a plan that always sounds wonderful, but is absolutely impractical in actual practice. Comes down to plumbing and electric wiring, there is no way to do that without completely gutting the property and rebuilding it from scratch; and at that cost you might as well demolish it and start from scratch.

Posted by: Tom Servo



Illegals are used to no electricity and defecating on the floor.

185 63
‘ Had we taken our medicine in the 70s’

I’m not following you here. I remember the 70s . Inflation and high unemployment. Was that the sickness that we needed medicine for?
If so, what medicine did we forget to take?

186

I thought it was the stolen car's fault, b/c it wasn't an EV...although now maybe it's at fault just for being a car...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 30, 2024 11:36 AM (exHjb)

Cars were invented by white people. So it’s really structural racism to blame. The black thieves are the true victims here.

187 We live(for now) relatively close to the Boeing large assembly plant in western WA. Most of the Boeing union stooges are some of the biggest assholes you'd ever want to meet. It doesn't matter what their skin color might be. We can't stand them. The old Boeing culture of hard work and exceptional quality was lost many years ago.

188 " PIT maneuvered into a concrete pole by Florida Highway Patrol at over 110 MPH and all 4 died.---
Were they wearing seatbelts?....I bet not."

From the pics, seatbelts would not have mattered. NY Post headline plays up "one of them a beloved football player". Hint for black teens .. don't get in (especially stolen) cars with someone wearing an ankle monitor.

But with Trayvon and Gentle Giant Brown and Floyd as the chosen martyrs for black teens ... they are lead down this destructive path. Guns, drugs, and criminal gangs for the .. loss.

189 181 Well we do have 10 million newcomers to house. Maybe they can make a deal with the government to convert some of this space to government funded housing.

I wonder if anyone in our corrupt government has thought of this?
Posted by: JackStraw at April 30, 2024 11:36 AM (LkLld)
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All the time. Reality gets in the way. Converting an office tower to a residential tower, or converting a big-box store to an apartment building, etc. is non-trivial to say the least. It isn't a matter of carving units out of the space. Big commercial buildings are built differently. HVAC, plumbing, power, etc. - major systems - aren't usually compatible with the residential scenario. They were never designed to be. Not to mention other stuff, like how the windows don't usually open.

This is one of those unbeatable schemes that breaks time and again on the rocks of reality.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 30, 2024 11:40 AM (HnUIn)

It's usually cheaper and faster to destroy the box and start fresh...when you see partial mall conversions to luxury townhomes, this is what they did...

190 It's gotten to the point where this bikini redhead has serious qualms about air travel in general:
http://tiny.cc/mhrwxz

191 Even worse they began to worship at the alter of the Sustainable Organic Church of The Carbon Apocalypse.


SOCCA Moms are the worst.

192 Reality gets in the way. Converting an office tower to a residential tower, or converting a big-box store to an apartment building, etc. is non-trivial to say the least. It isn't a matter of carving units out of the space. Big commercial buildings are built differently. HVAC, plumbing, power, etc. - major systems - aren't usually compatible with the residential scenario. They were never designed to be. Not to mention other stuff, like how the windows don't usually open.

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But it does happen regularly. In my burg there have been several conversions from retail and commercial to residential. In all cases the residential was high end, which I suppose it has to be to make profitable.

193 It's usually cheaper and faster to destroy the box and start fresh...when you see partial mall conversions to luxury townhomes, this is what they did...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 30, 2024 11:42 AM (exHjb)
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Yup. Strip out every of value, sell it, knock it down, start again. One problem with utilitarian architecture - and commercial structures are usually utilitarian in their infrastructure design - is that it has no utility for any other purpose.

194 190 It's gotten to the point where this bikini redhead has serious qualms about air travel in general:
http://tiny.cc/mhrwxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 30, 2024 11:42 AM (HnUIn)

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Eyelashes that will bridge past and future, proving determinism either true or false. Schrodinger's eyelashes.

3/10

Would not bang.

195 The Left just went temporarily crazy in 2016. Once Trump goes away, everything will go back to normal.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2024 11:36 AM (LH3Hv)

Nope. TDS covers up too many functional, social and financial failures. The hysteria is a rallying point for too many disparate grievance groups that need some joint focus to keep from tearing each other apart. If Trump were cast into the outer darkness tomorrow, the hysterical masses would find a new target.

It would be anyone that poked a head up to challenge the uniparty, or any countered any woke tenet, or generally anyone that stands out as unsupported or vulnerable, because to paraphrase Nietzsche, a witch hunt (or a lynching) hallows any cause.

196 Geez

Two of the Cat One issues on the KC-46 deal with the refueling cameras. As in the panoramic cameras can't easily pick out planes near the tanker. And the cameras used for refueling in 'dynamic lightning' conditions can suffer image wash out.

Two others deal with the refueling pipework. The main fuel line that runs the length of the 767 fuselage has flexible seals to account for any bending motion. Well the original seals if not installed correctly could leak. The other issue is part of the fuel line used to refuel the KC-46 itself could freeze and burst from water accumulation and leak fuel INTO the cockpit.

197 >>>Comes down to plumbing and electric wiring, there is no way to do that without completely gutting the property and rebuilding it from scratch; and at that cost you might as well demolish it and start from scratch.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Disagree. There's plenty of wiring. The plumbing (economically) will require a little creative architecture the main service is adequate.

198 $2B is the smallest loan I will accept.

Final offer.

199 But it does happen regularly. In my burg there have been several conversions from retail and commercial to residential. In all cases the residential was high end, which I suppose it has to be to make profitable.
Posted by: Montec at April 30, 2024 11:43 AM (Y6Wgg)
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If the building is very good and has flexible infrastructure, it *can* be done, but it's not cheap. If they did it, they're either desirable old buildings (History! Charm! Character!) or it ended up being cheaper than scraping it rebuilding. And yeah, you'd better be able to move those units for a premium when you're finished.

200 168 I read that there is a crossover problem, caused by un-same fonts, between Apache/Libre & Microsoft Office. Seems to be a big hurdle in attracting commercial use of Linux Distributions.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Not really--Microsux does shit to break compatibility every few years even with its own older products but their ability to do so is fading with alternative document formats like pdf.

The major problem that Linux has is that it can sometimes have issues at the desktop level with bleeding edge graphics cards, a lot of games, and with peripherals like printers, etc. Drivers for Linux are often underdeveloped and often require digging around in CLI to install them which most people haven't done in Microsoft since Windows came out.

201 But it does happen regularly. In my burg there have been several conversions from retail and commercial to residential. In all cases the residential was high end, which I suppose it has to be to make profitable.
Posted by: Montec at April 30, 2024 11:43 AM (Y6Wgg)

You also have to worry about water and sewage use (electrical tends to be more of a wash). You can't just plop extra homes where they weren't ever intended without checking for knock-on effects...

202 Every time it outsources part of its development cycle to a foreign country/foreign workers it degrades its brand and endangers its customers
Posted by: Lizzy

I am pleased for assist with your issue.

203 >>This is one of those unbeatable schemes that breaks time and again on the rocks of reality.

Yes, but not before billions of our tax dollars are lit on fire trying.

The one saving grace with all of the left's idiotic plans is that eventually they implode on themselves and do more damage than we could ever hope to do to them. Our "elite" universities are deep into this consequence as we speak.

Their woke idiocy is exposing the rot at those institutions and causing them severe longterm damage. The value of their real assets, highly sought after graduates, is plummeting. No sane company wants these woke morons and that is going to drive down their elite status and ability to charge insane tuition fees. Won't happen overnight but the bloom is clearly off that rose.

204 Yea, and a lot of the incentive to make the investments was the political pull the big funds had to make regulatory changes in the relevant markets. Buy up Asset X and then bribe the powers-that-be to make the regulatory environment more favorable.

It worked to some extent in some plays -- for example the funds buying up tens of thousands of NYC taxicab medallions -- but overall I think most if not all of these schemes ran headfirst into Biden's economy and big spikes in interest rates.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 30, 2024 11:34 AM (iFTx/)

True. However, even the taxicab plays didn't ultimately work out. Once Uber and Lyft became ubiquitous, those companies collapsed.

205 My guess is that the coming std is more likely to be based on more useful commodities like energy. Can't really devalue a kilowatt for example and unlike mined products, energy can grow with the economy.

The gold and/or silver had its own devaluation and often mining discoveries or a sudden influx from invasion etc. created its own massive economic problems. Gold from the Americas deranged the Euro finances of Western Europe for example and massive silver deposits discovered in the Comstock lode caused panics aka depression during the 1890's where JP Morgan had to rescue a desperate Sec. of Treasury and President Grover Cleveland and the dollar.
Posted by: whig



I'll give you two watts or a silver dollar for your loaf of bread.

Which one you taking? If it crashes that hard that the us dollar is no longer the reserve currency, no paper anything will be worth anything. No bearer bonds, no "certificates". Nada.

What's in hand will count. And it will take a hella long time to build that trust back b

206 Would anyone actually believe that China meant it?

I mean, the other signatories. Not some randos on Twitter.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 30, 2024 11:38 AM (GBKbO)

They will believe what their paymasters tell them to believe. Same as always.

207 Would hit like Titanic on iceberg

208 I am also tapping the debt market for $10B. Unfortunately no takers so far.
Posted by: Weasel at April 30, 2024 11:35 AM

Reconsider adding "free-range" to the organic tree farm description?

Even better, lease each tree as a carbon-sequestering unit!

It's gold, Weasel, gold!

209 $2B is the smallest loan I will accept.

Final offer.
Posted by: Weasel

Deal

210 But it does happen regularly. In my burg there have been several conversions from retail and commercial to residential. In all cases the residential was high end, which I suppose it has to be to make profitable.
Posted by: Montec at April 30, 2024 11:43 AM (Y6Wgg)

It's possible, if the market is hot enough to support it. In the New York developer's story linked above, he talks about building 571 units in a large office building. Well, that means adding 571 bathrooms and 571 kitchens, and that means not just plumbing but drainlines for 571 bathrooms all the way down to the local sewer hook up under the building, which one can only hope is large enough to handle that kind of inflow. That's where the cost of redoing these things comes in.

211

You also have to worry about water and sewage use (electrical tends to be more of a wash). You can't just plop extra homes where they weren't ever intended without checking for knock-on effects...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 30, 2024 11:45 AM (exHjb)


I’m sure all these things are taken into account ahead of time. It’s not different than zoning changes which goes from single family to high density. Whatever is needed Stewart wise is planned for and dealt with,

212 If they did it, they're either desirable old buildings (History! Charm! Character!) or it ended up being cheaper than scraping it rebuilding. And yeah, you'd better be able to move those units for a premium when you're finished.

Both of which were mentioned in the article I cited. Older buildings tend to be more flexible, and, as in NYC, there are different building/ rehab rules depending on the age of the building. Knocking a building down in Manhattan is not for the faint of heart, nor the small of wallet. Getting permits to then build new is also very difficult.

213 Pull my finger.

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The Morning Report — 4/30/24

Good morning, kids. Back in the spring of 1978, during my freshman year at Brooklyn College, a couple dozen black and Puerto Rican students led by one "professor" Richie Perez stormed Whitehead Hall, kicked out teachers and students from their classrooms, and barricaded themselves inside. IIRC, It was ostensibly to protest cuts in the budget of black and Puerto Rican studies departments and demand not only restoration but an increase in funding. Then-chancellor John Kneller gave them exactly one hour to exit the building. Or else.

Perez and his gang of braindead stooges, responded with a rather catchy little ditty blasted out from a bullhorn, no doubt bequeathed to Al Sharpton – "Kneller, you liar! We'll set your ass on fire! The hour came and went, and wouldn't you know it? Bang on the tick, the tactical cops from the 63rd Precinct charged in and handed out hickory shampoos con gusto to everyone inside. And everyone who had been forced out, inconvenienced and pissed off cheered on the boys in blue and mocked the bruised and bleeding bastards.

Those were the days, my friend. People like me who were kids during the hippie era of the 60s were mostly done with it by the middle of the next decade as we grew into our teenage years. The crap that Perez et al tried to pull was simply not tolerated. Unfortunately, the fact that there was even a Black and Puerto Rican Studies Department at all was a foreshadowing of what we are seeing today at Columbia and universities across the country.

The Richie Perezes spread from their relatively contained petri dishes of the humanities and soon infected every single department. And from there, the graduates found themselves in every field of endeavor, especially the law and government to the point where we have this charming gal, among many many others, wielding virtually untrammeled power:

[Kristen] Clarke, the head of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, will speak at the law school's graduation ceremony on May 13, at a time when Columbia is accused of violating the civil rights of Jewish students.

Her address comes as Columbia moved classes online for the rest of the semester after a string of anti-Semitic incidents at the university. Anti-Israel protesters on campus have called for killing supporters of the Jewish state, assaulted Jewish students, burned Israeli flags, and chanted at Jews to "go back to Poland."

. . . Clarke was at the center of another anti-Semitism controversy during her confirmation process in 2021, when news emerged that she had invited the author of The Jewish Onslaught, an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory book, to speak at Harvard University in 1994. The book accused Jews of orchestrating the slave trade and of colluding to suppress black progress.

Clarke, who served as head of Harvard's Black Students Association in the 1990s, defended the invitation at the time of the event, calling the book's author, Tony Martin, an "intelligent, well-versed Black intellectual who bases his information on indisputable fact."

Years later, during her confirmation hearings, she apologized for the invitation and said it was a "mistake to accept [Martin's] offer to come and to defend him."

. . . [So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden has walked a careful line between condemning the anti-Semitism at Columbia and appeasing anti-Israel progressives in his voting base.

I saw Tony Martin and my mind went to Cyd Charisse. But I digress. In any case Kristen Clarke is among the most horrid bigots imaginable; and that makes her absolutely perfect to head up the DOJ's Civil Rights Division. The bullet points from her complete Discover the Networks dossier:

*Wrote that melanin makes blacks racially superior to whites

* Worked for the Department of Justice, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and the Civil Rights Bureau of New York State

* Demanded that the Boy Scouts permit the hiring of openly gay adults

* Became president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in 2016

* Alleged that “trans women of color” are being victimized by increased violence

* Supports affirmative action in order to increase “diversity”

* Pressured social media companies to censor “hate speech” by “white supremacists”

* Embraces Critical Race Theory and the “Defund the Police” movement

* Supports teaching children that whites are oppressors
* Compared Trump supporters to Klansmen

* Became Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in May 2021

She has direct links to the twin towers of divide and conquer, Barack Obama and Eric Holder. Like the latter two, Clarke is not a one off. Our entire government is infested with hordes of Clarkes in every bureau of every department of every agency. Bad as the situation is, it didn't just happen when Obama took office.

This infestation is the result of decades of corruption in and now outside of government. In the old days, it was mere corruption and venality, but over the past several decades that has been coupled with Marxist ideology and the results are in your face.

It's why this piece from the usually estimable Christopher Roach makes me scratch my head:

The left’s latest cause célèbre is opposing the Israeli counterterrorism operation in Gaza. A lot of Israel’s supporters have been aghast at the size and scale of these protests, openly wondering why the students are spending so much time protesting at all and, after years of championing free speech, are calling for censorship to stop anti-Semitism. . .

. . . I will state as a preliminary matter that there is a difference between protest and targeted harassment and that the latter should not be protected as free speech. That said, our foreign policy towards Israel should be subject to debate and accepted as a target of protest as much as anything else. Suggestions that such views are beyond the pale and warrant expulsion simply because they are unpopular are impossible to square with the First Amendment and more general American principles of free speech.

There have been many overwrought and dishonest criticisms of recent campus protests, but they do not appear more violent or more sinister than other protests of recent years. They mostly seem to be peaceful sit-ins. While violence and threats of violence have no place on campus, part of academic freedom and the college experience involves encountering ideas one disagrees with. Like most protests, these assemblies consist of a majority that is law-abiding and engaging in free speech and a much smaller minority of angry, anti-social agitators. And this division is evident everywhere you look. . .

. . . The heavy-handed efforts to crush these protests will almost certainly boomerang. Arrests and police actions will enhance protesters’ sense of being part of a significant and potentially dangerous cause and also increase their credit among the anti-establishment left.

While there have certainly been excesses and obnoxious behavior in the recent wave of protests, this seems to be par for the course, mild even. Unfortunately, most of the Gaza protests critics conflate peaceful protests with anti-social harassment, have been short on facts and long on emotion in their allegations, and deliberately ignore the presence of a substantial Jewish contingent among the anti-Israel protesters. Dropping the hammer on protesters for mere misdemeanors—like the Draconian sanctions imposed on the January 6 protesters—will encourage sympathy and discredit the authorities. . .

. . . If Israel and its policies are so great, they should be able to win the battle of public opinion with facts, logic, and protests of their own. In many respects, they have. Americans are mostly pro-Israel. But life is not always black and white. Some of Israel’s supporters, as well as many Israelis, also object to the scale of destruction in Gaza and the military operation’s apparent inability to provide long-term security.

A moral panic over ordinary expressions of political disagreement, controversial views, and uncouth language is not the way. Such a policy would be inimical to free speech, based on a distorted record, and will only give the activists of the progressive left the validation they are seeking. University and government policy should be built on the solid, content-neutral ground of distinguishing permissible free speech from prohibited criminal violence and harassment.

The fact that someone so erudite and usually right on the money can be so clueless as to what is happening on campus and on the ground in Israel itself is just fucking ponderous.

"Win the battle of public opinion with facts, logic and protests of their own?" RUFKM, Chris? You seem to think that we live in an imaginary world where all those things are still operative. To say the least, we live in a world of lies, deception and naked oppression of anyone who dares expose it.

How can you call for the defense and preservation of the First Amendment when it not only doesn't function, but when much of the other Amendments are on the ropes if not de facto dead? Did the stolen election of 2020, the imprisonment of political prisoners for using that First Amendment they foolishly thought protected them, and the in your face persecution of Donald Trump not tell you anything? Evidently not.

Free speech does not exist anymore because the civil society it was part and parcel of, to greater or lesser extents since 1789 is either dead or about to flatline. Wanting to preserve the 1-A is sort of like trying to set the broken arm of someone in the final throes of total organ failure.

It's not that we have to destroy the Constitution to save it. It's already destroyed. We now have to create a society that respects and reveres individual liberty and the rights of those with whom they disagree while at the same time protecting us from those who do not. Meh. We have imported alien, violent, dark age cultures that work hand in hand with our own native born tyrants to drag us back to an even darker age. Forever. They must be vanquished and excised from our midst.

If that means ditching the original Constitution to do so, then God help me, so be it. The left is fond of spouting that the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Well, it's high time we take that attitude.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Michael Walsh: "Dissent, the Left used to say, was the highest form of patriotism. Dissent has now been replaced in that equation by treason and overt revolution. Si monumentum requiris, circumspice: it's their hell and we're just living in it."
  Mephisto's Revenge
  
• "Xi Van Fleet and Yuri Bezmenov witnessed the evil of communism in China and the Soviet Union. The same evil is at work in the U.S."
  Communist Defectors Warn About Four Stages of Subversion — And America is On the Last One
  
• “So, if [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden’s goal of redistribution is to make the rich poorer, his proposal would be successful. But if the goal is to lift up the middle class, the plan would fail spectacularly. Note, even the Urban-Brooking Tax Policy Center use estimates that imply that the revenue-maximizing long-term capital gains rate is about 28%, so it’s clear that Biden’s proposal is on the wrong side of the Laffer curve.". . . “This hints at the false view that sadly underlies much of the Biden administration’s economic policy: high-earners only achieve success through luck, and low-earners can only achieve success through government handouts. That is an appalling, un-American view.”
  ‘Economic Suicide’: Biden Junta Justifies Tax Hike Based On Racial Criteria

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS
• "It has no choice but to fight the enemy on its home turf with vast numbers of civilians complicating operations."
  Israel Has Chosen the Least Bad of Bad Alternatives
  
• "Obama's deference to the Mullahs finds us fighting proxy wars against them."
  Coddling Iran Brings War to the Middle East
  
• ". . . since Tehran so abjectly failed, since their vaunted missile and drone force was singularly ineffective, since Iran was thoroughly humiliated on the world stage, it is up to narrative-based journalism to hand the aggressors an unearned victory yet again."
  Handing Iran a Victory
  
• ". . . if Biden is even running his own White House, then he surely agrees with Obama that it would be better (somehow) to leave the Middle East in the stewardship of the bloodthirsty clerics of Tehran than in the hands of Israel."
  Both Joe Biden and Barack Obama Prefer Iran to Israel – Why?
  
• "This is what the protestors on American campuses are either denying or supporting. If they knew the truth, would it make a difference? I don't know, but Stalinsky and Sandberg deserve your help getting it out there. Screams Before Silence has a brief runtime of 56 minutes, but it took me nearly three hours to watch it on an unbusy Sunday afternoon. Frequent breaks — not to mention a few tissues — come highly recommended."
  Watch This... If You Dare... If You Can...
  
• "The organization is meant to do exactly what I failed to do on October 7: Save lives."
  Soldiers Save Lives "Does Something" to Protect Israel
  
• "This has been an ill-conceived mission from the start. Every day when these ships have been in transit was another day terrorists in Gaza have been preparing to thwart their arrival. In any case, the risk to Americans will only intensify. [So-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden should never have put our men and women in this position, and he should abandon this project immediately before any U.S. troops are injured,” [Sen Roger] Wicker said in a statement last week.
  Pentagon Estimates Gaza Aid Pier Will Cost US Taxpayers $320 Million: Report
  
• "The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] spent the night at the lavish White House Correspondents’ chuckle fest cracking jokes about the political opponent he’s trying to imprison."
  Sleepy Joe Rests After Vowing He Won’t Until Every Hostage Is Home
  
• "We continually confront religious zealots that chafe at the West's restraint of violent tribal tendencies."
  Is Peace Possible in the Middle East? (Not until Islam is vanquished, and 1.5 billion adherents are deprogrammed - jjs)
  
• "The New York congressman garnered attention after he pulled a House office building fire alarm in September 2023." (This time, the wetbacks are wet from Jewish blood - jjs)
  Jamaal "5-Alarm" Bowman "Fully" in Favor of Resettling Gaza Migrants in U.S.
  * * * * *

• Daniel Greenfield: "Don’t expel just Hamas supporters – expel the neo-Nazi Left." (So, at least 90% of the professoriate, administrators and likely the student body? Okay by me - jjs)
  Take Back the Campus!
  
• Robert Zimmerman: "Pay very close attention to the leaders of these protests. Many are soon going to become major players in the Democrat Party, which is closely tied to these pro-Hamas riots and clearly want them to continue."
  The New Nazis and the Coming Genocide They are Planning
  
• "The horror escalates . . . while authorities watch."
  Video: Masked Woman Tasers Jewish Man at UCLA
  
• David Harsanyi: "They’re concerned that suspensions and legal charges might hinder the futures of students by following them into adulthood. We can only hope!"
  Anti-Israel College Students Want to Spew Hate with "Amnesty"
  
• "ActBlue previously facilitated donations to bail fund for anti-Israel bridge blockers."
  Dem Fundraising Platform ActBlue Takes a Cut of Donations to Michigan State University’s Anti-Israel Tent Encampment
  
• "I’m writing to inform you: What looks bad publicly is D.C. allowing a band of antisemitic, mask-wearing fanatics who call for an ‘intifada revolution’ to turn a university into a pro-Hamas encampment.”
  Sen. Cotton to D.C. Mayor Bowser: Let Cops Clear Leftist Protests at George Washington University
  
• "‘We urge those in the encampment to voluntarily disperse,’ Shafik says in statement."
  Columbia President Shafik Pleads With Protesters To ‘Voluntarily Disperse’ After Days of Negotiations Bring No Results
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• “While the University will not divest from Israel, the University offered to develop an expedited timeline for review of new proposals from the students by the Advisory Committee for Socially Responsible Investing, the body that considers divestment matters,” Shafik said.
  Columbia University Will Not Divest From Israel, President Says
  
• "Perfect."
  October 7 Massacre Projected on Screen at UCLA Anti-Israel Encampment
  
• “Oct. 7 for many of us from the region was a beautiful day.”
  UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies: Celebrating October 7th
  
• "Joseph Howley points the finger at 'hegemonic Zionist far right' for vilifying encampment."
  Encampment’s Faculty Cheerleader Oversees Columbia’s Core Curriculum in Humanities (I think I've spotted the root of the problem - jjs)
  
• ". . . even if you weren't entertained by today's blue-on-blue action, you can at least take comfort in the renewed knowledge that the Left still can't meme."
  You Love to See It: Left Goes Memes-Out Against 'Genocide Joe' Biden
  
• "The neo-Nazi leftist mob comes for its own – over Israel."
  Harassing Chelsea Handler
  
• "University and government policy should be built on the solid, content-neutral ground of distinguishing permissible free speech from prohibited criminal violence and harassment."
  Efforts to Control Gaza Protests Threaten Free Speech and Academic Freedom (Two things that no longer exist in this country - jjs)

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "Hindu girl raped throughout Ramadan, another is publicly stabbed to death."
  Love Jihad Hits India

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

• "Kristen Clarke at center of her own controversy in which she invited author of anti-Semitic conspiracy theory book to speak at Harvard." (Hack racialist cvnt - jjs)
  Biden Civil Rights Chief To Speak at Columbia Law Commencement Amid Anti-Semitism Scandal
  
• The email could cause trouble for Mangi, who has downplayed his work with the Rutgers Center amid scrutiny over the group’s anti-Israel rhetoric. The center hosted Sami al-Arian, a financier of the terrorist group "Palestinian" Islamic Jihad, at a 9/11 anniversary event in which speakers blamed "U.S. imperialism" for the terrorist attack. And Aziz, who founded the center in 2018, has said she was "in awe of the Palestinian struggle to resist" Israeli settlers.
  Adeel Mangi Downplayed His Involvement With Anti-Israel Think Tank, Emails Show

  "BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "Democrats know this, they just don’t care. They are playing chess while the rest of us play checkers. The way they see it, losing the next election will be more than worth flooding the country with millions and millions of illegal ringers, who will eventually ensure Democrats gain a permanent majority." (Unless Trump successfully institutes the most massive round-up and deportation of every single wetback - jjs)
  ‘Overwhelming’ Number Want Trump’s Border Wall, Immigration Laws Enforced
  
• "Gluesenkamp Perez, a centrist House Democrat, reiterated her calls for [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden to bring back Remain in Mexico and Title 42, two policies that were utilized widely under the Trump administration, but were both phased out after Biden assumed office. Illegal immigration has surged at the southern border under the Biden [junta], with millions of migrant encounters at the southern border since Biden took office."
  Democrat Rep Says Biden Junta Has No ‘Operational Control’ Over Border, Demands Trump-Era Policies Be Revived
  
• "America should be a haven for the virtuous and persecuted, not for the persecutors."
  Stop Importing Foreign Hatred
  
• "Priorities, priorities, and New York doesn't care much about its dedicated firefighters."
  New York Kills Off Another Man Named "Floyd," Laying Him Off From His Firefighter Job to Pay for Illegals

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS & DEMENTIA WATCH

• Robert Spencer: "But come on, man! In this age of near-universal dishonesty and deceit, we need honesty from our leaders more than ever, even a doddering, senescent, and corrupt figurehead such as Old Joe. But that is most certainly too much to ask."
  Outlaw Joe Biden Wants Us to Believe That He Has Been Arrested at Least Twice (His development was arrested - jjs)
  
• "The White House releases an official transcript anytime the president gives a speech or takes questions. Communications staff frequently correct, add to or alter Biden’s official remarks in order to either bring them into compliance with official White House policy or, in some cases, reality, a Daily Caller analysis showed. In several cases, official statements had to be changed to convey the exact opposite of what Biden actually said."
  White House Officially Claims Biden Has Made 148 Mistakes During 2024 Public Remarks

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

• Victor Davis Hanson: "Tragically for the country, to stop this left-wing madness, the Trump travesties may not be the end, but the beginning of precisely what the Founders feared."
  The Travesties of the Trump Trials
  
• "As the Manhattan DA's case implodes, the Supremes warn of prosecutorial abuse against ex-presidents."
  Bragg’s Trump Trial Refutes Case Against Immunity
  
• "Proving intent will be difficult—but, even if the prosecutors do, it may not matter."
  The Only Question That Matters in the Trump Trial
  
• "If this is how the Trump-hating left reacts to oral arguments before the Supreme Court, how in the world will it react should voters return Trump to office?"
  Come Witness The Left’s Latest Trump Freakout

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

• "The Dobbs decision supplanted both the Casey and Roe abortion decisions and spun the issue back to the states, and the left needs abortion as an election-year talking point. You'll want to keep an eye on this one. It's already getting traction." (Won't be nearly the factor that the border, economy and pogroms will be weighing them down - jjs)
  Backers of Brett Kavanaugh Riots Now Have Christian Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Crosshairs

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

• "Of course, the prohibition will be instituted after the 2024 election, and Biden’s campaign is going to keep using TikTok right to the exciting, absolutely unquestionable, November vote. No hypocrisy exhibited. Move along."
  ByteDance May Tell Federal Politicians To 'Bite Me' Over TikTok
  
• The CNN poll found that 55% of Americans believe Trump’s presidency was a success, while the same percentage of voters said in January 2021 that it was a failure. Acosta said on “CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta” that it was “extraordinary” that some voters look back fondly at Trump’s presidency, citing the number of deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
  ‘Extraordinary’: "Jm-J" Acosta Stunned By XiNN Poll Showing Majority View Trump Presidency as ‘Success’

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "Paul Krugman cares little about these price variations, making him an economist seemingly unconcerned about the details of his own finances."
  Middle-Class Americans Don’t Care What Paul Krugman’s Charts Say About Inflation
  
• "When Trump is reelected and undoes the damage inflicted by Biden, don't expect the economy to recover overnight."
  Biden Does Not Understand Taxes
  
• "A sword of Damocles now hangs over nearly every American business since it undoubtedly has at least one disgruntled job applicant, employee, or fired worker convinced that he, she, or it was the victim of discrimination and relief is only a telephone call away."
  Killing Capitalism by Ending Racial Discrimination

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

• Marissa Knodel, a senior adviser at BOEM who formerly worked for eco-advocacy group Earthjustice, sought the advice of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Ocean Conservancy, two environmental activist groups, in 2021. Knodel was looking for a legal explanation as to how encouraging offshore wind developers to invest in “underserved communities” aligns with BOEM’s mission, the discovered emails reveal.
  Top Biden Bureaucrat Consulted With Eco-Activists To Justify Infusing Social Justice Into Wind Program (Social justice is wind. . . that was broken - jjs)
  
• "They lose money on every vehicle sold, but make it up in volume."
  Ford Reports Massive Loss on Every Electric Vehicle It Sold
  
• "Another fail for the woke green energy movement."
  Woke Going Broke? EV Manufacturers See Decrease in Demand
  
• "Climate is always changing. Man has nothing to do with this simple fact."
  Living with Climate Change.

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "The law enforcement personnel were attempting to serve a warrant for a felon in possession of a firearm when the suspect began shooting."
  Four Law Enforcement Officers Killed Serving Warrant in North Carolina

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• "The new rule burdens American gun companies with regulations that will entrench 'significant losses' they suffered after the October 2023 halt."
  Biden Junta Making It Harder For U.S. Gun Businesses To Sell Abroad

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• “Advocating for the ‘autonomous’ individual, it turns out, is more cost efficient.”
  A Union Win for Fordham’s Catholic Identity
  
• Christopher Rufo: "The university now has at least 177 bureaucrats dedicated to left-wing racialism."
  DEI Conquers Stanford
  
• "Is it any wonder Americans no longer share a hope for the future and a sense of the common good?"
  Study: Religious School Kids Are Way More Tolerant And Informed Than Public Schoolers (Muslim madrassas notwithstanding - jjs)

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "Willis’ absence left her Democratic challenger, Christian Wise Smith, debating an empty podium, Fox 5 Atlanta reported. Willis, who appointed her romantic partner Nathan Wade to work on the case against former President Donald Trump and allowed him to pay for vacations they took together, was sharply criticized by Judge Scott McAfee in a March decision that did not grant defendants’ request to disqualify Willis but did require Wade to step down."
  Fani Willis No-Shows Debate To Host ‘Self Care Fair’ Amid Legal, Ethical Scrutiny
  
• "Lara Trump attended the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner to mingle with the DC establishment that hates her family." (Stupid or keeping the enemy closer? - jjs)
  Lara Trump Parties With the People Trying to Bankrupt and Imprison Her Father-In-Law
  
• "The law firm representing Dolton, Illinois, Mayor Tiffany Henyard (D) has requested to withdraw from several lawsuits involving Henyard and the Village of Dolton after allegedly not being paid."
  "America’s Worst Mayor" Dropped by Law Firm: "Not Required to Work for Free"

  POLITICS

• "Biden’s terrible approval numbers of his 13th quarter in office, which began on January 20 and ended April 19, suggests he will have a difficult time winning reelection." (He wasn't elected in the first place, courtesy of Dao-Min Yen - jjs)
  Gallup Poll: Joe Biden Sinks to Historically Lowest Approval Average in 13th Quarter at 38.7%
  
• "[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden’s support among young voters has been declining since even before the Israel-Hamas war commenced in October. Carville on an episode of James Carville Explains chided young voters for not committing to vote for Democrats, asserting that Republican and conservative control of the country will lead to them not having any rights for the remainder of their lives."
  "You Little Fucking 26-Year-Old": James Carville Mocks Young People Who Don’t Just Roll Over and Vote Dem
  
• "A Veep candidate can campaign and start to take down Biden's failed [spurious] presidency."
  Trump Needs a Running Mate Right Now
  
• "Shooting a 14-month-old dog for acting like a 14-month-old dog is reprehensible. Admitting you shot a 14-month-old dog for acting like a 14-month-old dog in a political book meant to boost your national profile is unforgivable. All Noem has proven is that she is too tone-deaf and lacking in political judgment to be on the national stage." (Her flip-flopping on key issues wasn't so good for her either - jjs)
  Kristi Noem Shot Her Dog and Political Future in the Head
  
• "Aaron Dimmock, a former Navy aviator, filed Friday to challenge Gaetz in the Republican primary for Florida’s first Congressional district on Aug. 20. Dimmock’s LinkedIn page shows that he previously supported BLM and advocated for DEI." (Dim. Mock. - jjs)
  Matt Gaetz Gets Primary Challenge From McCarthy-Aligned BLM Supporter

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "The incident reportedly occurred in the province of Raqqa, whose eponymous largest city was once the capital of the Islamic State “caliphate” established over significant portions of both Iraq and Syria. It occurred in the context of growing concern that, after the eradication of ISIS from Raqqa in 2017, the Sunni jihadist terror group has found a way to regroup in the Middle East, in addition to increasing its activity throughout Africa and South Asia."
  Islamic State Resurgence: Four Assad Troops Killed in Syria Ambush
  
• He held office for merely 1 year and 1 month, the second shortest first minister tenure the country has seen since the office was established in 1999, BBC News reports. Yousaf was infamously known for a 2020 speech just before he was elected during which he said "99 percent of the meetings I go to, I'm the only non-white person in the room."
  Scotland's anti-white First Minister Humza Yousaf resigns ahead of no-confidence vote
  
• "Italy’s prime minister may not cut the most radical figure, but she has shown a way to advance her cause against daunting odds."
  Giorgia Meloni Is Better Than You Think

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "Military parents will need to be their own advocates as they appeal to Congress to restore their parental rights in this federal health care system."
  DOD Prompts Gender Dysphoria In Military Kids And Hides Health Records From Parents
  
• "Congress mandated the Pentagon compile a report detailing how much the entire military spent on diversity training, salaries for DEI administrators and any impacts on recruiting and retention across the force that was due March 1, according to last year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which sets defense policy for the next fiscal year. But the Pentagon is nearly two months behind the due date for the report after the same defense authorization act for fiscal year 2024 slashed the salaries of DEI personnel, effectively gutting the departments, the DCNF learned."
  Pentagon Says It Can’t Calculate Diversity Training Costs Because Congress Defunded DEI Offices

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• "Images submitted included homeless camps and covid masks."
  Gov. Gavin Newsom Probably Regrets Asking Californians for New State Coin Designs

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Robert Zimmerman: "Whether the many required later Starship launches as described above can get FAA approval quick enough to prove out this system soon enough to meet NASA’s 2026 present target date for its manned lunar landing seems very unlikely. Moreover, even if it does it will be a major challenge for SpaceX to meet this schedule."
  The plan for SpaceX’s first demo in-orbit refueling mission of Starship
  
• "Webb’s new images show part of the sky in the constellation Orion (The Hunter), in the western side of a dense region known as the Orion B molecular cloud. Rising from turbulent waves of dust and gas is the Horsehead Nebula, otherwise known as Barnard 33, which resides roughly 1,300 light-years away."
  Webb takes an infrared look at the mane of the Horsehead Nebula

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

• “The erroneous redefinition of ‘sex’ through these implementing regulations constitutes a grave setback that will increase the vulnerability of the majority of women and girls to incursions into their privacy, including voyeurism, sexual harassment and physical and sexual attacks, by effectively removing single sex spaces,” Alsalem said in a Monday release by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
  ‘Fails Women And Girls’: Even A Top UN Adviser Is Warning Against Biden’s New Title IX Regime
  
• "Title IX is the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination."
  Texas Sues Biden Junta Over New Transgender Title IX Rules
  
• "It’s worth noting that Souza was also the first trans person ever compete in the Miss Maui USA competition, raising the question as to the likelihood of him pulling off a win without identity politics being a factor. But we aren’t allowed to ask that."
  Biological Male Wins 'Miss Valley Isle USA' Pageant in Hawaii

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Phyllis Chesler: "If these are the views and attitudes of our coming generations — then I fear all is lost."
  Snowflake Work Habits

  HITHER & YON

• "A new novel and a recently released movie do World War II justice."
  World War True
  
• "Peter Rabbit’s world is cozy but rife with peril."
  Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature
  
• "This forgotten '80s gem still has the power to creep audiences out."
  Randy Quaid’s Parents Remains a Bone-Chilling Satire

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