NYT Fires Half of Its Editorial Staff

Learn to do something. Anything, really.

The New York Times is reshuffling its operations at the opinion section -- reducing the frequency of its editorials while shrinking its roster of editorial board writers, according to a report.
The Gray Lady has reportedly offered several of its editorial board members new jobs within the opinion section or buyout packages if they choose to leave the company.
Mara Gay (who is frequently seen on left-leaning news channel MSNBC), Brent Staples, Jesse Wegman and Farah Stockman are editorial board members who were given the option of accepting a buyout, the news site Semafor reported on Monday.

Mara Gay is the innumerate idiot who did some quick arithmetic and asserted that if Michael Bloomberg took the $500 million he spent on his 2020 bid for president and paid it out to American citizens, he could give them each over one million dollars. Because you know there are fewer than 500 citizens in America.

An MSNBC news anchor and pundit are being ridiculed after suggesting that Michael Bloomberg could have given every American a million dollars with the amount of money spent on his campaign.
While discussing Bloomberg's huge investment in advertising campaigns throughout his 2020 Democratic-run, anchor Brian Williams discussed a tweet making the claim with a glaringly obvious mathematical calculation.
He suggested that because Bloomberg had spent $500 million on his campaign and there were 327 million people in America, he could have given each member of the population a million pounds with money to spare.
Williams showed a screen-grab of the tweet during the broadcast that read: "Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The US population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over. I feel like a $1 million check would be life-changing for most people. Yet he wasted it all on ads and STILL LOST."
Speaking in disbelief, Williams said: "When I read it tonight on social media it kind of all became clear."
Even more embarrasingly, in the middle of reading out, the tweet remarked: "Don't tell us if you're ahead of us on the math."
NYT Editorial Board Member Mara Gay then agreed: "It's an incredible way of putting it. It's true. It's disturbing. It does suggest what we're talking about here which is there's too much money in politics."
A Twitter with the username Andrew Kaczynski posted a clip of the mistake on Twitter with the caption "how did this end up on tv?"

Brent Staples is the useless black editorial writer that no one reads, not the neocon writer Brett Stephens, who people only read when he admits he's been wrong about everything in his adult life as an "intellectual."

The New York Times branded these do-nothing DEIs as low quality.

"Publishing fewer, higher-quality editorials, the thesis goes, will lead to more audience attention," according to the Semafor report.
The Times is also mulling possible changes to its endorsement policy, including backing candidates in races across the country, according to Semafor.

Oh great, because voters in Montana don't hear enough about liberal New York Times' "journalists'" opinions on every fkcuing thing.

A Times spokesperson confirmed the accuracy of Semafor's reporting and declined further comment.
Opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury, deputy editor Patrick Healy, and publisher AG Sulzberger are considering restructuring the opinion department by having more editors participate in the editorial board while reducing the number of staff dedicated exclusively to writing editorials, according to Semafor.
Earlier this year, longtime op-ed columnist Paul Krugman went public with his criticisms of Kingsbury and Healy -- accusing the two executives of effectively censoring his opinion pieces before he left the newspaper late last year.

Krugman told Columbia Journalism Review that the two editorial bosses were "exerting a heavy hand on what went out under my name" and that as a result, he "approached Mondays and Thursdays (when his columns appeared) with dread."
On the days his column appeared in the Times' pages, he "often spent the afternoon in rage" after publication, according to CJR.

Oh have an infarction, asshole.

...
The final straw for Krugman was when he was told by Kingsbury that his output would be reduced from two columns per week to just one.

And he had previously been reduced from three columns per week to two.

It's almost as if everyone knows Paul Krugman is a crackpot asshole who spews nothing but thoughtless reflexive leftwing talking points.

Mark Hemingway
@Heminator
Since Trump got elected, Ruth Marcus, Jim Acosta, Norah O'Donnell, Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, Chris Wallace, Joy Reid, Neil Cavuto, Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart, Lester Holt all resigned or were fired.
They shut down 538 and now they're getting rid of the entire NYT editorial board. Amazing.

Posted by: Ace at 03:23 PM

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1 Fist

Posted by: Rod S at March 12, 2025 03:24 PM (HcoTw)

2 LEARN TO COAL

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 12, 2025 03:24 PM (iFTx/)

3 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 03:24 PM (hOk1M)

4 frist

Posted by: maxie at March 12, 2025 03:25 PM (Q61Af)

5 The final straw for Krugman was when he was told by Kingsbury that his output would be reduced from two columns per week to just one.
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That's still one per week for every brain cell.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 03:25 PM (mL1/V)

6 >>>Since Trump got elected, Ruth Marcus, Jim Acosta, Norah O'Donnell, Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, Chris Wallace, Joy Reid, Neil Cavuto, Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart, Lester Holt all resigned or were fired.

Not to worry, though. Margaret Brennan still persists.

Posted by: Dr. T at March 12, 2025 03:26 PM (KKJEY)

7 Is this a precedent for NRO to do some much needed editorial readjustment? How about the WSJ?

Posted by: Dantes at March 12, 2025 03:26 PM (D31jn)

8 "They shut down 538 and now they're getting rid of the entire editorial board. Amazing."

And hilarious.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 12, 2025 03:26 PM (ZlOcj)

9 On the days his column appeared in the Times' pages, he "often spent the afternoon in rage" after publication, according to CJR.
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Oh yeah when Krugman rages watch out. I bet no kid was safe.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 03:27 PM (mL1/V)

10 So?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2025 03:27 PM (Q4IgG)

11 Since Trump got elected, Ruth Marcus, Jim Acosta, Norah O'Donnell, Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, Chris Wallace, Joy Reid, Neil Cavuto, Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart, Lester Holt all resigned or were fired....

Oh no...

Posted by: Substack at March 12, 2025 03:27 PM (PiwSw)

12 I was told by NYT that firing people is evil and illegal. Is that no longer the case?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 12, 2025 03:27 PM (Qeko5)

13 Similar to the Dept Of Ed in more ways than one.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 12, 2025 03:28 PM (lTGtQ)

14 Christmas, Day 51

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2025 03:28 PM (13w+k)

15 Learn to pick fruit.

Doing the jobs illegals are no longer here to do…..

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 12, 2025 03:28 PM (W2Pud)

16 Killing USAID, the gift that keeps giving

Posted by: A dude in MI at March 12, 2025 03:28 PM (/6GbT)

17 It's almost like the walking around money was somehow funding these clowns, and now the money is gone.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 12, 2025 03:28 PM (k/U8Z)

18 Man, Jen Rubin is going to have such a deep pool guests with ample free time to appear on her "Little Bit of Everything!" podcast!

Joe Rogan, watch out!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 12, 2025 03:29 PM (2EU+I)

19 Not tired of winning.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at March 12, 2025 03:29 PM (cXyzu)

20 Left wingers are assuring us this is FASCISM!!!

Posted by: Jay in PA at March 12, 2025 03:29 PM (i7Q7S)

21 > The New York Times branded these do-nothing DEIs as low quality.
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Ouch. DEI and low quality.

sux2bu

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2025 03:29 PM (Q4IgG)

22 I hear the federal govt is hiring.
Ohhhh right.
Cancel that.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 12, 2025 03:29 PM (Qeko5)

23 By "editorial staff" they of course mean DNC face spooge propagandists. I wonder why they suddenly can't pay them anymore. Must be a good reason.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 03:29 PM (mL1/V)

24 We'll see you in court

Posted by: United Brotherhood of Layabouts and Slapdicks, Local 341 at March 12, 2025 03:29 PM (y9ksN)

25 I never understood why there were so many of these "opinion" writers in media. Who gives a flaming rat's taint what these queef numpties think about anything? Just report the news.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 12, 2025 03:29 PM (iFTx/)

26 Show up on time, don't wreck, don't piss off customers they can drive garbage trucks and make 80 grand a year. In sunny California.

Posted by: torabora at March 12, 2025 03:30 PM (0Gnoc)

27 Oh . . Style guide is "Former Enron Advisor Paul Krugman"

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 12, 2025 03:30 PM (k/U8Z)

28 Those fired should have no problem finding jobs in the house cleaning or food service industries.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 12, 2025 03:30 PM (NNMcJ)

29 Was NYT on US A ID payroll ? Discuss....

Posted by: runner at March 12, 2025 03:30 PM (g47mK)

30 >>>Since Trump got elected, Ruth Marcus, Jim Acosta, Norah O'Donnell, Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, Chris Wallace, Joy Reid, Neil Cavuto, Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart, Lester Holt all resigned or were fired.

I wouldn't let them scoop dog shit out of my yard.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 12, 2025 03:31 PM (pf2IK)

31 Will any legacy media be around in 2026? It's very hard to get out of a toilet bowl death spiral.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at March 12, 2025 03:31 PM (a4xLe)

32 Was NYT on US A ID payroll ? Discuss....
Posted by: runner at March 12, 2025 03:30 PM

Which media weren't? Shorter discussion.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 03:31 PM (hOk1M)

33 It's another (4th today) Trumpmas miracle!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 03:31 PM (i24o9)

34 The winning just keeps coming. Just keep bashing away at the the bureaucracy and propaganda ministries and .... SUCCESS!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 12, 2025 03:32 PM (2Km7O)

35 I suggest they reduce Krugman's columns to zero per week.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 12, 2025 03:32 PM (lTGtQ)

36 I bet all of them were paid via USAID. Literally.

Posted by: BrianWilliamsWasThere at March 12, 2025 03:32 PM (njAFV)

37 Was NYT on US A ID payroll ? Discuss....
Posted by: runner

Yes, 2 or 3 million per year.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 12, 2025 03:32 PM (lTGtQ)

38 I wouldn't let them scoop dog shit out of my yard.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 12, 2025 03:31 PM (pf2IK)
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I would. That was my least favorite job, back when my doggies were still on the right side of the grass.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2025 03:32 PM (U7ZsA)

39 Math is hard!
Barbie Gay.

Posted by: teh Wind at March 12, 2025 03:33 PM (l+V04)

40 I once knew a guy who was a libertarian for real, he was always voting for the smallest government candidate. But in all other areas, he had the boomer fetish about credentials. Anyone with a fancy degree automatically got his respect.

The day he said "Paul Krugman, who is a YALE ECONOMIST with a NOBEL PRIZE, says that blah blah blah..." he lost me for good.

No amount of paper mache can cover that much dumb.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 12, 2025 03:33 PM (BI5O2)

41 Learn to pick fruit.

Doing the jobs illegals are no longer here to do…..

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 12, 2025 03:28 PM (W2Pud)

Learn to pick bellybutton lint, the fruit of the navel.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 03:33 PM (i24o9)

42 Are they being fired because nobody is reading the NYT or because funding from NGO or some other groups dried up or both?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2025 03:33 PM (42Vb+)

43 The New York Times branded these do-nothing DEIs as low quality.

"Publishing fewer, higher-quality editorials, the thesis goes, will lead to more audience attention," according to the Semafor report.

Shut your ass! You mean flooding people with s*** doesn't result in them developing a fondness for s***?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 12, 2025 03:33 PM (xCA6C)

44 Hey NYTards, remember how funny that Mar-a-Lago raid was? Bet you had a great day that day! Ho ho ho!!!

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 03:33 PM (mL1/V)

45 The sweetest part is their reputation is ruined. Destroyed. Never coming back. It will forever be a propaganda rag after all the lying during Covid and the 2020 election.

Posted by: Biergood at March 12, 2025 03:33 PM (PwgSL)

46 Math is hard!
Barbie Gay.
Posted by: teh Wind at March 12, 2025 03:33 PM

We don't like hard things!

- Gay Barbie

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 03:33 PM (hOk1M)

47 That list of the Mighty Who Have Fallen is amazing! What a useless bunch of fuckwits.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2025 03:33 PM (uWKK8)

48 Dinosaur Media is dying…. turning into useful coal and oil…

Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025 03:33 PM (PCK5/)

49 There's always OnlyFans.

Posted by: torabora at March 12, 2025 03:33 PM (0Gnoc)

50 I hate talking to myself in a dead thread.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (VofaG)

51 When 60 Minutes gets canceled, I will throw a really big ass party.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (W2Pud)

52 >>>Since Trump got elected, Ruth Marcus, Jim Acosta, Norah O'Donnell, Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, Chris Wallace, Joy Reid, Neil Cavuto, Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart, Lester Holt all resigned or were fired.

Soak it in.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (i24o9)

53 Sad it took this long for The NY Times to dump half of their ignorant staff which is ,objectively speaking, a half too few.

Posted by: Voter theater. at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (pHaBL)

54 I never understood why there were so many of these "opinion" writers in media. Who gives a flaming rat's taint what these queef numpties think about anything? Just report the news.
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Op-eds were click-bait before it was click-bait.

E.g., every newspaper in TX running Molly Ivens.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (2EU+I)

55 51 When 60 Minutes gets canceled, I will throw a really big ass party.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (W2Pud)

The View...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (VE6XX)

56 fruit of the navel.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 03:33 PM (i24o9)

I'll take Underwear Companies That Didn't Make It for 800, Alex

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (mL1/V)

57 I suggest they reduce Krugman's columns to zero per week.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 12, 2025 03:32 PM (lTGtQ)
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I have some good news for you. Krugman was "retired" and now is free to spend more time with his podcasting guest spots.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (U7ZsA)

58 Infarction. It's a funny sort of word, isn't it? Infarction.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (6K6Eu)

59
Streaming coverage of the Crew 10 mission is about to start. The launch itself isn't scheduled to happen until around 7:45PM EDT, thought. Here's a couple of links:

SFN:
https://tinyurl.com/25uxzhuo

NASA+
https://tinyurl.com/252aw6fm

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (w6EFb)

60 50 I hate talking to myself in a dead thread.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (VofaG)

So, is Goldblum homosexual, or not??

Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (PCK5/)

61 42 Are they being fired because nobody is reading the NYT or because funding from NGO or some other groups dried up or both?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2025 03:33 PM (42Vb+)

We all wonder how much USAID and hidden NGO funding had to do with all of this.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (uWKK8)

62 Let them wash and delouse bedding and mattresses in NY hotels. Cleaning up after all the deported illegals should keep them busy for a while.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (VNX3d)

63 Tee, hee

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (J2vNu)

64 Half of NY Times and Half of the DoE equals one full tard.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 03:35 PM (VofaG)

65 Now that USAID is under the gun, how does the New York Times make any money?

Posted by: Questions That Need Answers at March 12, 2025 03:35 PM (EEZHI)

66 Former Enron Financial Advisor Paul Krugman

Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at March 12, 2025 03:35 PM (AmUxK)

67 Is Mara Gay related to former Harvard President Claudine Gay, Ph.D ( CTRL-C, CTRL-V )

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 12, 2025 03:35 PM (PiwSw)

68 I was wondering about Charles Blow, but it turns out he's already left the NYT. He's going to Harvard, because of course he is.

Filled my farewell column for the NYT. It will publish tonight ...
1 month ago
Congratulations Mr. Blow! Onward! Columnist Charles Blow To Leave New York Times, Accept Inaugural Langston Hughes Fellowship at Harvard.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 12, 2025 03:35 PM (xCA6C)

69 Posted by: Elric Blade at March 12, 2025 03:29 PM (iFTx/)

I usually enjoy reading and agree with what Michael Goodwin says in the "NY Post".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2025 03:35 PM (42Vb+)

70 NYT should start a podcast.

Posted by: wth at March 12, 2025 03:35 PM (v0R5T)

71 Firing half of their staff is a start.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 12, 2025 03:35 PM (e5NfL)

72 Why do such bad things always happen to such good people?

Sad, really.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 12, 2025 03:35 PM (uCjyK)

73 Those septic tanks don’t pump themselves, people.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at March 12, 2025 03:35 PM (hzTl3)

74 There's always OnlyFans.
Posted by: torabora at March 12, 2025 03:33 PM (0Gnoc)
================
and NBA point guarding.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 12, 2025 03:36 PM (U7ZsA)

75 When 60 Minutes gets canceled, I will throw a really big ass party.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (W2Pud)

The View...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM

Isn't The View already a big ass party?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 03:36 PM (hOk1M)

76 50 I hate talking to myself in a dead thread.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (VofaG)

So, is Goldblum homosexual, or not??
Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (PCK5/)

I skipped that conversation. But he can find you a place to rent.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 03:36 PM (VofaG)

77 Since Trump got elected, Ruth Marcus, Jim Acosta, Norah O'Donnell, Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, Chris Wallace, Joy Reid, Neil Cavuto, Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart, Lester Holt all resigned or were fired.

They shut down 538 and now they're getting rid of the entire NYT editorial board. Amazing.

Turns out defunding USAID was the best think Trump could have done...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2025 03:36 PM (t0Rmr)

78 Not that I'm surprised, but these media companies knew millions in taxpayer graft was flowing into their coffers and said nothing.

There's no legitimate reason you have thousands of "pro" subscriptions from the same gov't agency.

Posted by: Leupold at March 12, 2025 03:36 PM (4pwAx)

79 Paul Krugman has predicted 17 of the the last 3 recessions.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 12, 2025 03:36 PM (2UnvF)

80 55 51 When 60 Minutes gets canceled, I will throw a really big ass party.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (W2Pud)

The View...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (VE6XX)

Just merge them into 60 Views. All of the talking heads must use a Picasso filter. It will be an open question whether their heads or their words will be stranger.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 12, 2025 03:36 PM (VNX3d)

81 73 Those septic tanks don’t pump themselves, people.
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at March 12, 2025 03:35 PM (hzTl3)

They're always hiring for those porta potty "technicians".

Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2025 03:37 PM (VE6XX)

82 Learn. To. Blow!

Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 12, 2025 03:37 PM (okqOD)

83 54 I never understood why there were so many of these "opinion" writers in media. Who gives a flaming rat's taint what these queef numpties think about anything? Just report the news.
---
Op-eds were click-bait before it was click-bait.

E.g., every newspaper in TX running Molly Ivens.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (2EU+I)

Ivins had one - and only one - good quip in her career. She took to calling GWB 'Shrub'. Still get a little chuckle out of that one, even though it stung at the time she wrote that.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at March 12, 2025 03:37 PM (hKDlP)

84 "Can any of these crusty faggots who got fired suck a good dick?"

-- Shonuff The Pimp in Roosevelt Avenue brothel

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 12, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/)

85
So, is Goldblum homosexual, or not??
Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025
*
I skipped that conversation. But he can find you a place to rent.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025

***
He can lecture very entertainingly about chaos, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 12, 2025 03:37 PM (J2vNu)

86
My favorite Krugman prediction is that the Internet would have no more effect on the economy than the fax machine.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 12, 2025 03:37 PM (w6EFb)

87 This is a fine solution to the immenent tomato picker shortage.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 12, 2025 03:37 PM (8hnLw)

88 So, is Goldblum homosexual, or not??
Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (PCK5/)

Well, he is an actor and has probably sucked and fucked both men and woman but no, he is not "classified" as a homosexual. It would be terrible if he was gay and was outed at a time not of his choosing, being wrenched from his closet, his voice cracking, his cheeks crimson with shame.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at March 12, 2025 03:38 PM (EEZHI)

89 Isn't The View already a big ass party?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 12, 2025 03:36 PM (hOk1M)

*Gives RMBS the stinkeye*

Posted by: Ana Navarro-Cardenas at March 12, 2025 03:38 PM (PiwSw)

90 86
My favorite Krugman prediction is that the Internet would have no more effect on the economy than the fax machine.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 12, 2025 03:37 PM (w6EFb)

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"Mine was that he'd get laid on his birthday. Wrong for 34 years in a row."
-Mrs. Krugman

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 12, 2025 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

91 From the last post.

Opens file containing draft of the Official Ace of Spades Dictionary. Adds the word "slapdicks"

Posted by: Paco at March 12, 2025 03:38 PM (mADJX)

92 Hope they keep the Food section. It's OK.

Posted by: Journal of Sudden Liquids and Semisolids Quarterly at March 12, 2025 03:38 PM (1VvJB)

93 I have a liberal niece that's getting a degree in journalism. I'm looking forward to the kick in the teeth it will give her, but she's a trust fund brat, so is somewhat insulated.

Posted by: Leupold at March 12, 2025 03:38 PM (4pwAx)

94 Seems unemployment rate is going to skyrocket

Posted by: Skip i at March 12, 2025 03:38 PM (fwDg9)

95 Who gives a flaming rat's taint what these queef numpties think about anything?

How else are Lefty voters supposed to get their marching orders? You're not suggesting they use their own brains, are you?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 12, 2025 03:38 PM (WPL6O)

96 For those of you keeping score at home...

Posted by: We're not tired of winning at March 12, 2025 03:39 PM (DobEs)

97 I love watching the media die. Not just the news media, which has been dying for awhile. But movies, music, and and TV are all dying too. Once they finish croaking and we can chuck legacy media's corpse into a ditch for the rats to eat, maybe we can get back to having a real culture, instead of this ersatz one.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 12, 2025 03:39 PM (BI5O2)

98 53 Sad it took this long for The NY Times to dump half of their ignorant staff which is ,objectively speaking, a half too few.
Posted by: Voter theater. at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (pHaBL)

The NYT makes more of its money off Wirecutter, The Athletic and Wordle than it does off the news, it seems. They are in much better financial shape than WaPo, for instance, because they've successfully diversified away from their core business.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at March 12, 2025 03:39 PM (hKDlP)

99 92. And the crossword puzzle

Posted by: long night...lifted at March 12, 2025 03:39 PM (2NXcZ)

100 Pretty easy explanation on how how Krugman got his Nobel.

Liberal academics loved his screeching in the NYT, so they voted for him to get a Nobel prize to give him more authority.

Posted by: Leupold at March 12, 2025 03:40 PM (4pwAx)

101 Die NYT die.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 12, 2025 03:40 PM (/U5Yz)

102 Wordle is okay.

Posted by: ScaryMary at March 12, 2025 03:40 PM (i/l90)

103 Mark Hemingway
@Heminator
Since Trump got elected, Ruth Marcus, Jim Acosta, Norah O'Donnell, Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, Chris Wallace, Joy Reid, Neil Cavuto, Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart, Lester Holt all resigned or were fired.

They shut down 538 and now they're getting rid of the entire NYT editorial board. Amazing.

-
I think the word you're looking for is "bodacious."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 12, 2025 03:40 PM (L/fGl)

104 My favorite Krugman prediction is that the Internet would have no more effect on the economy than the fax machine.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 12, 2025 03:37 PM (w6EFb)

I offended someone here about that, I don't remember who. Apparently he also didn't like Murray Rothbard.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 12, 2025 03:40 PM (D7oie)

105
You can just picture it, can't you:

[Daytime at the NY Times Building. The sun is shining.]

NYTard #1: We just got word! The FBI is raiding Mar-a-Lago.

NYTard #2: Ho ho ho!!!!

NYTard #1: There's pictures!!!

NYTard #2: They went through Barron's room and Melania's clothing!

NYTard #1: We've got him now!!

NYTard #2: Ho ho ho!!!!

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 03:40 PM (mL1/V)

106 Anecdotal but I’m noticing jobs I applied and got rejected for some time ago are suddenly open again and hiring

Gee I guess those DEI hires didn’t work out?

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at March 12, 2025 03:40 PM (HYKHz)

107 Can't wait for the NYT's to replace their missing editorial staff with illegal immigrants.

Posted by: Orson at March 12, 2025 03:41 PM (dIske)

108 Most of them could get a job as experienced shit shovelers at the stables.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 12, 2025 03:41 PM (pohLc)

109
Oh, no.
Anyway...

Posted by: Most people at March 12, 2025 03:41 PM (DobEs)

110 Remember that Oval Office that the Dems and the media (BIRM) all SWORE was real? No. No it wasn't. Is there ANYTHING these vermin won't lie about?

Old Joe's Fake Oval Office — and Its Fake News Apologists — Exposed
https://tinyurl.com/mvn3dusa

Posted by: Archimedes at March 12, 2025 03:41 PM (xCA6C)

111 Agree… When 60 minutes gets cancelled…but at this point I m happy with the daily surprises.

Posted by: High tech at March 12, 2025 03:41 PM (37cEZ)

112 It really does now look like President Donald J. Trump, and markets are plunging. When might we expect them to recover?

Frankly, I find it hard to care much, even though this is my specialty. The disaster for America and the world has so many aspects that the economic ramifications are way down my list of things to fear.

Still, I guess people want an answer: If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.

https://tinyurl.com/hwzynfcu

Posted by: Paul Krugman, Super Genius at March 12, 2025 03:41 PM (AmUxK)

113 Mark Hemingway
@Heminator

Since Trump got elected, Ruth Marcus, Jim Acosta, Norah O'Donnell, Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, Chris Wallace, Joy Reid, Neil Cavuto, Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart, Lester Holt all resigned or were fired.

They shut down 538 and now they're getting rid of the entire NYT editorial board. Amazing.

-----------------

Putin, you magnificent bastard! Is there anything your Trump Curse can't do?

Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 12, 2025 03:42 PM (okqOD)

114 86 My favorite Krugman prediction is that the Internet would have no more effect on the economy than the fax machine. - publius

It was the actual Nobel prize in economics this guy won, right? It wasn't, maybe, the Nobel Prize for Dumbassery, or perhaps a fake thing, like the Nobelle prize (you know, like a "Rolecks" watch).

Posted by: Paco at March 12, 2025 03:42 PM (mADJX)

115 You mean fired, like from a cannon?

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 03:42 PM (mL1/V)

116 Will we have a story about Democrats being horrified because several Republicans called Sarah McBride-the Congressperson and fake "transgender" "Mr" McBride? Story at "Legal Insurrection.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 12, 2025 03:43 PM (42Vb+)

117 They're always hiring for those porta potty "technicians".
Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2025 03:37 PM (VE6XX)

There is a guy in Alabama who will pay you $150 to swim in your septic tank.

https://tinyurl.com/4x7h4v5c

Posted by: Jeff Sessions at March 12, 2025 03:43 PM (EEZHI)

118 "Oh have an infarction, asshole."

I lol'd.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2025 03:43 PM (KtIIi)

119 We do NOT have Steak and Blow Job nights at The Casa de Krugs

Posted by: Mrs Krugman at March 12, 2025 03:43 PM (1FWWQ)

120 "My favorite Krugman prediction is that the Internet would have no more effect on the economy than the fax machine."

Mine too - but my second favorite was that the economy would never recover from the dip it took on election night 2016.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at March 12, 2025 03:43 PM (zSyrn)

121 We've secretly replaced the NYT editorial staff with Folgers Crystals. Let's see if anyone notices!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 12, 2025 03:43 PM (2UnvF)

122 Sad it took this long for The NY Times to dump half of their ignorant staff which is ,objectively speaking, a half too few.

So...you're asking about the half life of a NYT journalist?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 12, 2025 03:44 PM (xCA6C)

123 Musk should tweet about offering to buy NYT.

Posted by: ryukyu at March 12, 2025 03:44 PM (251iY)

124 You can't force me to be a part of your mental illness Mr. McBride.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 03:44 PM (VofaG)

125 Have them all wear Pussy Hats.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 12, 2025 03:44 PM (pLaQB)

126 Are jobs that produce nothing but bile, really "jobs"?

They are certainly not part of a productive work force. More like welfare for commies.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 12, 2025 03:45 PM (Cus5s)

127 We've secretly replaced the NYT editorial staff with Folgers Crystals. Let's see if anyone notices!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 12, 2025 03:43 PM (2UnvF)
______

People will notice the improvement in quality

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 12, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

128 I love the idea of NYT 'unpacking its knapsack,' like it lectured us to do for over a decade.

Posted by: Journal of Sudden Liquids and Abrupt Semisolids Quarterly at March 12, 2025 03:45 PM (1VvJB)

129 They can always work on Kamala 2028.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 03:45 PM (mL1/V)

130 Any form of welding has always been a good trade.

Posted by: dananjcon at March 12, 2025 03:45 PM (8C1eU)

131 My favorite Krugman column is when he mocked the rednecks in flyover country before an election for thinking that the Obama economy was bad.

Why, he looked around the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where he lived, and the economy was going absolutely great.

So how could these rednecks complain?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 12, 2025 03:46 PM (xTIDn)

132 I think we're gonna see a lot of this in coming months, where companies only staying open by money being shoveled into the fire by the government is cut off.

Meanwhile, the UN holds a climate conference in Brazil, and to get the 50,000 people there they carved a 50 foot wide road through the rain forest 8 miles long. To save the environment.

https://tinyurl.com/amazon-road

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 03:46 PM (2VST1)

133 Oh, noes! That's terrible! sob

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 12, 2025 03:46 PM (0Htd1)

134 He gave everything for his sport.

Extreme eater & TikTok star famed for ‘mukbang’ vids of him gorging food dies at 24 after struggling to breathe or stand

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 12, 2025 03:46 PM (L/fGl)

135 110 Remember that Oval Office that the Dems and the media (BIRM) all SWORE was real? No. No it wasn't. Is there ANYTHING these vermin won't lie about? - Archimedes

Man, I'd like to buy that Oval Office set. It would be the coolest thing since Kramer bought the Merv Griffin set.

Posted by: Paco at March 12, 2025 03:46 PM (mADJX)

136
Looks like Norah O'Donnell succumbed to the Power of the Pudding

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 12, 2025 03:46 PM (y9nCu)

137 From the last post.

Opens file containing draft of the Official Ace of Spades Dictionary. Adds the word "slapdicks"
Posted by: Paco
__________

Is there a difference between a slapdick and a dicksmack?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 12, 2025 03:46 PM (Dm8we)

138 Speaking of jobs and the economy, I was thing that the tariffs probably not helping getting the Keystone pipeline started again.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 03:47 PM (VofaG)

139 No mention of David Brooks?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 12, 2025 03:47 PM (bss/y)

140 Now do the Wall Street Journal. Nobody wants advice from fucking NYC.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 12, 2025 03:47 PM (pLaQB)

141 If the NYT wants to remain relevant - they could pen daily articles on the new condition sweeping the Nation:

Schadenboners that simply will not go away and identify as 'his' or 'hers'.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 12, 2025 03:47 PM (cYBz/)

142 Critical Drinker has fun dunking on Snow White.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbW8pOO7eYg

Posted by: Archimedes at March 12, 2025 03:47 PM (xCA6C)

143 Can we trade Krugman to Canada for Jordan Peterson and a female Olympic curler to be named later?

Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 12, 2025 03:47 PM (igSUc)

144 I met a woman underwater welder a while back. Fascinating stories, dangerous job, pays a fuck ton.

Posted by: dananjcon at March 12, 2025 03:47 PM (8C1eU)

145 Just merge them into 60 Views. All of the talking heads must use a Picasso filter. It will be an open question whether their heads or their words will be stranger.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 12, 2025 03:36 PM

Y'know.... That could be interesting. Each episode has one topic one topic and each person has one minute to expound on that topic. They can tell the viewers what they think, believe, like, hate about the topic but with Picasso filter and helium voice.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 12, 2025 03:47 PM (4XwPj)

146 It's like the MSM has finally figured out DJT's RIF tactics. They're not firing people directly, they just reduce the work output to zero and force them to quit.

Posted by: mrp at March 12, 2025 03:47 PM (rj6Yv)

147 It was the actual Nobel prize in economics this guy won, right?

Krugman was a competent economist before he figured out that there was a lot more money and publicity in being a political hack.

And he was given the Nobel Prize for opposing the evil Bush, not his actual economics work.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 12, 2025 03:48 PM (xTIDn)

148 Man, I'd like to buy that Oval Office set. It would be the coolest thing since Kramer bought the Merv Griffin set.
Posted by: Paco at March 12, 2025 03:46 PM (mADJX)

I thought the Star Trek bridge set was #1 on the list but I'd prefer the Oval Office.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 03:48 PM (VofaG)

149 There's one factor obviously affecting the markets, and I'm surprised no one mentions it. The cumulative effect of USAID, the NGO's, and all the rest is that a huge amount of easy money was sloshing around, and not surprising that a bunch of it ended up in the markets. So now all of that money is being yanked out of the system, it's as huge a shock as massively raising interest rates would be.

Of course it's going to be a huge benefit long term, but in the short term it is a great shock, and we're seeing all that liquidity being drained.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2025 03:48 PM (uWKK8)

150 I wonder...

If the White House Press Conferences excluded majority foreign-owned outlets, how many of the current inquisitors would be allowed to attend?

5%? 20%?

The NYT would be excluded.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 12, 2025 03:48 PM (VNX3d)

151 And he was given the Nobel Prize for opposing the evil Bush, not his actual economics work.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 12, 2025 03:48 PM (xTIDn)

I thought it was about something he did in South Asia.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 03:49 PM (VofaG)

152 Why, he looked around the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where he lived, and the economy was going absolutely great.

Its like how Washington DC always eludes economic downturns. I think people who live there or work there are misled and think things aren't that bad everywhere else

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 03:49 PM (2VST1)

153 I met a woman pipe-fitter once, she also knitted and did fiber art stuff.

She was a lot more interesting to talk to than most of the welders in the shop I worked with.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 12, 2025 03:49 PM (D7oie)

154 USAID strikes again.

I won't be at all surprised to learn that we're an 80%+ (R) country, and the 50-50 pretend split has all been propped up by Our Democracy.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 03:49 PM (iv5Pb)

155 I thought the Star Trek bridge set was #1 on the list but I'd prefer the Oval Office.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 03:48 PM (VofaG)

Classic Trek? Absolutely.

Next Gen and after? Yeah, I'd take the Oval Office.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 12, 2025 03:49 PM (bss/y)

156 Any form of welding has always been a good trade.
Posted by: dananjcon at March 12, 2025 03:45 PM (8C1eU)

I don't want any of these cretins anywhere near a welder.

A) They'd all die in horrible accidents and sue every shop in America into oblivion
B) Everything they touched would collapse
C) For every poor hump who actually has to hop into a tank to run a bead there would be fifteen Welding Administrators writing the bastard up for only having five pride stickers on his helmet because the recommended minimum is five.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 12, 2025 03:49 PM (KtIIi)

157 Speaking of jobs and the economy, I was thing that the tariffs probably not helping getting the Keystone pipeline started again.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 03:47 PM (VofaG)

Last i heard, DJT expressed interest in the project's completion and the Canadian owners said "Nah, maybe next year, or sumpthin'".

Posted by: mrp at March 12, 2025 03:50 PM (rj6Yv)

158 Its like how Washington DC always eludes economic downturns. I think people who live there or work there are misled and think things aren't that bad everywhere else

Obama was a master in goosing the economies of the big blue cities, while screwing everyone else.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 12, 2025 03:50 PM (xTIDn)

159 Breaking: From Kash Patel's Twitter...he and Pam are busy going one at a time from the top down it seems...

"FBI Director Kash Patel

@FBIDirectorKash
TODAY: Following efforts with our interagency partners, I can report that a career Director level employee at US Customs and Border Protection has been charged with allegedly attempting to defraud FEMA, as well as lying to federal agents.

This is part of the new FBI’s renewed efforts to crack down on public corruption and deliver accountability for the American people.

Justice will be done.

Thanks to our partners
@AGPamBondi

@TheJusticeDept
and our
@FBIDetroit
team for their work."

Posted by: Nova Local at March 12, 2025 03:50 PM (exHjb)

160 I have to apologize here.

I am afraid I have been too harsh when comparing Federal service employees to leeches.

I regretfully apologize to all the honest leeches out there, which do in fact serve a legitimate purpose in life.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 03:50 PM (i24o9)

161 Meanwhile, the UN holds a climate conference in Brazil, and to get the 50,000 people there they carved a 50 foot wide road through the rain forest 8 miles long. To save the environment.
.......

Only 50' wide? How are they going to get Al Gore in there?

Posted by: wth at March 12, 2025 03:50 PM (v0R5T)

162 I met a woman underwater welder a while back. Fascinating stories, dangerous job, pays a fuck ton.
Posted by: dananjcon at March 12, 2025 03:47 PM

I met a literal midget welder once. He made a fortune welding in ships where no one else get to. Sometimes even inside pipes deep in the ships. Thousand or more dollars per hour, which was still cheaper than disassembling a freighter.

Posted by: Alexander The Adequate at March 12, 2025 03:51 PM (AmUxK)

163 Politico-
Rahm Emanuel Is Gearing Up to Run for President

https://tinyurl.com/y3ypv7v4

Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2025 03:51 PM (NpAcC)

164 131 My favorite Krugman column is when he mocked the rednecks in flyover country before an election for thinking that the Obama economy was bad.

Why, he looked around the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where he lived, and the economy was going absolutely great.

So how could these rednecks complain?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 12, 2025 03:46 PM (xTIDn)

========

As whig explained a few days back, perception of the economy is based on local factors, not national ones.

I've always suspected this, but he did the actual research back in the day.

So, Upper West Side probably always feels like things are going great. Same with DC. Power centers and financial centers in the largest economic engine in the world don't get sick. They slow down a bit sometimes unless is a huge crash.

But those of us living in bumfuck nowhere who see businesses shuttering, neighbors out of work, and prices rising? It's a different perception.

That Krugman refused to make that connection either proved his stupidity or his dishonesty. Probably the latter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 12, 2025 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

165
Last i heard, DJT expressed interest in the project's completion and the Canadian owners said "Nah, maybe next year, or sumpthin'".
Posted by: mrp at March 12, 2025 03:50 PM (rj6Yv)

If you've read the Art of The Deal then you'd know Trump never takes no for an answer...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2025 03:51 PM (VE6XX)

166 Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2025 03:48 PM (uWKK

I've been saying it for last few days that the USAID and other government grift money was parked in the markets.

People read my comments only by accident.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 03:51 PM (VofaG)

167 Bring in people who can say "Orange Man Bad" more eloquently

Posted by: Otto Pen at March 12, 2025 03:51 PM (sJHOI)

168 Why is The View still on air ? Are their contracts that iron clad ??

Posted by: runner at March 12, 2025 03:52 PM (g47mK)

169 All these fired media hackeys could get roles playing dwarfs in the next Snow White. Hell, they could play Snow White and nobody would notice.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 12, 2025 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

170 Still, I guess people want an answer: If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.

-

Wisdom comes when people realize Trump is trying to fix what wasn't allowed to happen in 2008 or so and has been propped up with fake money ever since.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 03:52 PM (iv5Pb)

171 I regretfully apologize to all the honest leeches out there, which do in fact serve a legitimate purpose in life.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 03:50 PM (i24o9)

*bows, doffs funny hat*

Posted by: Theodoric of York at March 12, 2025 03:52 PM (PiwSw)

172 perhaps a fake thing, like the Nobelle prize (you know, like a "Rolecks" watch).

Posted by: Paco

I had the opportunity to purchase a Ralux watch when in the Far East.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 12, 2025 03:52 PM (lTGtQ)

173 "But those of us living in bumfuck nowhere who see businesses shuttering, neighbors out of work, and prices rising?"

Hi neighbor!

Posted by: Journal of Sudden Liquids and Abrupt Semisolids Quarterly at March 12, 2025 03:52 PM (1VvJB)

174 I regretfully apologize to all the honest leeches out there, which do in fact serve a legitimate purpose in life.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 03:50 PM (i24o9)

Low blow

Posted by: Leeches at March 12, 2025 03:52 PM (mL1/V)

175 163 Politico-
Rahm Emanuel Is Gearing Up to Run for President

https://tinyurl.com/y3ypv7v4
Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2025 03:51 PM (NpAcC)

I wrote that here LAST week...dammit...are they reading our posts, too, in order to find out what's going on in the world...

As I mentioned, Rahm was the one Dem NOT HERE in the US for Biden, so he's "clean" on those years...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 12, 2025 03:52 PM (exHjb)

176 41 Learn to pick fruit.

Doing the jobs illegals are no longer here to do…..

Posted by: nurse

We had a fruit farm when I was young. I wouldn't trust those people to pick fruit. Fruit pickers are valuable.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 12, 2025 03:52 PM (0Htd1)

177 159 @FBIDirectorKash
TODAY: Following efforts with our interagency partners, I can report that a career Director level employee at US Customs and Border Protection has been charged with allegedly attempting to defraud FEMA, as well as lying to federal agents.

This is part of the new FBI’s renewed efforts to crack down on public corruption and deliver accountability for the American people.

Justice will be done.

Thanks to our partners
@AGPamBondi

@TheJusticeDept
and our
@FBIDetroit
team for their work."
Posted by: Nova Local at March 12, 2025 03:50 PM (exHjb)

=======

"charged", huh? That seems fun. Better than "suspected", "investigated", or "let go".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 12, 2025 03:53 PM (GBKbO)

178 Never mind, it's Disney. I thought NBC was Disney...

Posted by: runner at March 12, 2025 03:53 PM (g47mK)

179 Probably fired the right half to keep the lefties.
Just kidding; there was no right half at the NYT...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 12, 2025 03:53 PM (ynpvh)

180 People read my comments only by accident.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 03:51 PM (VofaG)

And, even still, we only skim them.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 03:53 PM (i24o9)

181 You can't hate them climate a-holes enough. Fifty foot road through the Amazon, of course. Notice you don't hear shit anymore about the Amazon being cut down. I guess its okay if you're cutting it down for your soy bean crops. Gotta have your bio-fuels!

Posted by: JROD at March 12, 2025 03:53 PM (IlL6s)

182 Who covers Shelving for the NYT?

Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2025 03:53 PM (npXNI)

183 I'm laughing at the image of Krugman the Angry Dwarf bouncing around his office shouting an incoherent string of curses until he eventually wears himself out and falls asleep on a pillow under his desk.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 12, 2025 03:54 PM (2EU+I)

184 182 Who covers Shelving for the NYT?
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2025 03:53 PM (npXNI)

=======

Does one cover shelving, or does shelving cover you?

*zen*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 12, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

185 I had the opportunity to purchase a Ralux watch when in the Far East.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 12, 2025 03:52 PM (lTGtQ)

When I was in Ephesus, I passed a vendor selling "Genuine Fake Watches."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 12, 2025 03:54 PM (PiwSw)

186 Rahm Emanuel Is Gearing Up to Run for President

https://tinyurl.com/y3ypv7v4
Posted by: redridinghood at March 12, 2025 03:51 PM (NpAcC)

Now that's funny. Who is his VP gonna be, an actual barrel of slime?

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 03:54 PM (mL1/V)

187 176 41 Learn to pick fruit.

Doing the jobs illegals are no longer here to do…..

Posted by: nurse

We had a fruit farm when I was young. I wouldn't trust those people to pick fruit. Fruit pickers are valuable.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 12, 2025 03:52 PM (0Htd1)

I think I can see them shaking nuts loose from trees - but only by running into them full-speed and head-butting the trunk.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 12, 2025 03:54 PM (VNX3d)

188 > Its like how Washington DC always eludes economic downturns. I think people who live there or work there are misled and think things aren't that bad everywhere else
---------
If you're a real estate agent in the capitol city, you're about to make bank.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 12, 2025 03:54 PM (Q4IgG)

189 As whig explained a few days back, perception of the economy is based on local factors, not national ones.

That happened hardcore here in Oregon in the 80s. Basically in addition to Carter;s economy, the logging industry was wiped out, and we were at over 20% unemployment and inflation rate, plus interest rate were enormous. That stayed even into Reagan's second term.

I graduated high school in 1983 and walked the length of my entire town of Salem over several weeks trying every single shop for a job. ALL of them. Most of them weren't even giving out appliations.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 03:55 PM (2VST1)

190 Upper West Side probably always feels like things are going great. Same with DC. Power centers and financial centers in the largest economic engine in the world don't get sick. They slow down a bit sometimes unless is a huge crash.

But those of us living in bumfuck nowhere who see businesses shuttering, neighbors out of work, and prices rising? It's a different perception.

That Krugman refused to make that connection either proved his stupidity or his dishonesty. Probably the latter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Do you remember last summer or fall, when Scott Rasmussen presented the results of his survey of elites? The one where 89 percent voted democrat, and 90 percent trusted mainstream media?

This is them.

And now we know that these elites were living large on stolen money.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 12, 2025 03:55 PM (lTGtQ)

191 We had a fruit farm when I was young. I wouldn't trust those people to pick fruit. Fruit pickers are valuable.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 12, 2025 03:52 PM (0Htd1)

I picked apples in my youth

Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2025 03:55 PM (VE6XX)

192 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 03:53 PM (i24o9)

Ya take what ya can get.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 03:55 PM (VofaG)

193 I expected great things from President Trump's second term. I just didn't expect them to happen this fast!

It's as if...as if millions of grifting a$$holes cried out in frustration and were suddenly ignored...

Posted by: hobbitopoly at March 12, 2025 03:55 PM (k9OZB)

194 Now that's funny. Who is his VP gonna be, an actual barrel of slime?
Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 03:54 PM (mL1/V)

I don't think Newsom would go for the #2 spot.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 12, 2025 03:55 PM (PiwSw)

195 That Professor Kingsbury is one tough dude!

Posted by: Paper chaste at March 12, 2025 03:55 PM (63Dwl)

196 I thought Rahm had eyes on Durbin's Senate seat in 2026.

Posted by: mr tmz at March 12, 2025 03:55 PM (rJ48h)

197 A woman underwear welder?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 12, 2025 03:56 PM (L/fGl)

198 26 Show up on time, don't wreck, don't piss off customers they can drive garbage trucks and make 80 grand a year. In sunny California.

that part is optional.

not that i'm bitter or anything.

Posted by: anachronda at March 12, 2025 03:56 PM (oY6Yp)

199 We had a fruit farm when I was young. I wouldn't trust those people to pick fruit. Fruit pickers are valuable.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 12, 2025 03:52 PM (0Htd1)

I picked apples in my youth
Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2025 03:55 PM

I chopped down a cherry tree.

Posted by: G. Washington at March 12, 2025 03:56 PM (AmUxK)

200 You can't hate them climate a-holes enough. Fifty foot road through the Amazon, of course. Notice you don't hear shit anymore about the Amazon being cut down. I guess its okay if you're cutting it down for your soy bean crops. Gotta have your bio-fuels!
-

The absolute best Amazon rainforest / save the earth story is the mulitimillionaire photojournalist whose father was a multimillionaire farmer that cut down vast swathes of the rainforest to make millions of dollars and the wealthy son convinced white Americans to send him money to plant trees on the land his father clearcut to make millions of dollars from.

Imagine some honkey in Texas trying that after his cattle rancher dad ruined his land that way. But this guy is brown, so the white environmentalists cheerfully sent him even more millions of dollars.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 03:56 PM (iv5Pb)

201 In the time of Classical Greece when there were purges of government employees they would have to shovel shit in the Augean Stables to earn their keep.
Ask VDH, he knows about this stuff.

Posted by: torabora at March 12, 2025 03:56 PM (0Gnoc)

202 Why is The View still on air ? Are their contracts that iron clad ??
Posted by: runner
......

Whoopie puts out.

Posted by: wth at March 12, 2025 03:56 PM (v0R5T)

203 Rahm .. Didn't he used to be called tiny dancer ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2025 03:56 PM (VE6XX)

204 197 A woman underwear welder?

i thought rosie riveted her underwear.

Posted by: anachronda at March 12, 2025 03:56 PM (oY6Yp)

205
NASA continues to collude with the Russians.... A Rooskie and a Jap are flying on Crew 10.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 12, 2025 03:56 PM (w6EFb)

206 Still, I guess people want an answer: If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.

That line still makes me laugh out loud. But he kept his cush 6-figure job until this year.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 03:57 PM (2VST1)

207 Rahm Emmanuel for President.

Hamas crowd is gonna love that.

Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2025 03:57 PM (npXNI)

208 I picked apples in my youth
Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2025 03:55 PM

I chopped down a cherry tree.
Posted by: G. Washington at March 12, 2025 03:56 PM (AmUxK)

I'm old but not that old...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2025 03:57 PM (VE6XX)

209 I haven't seen this many useless people get laid off at once since...(checks notes)...yesterday.

Seriously, these guys make McDonalds staff look like the height of skilled labor...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 12, 2025 03:57 PM (OUMaO)

210 New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) announced in a video message on Wednesday that she will not be running for a third six-year term, setting Republicans up for an outside chance of picking up a state that was tantalizingly close in 2024.

Winning!

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 12, 2025 03:57 PM (/U5Yz)

211 Why is The View still on air ? Are their contracts that iron clad ??
Posted by: runner

Because it's a CIA operation

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 03:57 PM (mL1/V)

212 199 We had a fruit farm when I was young. I wouldn't trust those people to pick fruit. Fruit pickers are valuable.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 12, 2025 03:52 PM (0Htd1)

I picked apples in my youth
Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2025 03:55 PM

I chopped down a cherry tree.
---------------
I burned down a collapsed chicken coop just to see it burn.

Posted by: Retard Batman at March 12, 2025 03:57 PM (pLaQB)

213 As for Rahm's VP...since his interview he gave when I knew he was gonna run...he's gonna try to play the moderate, and can be more convincing b/c he's not on record with the 4 years of insanity (b/c he was a diplomat in Japan, I think)...so he'd probably pick an unknown for VP (aka where the moderate image could be made by the media)...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 12, 2025 03:58 PM (exHjb)

214 202 I saw a tweet today that said The View got a $6M grant from some govt money fountain.

Posted by: Journal of Sudden Liquids and Abrupt Semisolids Quarterly at March 12, 2025 03:58 PM (1VvJB)

215
Rahm Emmanuel for President.

Never let a wastrel go to a crisis.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 12, 2025 03:58 PM (63Dwl)

216 It would be wonderful if within my lifetime the NY Slime were to close its doors forever.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at March 12, 2025 03:58 PM (qoLdL)

217 Whoopie puts out.
Posted by: wth

Sheeeeeeeeet! How would she even know?

Posted by: Tonypete at March 12, 2025 03:58 PM (cYBz/)

218 the wealthy son convinced white Americans to send him money to plant trees on the land his father clearcut to make millions of dollars from.

LOL brilliant. I cannot even get mad at him for it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 03:59 PM (2VST1)

219 They made Trump their raison d'etre for 10 years.

All of them, I mean. Not just the Times.

All for nothing. The reason these people got up in the morning for ten years was for nothing.

You have got to love that.

Posted by: eleven at March 12, 2025 03:59 PM (0HaGk)

220 No mention of David Brooks?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Is he still alive?

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 12, 2025 03:59 PM (0Htd1)

221 We had a fruit farm when I was young. I wouldn't trust those people to pick fruit. Fruit pickers are valuable.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 12, 2025 03:52 PM (0Htd1)

I picked apples in my youth
Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2025 03:55 PM

I chopped down a cherry tree.
---------------
I burned down a collapsed chicken coop just to see it burn.
Posted by: Retard Batman at March 12, 2025 03:57 PM (pLaQB)
__________

"I sucked a dick"

-- Kamala Harris

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 12, 2025 03:59 PM (iFTx/)

222 I picked apples in my youth
Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2025 03:55 PM

I chopped down a cherry tree.

Posted by: G. Washington

I crunched figs.

Posted by: Barack O. at March 12, 2025 03:59 PM (xCA6C)

223 Rahm gives off all the good vibes of a garden slug. A total non starter.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 04:00 PM (mL1/V)

224 Notice you don't hear shit anymore about the Amazon being cut down.

"a section of forest the size of Vermont gets cut down every single year"

got told that in school in the 90s -- it must grow back quickly

Posted by: brak at March 12, 2025 04:00 PM (jGJov)

225 Nobody wants advice from fucking NYC.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Oh, I dunno. Maybe they could help out California.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 12, 2025 04:00 PM (0Htd1)

226 "Christmas, Day 51
Posted by: Huck Follywood"

And every day it's a pony and a Playstation.

Posted by: eleven at March 12, 2025 04:00 PM (0HaGk)

227 I picked pimples in my youth. It was either that, or my mom would do it with a bobby pin.

Posted by: Journal of Sudden Liquids and Abrupt Semisolids Quarterly at March 12, 2025 04:00 PM (1VvJB)

228 Who covers Shelving for the NYT?
Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2025 03:53 PM (npXNI)

=======

Does one cover shelving, or does shelving cover you?

*zen*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 12, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)
****
We learned here on this smart military blog that shelving conquers Ace.

Posted by: torabora at March 12, 2025 04:00 PM (0Gnoc)

229 We had a fruit farm when I was young. I wouldn't trust those people to pick fruit. Fruit pickers are valuable.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 12, 2025 03:52 PM (0Htd1)

I picked apples in my youth
Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2025 03:55 PM

I chopped down a cherry tree.
---------------
I burned down a collapsed chicken coop just to see it burn.
Posted by: Retard Batman
......

I picked my friend's nose.

Posted by: wth at March 12, 2025 04:01 PM (v0R5T)

230 I picked strawberries in my youth, that job really sucked. And the Mexican woman next to me picked like 87 strawberries for every one I got off a bush. Bent over, kneeling in the dirt, in the sun. Those lazy Mexicans (eyes rolling)

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 04:01 PM (2VST1)

231
"a section of forest the size of Vermont gets cut down every single year"

Larry, Larry and Darryl are busy beavers.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 12, 2025 04:01 PM (63Dwl)

232 229 We had a fruit farm when I was young. I wouldn't trust those people to pick fruit. Fruit pickers are valuable.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 12, 2025 03:52 PM (0Htd1)

I picked apples in my youth
Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2025 03:55 PM

I chopped down a cherry tree.
---------------
I burned down a collapsed chicken coop just to see it burn.
Posted by: Retard Batman
......

I picked my friend's nose.
Posted by: wth at March 12, 2025 04:01 PM (v0R5T)

I got a rock

Posted by: Charlie Brown at March 12, 2025 04:01 PM (VE6XX)

233 A top 'DEI' activist is caught on voicemail allegedly offering minority air traffic controller candidates the chance to cheat in a make-or-break entry exam.

Shelton Snow, a powerful figure in the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NBCFAE), can be heard promising advance access to test answers in a shocking audio clip obtained by DailyMail.com.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 12, 2025 04:02 PM (Y1sOo)

234 It still surprises me news organizations are laying off a ton of staff shortly after USAID funding is terminated.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 12, 2025 04:02 PM (tT6L1)

235 I got a rock

Posted by: Charlie Brown at March 12, 2025 04:01 PM (VE6XX)

I got a Charlie Brown.

Posted by: Dildo at March 12, 2025 04:03 PM (sLD6a)

236 Trump trolling in the White House with the Irish PM after a question about Chuck U. Schumer ():

"Schumer used to be Jewish, now he's Palestinian."

Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 12, 2025 04:03 PM (6pEuw)

237 >>National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NBCFAE)

Is there an Asian faction?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 12, 2025 04:03 PM (/U5Yz)

238 got told that in school in the 90s -- it must grow back quickly

Yeah it grows back hella fast, almost visibly, but they were as full of crap then about that as the people claiming there is an Island of plastic the size of Hawaii in the Pacific ocean. No, there is not. That's a stupid lie. There may be enough plastic floating on the Pacific Ocean that IF COMBINED may be that big, but its not just floating around out in the ocean like a massive single raft.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 04:04 PM (2VST1)

239 236 Trump trolling in the White House with the Irish PM after a question about Chuck U. Schumer ():

"Schumer used to be Jewish, now he's Palestinian."
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now?

LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at March 12, 2025 04:04 PM (VE6XX)

240 234 It still surprises me news organizations are laying off a ton of staff shortly after USAID funding is terminated.
--------------------
Once the landslide money laundering business slows for Hollywood they may start making good movies for profit. Heavy emphasis on 'may.'

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 12, 2025 04:04 PM (pLaQB)

241 Shelton Snow, a powerful figure in the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NBCFAE), can be heard promising advance access to test answers in a shocking audio clip obtained by DailyMail.com.

http://tiny.cc/ao4d001

Posted by: brak at March 12, 2025 04:04 PM (jGJov)

242
All these climate crisis fags aught to be ecstatic over all the trees being saved as the WP and NYT stop print editions.

Posted by: Auspex at March 12, 2025 04:05 PM (j4U/Z)

243 I had a lot of hard , crappy jobs growing up which made me want to become a white collar worker. What a mistake that was.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 04:05 PM (VofaG)

244 Maybe they can transfer to a job in the Federal government.

Oh wait...

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 12, 2025 04:05 PM (Vh9CX)

245 A top 'DEI' activist is caught on voicemail allegedly offering minority air traffic controller candidates the chance to cheat in a make-or-break entry exam.

Shelton Snow, a powerful figure in the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NBCFAE), can be heard promising advance access to test answers in a shocking audio clip obtained by DailyMail.com.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 12, 2025 04:02 PM (Y1sOo)

-------------

I wonder how much blood and how many bodies he has on his hands over the years?

Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 12, 2025 04:05 PM (G6+tw)

246 No mention of David Brooks?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Is he still alive?
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 12, 2025 03:59 PM (0Htd1)
-----------

More importantly, does anyone care?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 12, 2025 04:05 PM (tT6L1)

247 I picked my friend's nose.

Posted by: wth at March 12, 2025 04:01 PM (v0R5T)

Well, what do you know.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 12, 2025 04:06 PM (i24o9)

248 Hollywood is gone.

The rot is all that's left.

Posted by: eleven at March 12, 2025 04:06 PM (0HaGk)

249 Seriously, these guys make McDonalds staff look like the height of skilled labor...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 12, 2025 03:57 PM (OUMaO)
****
Not so much in California because $20hr minimum wage has automated a lot of jobs. Eventually it's all robots.

Thanks Democrats. You're making human beings redundant.

Posted by: torabora at March 12, 2025 04:06 PM (0Gnoc)

250 240 234 It still surprises me news organizations are laying off a ton of staff shortly after USAID funding is terminated.
--------------------
Once the landslide money laundering business slows for Hollywood they may start making good movies for profit. Heavy emphasis on 'may.'
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 12, 2025 04:04 PM (pLaQB)

King of Kings is coming next month. It may be Angel Studio's next big hit. I was surprised at the quality and cast, but apparently, they signed on hoping for backend, ala RDJ with Iron Man. It looks really sweet and may be the 1st 2025 movie I see in theaters this year...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 12, 2025 04:06 PM (exHjb)

251 Is there an Asian faction?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 12, 2025 04:03 PM

The Asian Dawn Movement.

Posted by: Hans Gruber at March 12, 2025 04:06 PM (AmUxK)

252 All these Leftists want to replace Trump and make the government bigger

Posted by: Skip i at March 12, 2025 04:07 PM (fwDg9)

253 >> I had a lot of hard , crappy jobs growing up which made me want to become a white collar worker.

I worked every job I could possibly get from the time I was 14.

I have done some absolutely horrible things in the pursuit of the almighty dollar.

Never once wanted to be a White Collar Joe, though. Those guys have it tough.

Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2025 04:07 PM (npXNI)

254 I had a lot of hard , crappy jobs growing up which made me want to become a white collar worker. What a mistake that was.

The dirty secret is that every job sucks at least part of the time. I do what I love every day for money (not much, mind you, but some) and some days I just can barely bring myself to write or draw. The joy and pleasure comes from doing the best you can at what you do, not the work its self.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 04:08 PM (2VST1)

255 Future California McDonalds customer at the order window. I'd like my joints lubed and my hard drive reflashed.

Posted by: torabora at March 12, 2025 04:08 PM (0Gnoc)

256 It still surprises me news organizations are laying off a ton of staff shortly after USAID funding is terminated.
-

BEST ECONOMY EVER, JACK!!!

It's just coincidence that the timing worked out precisely that way.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 12, 2025 04:08 PM (iv5Pb)

257 A top 'DEI' activist is caught on voicemail allegedly offering minority air traffic controller candidates the chance to cheat in a make-or-break entry exam.
---
That's not true.
I was told that DEI was merely giving equally qualified candidates an equal opportunity.

LOL

Affirmative action was and always has been unconstitutional.
Thanks Sandy O'Cunter for keeping that "for another 25 years."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 12, 2025 04:08 PM (2EU+I)

258 The Asian Dawn Movement.

"Who?"

"I read about them in Time Magazine"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 04:09 PM (2VST1)

259 Nobody reads the newspaper.

Posted by: Stating the obvious at March 12, 2025 04:10 PM (DobEs)

260 Being a cubicle worker is worse than being a union ditch digger .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 04:10 PM (VofaG)

261 Posted by: Nova Local at March 12, 2025 04:06 PM (exHjb)I just checked this out. Holy shit! The talent cast in that is amazing! Hamill may be a psycho leftist but his voice work is top notch.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 12, 2025 04:11 PM (4XwPj)

262 236 Trump trolling in the White House with the Irish PM after a question about Chuck U. Schumer ():

"Schumer used to be Jewish, now he's Palestinian."
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now?

That's pretty much what Alan Dershowitz says.

Posted by: ryukyu at March 12, 2025 04:11 PM (251iY)

263 225 Nobody wants advice from fucking NYC.
Posted by: Pudinhead

+++

What about salsa?

Posted by: Pick up the Pace at March 12, 2025 04:11 PM (DobEs)

264 The NYT front page articles obviate the need for an editorial page. The WSJ's front page is worse.The Journal apparently tossed their old editorial page slogan - Free People, Free Markets - in the trash where Jeff Bezos found it.

Posted by: Oglebay at March 12, 2025 04:11 PM (2ap+5)

265 The horrors, they'll have to move out.

Ha!

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 12, 2025 04:12 PM (Dx34V)

266 Affirmative action was and always has been unconstitutional.
Thanks Sandy O'Cunter for keeping that "for another 25 years."

She said that in 2003. Thus, it should be over in any case by 2028. However, Trump seems to have gotten a head start.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 12, 2025 04:12 PM (xCA6C)

267 King of Kings is coming next month. It may be Angel Studio's next big hit. I was surprised at the quality and cast, but apparently, they signed on hoping for backend, ala RDJ with Iron Man. It looks really sweet and may be the 1st 2025 movie I see in theaters this year...

Posted by: Nova Local

I ever get my clusterfuck of a situation sorted, I may take a couple of months just going through Angel's catalog. They're been pretty dang impressive.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 12, 2025 04:13 PM (OUMaO)

268 Nobody reads the newspaper.

"print is dead"
--Egon

Nobody really does any more, but NYT supposedly had a really successful online version of the paper. Now I'm wondering just how many of those subscribers were bots subsidized by various NGOs

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 04:13 PM (2VST1)

269 In the words of Lefty nut and middle aged lesbian looking Jon BonJovi, "Oooooh, we're halfway there!"

Posted by: Wally at March 12, 2025 04:14 PM (NXYp1)

270 Schadenboner. I have one.

Posted by: Walsingham at March 12, 2025 04:14 PM (x3J2F)

271 I bought my first issue of the NYT in the late winter of 1967. A local newsstand carried it, a day or two late as it had to be transported all the way down here. It was neat to read the "in the moment" news and info of the day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 12, 2025 04:15 PM (J2vNu)

272 found the Hannah Montana documentary
youtu.be/lOs_rAfclgU

Posted by: gKWVE at March 12, 2025 04:15 PM (gKWVE)

273
Watching the coverage of the Crew 10, apparently there are a lot of traditional rituals the crew has to do before they leave for the rocket.

One is playing a quick card game. They just did that, some simple hi-card wins thing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 12, 2025 04:15 PM (w6EFb)

274 The NYT still has the best cooking and games offerings. Wirecutter is ok.

Posted by: Oglebay at March 12, 2025 04:15 PM (2ap+5)

275 Pretty soon we'll lose Eastwood, though he's become a 90 year old asshole. And Mel Gibson is creeping up in age so his production will slow, what other directors are making non woke movies?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 04:16 PM (VofaG)

276 Being a cubicle worker is worse than being a union ditch digger

Yeah Joel used to be jealous of me, even though he earned like 100 times as much as me a month. He was in an office running a non profit (a dairy association, they did analysis of milk samples to help dairies produce more and save money).

His complaint was that he had no impact on the world, nothing he did would exist the day he stopped working. I had books printed. My name will endure after I am dead, even if fading away and very obscure. I got it, but he had a house and cars and a career and I struggle to buy drawing supplies.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 04:16 PM (2VST1)

277 Lunar eclipse coming soon.

Posted by: eleven at March 12, 2025 04:16 PM (0HaGk)

278 More sad newz:

Perkins Coie is losing clients; whining in court revealed today.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 12, 2025 04:17 PM (2EU+I)

279 what other directors are making non woke movies?

Nolan seems pretty apolitical if not somewhat based. Mind you he's been not exactly on fire for a while, but he's not woke.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 04:17 PM (2VST1)

280 >> Lunar eclipse coming soon.

That will be tomorrow night, peaking around 2AM or so EDT.

The Blue Ghost lander on the Moon right now is going to take some pictures of the eclipse from the Moon. From the POV of the Moon, this is full solar eclipse, with the Erf occulting the Sun.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 12, 2025 04:18 PM (w6EFb)

281 277 Lunar eclipse coming soon.
------------------------
End Times. Cats and Dogs living together.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 12, 2025 04:18 PM (pLaQB)

282
That will be the first picture of such an eclipse ever taken from the Moon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 12, 2025 04:18 PM (w6EFb)

283 Mel is 70, probably hitting his stride at this point

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 12, 2025 04:18 PM (2Bg3S)

284 Alejandro Gómez Monteverde was the director on Sound of Freedom and Cabrini...so he's another non-woke one, although he's likely only to be hired by Angel or Lionsgate (which seems like it recently also now has a division exclusively for non-woke movies)...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 12, 2025 04:19 PM (exHjb)

285 "Since Trump got elected [...] all resigned or were fired."

It's almost as if America finally fully awakened from the long coma of hypnotism from the historic gaslighting/lying from the MFM and abandoned these hostile agencies in order to save themselves. That or the USAID and other money laundering operations that were financing these money-losing outfits surreptitiously for decades was a) discovered and b) terminated by DOGE.

Because this has been a persistent, abrupt, and calamitous collapse in the ranks of the pinheads previously known as elites.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at March 12, 2025 04:19 PM (aXxgO)

286 Mark Hemingway
@Heminator
Since Trump got elected, Ruth Marcus, Jim Acosta, Norah O'Donnell, Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, Chris Wallace, Joy Reid, Neil Cavuto, Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart, Lester Holt all resigned or were fired.

They shut down 538 and now they're getting rid of the entire NYT editorial board. Amazing.
---
It's a start.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 12, 2025 04:20 PM (FCbAQ)

287 282
That will be the first picture of such an eclipse ever taken from the Moon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
---------
Dark side of the moon?

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at March 12, 2025 04:20 PM (B7AsT)

288 i occasionally look at the times in my local liberry. the editorial pages basically consist of libs and leftists who hate trump and conservatives who voted for hillary and joe and kamala.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 12, 2025 04:20 PM (CWTWj)

289 278 More sad newz:

Perkins Coie is losing clients; whining in court revealed today.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 12, 2025 04:17 PM (2EU+I)

Which only confirms they were selling access not legal services, if anybody had any doubts.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 12, 2025 04:20 PM (pIfcn)

290 found the Hannah Montana documentary

Yeah that's almost painfully true :/

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 04:20 PM (2VST1)

291 His complaint was that he had no impact on the world, nothing he did would exist the day he stopped working. I had books printed. My name will endure after I am dead, even if fading away and very obscure. I got it, but he had a house and cars and a career and I struggle to buy drawing supplies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 04:16 PM (2VST1)

-------------

Sometimes I walk around graveyards (I prefer that term over cemetery) and just read the headstones thinking about people that have gone before.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 12, 2025 04:20 PM (Vh9CX)

292 Perkins Coie is losing clients
--------

Apparently even whores are subject to the Invisible Hand.

Posted by: ... at March 12, 2025 04:21 PM (nviZH)

293 This is the feel good article of the day.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 12, 2025 04:21 PM (y5Bkh)

294 Pretty soon we'll lose Eastwood, though he's become a 90 year old asshole. And Mel Gibson is creeping up in age so his production will slow, what other directors are making non woke movies?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 04:16 PM (VofaG)

Any of them could and many probably would if the powers that be would allow it. But unlike Eastwood and Gibson, they don't all have the money, influence, or attitude to go against the powers. Without permission, they would never get financing or advertising.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 12, 2025 04:21 PM (4XwPj)

295 Is there a difference between a slapdick and a dicksmack? - Biff

I think they both share one specific connotation, but the latter has an additional meaning, as well. Of course, I can't discuss any of the details on this family-friendly blog.

Posted by: Paco at March 12, 2025 04:21 PM (mADJX)

296 More newz of Sadz:

The Hamas riot leader was not released today.

His terror-enabling lawyers whine they haven't even been able to speak to him in detention in LA.

the NY judge is dodging the jurisdiction question for now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 12, 2025 04:21 PM (2EU+I)

297 Mel is 70, probably hitting his stride at this point

he just talked nonstop on Rogan for 2 hours straight, no sign of slowing down

Posted by: brak at March 12, 2025 04:22 PM (jGJov)

298 I did some blue collar work to get myself through college.

It always seemed like, I don't know, more "honest" work to me somehow.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 12, 2025 04:22 PM (jH5TK)

299 27 Oh . . Style guide is "Former Enron Advisor Paul Krugman"
Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 12, 2025 03:30 PM (k/U8Z)

My memory is a little unclear, but isn't Krugman also the one stabbed to death by a diversity cabbie one day?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 12, 2025 04:23 PM (FCbAQ)

300 298 I did some blue collar work to get myself through college.

It always seemed like, I don't know, more "honest" work to me somehow.
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Creating/building things is satisfying.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 12, 2025 04:23 PM (pLaQB)

301 299 27 Oh . . Style guide is "Former Enron Advisor Paul Krugman"
Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 12, 2025 03:30 PM (k/U8Z)

My memory is a little unclear, but isn't Krugman also the one stabbed to death by a diversity cabbie one day?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 12, 2025 04:23 PM (FCbAQ)

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I think that was Tom Friedman

Posted by: Oglebay at March 12, 2025 04:23 PM (2ap+5)

302 >> Dark side of the moon?

No, it's in the Sea of Crisis. Look up at the near full Moon tonight. When it's directly overhead, the lander will be a spot to the upper right of the disc.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 12, 2025 04:23 PM (w6EFb)

303 the list of jobs I've held over the years is, shall we say, eclectic?

Dishwasher to cab driver with minor stints managing a mobile home park and delivering newspapers.

Those jobs were in between my welding and IT careers.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 12, 2025 04:24 PM (tT6L1)

304 NYT lay-offs? It is to laugh. First world problems.

Posted by: Case at March 12, 2025 04:24 PM (xcRXq)

305 Gibson is doing a sequel 😀 to the Passion of Christ.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 04:24 PM (VofaG)

306 I am starting to like this "cut 50% of staff" thing.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 12, 2025 04:24 PM (ufFY8)

307 It always seemed like, I don't know, more "honest" work to me somehow.

In my limited experience, yeah it is. I dug holes in the ground to install satellite dishes, picked berries, worked in several stores as a clerk and runner, and at an insurance company and the Oregon Department of Revenue.

The paper shuffling jobs paid better, but they felt endless and without meaning. Yes, I stamped hundreds of tax returns with sequential numbers for filing. Yes, I helped turn documents into microfilm (this was the early 80s). But it was the same thing every day and added up to nothing except keeping the machine going.

I can go to houses and see the satellite dish I helped put up.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 04:26 PM (2VST1)

308 Gibson is doing a sequel 😀 to the Passion of Christ.

Jesus is back.

And this time, it's personal....

Posted by: Passion 2 at March 12, 2025 04:26 PM (jGJov)

309 Nood Covid

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 12, 2025 04:26 PM (aPBRN)

310 he'll always be Krugtron The Invincible to me
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Posted by: Noah Smith at March 12, 2025 04:26 PM (gKWVE)

311 So, is Goldblum homosexual, or not??
Posted by: tubal at March 12, 2025 03:34 PM (PCK5/)

He's not, but the guys sucking his dick are, fer sure.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 12, 2025 04:26 PM (FCbAQ)

312 With any luck, it won't be long before the NYT is bought by Wegman's and converted into a flyer for advertising fresh produce and overpriced baked goods.

Posted by: Paco at March 12, 2025 04:26 PM (mADJX)

313 >>I did some blue collar work to get myself through college.

>It always seemed like, I don't know, more "honest" work to me somehow.

There is Pride to be found in a well dug ditch.

Posted by: garrett at March 12, 2025 04:27 PM (npXNI)

314 I am starting to like this "cut 50% of staff" thing.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 12, 2025 04:24 PM (ufFY

I'm waiting for the second 50% off round to take place in government agencies, departments, etc.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 12, 2025 04:27 PM (VNX3d)

315 Gibson is doing a sequel 😀 to the Passion of Christ

The left's reaction to that movie baffled me. They genuinely seemed to think that John freakin' Kerry was going to win if it had not been for that movie LOL.

The only thing that was more shocking and bizarre to me was the absolute lockstep hate and opposition to Sound of Freedom. What the absolute F????

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 04:27 PM (2VST1)

316 My sympathy meter is not registering with the people being laid off at the NYT nor government.

They can learn to pay for their demeaning and supercilious attitude toward the Average American.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 12, 2025 04:27 PM (tT6L1)

317 Dishwasher to cab driver with minor stints managing a mobile home park and delivering newspapers.
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Please note - the trailer park manager in No Country for Old Men was the only one to successfully defy Anton Chigurh demands. So you have that going for you.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 12, 2025 04:28 PM (pLaQB)

318 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 12, 2025 04:27 PM (2VST1)

They are Demons.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 12, 2025 04:28 PM (VofaG)

319 I didn't know about Neil Cavuto, a Trump-basher. He suffered from MS, but valiantly soldiered on

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 12, 2025 04:31 PM (jZ6/4)

320 I did some blue collar work to get myself through college.

It always seemed like, I don't know, more "honest" work to me somehow.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 12, 2025 04:22 PM (jH5TK)

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For a couple of summers I worked for a temp agency doing the manual labor. A great variety of experience:

Groundsman at a hospital
worker at a tarp manufacturer
moved eggs around a chicken processing factory
packed cigars at a tobacco wholesaler
offloaded lumber at a hardware/DIY store

that's in addition to some of my more regular work when young.

That was all before 21 years old.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 12, 2025 04:32 PM (Vh9CX)

321 I think that was Tom Friedman
Posted by: Oglebay at March 12, 2025 04:23 PM (2ap+5)

Thanks.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 12, 2025 04:32 PM (FCbAQ)

322 Even more Sadz Newz:

Fired federal workers are lamenting the termination is a "poverty sentence."

How can that be?
I thought they are highly-prized with mad skillz--the world is their oyster.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 12, 2025 04:33 PM (2EU+I)

323 They can't learn to code. Computer code is fundamentally based on binary numbers.

Posted by: jj at March 12, 2025 04:36 PM (tsB1T)

324 Mara Gay can't do simple arithmetic. No way she's going to become a programmer, or...well, anything useful.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 12, 2025 04:46 PM (XMwZJ)

325 nic

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 12, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)

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