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  1. 1

    Limp Dick Stock Market – Pom poms must stay in the closet. But must practice sessions still on tap in the barn.

    Best economy.

    30% gdp on its way!

  2. 2

    Quick reminder to all that the hair transplants, drug treatments, hormone injections, and facial plastic surgery* that Elon Musk has openly discussed having to restore his hairline, strengthen his jaw line, and bulk out his physique are all various forms of gender affirming healthcare treatments.

    *Former partners have alleged that he has also relied from time to time on oral and injected medications for erectile dysfunction. Which is also gender affirming healthcare treatment.

  3. 3

    Kash Patel looks awful woke DEI to me.

    What kinda name is Patel, anyways?
    Where is the “Pace” law school anyways? Is that a real law school or like some kinda mail order correspondence school? I’m just a stupid fucking MAGAt. So I don’t know. But is a 150 LSAT any good?

  4. 4

    @ 2

    Using that rationale, Welfare Queen YLB affirms her gender with every single twatty spew on HA.

  5. 5

    Nice to see some honest reporting out of NYT:

    Botched Care and Tired Staff: Planned Parenthood in Crisis
    The health care provider ​of last resort is working to shore up affiliate clinics that are in dire financial straits. Patients report failed abortions, misplaced IUDs and inadequately trained staff.

    A Nebraska clinician in 2022 did not realize that a woman was four months pregnant when she inserted an IUD. Several hours later, the patient was rushed to an emergency room and gave birth to a stillborn fetus…

    Well, that’s one way to work around NE’s abortion restrictions. Stab the in-utero baby to death instead.

    In a case settled in California last year, a woman accused the organization of improperly implanting a birth control device in her arm and causing nerve damage.

    It’s called Norplant. Not Nerve-plant.

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    @1 Stocks were/still are severely overvalued, so the market was overdue for a pullback — and this isn’t much of one.

    More interesting is the “University of Michigan consumer sentiment index fell to 64.7 in January, a decline of 10% and a steeper drop than expected as consumers raised concerns about higher inflation ….”

    That’s a huge one-month drop in consumer sentiment and suggests a sharply slowing economy ahead if not an outright recession.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/20/stock-market-today-live-updates.html

    But yeah, Trump uses the stock market to grade himself, and right now Teacher is telling him he’s doing D- work.

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    @4 Elon is so weak and effeminate his money has to do his talking. He’s nothing without his billions. YLB doesn’t have that problem.

  8. 8

    @5 Incompetent doctors is a subject about which you have deep personal knowledge, so you should know that stupid doctors can be found anywhere, not just in Planned Parenthood affiliates.

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    @ 6

    … suggests a sharply slowing economy ahead if not an outright recession.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit finds it inconvenient to mention the sharply slowing economy behind:

    Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024 (October, November, and December), according to the advance estimate released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the third quarter, real GDP increased 3.1 percent.

    GDP growth slowed 0.8 points in one quarter, and it would have been far worse if not for higher consumer spending (that’s what happens when prices increase, and when consumers lard on additional credit card debt) and higher government spending (that’s what happens when liberals shaft Welfare Queen YLB’s fucked kids to coddle their special interests, like chicks with dicks and DEI):

    The increase in real GDP in the fourth quarter primarily reflected increases in consumer spending and government spending that were partly offset by a decrease in investment.

    Investment was down a full point.

    The price index for gross domestic purchases increased 2.2 percent in the fourth quarter, compared with an increase of 1.9 percent in the third quarter. The personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index increased 2.3 percent, compared with an increase of 1.5 percent. Excluding food and energy prices, the PCE price index increased 2.5 percent, compared with an increase of 2.2 percent.

    As I said above, people spent more because they were forced to.

    The economy has been tanking for quite awhile. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit decided to wake up to it 32 days, 23 hours, and 35 minutes ago.

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    @ 7

    He’s nothing without his billions. YLB doesn’t have that problem.

    True. She was less than nothing at birth.

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    @ 8

    …stupid doctors can be found anywhere…

    Yes. It’s one of the costs of DEI.

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    The costs of DEI are suggested by the results of a forced end to DEI in places, like Harvard Law:

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (TNND) — The number of Black students enrolled at Harvard Law School is down, according to new data released by the school Monday.

    The finding follows a 2023 Supreme Court ruling which struck down affirmative action. That practice involved taking race into account when conducting admissions to create a diverse student body.

    In the school’s class of 2027, the number of Black enrollees dropped to 19, according to campus newspaper the Harvard Crimson. The prior year’s class boasted 43 Black students.

    Hispanic student enrollment also saw a decrease, according to the publication, dropping from 63 to 32. Asian enrollment increased from 103 to 132, the Crimson added.

    The Harvard Black Law Students Association wrote in a post via Instagram the school was “reeling” from the “harrowing reality” revealed by the data.

    Amy Wax was right about the composition of Penn’s classes, too. It’s why they are trying to fire her.

    When your prostate explodes, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, I hope you are attended to by a medical school graduate who would be cleaning toilets if not for affirmative action.

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    Some of you may recall occasions where I described MAGA as scarcely more than a movement centered around empowering whate males to once again tell n1663r, joo, 6ean3r and ©uπt jokes around the office water cooler without fear of consequences.

    Behold, your new apartheid leadership in action:

    https://youtu.be/evZ-MxhiwZE

  14. 14

    … forced end to DEI in places, like Harvard Law:

    Thankfully not at Pace law.

    Right?

    RIIIGHT???

  16. 16

    @9 So what you’re saying is businesses held back on investing after Trump was elected because they didn’t know what was going to happen to consumer spending, economic growth, and trade when he took office. Yeah, I read that in Barrons, too.

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    @11 There are so many minority doctors now it certainly can be argued you were the costly DEI hire.

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    I’m the greatest. I’m tremendously talented. My stock market has been this great since Lincoln. Nobody like. DAMN MEXICANS!

  21. 21

    an annual rate of 2.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024 (October, November, and December), according to the advance estimate released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic…

    Thanks to President Joe Biden. But that’s all about to change. You were warned by Smelly Balls and Blue Balls.

    Next you’ll post about bad news in March and then blame the previous admin. You are a failed WMI jerk off

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    Two predictions:

    • Donald Trump’s name is not on the list.

    • Bill Clinton’s name is at the top of the list, with Frequent Flyer designation

    Donald Trump’s AG To Release Jeffrey Epstein List: ‘A Lot of Documents’

    “Where are we at with the Jeffrey Epstein list, the documents?” Johnson asked Bondi at the Conservative Political Action Conference, according to the 50-second clip posted on X. Johnson noted that recently confirmed FBI director Kash Patel has “made a lot of public statements” about it.

    “I was briefed on that yesterday I can’t talk about that that publicly,” Bondi said, before adding that Trump’s directive would be followed. “A lot of documents,” she added.

    Asked by Johnson whether Americans can expect “actual movement on this,” Bondi said: “Donald Trump doesn’t make empty promises. I think promises made, promises kept.

  27. 27

    A fuckin’ Democrat Shangri-La, Los Angeles is:

    Unlimited L’s
    @unlimited_ls

    🚨BREAKING: LA Mayor Karen Bass FIRES Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley – per Fox News’ Bill Melugin

    Bass: “We know that 1,000 firefighters that could have been on duty on the morning the fires broke out were instead sent home on Chief Crowley’s watch.”

    11:26 AM · Feb 21, 2025

    This is the first time I have heard this angle. I guess the chief could have kept everyone on shift as the winds grew stronger.

    Only 5 of 40 water-carrying engines were staffed the day of the fire. Seems… inadequate.
    ·

  28. 28

    I don’t know who he is. I was never on the plane or bus. I was never on the island. What’s an Island? 🏝️ I’m a great golfer. I even had the negro in my house yesterday, but he cheats! What’s Project 3025? I don’t know anything about 2025. My vision is 29/20, it might even be 20/25. Who’s this dumbfuck doctor?

  29. 29

    ‘bye Felicia.

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to pull thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers off the job in the U.S. and around the world.

    U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols declined to keep in place his temporary block on the effort to remove all but a small fraction of USAID staffers from their posts, as part of an administration plan that would also give those abroad a 30-day deadline to move back to the U.S. at government expense.

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    It would be pretty cool if the Epstein client list could be released, say, the Friday morning before The Oscars.

    What would Amal Clooney say?

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    The Associated Press sued three Trump administration officials Friday over access to presidential events, citing freedom of speech in asking a federal judge to stop the blocking of its journalists.

    https://www.aol.com/ap-sues-3-trump-administration-212222873.html

    I hope AP wins this. Trump barred their reporters from White House briefings, press conferences, presidential events, and Air Force One for a petty reason: AP didn’t change their stylebook from “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America.” But the principle involved is huge: Trump is trying to coerce a news organization into modifying its content to conform with his wishes. And this isn’t a private spat between Trump and the AP because, as Colonel Ludlow would put it, “That’s a public office you hold there, Mr. President.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h4Y2HVMx_w

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    @25 If the AG is talking about a criminal investigation at CPAC, a political event, it’s reasonable to infer the questioner is politically motivated, the question has a political motive, and Bondi’s answer is politically motivated and has a political purpose.

  34. 34

    @29 On procedural grounds, dimfuck. The judge only ruled his court isn’t the proper venue for the plaintiffs’ grievances, and the plaintiff unions and employees they represent have to go through employee termination appeal channels.

    #idiotarmchairlawyer

  35. 35

    @30 Expose them all. If Bill Clinton was junketing on Epstein’s sex island, put it out there. If Trump was, put it out there. Just don’t be selective about it. But you can bet Bondi will scrub Trump’s name off that list if he’s on it, because this isn’t about justice or accountability, they’re playing gutter politics. And that will destroy its credibility.

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    @ 32

    I hope AP wins this.

    You hoped Boxcheck Momala would win, too.

    Cry more.

  37. 37

    I am suing the federal government because I was not provided presidential inauguration seats in the same row as the Associate SCOTUS justices who attended. This impaired my freedom of speech because I could not hear everything quite as clearly as the honored guests did.

  38. 38

    SCOTUS just declined to lift a district judge’s stay of Trump’s attempt to fire Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel, whose responsibilities include protecting federal whistleblowers. This is the clearest indication so far that the Supreme Court may not rubberstamp Trump’s orders.

  39. 39

    Just don’t be selective about it.

    They used a purely partisan MAGA political event as a backdrop for this publicity stunt.

    Of course they are going to be selective. That’s what they are announcing. That henceforth the DOJ and the FBI will be used in service to Trump’s political aims and objectives. They will manufacture investigations exactly the way House and Senate Republicans have manufactured investigations against Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and anyone else they deem to be a political threat. Only now they will have the power of actual subpoenas, grand juries, warrants, and indictments. You know this. You knew this. It is already happening.

    This is fascism.

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    Los Angeles will host the 2028 Olympics. Trump said transgender athletes like female boxers Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan will not be given visas or allowed into the U.S. to attend the Games. But neither boxer is transgender. “Both were born and raised as women, which is how they are registered on their passports.”

    https://www.dawn.com/news/1891070

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    Remember when Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit claimed that the pilots on the Toronto-crash plane were both men?

    The first officer was hired in January of last year and completed training in April. The airline said her experience exceeded minimum federal requirements.

    The airline did not name the crew or say who was at the controls for the landing.

    https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/02/21/delta-releases-details-crew-piloting-minneapolis-toronto-flight-crashed

    She’s still wet behind the ears and Delta still won’t say who had the controls.

    Which tells us plenty. Part of which is to disbelieve anything Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit spews.

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    Say, maybe the woman pilot is a chick with a dick, and that’s why Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit called her a man.

    Could that be it, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit? A dude was holding the wrong joy stick at the time of the crash?

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    @ 40

    But neither boxer is transgender.

    At least one of them has always been a dude.

    Khelif, who has always competed as a woman, was banned by the IBA from the 2023 world championships after a sex chromosome test that the IBA said rendered her ineligible.

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    @ 38

    This is the clearest indication so far that the Supreme Court may not rubberstamp Trump’s orderssees no reason that the appeals process should not follow normal order in this case.

    Instead, the justices explained in a brief order, they put the government’s request on hold until Jackson’s order expires on Feb. 26.
    …
    Moreover, Dellinger added, Jackson’s order simply leaves the status quo in place while “extremely expedited proceedings” to resolve the dispute move forward. Jackson could ultimately decide the case “in ways that avoid any need for this Court’s intervention (or at least create a proper record for it).”

    In a brief order, the court on the one hand noted the Trump administration’s concession that the Supreme Court “typically does not have appellate jurisdiction over” temporary restraining orders. On the other hand, it observed, Dellinger emphasized that the temporary restraining order “is set to expire on February 26,” when Jackson has scheduled a hearing on his motion for a preliminary injunction. Taking both of those factors into consideration, the court placed the government’s request on hold until Feb. 26.

    In a three-page opinion, Gorsuch (joined by Alito) suggested that the court’s decision not to act on the government’s request at this time reflected “a concern that the TRO may not yet have ripened into an appealable order.”

    https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/02/supreme-court-sidesteps-trumps-effort-to-remove-watchdog-agency-head/

    As a purported attorney Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit should know better than to misrepresent Court action. As someone whose dishonest bullshit is under constant ridicule on HA he should have known better than to keep spewing dishonest bullshit about the Court.

  45. 45

    After being kicked out of CPAC Enrique Tarrio just got arrested outside the Capitol on charges of assaulting a girl.

    So proud. So boy.

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    @43 She is a woman. Your source is …

    The IBA, long mired with scandal and controversy, oversaw Olympic boxing before being stripped of its right before the Tokyo Games and is no longer recognized of the international federation of boxing.

    In the face of backlash over Khelif’s 2024 win, the IBA stood by its decision to disqualify the boxers over two “trustworthy” and “independent” tests, though they did not disclose what the tests were.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/08/02/imane-khelif-fact-check-olympic-boxer/74645341007/

    Your source …

    has ties to the Kremlin,

    which is all anyone needs to say, but there’s more …

    … has suggested that Khelif and another boxer, Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, have XY chromosomes and/or have elevated testosterone levels. It is unclear how legitimate these claims are. The IBA has released few details of the testing, and the International Olympic Committee, which no longer recognizes the organization as the global federation for boxing, has condemned the IBA’s testing process, calling it “arbitrary” and “flawed.” Even if the IBA’s claims are true, however, it’s incorrect to call Khelif and Lin men or transgender women.

    https://www.factcheck.org/2024/08/trump-social-media-posts-mislead-on-olympic-woman-boxer/

    #dumbfucksaregullible

  49. 49

    Just fresh off his appointment to his new office, the acting head of ICE has been fired from his position in widespread frustration over Fat Hitler’s stupefyingly slow progress in acheiving his campaign promises of mass deportations. Caleb Vitello, who prior to his appointment by Fat Hitler had been the Assistant Director for the Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs at Ice, has been reassigned to walk in produce cooler in Florida. Meanwhile, other than a handful of highly publicized stunts involving waist-chaining children, and closing a few Cracker Barrels, ICE has yet to fan out into American communities to root out the MS-13 rapists and save our German Shepards from the barbecue pit.

    Take heart my pinko comrades. Our efforts at upholding the Constitution are working better than expected. Homan, Trump, and the real boss, Musk remain frustrated that they can’t get enough Americans to rat fuck their housekeepers, home health aids, and favorite contractors.

    Repeat after me, comrades: GO AWAY AND COME BACK WITH A WARRANT.

    And while you’re at it, don’t forget to report the notorious alien Nazi Elon Musk: https://www.wsfc.wa.gov/Report

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    Scott Curtis is a retired U.S. Navy Captain. For those unfamiliar, a Navy Captain is an O-6. That’s the highest rank attainable through performance advancement in any of the services. And the rank at which the vast majority of officers retire. Upon his retirement from the Navy as a highly qualified nuclear engineer with twenty five years of experience in management and command, after briefly working in the private sector, last July Curtis went to work for FEMA in FEMA region 7 as the chief of staff. Then a couple of weeks ago, when like everyone else at FEMA, he got the infamos “Fork in the Road” email from DOGE featuring a java script radio button allowing him to “resign immediately from (his) position while retaining all pay and benefits regardless of (his) daily workload and an exemption from in-person work requirements” through the end of September. Curtis figured for him it was an excellent opportunity. He could continue to draw his military pension and healthcare benefits, and at least between now and September he could continue to collect his full salary from FEMA. And during that time he could work aggressively with a recruiter to get placed in a new career, one that would probably pay better than FEMA. He was slightly disappointed to see his service to his contry and his community being cut shorter than he had expected. But he wasn’t disappointed to be leaving behind the Trump administration. So right before the deadline on February 6th he clicked on the button.

    After clicking on the email button Curtis received an immediate auto-reply from OPM telling him his response had been received and that the office would follow up shortly. But they never did. Weeks went by. Then just four days ago Curtis received a letter signed by the acting Deputy Regional Administrator for FEMA region 7 firing him from his employment. He was locked out of his workplace and his personal belongings were disposed of in the trash.

    Stay classy GOP.

  52. 52

    Get ready for some more “Hindus” of whom Welfare Queen YLB will not be fond:

    Rapid Response 47
    @RapidResponse47

    WATCH: Kash Patel’s full remarks after being sworn in as FBI Director:

    “Anyone who thinks the American Dream is dead, look right here. You’re talking to a first-generation Indian kid who is about to lead the law enforcement community in the greatest nation on God’s Earth.”

    2:20 PM · Feb 21, 2025

    The thing about DJT47 that frightens Welfare Queen YLB the most is all the brown-skinned people he brought with him.

  53. 53

    @ 51

    … Curtis received a letter signed by the acting Deputy Regional Administrator for FEMA region 7 firing him from his employment.

    Neither QoS McHillbilly nor Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit saw fit to mention this action has been reversed.

  54. 54

    1,000 FBI agents currently in Washington DC are moving elsewhere. Half to a new facility in Huntsville, AL, and the other half to locations around the country.

    What’s left uncut from the Deep State will be decentralized. Some of them will now be free to peruse G-clown’s laptop hard drive.

  55. 55

    @44 “the Supreme Court sees no reason that the appeals process should not follow normal order in this case”

    And how is that not refusing to rubberstamp his order when he tried to bypass the normal appeals process by asking SCOTUS to lift the stay and they didn’t give him what he wanted?

    #somuchwinning

  56. 56

    @ 55

    HA’s Legal Eagle, Gentlemen and Welfare Queen YLB.

    Waiting five days gives DJT47 what he wants, unless a judge decides differently. No reason for SCOTUS to leave its fingerprints on it right now.

  57. 57

    @51 “He could continue to draw his military pension and healthcare benefits”

    I wouldn’t count on those too much if I were him. If Elon Robespierre goes after Social Security, there’s no reason to believe he won’t go after military retirement benefits, too. All to give himself government contracts and tax breaks.

  58. 58

    @51 So if you take the buyout deal, you get fired immediately, so they don’t have to pay you through September. Why would they want to, if you’re not doing any work? And why would they want you to do work they don’t want done? I think they just put the fine print of the buyout deal out there for everyone to see. Of course many people assumed there was a catch, and suspected the severance wouldn’t be paid, and now everyone knows what the catch is.

  59. 59

    @53 “Neither QoS McHillbilly nor Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit saw fit to mention this action has been reversed.”

    If so, that’s news to me, and I’m not turning up anything to that effect in my online searches. Got a link? Meanwhile, other Trump actions are being stayed or reversed:

    Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump DEI executive orders

    https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5158768-federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-trump-dei-executive-orders/

    Federal judge extends decision blocking DOGE from Treasury payment system

    https://thehill.com/business/5158734-federal-judge-extends-decision-blocking-doge-from-treasury-payment-system/

    White House restores 9/11 health program funding after uproar

    https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5158570-white-house-restores-9-11-health-program-funding-after-uproar/

    Trump is burning through his political capital like a startup giving away free dog food.

    #somuchwinning

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    It’s no surprise at all that the first Pentagon general to get fired is the black guy.

    President Donald Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making fighter pilot and respected officer as part of a campaign to rid the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in the ranks.

    https://www.aol.com/trump-fires-chairman-joint-chiefs-004046181.html

    Presumably the dozens of female fighter pilots in the Air Force and Navy, each trained at a cost of millions, will be kicked out of the service as part of Trump’s anti-DEI campaign.

    #wastingtaxpayermoney

  61. 61

    I wonder what Russia’s quid pro quo is in exchange for handing over Ukraine, kneecapping NATO, and gutting our military? A big comfy retirement dacha on the Volga to share with Tulsi?

  62. 62

    @56 “No reason for SCOTUS to leave its fingerprints on it right now.”

    THEN WHY DID HE ASK THEM TO??

    🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

  64. 64

    Who wears sunglasses inside? What are they trying to hide?

    Schmitt asked the SpaceX and Tesla boss what it was like “inside the mind of a genius.” Musk hesitated before replying: “My mind is a storm, so … it’s a storm.”

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-cpac-speech-b2701981.html

    The asshole was high as a kite, on special K.. The freek is crashing out.

    He’s ignoring his baby mamas, one of his kids has a health crisis. This isn’t going to end well.

  65. 65

    Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is finished./blockquote>

    https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/mitch-mcconnell-retire-senate-legacy-rcna192996

    He’s more than finished, his legacy is, too:

    When it comes down to it, McConnell has always been a man of his principles, even when those principles are garbage. Because at his core, McConnell has been committed to no higher cause than the acquisition of power for his party.

    That’s because McConnell will always be remembered as the man who could have stopped Trump, but chose not to.

  68. 68

    S&P 500 on Jan. 21, 2025: 6049.24
    S&P 500 on Feb. 21, 2025: 6013.13

    DJIA on Jan. 21, 2025: 44,025.81
    DJIA on Feb. 21, 2025: 43,428.02

  69. 69

    lmao.. dumbfuck struggles between tree-hugging and cosplaying john dutton..

    It’s the freek’s form of “gender affirming care”..

    Well that and the affirm clinic.. and bosley..

    yawwn.. next..

  71. 71

    @ 66

    Trump just gutted Alzheimer’s research, and no Republican is saying a peep.

    Maybe because it’s only 10% of the workforce there.

    Approximately one-tenth of the center’s workers have now been let go…

    And if it’s targeted at administrators, the result will probably be a better-functioning research entity.

  72. 72

    From the NIH grant site:

    NIH’s mission is to “seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems” in order to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability. In furtherance of this mission, NIH spent more than $35 Billion in Fiscal Year 2023 on almost 50,000 competitive grants to more than 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 universities, medical schools, and other research institutions across all 50 states and the District of Columbia.[1] Of this funding, approximately $26 billion went to direct costs for research, while $9 billion was allocated to overhead through NIH’s indirect cost rate.

    So we blew 25% of our “research” money on non-research. That’s largely administrators and their minions.

    What if we spent only 10% on administration and laid off 15% of those employed? Like these guys (same link):

    10%

    Gates Foundation (for institutions of higher education)
    Smith Richardson Foundation

    Or howz about we only lay off 13%? We could fund charitable efforts by these guys:

    12%

    Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

    Even the NIH knows it’s bloated, and in the link above mandated admin costs of no more than 15%. That’s a haircut of 10%.

    And that’s what just happened to the Alzheimers outfit that Robin Dumbfuck Rabbit is twisting his panties over.

    Spoiler alert: The agency will function just fine as long as it makes the cuts the smart way. Unfortunately, it’s administrators who will do the cutting.

  73. 73

    This is what the NIH has been paying for administrative costs (link @ 72):

    Yet the average indirect cost rate reported by NIH has averaged between 27% and 28% over time.[2] And many organizations are much higher—charging indirect rates of over 50% and in some cases over 60%.

    This is what is going to happen now that someone actually is enforcing a cost reduction:

    NIH Implementation

    For any new grant issued, and for all existing grants to IHEs retroactive to the date of issuance of this Supplemental Guidance, award recipients are subject to a 15 percent indirect cost rate. This rate will allow grant recipients a reasonable and realistic recovery of indirect costs while helping NIH ensure that grant funds are, to the maximum extent possible, spent on furthering its mission. This policy shall be applied to all current grants for go forward expenses from February 10, 2025 forward as well as for all new grants issued.

    The NIH knows it’s bloated. Subject to the preceding paragraph, NIH-CARD probably slashed its workforce 10% because it’s been spending 25% of its grant money on administration.

    Somebody not on the federal dole tell me why this is such a fucking catastrophe. (Spoiler: it’s not)

  74. 74

    Last spring Portland State students took over a campus library, and vandalized it in protest over the Gaza genocide. Portland Police Bureau moved in aggressively and made lots of arrests. Our weakling troll was very sexually gratified at the time.

    Since then most of the dozens of students arrested and charged have plead out and received sentences for community service. About a half dozen who protested their innocence or claimed excessive force remained charged pending trial until this week when all charges are dropped.

    PPB destroyed about half the police recorded video footage of the arrests ahead of discovery. What they failed to clock was that complete copies of all the police video had already been turned over to the city attorney as part of a consent decree to limit civil liability. So when defense attorneys representing the students made routine requests to the city of Portland for all records, the full video footage was included, revealing to the defense that County Prosecutors, who rely on the PPB, had falsely certified their compliance with discovery.

    Because of the PPB lying to Multnomah prosecutors the County was forced to drop the remaining charges.

    More police do not make communities more safe.

  75. 75

    @72 “So we blew 25% of our “research” money on non-research. That’s largely administrators and their minions.”

    Actually not. This money is used to “keep universities and research institutes operating, including for new equipment, maintenance, utilities and support staff,” without which research labs can’t function and no research will take place.

    You know, lights, heat, test tubes and beakers, cages for the MAGA voters monkeys, and shit like that.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/trumps-nih-budget-cuts-threaten-research-stirring-panic-rcna191744

  76. 76

    The first Pentagon chief to be fired was the black guy. The second one to be fired was the woman. Nothing to see here.

  77. 77

    The Trump administration’s mass layoffs across federal agencies have hit the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has terminated over 100 probationary employees. That includes some of those who work on the team responsible for producing air traffic navigation maps, multiple sources told ABC News. …

    Some of the employees impacted were part of the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization (ATO) en route charting group, which is responsible for maintaining and updating Enroute Navigation Charts used in the National Airspace System and by air traffic controllers around the country, sources told ABC News.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/layoffs-hit-faa-including-employees-tasked-producing-air/story?id=119060253

    You might want to get a saddle for that horse, dumbfuck. I wouldn’t fly anywhere if I were you.

  78. 78

    I’ll definitely sue anyone who suggests that I was left with a deformed micropenis following a botched enhancement surgery.

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