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Good morning. I hope you are all doing well. I am still feeling a bit yucky from the dentist. So not thrilled about that.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now, and get vaccinated or boosted (boosted?) if you haven’t yet.

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  1. 1

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is very unhappy about the decline in Citigroup shares since he purchased them last month.

    Fortunately for him, he could only afford two shares, so he’s only down 16 bucks.

  3. 3

    Been following this merger for months. Especially when Canadian Pacific’s rival Canadian National swooped in thinking that they make a higher offer. Shareholder greed almost got in the way of a good thing. Ever since Penn Central, the old ICC and Surface Transportation Board have been worried each merger would have. In fact, the impact the Santa Fe/Southern Pacific tie up would have had on competition in the Southwest, saw the ICC kill the merger. As the UP acquired several railroads (MKT, Rio Grande, SP, and CNW), Burlington Northern and Santa-Fe merge, and Norfolk Southern and CSX acquired Conrail, the STB drafted new rules for reviewing future mergers. CN acquiring KCS would have followed those rules, and both railroads had extensive operations in Louisiana, CP didn’t.

    The only place Canadian Pacific overlapped with KCS was at Kansas City. The STB said this merger would be reviewed under the old rules. Now KCS shareholders have accepted a revised VP offer and KCS is in a voting trust pending STB approval. Mexican regulators have already signed off. It was KCS’s cross border traffic in Mexico that interested the two Canadian railroads. Thought KCS would be independent forever. The last time two railroads were interested in Kansas City Southern, they merged with each other instead.

    https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/kansas-city-southern-enters-voting-trust/

  4. 4

    @ 2

    A truck driver in CO was sentenced to 110 years because he did not take a runaway truck ramp and the result was four dead.

  5. 5

    @1 No, happy I can buy more! Hey dumbfuck, you may get your 10%-15% pullback. Have just a little more patience, and it may come to you. Only 9.11% – 14.11% to go!

  8. 8

    Oh, and before I forget, I saw an item on CNN yesterday that this year’s flu vaccine doesn’t work. (I’ve already found this out, although how the hell I got exposed baffles me.) The “main strain” changed.

  9. 9

    Yesterday in the Kim Potter trial, her former boss, the Brooklyn Center Chief who was forced to resign in the wake of her callous and aggressive gun-play, testified that she violated no department policy when she put a bullet into Daunte Wright’s face.

    This leads me to suspect two things: first that many jurors may question the exonerating value of a policy that approves of police shooting motorists in the face for failing to stop; and that the defense strategy being employed at this criminal trial, whether or not it succeeds, is going to produce an enormous jury award settlement in the civil suit to follow.

  10. 10

    7)To think he thought he could damage the Hospital Ship, although the USNS Mercy is a converted oil tanker.

    Some info on the truck case the Troll was talking about.

    https://youtu.be/YUaPn2NBzC8

    As for the trucker, wondering if he got a license by dubious means. I remember the case of Illinois Governor George Ryan, as Secretary of State, was involved in a licenses for bribes scandal.

  11. 11

    8,
    “(D)oesn’t work” may be doing overtime here.

    Even a mismatched flu vaccine provides very effective protection against the kind of severe illness that produces hospitalization and death. Real influenza can kill and still does.

    This is probably the future we face with COVID. Seasonal vaccination to help boost our immune system’s ability to prevent infection from constant mutation as well as fight off illness.

  12. 12

    Today we learned that Kanye West’s 2020 campaign was a fake, sock-puppet created and financed by elite Republican strategists with connections and backing by the RNC. Indications are that the efforts undertaken to conceal the true sources of the funds likely will result in criminal charges.

    They should have hired Tulsi’s people.

  13. 13

    Propublica is always a good read.. Should be a weekly if not daily goto.

    Mellon wrote in his book about taxation. “It is an often quoted saying that ‘there are three generations from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves.’”

    The refrain meant that a fortune amassed by one generation will be frittered away by the third. E.W. Scripps used the same saying in his essays.

    They were wrong. Just recently, one of Scripps’ great-great-grandsons posed on Instagram in shirtsleeves, holding stacks of cash, his arm festooned with diamond-encrusted watches. Private jets and a fleet of Lamborghinis ferry him between a mountain getaway in Aspen and a gun range in Miami, where he shoots a gold AK-47.

    https://www.propublica.org/article/the-great-inheritors-how-three-families-shielded-their-fortunes-from-taxes-for-generations

    Dynastic wealth is an abomination.. I’m not talking about a family home or even a medium sized business passed down through the generations..

    In what “meritocratic” universe did the instagram fuckwad “earn” all that shit? I wouldn’t be the least surprised if their forbears whose tax dodging made this possible are beaming from their graves.

  14. 14

    Today N.H. Senator Maggie Hassan, who some fucktard troll claims can’t possibly win re-election in 2024 because of results he saw in some shitty push-poll, declared that she is in favor of a filibuster carve-out for voting rights legislation before next year.

    Sinema will of course block any such reform.

    But it will be increasingly damaging to her, as has already become apparent. Most recently she argued that, while she supports protecting voting rights against partisan attack, a carve-out would also allow any future majority to rescind voting rights protections and implement onerous restrictions – restrictions such as those already passed in dozens of Republican controlled states.

    Democracy: “Fire starters have set our house on fire! We need to put out the fire!”

    Sen. Sinema: “I support putting out house fires. But I would oppose doing so without the approval of a super-majority that includes the fire starters because without it a future Congress of fire starters might set our house on fire.”

  16. 16

    @ 13

    The ProPublica piece about which The Unserious Twat whines mentions three families – Scripps, Mellon, and Mars – who are worth a combined $114 billion.

    That’s what the repeal of the SALT limitation would have meant to rich families in largely blue states in only about 16 months (this repeal would cost the Treasury $87 billion per year). Somehow The Unserious Twat doesn’t seem to have a problem with that giveaway.

    The piece refers to the estate tax threshold raised to $23.4M per couple. That figure is only relevant if the couple’s assets are not comingled; if they are comingled, both couples would have to die simultaneously.

    And the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 expires in 2025. So YLB merely needs to wait for taxes to go up in 2026.

  17. 17

    Fleece every US billionaire for every dime they have and it adds up to maybe $5 trillion.

    The pandemic-related spending has been more than that.

    What YLB doesn’t want to get into is that to really take a bite out of the nation’s debt, taxes will have to be raised on everybody. There’s not enough to be gotten from the higher earners and wealthier among us. We’re spending way too much money.

    YLB doesn’t want to get into that. She loves to spend OPM on herself and on her kids way too much to get serious about the consequences of all that spending.

  18. 18

    Shorter misogynist pos @ 16..

    it likes the instagram turd.. it can never be that guy but fantasy that drumpfs reality is the next best thing..

    yawwwwwnnnn.. has the SALT even passed yet? Nope..

    Wow… look at it go @ 17..

    When the lie is exposed that dynastic wealth can’t last more than 3 generations.. it is interestingly triggered..

    thanks for playing misogynist pos.. keep going.. let us see more..

  19. 19

    @ 18

    When the lie is exposed that dynastic wealth can’t last more than 3 generations…

    So, two guys a century ago lied ’cause things didn’t turn out the way they said things would turn out?

    When Barack Obama said Donald Trump wouldn’t be president, and turned out to be wrong, does that mean Obama lied?

    Of course not, silly twat. Incorrect predictions or rules of thumb that don’t always hold true are not lies.

    Silly twat.

  20. 20

    greedee, kreepee misogynist pos @ 19

    WHY did the plutocrats of old lie oh miserable in widbee pos?

    Propaganda in service of their tax dodging.. So they..

    or their heirs can do shit like put over a billion dollars in a trust for heir Richard Mellon Scaife..

    so he could fund even MORE tax dodging lies. like mythical farmers losing their family farms..

    yawwnnn.. gotta do better than that oh pos.. you’re boring me.

  21. 21

    Good.

    Axios
    @axios
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    NEW: Capitol rioter who threw fire extinguisher at police gets more than 5 years in prison

  24. 24

    Sean Patrick Maloney is a closet Republican.

    Vulnerable House Dems to DCCC: You’re jeopardizing our reelection

    “What’s problematic is not only is he pushing the wrong strategy. … The biggest problem is that he’s attacking front-line members for taking a different perspective,” the first lawmaker said. “If you want to win purple and red seats, you have to distance yourself from other Democrats. He is a part of this ‘party purity’ march that is just going to ensure that we are deep in the minority.”

    Several of the members suspect Maloney is trying to use his DCCC perch to climb the leadership ladder — essentially raising his own profile at the expense of their political fortunes. Doing the job right, these members say, means sometimes having to back them over progressive members in safer districts.

    “I think Sean Patrick’s ‘leadership’ — and please use air quotes on that — at the DCCC is the reason why we should not have elected colleagues running that organization,” said the first member. “Because it’s not about protecting the majority; it’s about Sean Patrick Maloney. … We’ve got a vanity project.”

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has been great at telling everyone that a Democrat who doesn’t toe the party line is a Democrat the party doesn’t need.

    We’ll see how that strategy works out in about 10 1/2 months.

  25. 25

    I don’t think it’s good news for First Vegetable Joe Biden that Hispanic voters are quietly disappointed instead of outright hostile.

    And, while many of them personally knew someone who had lost or job due to COVID, many also had a negative perception of the 2021 COVID stimulus legislation, feeling like it went to people who didn’t need or deserve it. “There were people who needed the stimulus, like those who were unemployed,” said one older Latina swing voter. “But they gave money to everyone, including those who didn’t need it. And, now we are all paying for it because everything is going up.”

    The good news for Biden/Democrats is that many of these voters also believe that the rise in prices and supply chain challenges directly results from the pandemic, not Democratic policy. Moreover, only a handful of these voters were openly hostile in their opinion of the president. They weren’t as angry as they were disappointed.

    I’m just fine with disappointed Hispanics quietly continuing their shift to supporting the GOP.

  26. 26

    5. 🇦🇫 60,000+ left behind in Afghanistan

    Visa applications show 62,000 Afghan interpreters and others who worked alongside American forces still remain in Afghanistan, a State Department official told The Wall Street Journal (subscription).

    Why it matters: “This is the first time that the State Department has provided a number on those left behind since the Afghanistan government collapsed this summer,” The Journal reports.

    But First Vegetable Joe Biden will be sure to stand by our Ukrainian allies when we watch Putin invade.

  27. 27

    One more rich white guy to make YLB feel inferior.

    Nicholas Sandmann
    @N1ckSandmann
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    At this time I would like to release that NBC and I have reached a settlement. The terms are confidential.

    The thing is, YLB is a huge part of the reason he’s rich now. She chose to hate him because

    • he’s white, and
    • he stood his ground

    Spineless women like YLB don’t like men with spines. They make YLB and her ilk feel inferior. Because they are inferior.

  28. 28

    Looks like 5-years-plus will be the going rate for attacking cops. On that scale, what should Trump get? And the other coup plotters who put these gullible dopes up to this?

    https://www.aol.com/news/college-student-sentenced-1-month-173304896-200247188.html

    Trump has done nothing for people like him and never will. I hope they’re beginning to realize what saps they were. In any rational world, this should completely destroy any loyalty his followers still have to him. But they’re not rational, are they?

  29. 29

    @27 Of course the terms are confidential. NBC agreed to publish a retraction, pay his attorney’s fees, and he still gets to class on a skateboard.

    You, of all people, should know the only people who make money off these kinds of lawsuits are the lawyers.

  30. 30

    @ 28

    I hope they’re beginning to realize what saps they were.

    Hispanic voters are beginning to realize they have been voting against their own best interests. See @ 25

    2022 will be a bloodbath for the Democrat party. Good.

  31. 31

    @26 Last I read, American citizens are still coming out, and almost all of them are out now.

    Bush had 8 years to win this war and couldn’t. Trump had 4 years to win it and couldn’t. Neville Chamberlain Trump fed the interpreters to the Taliban. We can assume Biden is doing what can be done for them. We also can assume Trump doesn’t give a shit what happens to them (I doubt you really do, either) and the GOP doesn’t want them in this country.

  32. 32

    @30 “Hispanic voters are beginning to realize they have been voting against their own best interests. ”

    Really? They’re going to do better with the guy who calls them rapists and criminals? And wants the CBP to shoot them on the Mexican side of the fence? (Not realizing this is technically an act of war.)

  33. 33

    In 2018, a blue-wave year nationallyu, Joe Manchin won his Senate race by all of 3 percentage points.

    He has very little reason to piss off his WV electorate in order to support stupid Democrat policies.

    For some reason this comes as news to some of the Democrat leadership.

  34. 34

    he’s white, and
    • he stood his ground

    Damn dimfuk.. Stood his ground… My reading was the native american was actually standing between Sandman and the black nationalists.. Doing the magateens a favor of sorts.

    According to witnesses and video subsequently appearing on social media, the Black Hebrew Israelite men shouted racist slurs at the high school students as well as Native Americans.[10][21][22] They called the students “a bunch of incest babies”, future “school shooters”, and “dirty ass little crackers”, and said “you give faggots rights”.[21][37][38][39] Many students reacted by saying things such as “whoa” and “easy”.[39] The Hebrew Israelites also called a passing black man who tried to disagree with them a “coon”, told indigenous activists that the word Indian means “savage”, and said to a woman who had stopped to argue with them: “Where’s your husband? Bring your husband. Let me speak to him.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2019_Lincoln_Memorial_confrontation

    Magateen is a jerk no doubt, given its bootlicking devotion to drumpfism and drumpfist blather. And the media definitely misreported, fucked up.

    But you’re so fucking stupid.. your “intelligence” seems.. defective.. inferior even.. But thanks for the entertainment..

  35. 35

    Talking of media fuckups..

    When billo shelled out what? 30 million for sexually harassing a fox host and Faux News shelled out more for its behavior towards Andrea Mackris and who the fuck knows who else…

    Well shit, it’s only money right? All for the “cause”..

    Not to mention Roger Ailes making a sex slave of a subordinate.

    And not a peep about it from shit for brains like dimfuk. Your sex god Ailes is dead but Billo’s got a podcast if you’re curious dimfuk.. give it a listen as you’re a fellow traveller.

  38. 38

    Fleece every US billionaire for every dime they have Tax investment income of multimillionaire parasites the way we tax hard work and it adds up to maybe $5 trillion. Every single year, forever.

    Just like America, when you take the “conservative” Dumbfuck out everything is much better.

  39. 39

    21,
    A few months ago you argued that he was just a dumb tourist with impulse control problems who “got caught up”.

    You haven’t changed your mind.

    You got scared. Of your own party.

  40. 40

    24,
    Another gossip column?

    One thing I agree with, they should hire a pro who is not in office. Somebody with a proven track record of raising funds but who has no political stake in the coms strategy or messaging.

    Liz Cheney has shit to say about her leadership too.

    Big difference is she gets to say it into the record the DOJ reviews before presenting to a grand jury.

  41. 41

    @ 31

    We can assume Biden is doing what can be done for them.

    Biden isn’t doing shit.

    Listen to All Things Considered, today. There was just a segment on food shortage in Afghanistan.

    The International Rescue Committee was interviewed this afternoon. A million Afghan children face starvation.

    First Vegetable Joe Biden watched as the Taliban rushed in after ignoring repeated warnings that the Taliban would rush in. And then he froze their assets.

    Biden didn’t do shit except clearly demonstrate his cowardice and then his dismissal of the situation. He botched the leadup to the abandonment, he botched the abandonment, and now he’s doing nothing to improve the situation.

    If you choose not to acknowledge it until after the first week of November, then don’t complain about what happens during the midterms.

    Afghanistan will be a drag on Kamala, too. She stood by and watched, last one in the room when the decision was made. She’s complicit.

  42. 42

    Statement from the Republican domestic terrorist the pathetic incel troll mentioned @ 21:

    “I realize that we, meaning Trump supporters, were lied to by those that at the time had great power, meaning the sitting president as well as those acting on his behalf.”

    Neither the quantity of the lying itself, nor the substance of it has changed one iota in the eleven months since. All that lying from all those Republicans and their backers and media supporters has not only continued, it has grown. They still claim that the election was stolen. Even Bob continues to lie about it, just like he continues to lie about “FB friends from CO” and everything else.

    This is the textbook definition of cult behavior. They lie themselves into ruin. Then they blame their own lies for that outcome. As if the author of the lies is not responsible for the harm they cause.

    Cults can be dangerous. We need to accept that they will hurt themselves, and that there may be very little we can do to prevent that. But we have to stop giving them opportunities to harm the innocent. Democracy is not a suicide pact.

  43. 43

    @41 Wow dimfuk that’s some conviction you have there..

    Look at how the American people shit on Gerry Ford over Vietnam..

    If only “the one” had managed to prevail in 75..

    He would have gotten us back in to “pave” Vietnam.

    And you’d a been a happy bonzoteen fellating “the one” when the REAL “miracle on ice” happened.

    not the Kurt Russell (or Karl Malden) version. Heh. and we all know what you did before the hollyweird versions.. Too funny..

  44. 44

    Almost forgot!! I mentioned two dead repukes in this thread…

    Roger Ailes the sex predator..

    And Richard Mellon Scaife..

    Did Scaife pay into SS? Shit yeah.. Probably got a paycheck from that family paper in Pittsburgh.. When it came time to get a SS check it told its accountant “just send it to the heritage foundation”.. or whatever the fuck..

    But now they’re both dead, not getting SS and according to the “serious” deranged babblings of teh widbee kreepee kreepah..

    This is..

    GOOD for my kids..

    AMIRITE??

  45. 45

    The International Rescue Committee was interviewed this afternoon. A million Afghan children face starvation.

    Sanctions on the Taliban.

    Remember 9-11?

    Apparently not when it’s inconvenient.

    Remember when Orange Daddy arranged to meet with the killers over Bolton’s objections? Remember when Trump arranged to have them to Camp David to “celebrate” 9/11?

    Yeah, Trump forgot too.

  46. 46

    43)Season 2 of For All Mankind had some interesting changes. Saigon Fell in 1972(Nixon pulls out in 70 to put resources back into the Space Race.) Nixon loses to Kennedy in 72(Red Moon landing led to the Chappaquidick party being canceled), and Reagan beats Kennedy in 76. There was No Miracle on Ice. Although they missed a better change. No Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, no need to boycott Moscow Olympics.

  47. 47

    @4. When the greedy racist incel doesn’t provide a link, something isn’t right.

    A Colorado truck driver was sentenced to 110 years for a deadly crash. Over 3 million people have signed a petition asking for clemency.
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rogel-aguilera-mederos-sentenced-colorado-traffic-crash/
    “During sentencing, the judge acknowledged that Aguilera-Mederos didn’t intend to harm anyone.”

    Truck Driver Sentenced 110 Years For Deadly Crash Stemming From Brake Failure Even Though Everyone Agrees It’s Unreasonable

    It’s a punishment nobody seems to agree with. Not Colorado District Court Judge Bruce Jones, who said, “If I had the discretion, it would not be my sentence.” Not the families of the deceased, some of whom support incarceration but none who appear to be calling for Aguilera-Mederos to die in prison.
    Aguilera-Mederos was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Road rage wasn’t determined to be a factor, either.

    Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, a 26-year-old immigrant from Cuba
    Now I understand why the racist incel was gleeful to see him get so many years.

    If he’s gonna kill people, he needs to use a gun and shoot liberals and black people and the judge will do everything in his power to nullify the case. And be white. That’s important too.

  48. 48

    47)It sounds like he didn’t do well on the Mountain Driving portion of truck schools. I wonder if a bribe was involved, selling licenses for bribes has been bipartisan. Remember Illinois Gov George Ryan?

  49. 49

    48,
    Yes, yes. We can all agree that at least in some limited way, everyday run-of-the-mill corruption is bipartisan.

    So is cheating on spouses, fucking hookers, using drugs, speeding, driving drunk, and hiding income from the IRS. Because human beings are like this.

    Wanna know what are not “bipartisan”?

    -Fabricating an entire nationwide industry devoted to pretending that the 2020 election was stolen.
    -Using that to inspire a violent and deadly domestic terror attack on our nation’s capital.
    -Employing that industry to justify massive, sweeping restrictions on voting.
    -Announcing that if you don’t like an election outcome you will simply declare it invalid and toss out the results.
    -Telling everyone including members of your own party that if they won’t get on board will ALL of this they are your enemies, they are kicked out and criminals.

    That shit is isolated to only one party. It’s ongoing. And it’s getting worse every day.

    U.S. listed as a ‘backsliding’ democracy for first time in report by European think tank

    Read it an weep. If you aren’t voting for Democrats you aren’t helping us save democracy.

  50. 50

    49)Good point. Hiding behind accusations of voter fraud to disenfranchise. At least when Illinois eliminated their antidote to Gerrymandering they came up with a better excuse. Three seat State house districts were expensive. When they passed the Cut Back Amendment, it eliminated Cummulative Voting. Before that, Republicans could win in Chicago and Democrats Downstate. The guy who thought of that bright idea, Pat Quinn.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20160305012341/https://prev.dailyherald.com/story/print/?id=294519

    The way it used to work in the Illinois House, was with those 3 seat districts, the voter got three votes. Unlike our 2 seat House districts, those were mot head to head. The voter could cast them all for one candidate or for three candidates. The parties supposedly had an informal agreement, not to run more than two candidates in each district.

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