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It feels weird that advice reporting in the President coming to town is treated as a traffic story. I don’t know, his Earth Day speech will probably be pretty important, avoid Seward Park.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get the fuck vaccinated or boosted.

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  1. 1

    Yield curve inversion again today, with the 5-year rate topping the 10-year rate.

    Powell suggested a half-point increase in the Federal funds rate is coming in May. Meanwhile, traders are pricing in 94% likelihood of a 0.75% increase by June.

    In the last thread Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit pronounced the stock market healthy, and got his ass handed to him hours later.

    Imagine the plight of Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s family after his horrid management of their financial affairs.

    The wealthy grow wealthier because of people like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, who hand their money to us through poor investment decision-making.

    I sold a LOT of covered calls earlier this week.

  2. 2

    It’s all fun and games until an illegal murders one of YLB’s kids.

    Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has privately told members of Congress he’s concerned with the Biden administration’s handling of its plans to lift Title 42 on May 23, sources familiar with the conversations tell Axios.

    Why it matters: The private airings by Mayorkas, recounted by lawmakers, belie public posturing that the administration is prepared for a potential influx of migrants. The secretary is not only charged with protecting the border but overseeing the process of ending the Trump-era immigration control.

    Mayorkas has also indicated a level of frustration and unease with the repeal rollout, the sources said.

  3. 3

    Ah, the joys of a city so overwhelmingly controlled by Democrat politicians.

    Baltimore Police Fire Newly Hired Administrator Because He Is A ‘Person Of Interest’ In A Homicide, Harrison Says

    Hayes is listed on the city’s gun offender registry, which tracks residents who’ve been convicted of at least one gun-related offense — a detail that was missed in a background check, Harrison said.

    “We’re correcting that as we speak,” he said.

    Additionally, WJZ has learned that Hayes was arrested in 2018.

    Hayes was added to the registry in 2019, according to the city’s Open Baltimore data portal. Hayes, 37, was arrested on multiple gun violations in 2018.

    There’s also a domestic violence arrest in 2010.

    Way to go, Baltimore. Catherine Pugh would be so proud.

  4. 4

    It’s a traffic story. If you’re downtown today, you’ll understand why. If I have a couple of presidential visit stories I could tell.

  5. 5

    MTG just testified under oath that she believes Joe Biden lost the election and there was massive voter fraud.

    This is probably true. She probably does believe that.

  6. 6

    There’s that yield curve inversion being mentioned again.

    The U.S. economic outlook is dimming and a downturn could be on the horizon as the Federal Reserve moves to tame the hottest inflation in four decades, according to Fannie Mae economists.

    The mortgage lender said in a new economic and housing forecast that the economy faces a “modest recession” in 2023 as a result of the Fed’s aggressive monetary policy tightening trajectory, fallout from the Russian war in Ukraine and the worst inflation in a generation.

    “We continue to see multiple drivers of economic growth through 2022, but the need to rein in inflation, combined with other economic indicators, such as the recent inversion of the Treasury yield curve, led us to meaningfully downgrade our expectations for economic growth in 2023,” Doug Duncan, Fannie Mae’s chief economist, said in a statement.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s family is so fucked.

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    @1 “Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit pronounced the stock market healthy”

    I didn’t. I pronounced a numerical snapshot of what the stock market was doing at one particular moment in time, and parenthetically noted that your predicted 10% – 15% correction still hadn’t materialized.

  8. 8

    …the President coming to town is treated as a traffic story.

    It’s Weekend at Bernie’s III.

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    @2 how come no republican has advocated that every one who hires an illegal goes to jail for a year and pays a fine of 10% of their yearly income?

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    @ 10

    How come all through grade school, your teachers kept passing you on to the next grade level?

  12. 12

    @6 “Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s family is so fucked.”

    Could be worse. They’re not your family.

  13. 13

    @11. Responding to the question with an insult. Limp. Real limp. You don’t have an answer you want to give I see.

  14. 14

    @11. Because I passed every grade with a 3.5 GPA. If you don’t like my education, take it up with the Alan Stang, John Burch Society arch conservatives of my school board. I was taught by the school districts your tribe want to create in Florida and Texas. There are going to be more and more of me in your future.
    You Built This.

  15. 15

    This is probably true. She probably does believe that.

    Like our low IQ dumbfuck, MTG is a lying POS traitor. That said, she likely has a higher IQ than our lying, low IQ POS traitor.

  16. 16

    @11 Because they weren’t hypocritical greedy Republicans arguing that when employers knowingly employ cheap illegal labor, the only guilty party is the worker working for less than legal minimum wage because he’s in no position to complain about the illegally low wages.

  17. 17

    During a January 11 lunch with two advisers, McConnell reportedly remarked, “The Democrats are going to take care of the son of a bitch for us,” adding, “If this isn’t impeachable, I don’t know what is.”

    Was he lying then, or is he lying now?

  18. 18

    https://thehill.com/news/state-watch/3459612-florida-releases-examples-from-banned-math-textbooks/

    The book was banned for the sin of unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in mathematics,

    One page from a textbook acquired by the New York Times depicts a math word problem that also shows children how to support a friend who is worried about crossing a bridge in a jungle by instilling confidence in him.

    Seriously, what’s the harm in leaving that in?

    “It should have told the kids to pelt the scared child with rocks and scream insults at them until they crossed the bridge or fell, thinning the herd.” Republicans probably.

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    @15 Perjury is a crime. Being delusional isn’t. The distinction is legally significant.

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    Seward a park, so that explains the police presence on the pedestrian bridge at the crooked MLK JR Way/Rainier Ave intersection.(Anybody whose driven down Rainier Ave will understand why I mean crooked. It was like that when it was Empire Way too).

    That bridge feels shaky when it’s windy. Should have been replaced when Mt. Baker Station was built.

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    In barely more than 24 hous since Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit cheered thst the market was up on the day, the DJIA has lost 1,000 points.

    Don’t be a dumbfuck. Don’t be like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  23. 23

    Bob has nothing to say but bullshit. Trying to sweep his dumbfuckness under the rug.

  25. 25

    Let’s not forget – it wasn’t just an Insurrection. It was they day they killed LEO. The day they tossed fire extinguishers and spears at LEO.

    We’ve always known that they were traitors and non democratic people……but LEO assualters! How dare they!

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    10,
    How come for nearly twenty years it has been Republicans who have stood in the way of useful immigration reform. WALL SHITDOWN! and Bridge Troll stunts are all they are good for.

    Meanwhile it’s going on two years Degen can’t get his gutters cleaned.

  29. 29

    @27 Of course he’s lying when he denies it. You can take it for granted that Republicans are liars.

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    (Anybody whose driven down Rainier Ave will understand why I mean crooked. It was like that when it was Empire Way too)

    Sorry, EvergreenRailfan, but that’s nonsense. I grew up in Rainier Valley and attended Franklin HS which is located at that very intersection. There is a gentle turn to the right before MLK crosses Rainier, then similarly it bends slightly to the left a few hundred feet on the other side of Rainier. Probably 500′ between turns. That’s hardly what I’d call “crooked”., especially with Mt. Baker Blvd, a far better example of “crooked” Seattle street, being just east of that intersection.

  31. 31

    With interest rates rising, it’s hardly surprising that investors are pulling some money out of stocks:

    “Investors appear to be moving away from the TINA ‘there is no alternative’ narrative as of late when it comes to equities,” said Brian Price, head of investment management for Commonwealth Financial Network. ″This is the second straight week of significant outflows from equity mutual funds ….”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/21/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html

    Last I looked, the DJIA and S&P were down 2.1%, hardly a “10% – 15% correction, but my stocks were down only 1.4%; and, dividends included, my stocks are earning 14% annualized this year, which my family will happily accept any year. I wonder what interest rate Puddy’s mattress pays?

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    @32 if I were Disney I’d consider pausing on any new developments and search elsewhere and relocate. Fuck Florida, I never planned on visiting anytime soon or far.

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    It’s a Republican twofer. It hurts Disney and it hurts the blue regions surounding it.

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    30)It just appears crooked at times, but with the nimbler of lanes on both streets, the bridge made sense, especially with the number of students at Franklin. Wished they replaced it when the station was built.

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