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A rare Thursday thread. I am mostly not working, but maybe you are.

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  1. 1

    Why isn’t there a Mastodon sidebar for Goldy?

    Can Goldy’s abandoned Twitter sidebar be replaced with a real-time TSLA ticker sidebar?

  2. 2

    @1 how about a side bar featuring today’s Hetero Neanderthal inflicted with the STD HN Disease, and their victims.

    That would be more appropriate and worthy and meaningful.

  4. 4

    Hunter Biden, about a year from now:

    “I’d be better off if Trump had been re-elected.”

  5. 5

    Zogby:

    Biden 34%
    DeSantis 43%

    Democrat bumper stickers in 2024: “Do you really want a First Lady with only one good tit?”

  6. 6

    OK, who’s looking forward to Democrat presidential primary debates with First Vegetable Joe Biden participating?

  7. 7

    By dragging out the process, the White House isn’t just hamstringing the GOP. It’s also hamstringing Democrat wannabe prez candidates, who will have to wait a few more months until so much bad news about The Biden Crime Family emerges that Biden is forced to end his re-election aspirations.

    Heidi Przybyla
    @HeidiReports
    ·
    4h
    Scoop: White House to GOP congressmen: Sorry, but you have to restart your investigation demands.

    👉It’s the first major broadside in response to incoming House Republicans likely to spearhead aggressive oversight of the Biden administration.

    https://politi.co/3I8WqjZ @politico

    Mayor Pete isn’t gonna like this one bit. And hey, if things drag out long enough, Kamala might have to actually participate in a primary state election or caucus before pulling out due to the overwhelming voter distaste for her candidacy.

  9. 9

    So, after all of this we know that Elizabeth Warren lied about her heritage in order to advance her career as an attorney, and that Donald Trump lost a shit-ton of money at his hotels during the pandemic.

    Elizabeth Warren
    @ewarren
    ·
    Oct 15, 2018
    I took this test and released the results for anyone who cares to see because I’ve got nothing to hide. What are YOU hiding,
    @realDonaldTrump
    ? Release your tax returns – or the Democratic-led House will do it for you soon enough. Tick-tock, Mr President.

  10. 10

    Robin Dumbfuck Rabbit is very, very insecure.

    Tola TA Alabi
    @ta_alabi
    ·
    Dec 26
    In a world where:
    Men post their wealth, to prove that they’re successful.

    Women post their bodies, to prove that they’re beautiful.

    Couples post their intimate moments, to prove they’re in love.

    Only goes to prove, that the world today is very insecure.

    Never trust an asswipe who sells his losers so he can claim to have beaten the market.

  12. 12

    @6

    Just wait until Joe has to debate and then this thing will be over. He’ll drool on the mic and be incoherent.

  13. 13

    @5

    Weird no Trump in the poll. It’s:
    Biden 39%
    DeSantis 29%
    Pissed off cultists demanding only Donald is the legitimate President for life and demanding the GOP redo the primaries and mount a write in campaign and arming themselves to take out the power grid at the convention. 30%
    Undecided 7%

    The GOP nominating campaign is gonna be a shit show that everyone will get to see live. Insurrection vs Fascism, film at 11.

  15. 15

    Every time you see another headline about George Santos they’ve uncovered more lies. Nothing in his bio is true, so I wonder if that’s his real name. I think they should run his fingerprints.

  16. 16

    @4 Trump had four years to go after Hunter. Strange that he didn’t. Maybe he was getting a cut.

  17. 17

    @9 “Donald Trump lost a shit-ton of money at his hotels during the pandemic” despite overcharging taxpayers for overnight stays by the military personnel he steered to them.

  18. 18

    We learned over the past few weeks Trump is a shitty businessman. We learned over the past six years he’s a shitty liar.

  19. 19

    @10 “Never trust an asswipe who sells his losers so he can claim to have beaten the market.”

    That doesn’t work, because I count stocks sold during the year. It only works to claim tax losses (and wouldn’t work for that if I didn’t count those stocks).

    Never trust a loser who makes shit up to make his points.

  21. 21

    I see the Arizona AG recount is done and Mayes won by 280 votes. (Her original margin was 511.) Hamadeh already lost his baseless lawsuit, so it’s over.

    The winner extends her thanks and gratitude to the numerous Arizona Republican voters who stayed home because they believed Kari Lake when she told them the election would be rigged.

  25. 25

    To think how insecure one has to be to think this

    “Just wait until Joe has to debate and then this thing will be over. He’ll drool on the mic and be incoherent.”

    Joe Biden, as often as he has a gaffe, is more intelligent and of sound mind than yourself. He is even of more sound mind than any Repuke has ever been and currently is.

  26. 26

    The ring leader of the group that tried to kidnap the Michigan Governor looks like a Middle Eastern Taliban member.

    Repukes truly are jealous of terrorists and it is manifested by anger towards them.

  27. 27

    Someone needs to remind the Fox morons that Southwest is a private company in a deregulated industry, not a state-run airline. If they want to put Mayor Pete in charge, they’ll have to nationalize it.

    They don’t go after the people that they aren’t their threats.

    Clearly they fear Mayor Pete. 2 years before an election and they have to start talking about him now. The losers are just that, losers. Breeding will not save them.

  31. 31

    @25 “Just wait until Joe has to debate and then this thing will be over.”

    It was the last time. Biden has been winning elections for 50 years, so why does the stupid troll think he’s buzzard food on a debate stage?

  36. 36

    Hey doc, if you don’t want to tell us how your investments did this year, maybe you would like to just indicate whether you did better or worse than the S&P 500?

  37. 37

    @32

    But what will happen to all the requests for information I’ve already sent to the White House even though I have no Authority to do so? When will I get the gavel? I was appointed by Trump and no leadership fight is going to keep me from starting my job.

    Oh wait…I’m not legally anything to any committee?

    Fucksticks. Bring me an underage wrestler while I wait.

  39. 39

    I stand for free speech and it was outrageous that Andrew Tate lost his account for being a misogynist right wing douchebag. Have him reinstated immediately.

    (One month Later)

    “It is a crime that they refused to take action on child exploitation for years!” Musk tweeted Friday in response to a resignation letter from a member of the company’s Trust and Safety Council who worked on child abuse issues.

    (two weeks later)

    Controversial and provocative influencer Andrew Tate and his brother have been arrested in Romania on human sex-trafficking allegations

    (Past Performance is not a Guarantee of Future Performance)

    A widely publicized photo of Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell with Musk (which has reappeared since his Twitter takeover) has been dismissed by the Tesla CEO as a “photobomb.”

    However, Musk and Epstein did meet each other, according to statements made by Musk’s ex-wife Talulah Riley and Musk himself.

    Riley, who divorced Musk in 2016, posted a message on Twitter in 2020, addressing the photo of Maxwell and Musk together, adding that she had been to Epstein’s house with Musk.

    FREE SPEECH! FUCK ALL Y’ALL!

    (Sidebar to the story: Tate and his brother were questioned in April and according to reports Romanian authorities began trying to arrest them shortly after but they were so frequently in other countries, and assumed to be avoiding Romania entirely, they were unable to get them. But Andrew Tate got in a Twitter spat with Greta Thunberg, which is hilarious in itself, during which he posted video on the platform AND on his live stream that contained pizza boxes from a particular Romanian business allowing authorities to know he was at his Villa)

  40. 40

    14)Wouldn’t want that, you would have a bare bones network. Like passenger rail April 30, 1971 last day of private passenger rail vs May 1, 1971.

    Hoping the Brightline project in Florida succeeds, figured with the Florida East Coast being an early quitter of passenger rail, perfect corridor to give private passenger rail a revival, no Amtrak service on the line. It’s faced the same criticism from NIMBYS if it were a public project. Although Cocoa Beach-Orlando it will be using FDoT right of way along the Bee Line Expressway.

  43. 43

    And in Washington state, which was the first to pass a public option in 2019, enrollment remains paltry, and while the cost of the health insurance plans has decreased, state health officials said the policies available are still too expensive.

    “It’s still got a ways to go,” said Washington state Rep. Eileen Cody (D), who sponsored the state’s public option bill. “It’s not exactly what I had envisioned — I’ll put it that way.”…

    These problems are increasingly apparent. The public option in Washington State struggled* to draw hospitals and has thus been unavailable in most counties. After it hiked rates to entice them, public plans were priced higher than those of private competitors, and so attracted few enrollees…

    *Washington state, in its second year of offering the nation’s first public-option health insurance plan, has learned an important lesson: If you want hospitals to participate, you’re probably going to have to force them.

    The Washington public option is more of a public-private partnership: The plan was designed by the state but is offered by private insurance companies. Anyone buying their own policy on the state’s health insurance marketplace can sign up for a public-option plan and, depending on their income, may receive significant subsidies from the federal government to lower its cost. But two years in, the plans are available in only 25 of the state’s 39 counties, enrollment numbers have been underwhelming, and state leaders blame hospitals.

  44. 44

    @43 Something tells me the complexity of health care affordability and availability is way above your pay grade, but how are things there in Mississippi?

  48. 48

    41)At the rate they are going, they might only be able to run their 1971 network as well. Which was just a couple cities in Texas.

  49. 49

    Clapper, Brennan, Comey and Hayden all should be doing life sentences at a federal maximum security prison.

  50. 50

    @45 A study in generalizing and stereotyping with phrenology thrown in for good measure. See @46 for additional observations.

  52. 52

    Southwest cancels a flight, in ensence, denying you service. It’s their freedom to express their freedom and do what they want. Next you want a cake wiating at your seat too.

  54. 54

    Well, surely. He’s Monkeypox Pete.

    thebradfordfile
    @thebradfordfile
    Pete Buttigieg is so awful at his job people actually know who the Sec. of Transportation is.
    3:49 PM · Dec 29, 2022

  55. 55

    Those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat itget well-paying, full-time jobs and lead rewarding lives.

    Josh Kraushaar
    @JoshKraushaar
    ·
    2h
    “Between 2019 and 2020 1,799 historians earned their Ph.D.s, and only 175 of them are now employed as full-time faculty members.”

    Take Howard Zinn literally and pay the price, libbies.

  56. 56

    No, Steve, you fat fuck, people cannot be healthy “at any size”.

    Put down the cardiac burger and go for a long walk.

  59. 59

    @55

    Weird how that’s not seen as an indictment of a multi billion dollar industry’s habit of using adjuncts to avoid labor costs or the dismantling of education funding under GOP policies.

    Actually not weird. You don’t think things through before you post.

  60. 60

    Don’t fuck with Gen Z. They’re cynical and raised on snark.

    Greta Thunberg to Andrew Tate Twitter, 12/30/22

    “This is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes”

  61. 61

    That sound you hear is millions of us typing into the IRS tip website about some tax return abnormalities and what appear to be blatant frauds.

  62. 62

    @ 59

    Actually not weird. You don’t think things through before you post.

    Actually I’ve thought it through plenty. I’m the one who posts here, roughly twice per year, what Paul Campos wrote in the NYT several years back.

    So much money is wasted on the latest Dean For Making Furries In College Seem Normal that there’s no money available to pay real faculty.

    And all y’all History majors who can’t find real jobs? Learn to flip burgers and fry. It’s not like y’all haven’t been warned. Universities use y’all ’cause y’all are willing to be used.

  64. 64

    Yes you like to sling that one opinion piece around like a Southern Baptist with a ‘New American Version’

  66. 66

    Don’t blame me. I warned y’all.

    Salary of full-time faculty at American colleges and universities

    1970-71: $81,798

    2018-19: $88,703

    Percentage of university faculty that were full time

    1970-71: 77.8%

    2018-19: 53.8%
    …
    Revenue per student at American institutions of higher education

    1970-71: $17,624 (2018 dollars)

    2017-18: $35,234

    Hey, where’s all that extra money going anyway?

    You know where it’s going. It’s going to normalize the Sam Brintons of the US.

  68. 68

    So gas prices have moderated a lot.. mebbe even because of Biden’s “feckless” release of oil from the SPR..

    What else has gone down? From this morning’s NYT e-mail letter..

    MURDERS..

    Murders in large U.S. cities are down more than 5 percent so far in 2022 compared to the same time last year, according to the research firm AH Datalytics. Gun deaths, injuries and mass shootings are also down this year.

    What happened? To regular readers of this newsletter, the explanations may be familiar: The causes of the murder spike have receded.

    Covid disrupted much of life in 2020 and 2021, including social services that help keep people safe. That applies not just to policing, but also to places like schools and addiction treatment facilities that can help people — especially young men, the more common perpetrators and victims of violent crime — stay out of trouble. As life slowly returns to normal, these programs have reopened and helped suppress murders and shootings.

    From the very beginning when the widbee pos started babbling about more murders in oh Portland and especially in Chicago (leaving out St. Louis, or Memphis or Anchorage), yours truly said uh… pandemic much?

    But no, it was Joe’s inflayshun.. or higher gas prices… or antifa.. or blm.. or just Dems…

    Last Nov we were supposed to be treated to a third way finger wagging lecture at Dems for being “too extreme”.. Whatever happened to that?

    Heh.. what an asswipe.

  69. 69

    @66

    Do you get what ‘Revenue per student’ means? Like even a little bit?

    Why can’t Universities hire more full time professors instead of adjuncts again? How is @59 not an indictment of same?

  70. 70

    @65

    Ah that old chestnut.

    In order to advocate for change one must never use the means of modern society. Like a commercial flight.

    Or one of the 29 daily

    What a pitiful life of misplaced anger you must lead.

  71. 71

    @ 69

    Why can’t Universities hire more full time professors instead of adjuncts again?

    Because they’ve chosen instead to hire administrators who attempt to convince everyone that eliminating LSATs and GREs is just what one does after ladling so much favoritism on people who otherwise can’t get into a university that that the administration then needs to provide even more favoritism on the same people as they attempt to gain admission to professional schools.

    Deception and fraud does not come cheap, my friend. It costs money to attract people willing to lie about their backgrounds, like Elizabeth Warren, in order to be hired as “first Native American law professor…”, etc.

    It cost her the presidency. That has to be paid back somehow.

  72. 72

    MURDERS..

    NH STD will never go away. It’s only on the rise.

    Hey but that’s not real murder we have to worry about. Now is it. It is just normal Neanderthal Hetero Disease.

  74. 74

    The dude is sexual predator, a pedophile and sex feen. But Hey! We love that in him! Why? Because we are scum of the earth.

  75. 75

    To think……being a grown hetero man is…….someone that feels the need to get in a fight with an adolescent girl.

    One day the guy will kill his wife and children like the rest.

  76. 76

    Conventional Wisdom…

    “More Cops Cut Crime”

    “Defund is Lunacy”

    Los Angeles County Sherriff data 2019 (most recent)

    89% of on duty time across the department is “Officer initiated Stops”. So traffic violations, acting suspeicious, etc.

    Blacks were 2x more likely to be stopped by an officer than whites. Some would say, “they commit more crimes”. But this is NOT response to crime or calls from citizens for aid. This is just stopping someone for an officer initiated reason. Responding to 9-11 and solving robberies or murders is 11% of what the Department spends time doing.

    Other cities ‘Officer initiated’ policing:

    Riverside County, 88%
    San Diego, 66%
    Sacramento, 65%

    $25B of CA budget goes to Sherriff’s departments. That’s more than Public Health, After school programs, and Nutrition assistance, the kinds of things PROVEN over and over to reduce crime, combined.

  77. 77

    @65 Oh, conservatives are back to that whine. They never said a peep about trump. Hypocrites.
    Weird how conservatives treat President Carter with contempt who exemplified the values family and Christian values . And they voted fortrump, a con man who stole from them repeatedly who mocked Christian values. I can’t figure the hypocrites out.

  78. 78

    12/31/21 12/30/22 Return Div. Yld. Tot. Return

    S&P 500 4,766.18 3,839050 -19.45% +1.35% -18.10%
    Dow 30 36,338.30 33,147.25 -8.79% +1.88% – 6.91%
    NASDAQ 15,644.97 10,466.48 -34.85% +1.75% -33.10%

  80. 80

    @77 “Christian values. I can’t figure the hypocrites out.”

    It’s very simple. The people going around calling themselves “Christians” aren’t. They’re pretenders, like the fake cops who put lights and sirens on their cars, and pull people over. Nobody authorized that. And Jesus didn’t authorize these “Christians” to commit Trumpism, racism, bigotry, greed, theft, and adultery.

  81. 81

    @71 Medical schools didn’t start lowering their standards when diversity came along. They started when you came along.

  83. 83

    And Jesus didn’t authorize these “Christians” to commit Trumpism, racism, bigotry, greed, theft, and adultery.

    And Murder. Murdering their wives and children and the family pets. Grandma sometimes gets it too.

  84. 84

    @78

    Wow, sucks to be you. Sometimes a return on investment isn’t a stock, you dumbfuck.

    Your mom has been trying to tell you to get a job, but you won’t listen to her.

    But I also made money in the stock market this year.

  85. 85

    Joe Biden’s bastard grandchild is treated like you’d expect a little girl to be treated by her POS grandparents.

    The Daily Beast
    @thedailybeast
    ·
    The Biden family seemingly wants nothing to do with the child, striking her attendance from the 46th presidential inauguration and allegedly refusing to offer the mother-daughter pair security amid domestic violence threats from the mother’s ex.
    thedailybeast.com
    Hunter Biden’s Baby Mama Asks Court to Give Daughter His Last Name
    Lunden Alexis Roberts is asking that an Arkansas court consider renaming their four-year-old daughter “Biden.”
    3:34 PM · Dec 29, 2022

    It seems that she is not very good at art because her finger-paintings are unrecognizable, and therefore the Bidens claim that she cannot be related to noted artist Hunter Biden.

  86. 86

    The whole fucking Biden Crime Family are POS.

    One filing, stating that Hunter Biden’s motion should be denied, says he “has a long, and lengthy, history of attempting to avoid discovery by filing endless and recurrent motions for protective orders. Additionally, this case was finally resolved the first time when this court denied the defendant’s motion for a protective order relating to discovery.”

    It asserts that Hunter Biden is “attempting to stifle discovery into his financial affairs while simultaneously reducing his child support obligation on the claim that he now earns less income.”

    Roberts has asked for a list of all of Hunter Biden’s residences for the past 10 years and vehicles he’s owned or driven for the last five years. Roberts is seeking to obtain evidence of the Biden’s “well-established history of a lavish lifestyle.

    “[Biden] objects and refuses to provide all the requested information. Instead, [Biden] seeks a protective order.”

    Roberts also requested information related to a federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s “tax affairs.”

    “This information is relevant to determine if, as Federal authorities insinuated, the defendant failed to disclose all his income as this goes to earning capability and Mr. Biden’s credibility.”

  87. 87

    The whole fucking Biden Crime Family are POS.

    Projecting? Projecting the failings of the Repukilan Party?

    The Putin Loving Party? The Party of Hate Freedom?

  88. 88

    Biden is a POS? But none off those HN Diseased people killing their wives and children are POS enough to pay any attention to? Quick! Get the broom!

  89. 89

    @78 1/1/22 – 12/30/22 return on Roger Rabbit’s 7-figure stock portfolio: 5.9% with dividends, 2.4% without. Doctor Dumbfuck won’t tell us his. He won’t even tell us whether he beat or lagged the S&P 500. Draw your own inferences.

  90. 90

    @85 Fuck around, pay child support.

    Rightwing newspapers are painting the mom as a “stripper,” but her bio here is quite respectable. (I guess it’s fair to ask, what was she doing sleeping with scum like Hunter?)

    A reputable Arkansas newspaper reported here that DNA testing established paternity. As the parents weren’t married, and paternity wasn’t established at time of birth, the father probably isn’t on the birth certification, so the child wasn’t given his surname.

    Can a court change the child’s surname to Biden? Sure. And why not? This kid can go through life claiming her granddad was president, if she wants to, and won’t be fibbing. But if Biden is as lousy a president as Doctor Dumbfuck claims, why would she (or her mom) want to?

    Josef Stalin’s granddaughter lives in Portland, Oregon, but she doesn’t go by “Stalin.” Her surname is Evans, which probably is just as well, although a lot of people know of her family history. Get a load of her here:

    https://preview.redd.it/jgw79bcr61181.jpg?width=676&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33a5c60d9c3274dae1a599e225e7ad539d901504

  91. 91

    @84 – Those were returns for 2022 for the NASDAQ, the S&P 500 and the Dow 30 Stocks. I did not mention any individual issues the I may own or not own.

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