Good morning. I have read a few things about tires degrading it it harming salmon. But this is one of the more comprehensive articles on it. First, kudos to KUOW on finding the local peg for California is looking for alternatives. Local news is the best. Second, it’s really terrible what we’re doing. What chemicals we’re putting in the water every time we drive, and the timeline to fix it. Geez.
Anyway, wash your dang hands. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
Thank God for President Biden. God Bless him.
Think of all the brake dust and tire dust in the air in New York City. all those cars driving around polluting the air.
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Right? I mean, try and imagine how fucked the United States, Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Mexico, and South Korea would be right now if Republicans had succeeded in overthrowing the government and re-installing Homer Hurricane-Gun.
Even if Republicans had somehow managed to win the election things would be pretty dire. GOP senators in Georgia and Arizona would allow Moscow Mitch to outlaw all reproductive healthcare entirely and give the green light to states restricting marital choice, contraception, etc. Emperor Von Fuckstick would be launching missiles at Mexico, North Korea and Disney World, while giving stealth tech to Putin so he could take over eastern Europe. And of course he would be replacing Associate Justice Breyer with Don Jr.
We sure as fuck dodged a bullet.
But we still aren’t out of the woods.
@3
We would be at war now, against Ukraine if Homer-Hurricane-Gun was in charge. He would defend Putin.
Remember, Republicans like a good war to boost defense spending and to line the pockets of their donors. Republicans also like to invade the wrong country for the wrong reasons. They also have “daddy issues”.
Biden isn’t great, but he is much better than the Orange dude.
Oh the terrible irony of it:
The Court continues to leak, despite Roberts’ determination to return to normal order.
And it begins to look more certain that the leak came from The Five, who are now feeding reports through anonymous third parties that the decision, and the leaks, are payback for Roberts’ reversal on Affordable Care. I guess that lets GangBang and Coat Hanger off the hook (no pun).
Change the Senate. Change the rules. Change The Court.
It needs the change.
As bugfuck out-of-control as Republicans have become, maybe they’ll even succeed in driving the Chief Justice into early retirement. That would be about par.
@6 The S.C. building in that photo sure looks like it needs a good pressure wash. Maybe they’re afraid washing off the D.C. grime will take some of the Vermont marble with it, living a pitted ugly veneer. Kinda like the court itself right now.
@6 “And it begins to look more certain that the leak came from The Five”
The FBI uses behavioral profiles to identify suspects all the time, and defying centuries of Supreme Court tradition, violating solemn oaths, betraying trust, and engaging in rogue behavior to achieve crassly partisan ends is much more characteristic of conservative than liberal behavior, so that’s where anybody who played the game “Clue” as a kid would look first.
I was reading yesterdays thread and now I’m concerned about the low IQ traitor’s state of mind. He might be having a breakdown.
@10 He should be celebrating that the stock market is still going down because of the Powell Inflation. After all, he predicted this, didn’t he? His timing was six months off, that’s all. Or was it a year? I’d have to go back through old threads, and I’m too lazy to do that.
After all, he predicted this, didn’t he?
Yeah, that was one hell of a prediction he made. What a stupe.
https://www.macrotrends.net/2577/sp-500-pe-ratio-price-to-earnings-chart
Dumber than a stump.
‘It’s stupid’: Trump kept demanding US Navy redesign aircraft carrier
The low IQ dumfuck traitor wants him to be the nation’s president again.
I saw how in yesterday’s thread that after six years of peddling that bullshit here, the low IQ traitor was trying to create some space between himself and the raging orange man-baby and MAGA.
That’s not how it works. He owns it. He owns all of it.
13,
It’s not just that MAGA “Biden critics” will eagerly demand Trump’s election in two years when he wins their nomination pageant.
It’s that they have nothing better to offer. Trump is the best they can do. And knowing that Trump is a dangerously paranoid imbecile, for the time being they want to pretend that they offer an “alternative”. Trump, or some pale, smaller, weaker version of Trump, is not an alternative. Pain and humiliation are all they have to offer. Go down the line, race by race, and the Republican alternative is a damaged, angry, bitter, paranoid, smaller version of Trump. No matter who the candidate is, no matter the race, what they all have in common is that they promise to restore the catastrophic incompetence and wildly ineffective leadership that ended in Jan of 2021 with a terror attack on Congress.
Listen, if one of them comes along offering a program of policy prescriptions combined with a track record of accomplishment that honestly promises to stop inflation NOW (and not merely wait for it to run its course), address the humanitarian crisis at the border, prevent further global climate catastrophe, and restore freedom and dignity to Ukraine without starting a world war, I’m all ears and we would have heard about it by now. They got nothing but the culture war.
Rick Scott wants to raise taxes on everyone making less than him.
Greg Abbott cost his state over $1 billion dollars in economic activity at one border crossing alone in just one week.
Ron DeSantis wants to outlaw contraception.
Mitt Romney just wants to be president really, really badly, will say anything, and could give a fuck about policy.
None of these fucksticks give a runny shit about policy other than what’s inside an 8th grader’s swimsuit. They are all nuts.
And they are not a credible alternative.
Which is hardly relevant anyway since all any of them are there for is to serve as a stalking horse for Homer Hurricane-Gun in 2024. It’s transparent as fuck.
@14
Trump is a fucking narcissistic idiot. Carrier design because he “has an eye for aesthetics”, bomb Mexico, bomb hurricanes, and so forth.
However, Trump (or his handlers) have learned a great deal from his time as POTUS. If he should win another term, just watch the people he surrounds himself with. Not his normal “yes men”; oh no, they will be a special kind of stupid.
He has learned that he needs a cabinet that will not ever “25th Amendment” his sorry ass. Plus, he will find a xenophobic sycophant that has no spine to be his VPOTUS. Pence had a spine and more than a second grade understanding of the Constitution.
Trump will surround himself with poison-pill people that will render the thought of trying to impeach him (again) unimaginable.
Good news for Bob, maybe he can get a cabinet position, he has the credentials (just read his posts here as proof).
Today I learned that trump appointed 54 judges to the federal appellate courts over four years.
Not one was Black.
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trump appointed 266 judges, 37 were non white, of which 9 were black.
St Reagan appointed 358 judges, 23 were non white, of which 7 were black.
“Rick Scott handed Democrats a bat to smash over his head and the heads of his fellow Republicans.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/politics/rick-scott-republican-plan-democrats-message/index.html
Why do Republicans hate themselves? I guess for the same reasons we don’t like them.
Nothing strange about this.
Louisiana Republican reveals his 40-year-old daughters still ‘get in his lap’ during debate on abortion bill
A master at grooming. Best to start during early adolescence.
What are the odds that fucks them too?
@ 16
Not one was Black.
Of course The Even Bigger Fucking Moron looks at only one race.
Obama appointed 17 Asian-heritage judges in 8 years. Trump appointed 13 in 4 years.
Presidents Carter to GWB43, combined, appointed 13 Asian-heritage judges.
Donald Trump appointed the first Asian-heritage judge who will sit on the US Supreme Court, Neomi Rao.
As with his market timing, Degen has secret, insider information about the 2024 coup attempt.
Along with space lasers, salad dressing, and huhrrduhrrican guns.
Also takes orders from his dog.
Hey! Speaking HuhrrDuhrr howz that fabled HuhrrDuhrrham Special Counsel INVESTIGATION proceeding now?
Any big news? Frog Marches? Hillary-in-a-waist-chain developments?
Helloooowww?? Is this thing on?????
#FingerBang
“Donald Trump appointed the first Asian-heritage judge who will sit on the US Supreme Court, Neomi Rao.”
Oh I wonder why…
Her confirmation to the D.C. Circuit Court bench faced challenges due to articles she wrote while a college student at Yale University. Rao wrote that women could be held partially responsible for rape if they were drunk at the time of the incident. Other articles included referring to people on welfare as “lazy” and that affirmative action gave minority students advantages that were unfair to white students.
https://heavy.com/news/2019/01/neomi-rao/
Heh.. Judge date rape..
This is an old story, from 2020, I ran across while following up on a Raw Story story about voter intimidation in Colorado. (Gunmen went door to door accusing voters of fraud; they’re being sued by NAACP and other groups.)
A mobile home park owner in Colorado issued written notice to his tenants that he would double their rent if Biden won the election. He got a warning from the state attorney general. He should’ve got more than that. He also promised a two-year rent freeze if Trump won. That looks like bribery or vote-buying to me.
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/10/28/voter-intimidation-colorado-mobile-home-park/
For decades Republicans fulminated against “communists” plotting the “violent overthrow” of the government. They’re not against the “violent overthrow” part, only the “communist” part. They’re fine with fascists doing it.
https://www.rawstory.com/oath-keepers-qanon-jan-6/
@24 God bless Raw Story.
Of course he did.
Seattle cop tells LGBTQ crowd they should ‘work on respecting’ protesters screaming slurs at them
MTG and our low IQ traitor are cut from the same moldy, green borscht. They both love Russia and hate America.
Marjorie Taylor Greene flips out on her GOP colleague after he praises the destruction of Russia’s military
#DeathToAmericanFascistTraitors
I had nice plan to deal with the low IQ fucking traitor. I knew where I’d grab him, hogtie him, stuff a rubber ball in his mouth and use duct tape to keep it there, then toss him in the back of my SUV and drive home where I’d have a shallow grave prepared for him in the forest behind my home.
There’d be a tube penetrating the rubber ball with the long end sticking out of his mouth. After dumping him in the grave, I’ll have a bottle of my piss that I’d pour in the tube and into his mouth. And then I’d shit on his face. Then I’d cover him with dirt with the tube rising above the soil. I’d leave him alive in the grave for 24 hours, giving him time to think on his sins. Then I’d remove the tube and tamp the dirt down with a few whacks with the shovel I had used to dig his grave.
With that, I could walk into the woods and piss on the low IQ fucking traitor’s grave whenever the mood struck me.
But seeing as how America’s women have a far worse fate in store for him, I’m going to step aside and let them do the deed.
#DeathToAmerica’sPutinLovingFascistTraitors.
@28. That was nasty. Stop. Be better than republicans.
The federalist society couldn’t find a single black person who was conservative enough for trump to install as a judge.
Interesting articles about how white supremist have latched onto the “good asians” wedge to deny progress to black people.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/29/the-real-reason-americans-stopped-spitting-on-asian-americans-and-started-praising-them/
By the 1960s, anxieties about the civil right movement caused white Americans to further invest in positive portrayals of Asian Americans. The image of the hard-working Asian became an extremely convenient way to deny the demands of African Americans. As Wu describes in her book, both liberal and conservative politicians pumped up the image of Asian Americans as a way to shift the blame for black poverty. If Asians could find success within the system, politicians asked, why couldn’t African Americans?
As the writer Frank Chin said of Asian-Americans in 1974: “Whites love us because we’re not black.”
Stop Pointing at Asian Americans to Downplay Racism at Universities
https://civilrights.org/edfund/resource/stop-pointing-asian-americans-downplay-racism-universities/
A half century later, little has changed. The “model minority” trope, typically applied to Asian Americans, is still trotted out to downplay racism and dismiss claims of white privilege.
The myth continues to be used as evidence against institutional racism. If Asians can do well, it says, any minority group can, if they just apply themselves. But research suggests that the upward mobility of Asian Americans over the past century is actually a result of post-war declines in labor market discrimination against them as compared to other minorities. Meanwhile, restrictive immigration policies since 1965 have favored and attracted highly educated Asians to the United States. In contrast, most African Americans can trace their family history back to generations of slavery, followed by a century and a half of systematic racism.
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We all saw what you tried to do there, greedy racist incel, by trying to hand wave away trump and the republican’s racism toward blacks by pointing to the “good asians”.
Just another day in Bidenworld.
That would be the S&P500 down 19%. Nearly bear-market territory.
Looks like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s awful stock picks now have some company in the steep decline category.
@ 31
But research suggests that the upward mobility of Asian Americans over the past century is actually a result of post-war declines in labor market discrimination against them as compared to other minorities.
Hey, remove enough test results, GPA data, and other objective indicators that Asian-American children massively outperform as students, and eventually you might be able to conclude that it’s not earned Asian results, but greater discrimination against black and Hispanic communities, that are responsible for so many successful Asian-Americans in our communities.
I think you nailed it, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron. The soft bigotry of low expectations has won the day, yet again.
@ 30
The federalist society couldn’t find a single black person who was conservative enough for trump to install as a judge.
The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, not 13 hours earlier you reported @ 16 that Trump successfully nominated nine black judges.
Damned right it was nasty. I was nasty when I showed up here in 2007 and accused these fucks of embracing fascism and being perverts who were fucking children and goats and I’ve gotten nastier every year since. No one here has ever said anything. Nobody said stop. You are too late. You should have started speaking up 15 years ago.
I want Putin and his POS troll to speed their way to the lake fires of Hell to burn for fucking eternity.
@34. I said
“Today I learned that trump appointed 54 judges to the federal appellate courts over four years.
Not one was Black.”
I feel bad that your persistence of memory is so feeble and flaccid.
Just sayin’ you cannot hold up “model asians” to deflect from your continual racism against black people.
“Whites like bob love us because we’re not black.”
@ 26
Gee, Steve, all those high-tech Seattleites and nobody’s got cell phone video to back up their allegations?
I guess that’s why we call them allegations rather than facts.
Hey, what happened to that chick Michael Volz, anyway? Gets the crap allegedly beaten out of her on Capitol Hill during Pride Week, FBI gets called in to investigate the alleged hate crime, and…
crickets. ’cause it never happened.
Anyone can allege anything, Steve. Thank God there’s RawStory to print whatever it wants and Thank God for you, Steve, and for The Even Bigger Fucking Moron to swallow it without giving it a thought.
Thank God there’s RawStory to print whatever it wants and Thank God for you, Steve,
Of course it prints whatever news it wants. That’s what news aggregator websites do, you stupid fuck.
Fuck you, you POS traitor. Go suck Putin’s cock. Then do the same for your raging orange man-baby. That’s what you’ve been doing here for seven years. Go suck the real thing and then die.
Just another day in Bidenworld.
April producer price index climbs 11% from a year ago
Remember, libbies, it’s the evil corporations that raise prices on consumers you should blame. ’cause those evil corporations should just eat their raw materials cost increases without passing it on.
It was corporations, one of them led by a toga-dancing CEO, that attempted to abuse the code development process to force hospitals to pay for their useless fucking products under the guise of safety, but would have actually made our nation’s hospitals less safe for doctors (you), nurses, patients and those visiting them. These products could have actually caused them and you to needlessly die.
I was involved in the code development process and I was the one who stopped them from doing that time and time again. There are CEOs of corporations in this country who probably hate me for doing that to them. I don’t care.
So go ahead with your failed attempts to diss me as you share with me your love of can-do-no-evil corporations.
Pulling an grievance story from 6 years ago to try to distract from your homophobes now.
Gee, Steve, all those high-tech Seattleites and nobody’s got cell phone video to back up their allegations?
Yes there are photos. Fool. We have receipts.
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2022/05/10/73003814/seattle-cop-tells-queers-they-need-to-work-on-respecting-bigots
Two Georgia election workers have reached a settlement with One America News and its employees over their defamation lawsuit.
One America News identified the two plaintiffs and identified them by name in their published and broadcast news reports in which One America News falsely claimed that the two election workers had committed criminal election fraud, thus constituting defamation per se. One America News agrees with the conclusions of law enforcement investigators:
The results of this investigation indicate that Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ‘Shaye’ Moss did not engage in ballot fraud or criminal misconduct while working at State Farm Arena on election night.
https://twitter.com/OANN/status/1523814132197122048
One America News obtained the original reports of fraud and security camera footage that accompanied their reports from the Trump 2020 campaign and from Trump’s private attorney Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani remains named in the lawsuit which is expected to proceed to trial verdict next year.
I think the only way to understand any of this is to assume that these people are restructuring their personal finances to make themselves judgement proof.
I apologize, RedReformed. You’re a good man. Me? Not so much.
DJIA increase during the 16 months of the Biden era now only 1%.
@ 41
Photo proves they were there. That was not in dispute.
Still waiting for evidence of hate speech.
Telling a homosexual he is going to hell for being a homosexual is not hate speech.
@ 40
Can we take up a collection to buy Steve a cape?
State controlled media platforms produce horrifying public attitudes. Consider the Russian people:
https://mobile.twitter.com/StratcomCentre/status/1524359834774163458
A Russian citizen suggesting various methods of torture and mutilation to be enacted on the children in the occupied parts of Ukraine for refusing to celebrate their Russian occupiers/torturers. She’s been told by state controlled Russian media that Ukrainians are evil, Nazis, in league with Satan, etc. Russian state controlled media have systematically dehumanized Ukrainian people for a couple of decades.
Not a problem here, you say? We have “free media” in the United States, you say?
Not anymore in Texas. Republicans in Texas have handed moderation and content control of online, internet based media over to the government they control. Texas Republicans now get to decide what can be said online in Texas.
Change the Senate. Change the rules. Change the Court.
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Don’t be baited by a lying troll.
“Hate speech” isn’t a thing.
Bias crimes statutes are intent statutes. They address the level of criminal intent present in some underlying criminal violation. “Speech” is not a violation. Don’t call cops about speech.
But that all diverts from the issue involved. Which is that some assholes, without a permit granting a variance, were in violation of a civil ordinance and the SPD refused to enforce.
If you showed up outside Bruce Harrell’s inauguration party, set up an amp, and starting yelling racial slurs at 100 dBa, police would take action. They would cite you, seize the amplifier, and probably arrest you for disorderly conduct or some other vague pretext crime. They wouldn’t charge you with “hate speech”, cuz that isn’t a thing.
Degen wants to debate you about a thing. It’s a stupid thing that doesn’t exist. Never let a troll set the terms.
There’s always a reason.
Here’s why the Degenerate troll is feeling sensitive about “expression” right now:
https://www.newsweek.com/handmaids-tale-protesters-demonstrate-amy-coney-barrett-home-1706096
This is lawful protest, protected by the Constitution. It is not “hate speech” cuz that’s not a thing. It’s not trespass. It’s not criminal “loitering”. It’s not harassment. It’s not against the law. Nor should it be.
But authoritarian ass-hats and fragile Nazi snowflakes are finally figuring out that they are a minority expressing deeply unpopular ideas. And they can’t turn back. So instead they are hoping to obtain still more special treatment. The right to use amplifiers. The right to invade private forums. The right to be published and promoted no matter what. These are not actual real rights. They are privileges that racist homophobic white men have often enjoyed at the expense of others. But now that they no longer own or control everything they want these former privileges to be converted into protected legal rights to favor them.
So they hope to use the same, phony false equivalence arguments they’ve always depended on. Private media is private. Public sidewalks are public. Leveraging authority to gain special access to private spaces for unpopular ideas has never been American and has nothing to do with liberty.
S&P 500 now down 19.5% from its high.
We might hit bear market at 3,855 later today.
Shorter @ 48:
Protest without a permit in a commercial zone on a public sidewalk is unlawful and SPD should intervene.
Shorter @ 49:
Protest without a permit on a public sidewalk in front of the residence of a family with seven children is lawful and is constitutionally protected speech.
By the same asswipe, 13 minutes apart. I couldn’t make this up if I tried.
DJIA in the 16 months of the Biden era up only 150 points, or less than 0.5%.
51,
Lying. Cuz it’s all he’s got.
Using amplifiers on a public sidewalk without a municipal use permit is a violation. No excuse for Degen’s stupidity here.
He had the example from Bruce Harrell inauguration to work with.
Snowflakes want special privileges and special protections and SPD are happy to oblige.
Degen. Head down to the Pony tomorrow night dressed up in the fetish gear you normally wear while hiding in OfDumbfuck’s closet on her bull’s night and march around quietly for a few hours.
Who knows? You could have your first sex with another human being in over a decade. Without being arrested.
The greedy racist incel lying as usual via false equivalence arguments.
Protest without a permit on a public sidewalk in front of the residence of a family with seven children is lawful and is constitutionally protected speech.
Photos and videos posted to social media showed seven people clad in red robes and white bonnets quietly walking around Barrett’s cul-de-sac in Falls Church, Virginia while holding signs
vs
Protest without a permit in a commercial zone on a public sidewalk is unlawful and SPD should intervene.
set up an amp, and starting yelling racial slurs at 100 dBa
@29
Court lets Texas restrictions on social platform content moderation take effect
https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/11/23067002/texas-netchoice-paxton-hb20-social-media-law-fifth-circuit-appeals-court-grant-stay-ruling
HB 20 allows Paxton’s office or Texas residents to sue social networks that moderate based on “the viewpoint of the user or another person,” among other offenses — language that potentially makes basic moderation decisions legally risky.
I take back everything I said to Steve. Civility is dead. He can say what ever nasty things he wants to say about the greedy racist incel. It’s protected speech now. Is this only a one way freedom? Conservatives can be as racist and vile as they want, but liberals have to be civil to them.
Reasonable time, place, etc restrictions are allowed. But the fact that it is protest, the fact that it is orderly, quiet, and limited in number of participants and duration eliminates the opportunity to intervene. And prohibits any requirement for a permit.
States and local jurisdictions can have legitimate, reasonable, governmental purposes for limiting the number of people who gather in a particular place, the time of day, or their behavior in that place. That does not mean that a city can pass a law prohibiting large groups from demonstrating, being festive and gregarious while doing so, singing and shouting, or even using power amplification to project their expression. That have to allow it. But they can regulate it when those efforts to regulate are directly in pursuit of a legitimate public interest.
Right now pathetic, sensitive, snowflake “conservatives” are trying to blow smoke, promote false equivalence, and confuse the issue in hopes that they can gain advantage and preference for their consistently false messaging. They’ve enjoyed that advantage inside their churches for decades. Now they want to extend those same advantages into public life, not only imposing their views and beliefs on everyone else, but also restricting or limiting the views they disagree with.
The people who showed up at Amy Coat Hanger’s residence are educated, intelligent, and well organized enough to understand that. They kept their numbers limited. They stuck to the portions of the public right of way designated for pedestrians. They violated no laws. They can do this every day. An attempt to pass a law preventing it would result in a stay preventing that law from being enforced.
The ass-hats in Steve’s RawStory are trolls who were breaking the law. Police had an obligation to intervene and chose not to because police believe they are empowered to decide who the “good” citizens are and who the “bad” citizens are. And because they see it as advantageous to their interests to promote public confrontations and violence in certain, specific circumstances.
55,
It’s really not about “civility” codes, voluntary or otherwise.
It’s about empowering government to regulate and control online media. That’s what they do in Putin’s Russia.
And it leads to people promoting and encouraging the torture and mutilation of children.
The Texas law will probably not last. It will be as difficult for Gab, Bumble, or Truth to comply as whoever it is they think they are targeting. The law requires companies to post their moderation policy. And then empowers the state and private individuals to sue if they can show the policy was not enforced “fairly”. That makes moderation at scale impossible. Anything that makes it past an auto moderation algorithm is “proof” for the civil claim. So that means large companies can’t moderate. And what happens when moderation is removed? The companies business model collapses because nobody advertises on 8chan.
It’s not just another example of Republicans destroying commerce for political advantage and clicks. It’s an example of Republicans trying to ignore the Bill of Rights.
Change the Senate. Change the rules. Change the Court.
Gonna be hard now to cheer for that horse in the Preakness and Belmont.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/eric-reed-kamala-harris-tweet_n_627cd1ade4b06ce0a1b27b58
@32 Looks like the stock market is flipping you a great big “Fuck You.” Doesn’t bother me. I get to buy cheaper stocks.
The stock market is where it should be.
Take a look at a 5 year or 10 year graph and draw a straight line and it’s right where it should be.
Nothing more than a correction to some degree. Sure inflation is worrisome but there are reasons beyond the current government policies.
If you draw the line from ten years out it is still above that “average” line
DJIA in the 16 months of the Biden era
DJIA in the 8 years of the Dumbya occupation of the White House ending in a depression:
Jan 22, 2001: 10578.24
Jan 16, 2009: 8281.22
-21.7 percent
a dumbshit from widbee voted for it twice.
Would it like the black guy’s djia performance?
@60 It’s not about inflation. That’s only a catalyst. It’s about the “Fed put” no longer inflating valuations (as much). Without the Fed blowing hot air into stock prices, they’re drifting back down to fundamentals-based valuations. In the long run, that’s good for investors.
But seeing as how America’s women have a far worse fate in store for him, I’m going to step aside and let them do the deed.
Heh. teh widbee incel’s worst nightmare..
https://youtu.be/PQU8vRnJh38?t=140
“that certain day”..
As you know, I don’t just find the stock portfolio dick measuring to be humiliating, I think it’s boring as fuck. Honestly. This is 21st century America. You really don’t have to be a fucking finance wizard to earn money with careful, sound investments. It feels like bragging about your new high efficiency furnace or the “great deal” you got on patio paving stones.
But maybe somebody can explain on peculiar thing to me about these fervent, breathless predictions of economic doom.
I know it isn’t just what I see living in a very affluent, highly educated, healthy, progressive, liberal coastal state. Because I see it being reported in state and federal government statistics, private payroll surveys, and in the news from all over.
Employers are hiring.
In lots of cases they are desperately hiring. Frustrated. Even angry about it. They are trying like mad to increase their payroll. Now I’ve been led to believe that this normally means these companies are anticipating growth of some kind. It could be growth in demand for their products or services. It could be growth in market share due to some unique advantage. But one way another, the conventional thinking is supposed to be that companies who are frantically and competitively engaging in hiring are doing it because they are trying to meet some kind of demand, often a combination of current and anticipated future demand.
But that obviously can’t be.
That has to be untrue in this particular case.
Because according to some sociopathic lying troll who fabricates fake friends in places where he dreams of being able to live, our economy is in free fall, circling the bowl, heading into a steep recession resembling nuclear winter.
So why all the hiring? Why the crazy fucking pay increases? Why are Starbucks baristas now earning more per hour than the cafeteria staff in my county’s youth corrections department?
Why is every single private employer with more than fifty employees in my area pumping out open recruitments and postings for new FTEs?
It wasn’t very long ago, some other dude was preznit then I think, and everybody was cheering on the “gig” economy and claiming that pulling down an average of $8/hr as an “entrepreneur” for Door Dash or Lyft while slowly going bankrupt was “transforming” the “booming” economy. Now everybody everywhere who wants it can land a job tomorrow earning twice that, often with benefits. And new college grads are fighting off multiple offers from cold calling recruiters?
So are all these employers planning on going bankrupt or something? I’ve got a problem with that. Because guys like Rick Scott are those dudes. “Genius” CEOs who “built that” and who we are constantly being told are infallible because “6σ” are ultimately the ones behind all these HELP WANTED listings.
They can’t be wrong. Can they?
Some cops just need to get use to being called Neanderthals pigs. And they also need to get used to be chucked fire extinguishers and spears at by cop hating mutiny fascists like Bob.
These are the fucks that Bob bends at the knee for.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5014864/senator-rand-paul-blocks-398-billion-ukraine-aid-bill
Headline: “Biden cancels Alaska oil lease sale!”
GOP reaction: “This decision approaches levels of irresponsibility and reckless stupidity never seen before!”
The fine print: “The Cook Inlet lease sale will not proceed due to lack of industry interest.”
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/overnights/3486879-energy-environment-biden-administration-cancels-offshore-oil-lease-sales/
The GOPers are upset because some 8-year-old kid missed a chance to acquire Cook Inlet oil exploration rights with his allowance.
So why all the hiring? Why the crazy fucking pay increases?
Demographics.. the retirement of the baby boomers.. labor that can produce what the retiring boomers could produce is in short supply and therefore costs more.
It’s worldwide.. All countries to speak of had baby boomers but ours is one of the few if not the only one who had kids – the millenials.
@56 Apparently there’s a 1950 law “that makes it illegal to hold protests outside the homes of judges in order to influence their decisions.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/12/politics/supreme-court-justices-abortion-protests-garland/index.html
I wonder how the Supremes would rule on the constitutionality of that?
From a Republican: “The President may choose to characterize protests, riots, and incitements of violence as mere passion,” Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said in a Wednesday letter to Garland. “But these attempts to influence and intimidate members of the federal judiciary are an affront to judicial independence.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/12/politics/supreme-court-justices-abortion-protests-garland/index.html
I remember when a statement like this by a Republican might have had some credibility. Doesn’t seem all that long ago. Yes, Grassley voted against investigating the Jan. 6 riot.
57% disapproval.
Nearly one in five Democrats think First Vegetable Joe Biden is a walking dildo. Most of the rest are either liars or have The Even Bigger Fucking Moron‘s IQ.
@ 62
In the long run, that’s good for investors.
One assumes “the long run” is a period of time greater than the 2-3 year holding period Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit recommended for owners of GE shares, back on 10/20/17.
One assumes that “the long run” is a period of time ending after Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s death. Meanwhile, the Dumbfuck Rabbit family will have to sell shares at bargain prices in order to purchase Depends and urethral and rectal catheters for Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s daily needs.
@57 I’m really not sure how Texas can regulate speech on a private social media platform without running into a First Amendment problem. I assume they’re relying on a regulated-utility model. But the basis of those models is a state-granted monopoly. (Only one garbage company can operate in your neighborhood, therefore the state can regulate their rates and terms of service.) So I don’t see how they can apply that model to Twitter.
But let’s say Texas (and other states) can either prohibit social media companies from banning users, or create a legal cause of action if they do so. And let’s say that applies to small, private blogs like HA, too.
Then Mark Adams could sue Goldy to let him on HA. But he couldn’t compel me to post his comments on Handbill.US, because I don’t own the blog, nor am I its editor; I’m only a contributor with no duty to post comments, which by the way he still submits in large numbers even though they’re not posting because Handbill’s editor is dead.
@64 In real terms, employers are cutting pay, so they can’t be all that desperate to hire.
@71 “Nearly one in five Democrats think First Vegetable Joe Biden is a walking dildo.”
That’s probably true. And they still turned out in droves braving wind, sleet, and rain to vote for him. What does that say about your candidate?
@71 Nearly one Republican in five thinks Trump isn’t the second coming of Jesus. What does that say about your voters?
a walking dildo
Never a greater case of projection have I seen..
And I’ve been here since 2004.
@77 He isn’t the first troll to bang on a garbage can lid for attention. That technique was invented by others before he came here.
A cape? You underestimate me, you low IQ dumbfuck traitor. When I was 24 I was being told that I had to be the best electrical engineer in the country for completing a project for NOAA that had a 400 hour budget, completing it in 20 hours while introduced the first change to not only electrical contract documents, but Mechanical and plumbing as well, since the inception of the MEP professions in the 1930s.
In 1987, I was told I was also the toughest electrical engineer in the country when I ran the two largest ECs in the country, both corporations trading on the NYSE into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. That probably gave you a sad, seeing as how you love greedy-as-fuck corporations so much
In 2001 I was declared a God after I solved every problem in the Fire Protection Industry, changing codes, standards and ADAAG law, as in federal law. When I spoke before the NW Society of Fire Protection Engineers in Bellevue, Fire Marshalls came from across the country just to hear me speak and to shake my hand. And I’m not even a fucking fire protection engineer.
Two years ago I learned from a GSA fire protection engineer that my middle finger is legend in every GSA office in the country for what I did to Honeywell, another greedy fucking corporation you likely love, when they fucked with GSA on the Seattle Federal Courthouse Project. Never, ever fuck with GSA. Do so and you’ll end up in a federal courthouse very much wishing you had Elijah as your attorney
And you say your reputation is what again? Oh, yeah, it’s for being being a low IQ dumbfuck dickwad hiding in a dark, windowless basement in a remote rural hospital while some poor sap in India does your fucking work for you which you never check because you have no fucking ethics.
You may call impressed, “Doctor Dumbfuck”.
The Giro d’Italia is finishing its first week – Stage 6. There’s a sprinter from Eritrea, Biniam Girmay, who has finished top-five in pretty much all of the flat road stages so far.
The other two black cyclists competing are also Eritreans.
He needs to figure out how to get on the right wheel to launch. He left too early in the first stage and took second. To Mathieu van der Poel.
He’s a kid, still – only 22. Two years and everyone will be talking about him.
Thank God for Joe Biden. Thank You Mr. President! God Bless Joe Biden.
God bless Gman.
God Bless Steve @79.
@82, no really the blessings all lay with you.
Here’s to Bob🖕
Fun little fact for Dumbfuck – a portion of the Giro d’Italia course runs right near where my parents were born and my father still has a home in Sicily. And your still a Dumbfuck
The GOP has come up with a solution to the baby formula shortage. I was tempted to call it a temporary solution (until supplies are restorted), but it looks more like a final solution.
“The Biden administration has been sending pallets of baby formula for illegal mothers and their babies while American mothers and babies cannot find baby formula,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said at a news conference. “This is completely unacceptable, and this needs to end now.”
“Baby formula should go to Americans before illegals,” Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) wrote on Twitter. “This should not have to be said.”
Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) called on people to demand the Biden administration “take the baby formula that they have basically siphoned out of the supply chain and put it back in the damn stores for American kids.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-baby-formula-immigration_n_627d4f7ce4b016d742f8c7e2
An article in the Atlantic says Trump trade policies, an oligopoly in the formula industry (only three U.S. producers), a closed plant, hoarding, and a sharp decline in breastfeeding all contributed to the shortage.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/baby-formula-shortage-abbott-recall/629828/
Rather than starve immigrant babies in detention facilities (Republicans didn’t use the term “deterrent,” but they’re probably thinking it), the Biden administration should suspend import restrictions and buy quantities of the stuff from Europe for public distribution. Theirs is better than ours anyway.
@86 Too funny.
Breeding will not save them. They’re only getting dumber by the second.
And your still a Dumbfuck
And he will always be a dumbfuck. It’s the low IQ.
You know what’s funny, Gman? This the first time I’ve ever talked about that stuff with anybody ever. If I had started bragging at age 24 about what I did then, that’d have been my last achievement.
Explains why the low IQ dumbfuck is stuck with washing bedpans being his greatest professional achievement. He bragged about it.
@90 “It ain’t braggin’ if you done it.” — Dizzy Dean
In doc’s case, it’s bragging.
The thing is, if you’re a braggart, it doesn’t go over well. And as with what happened to the dumbfuck, everyone will soon hate you. In his case, everybody in the hospital.
I knew one guy who would spend half a day walking around the office bragging to everyone about what he did the previous half-day of work.
I believe I learned as much or more from people setting a bad example than I did those who set good examples.
And liars? Good grief. Every time they open their mouth they’re committing a misdemeanor offence. No court of law and threat of jail time. Rather, they get hauled before the State Board of Engineers and Land Surveyors, which is kind of like an old boy’s club. I’d bet it’s the same with other state boards for attorneys, doctors, architects, etc.. A slap on the wrist and they return to work and start lying again. Perhaps sending some of them to prison would shape up the professions.
I never wanted my name on the door. For me it was like putting a wedding ring on a heinous woman’s ring finger, Besides, I always took 2-3 years off every decade. One can’t do that with your name on the door. Who’s watching the biz?
Dumbfuck retired old. Why wait like that sad sack? I retired young with each of those 2-3 sabbatical years and had a hell of a lot of fun.
It is now day 2042 and Clinton is still on the loose.
Somehow the retired U.S. Senator remains free and faces no charges of any kind while inexplicably brave “wounded warrior” veterans are hounded with criminal peril.
It’s almost as if the world doesn’t really operate the way the tee shirts promised. /s
Republicans want to ignore the rule of law and starve brown babies from other countries because unregulated Capitalism failed.
Trump and Republicans deregulated the baby food makers leading to a massive recall after tainted baby food killed babies.
@95 $100 million of taxpayer money down the drain, and they couldn’t even slap her with a parking ticket.
Waste, fraud, and abuse …