Good riddance. If Jordan Peterson's name and/or philosophy comes up in conversation with my fellow Canadians I am sure to let them know what a toxic quack he is. I suspect he has political ambitions to lead a party. May it not be a party in Canada where he can spread his malignant mumbo jumbo.
Elno wants a tech-bro oligarchy. He and the tech-bro douchcanoes Dementia Don has nominated want to get rid of the SEC, FDIC, CFPB, and other regulations that have tenuously kept the US financial systems from complete collapse. Given that these dickweasels see themselves and the techo-bro driven economy as the best thing ever, a lot of attempts to gut the regulations are on tap.
But ... two notes: 1. US banks are making obscene profits in the current environment. Will they stand by and let a bunch of libertarian tech-bros ruin that? And 2. if those regulations are gutted, the US financial system, and the US dollar's fixture as the world's reserve currency, will completely succumb. This is not recession ... this would be 1930s banking collapse and full-on depression. Foreign banking won't deal with it ... they'll skedaddle over to another solid currency. The Euro, maybe? Who knows ... but they aren't going to put any investment in US dollars.
So we end up with a fraud laden system where no one's money is safe. I know Dementia Don has no fucking clue what this means. I also know the FO for the average US citizen who voted for Orange Mussolini will lose most everything. I can't believe the CEOs of the big five "too big to fail" banks are going to sit idly by and watch this happen.
Gird your loins and strap in ... it's going to be a bumpy ride.
Those banks happily would allow it to happen. Yesterday in federal court in Ohio, the Ohio Chamber, US Chamber, and those banks (and other banks) sued to declare the Federal Reserve's capital stress-tests unlawful. They want to speed-run a new depression because they think they can bail out of the US dollar into Euros or Pounds Sterling or something else before everything is set on fire.
I am so glad they convinced us to ditch pensions in favor of gambling on the stock market.
Will be interesting to see the "but I am doing fine!" types suddenly not as banks fold up and there's no FDIC to back them.
Luckily, I know how to live poor. Pro tips: buy nothing new; go without anything that is not a necessity and a few things that might be; make sure rent is paid-everything else can wait; plan all trips to get it done on a single day to conserve fuel- and go to less places, one would be best; healthcare is for rich people, so live with all those things until something kills you (exception being if you have spawn- spawn get all your healthcare dollars.)
Yeah, but if you are rich you get big bailout. It's only the little people that get stuck with the bill. I will never forgive Obama for not pushing harder to help out "main street".
*chirpy voice* Meet Ken. Ken's great. He's rich and does tech broey stuff. *demon voice* I want Greenland. *chirpy voice* So get out there and have fun in Denmark, Ken.
Well, the nuclear bomb waste is still not cleaned up permanently. The original solution (dig hole in ice, dump in nuclear waste, put ice back on top) is looking iffy in the new climate we're rushing into...
Little do they know the authorities have covered all strategic areas with loose Lego blocks. The casualties on landing will make Saving Private Ryan look like The Barbie Movie.
You know what they probably didn't find? Overnight camping at Walmart.
===
WASHINGTON — A nearly two-year investigation by Democratic senators of Supreme Court ethics details more luxury travel by Justice Clarence Thomas and urges Congress to establish a way to enforce a new code of conduct.
Any movement on the issue appears unlikely as Republicans prepare to take control of the Senate in January, underscoring the hurdles in imposing restrictions on a separate branch of government even as public confidence in the court has fallen to record lows.
The 93-page report released Saturday by the Democratic majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee found additional travel taken in 2021 by Thomas but not reported on his annual financial disclosure form: a private jet flight to New York’s Adirondacks in July and jet and yacht trip to New York City sponsored by billionaire Harlan Crow in October, one of more than two dozen times detailed in the report that Thomas took luxury travel and gifts from wealthy benefactors.
The court adopted its first code of ethics in 2023, but it leaves compliance to each of the nine justices.
“The highest court in the land can’t have the lowest ethical standards,” the committee chairman, Illinois Sen. Richard J. Durbin, said in a statement. He has long called for an enforceable code of ethics.
Republicans protested the subpoenas authorized for Crow and others as part of the investigation. No Republicans signed on to the final report, and no formal report from them was expected.
A spokesman for Crow said he voluntarily agreed to provide information for the investigation, which did not pinpoint any specific instances of undue influence. Crow said in a statement that Thomas and his wife, Ginni, had been unfairly maligned. “They are good and honorable people and no one should be treated this way,” he said.
Attorney Mark Paoletta, a longtime friend of Thomas who has been tapped to join the incoming Trump administration, said the report was aimed at conservatives whose rulings Democrats disagreed with.
Well, it's a cloudy morning here which means a migraine for me today, but I got my meds nice and early so it's mostly faded to a small background headache. Gives me an excuse to skip swim class this AM, but I'll need to get a walk in later.
I did pretty good at the white elephant last night. After pulling a bottle of alcohol a second night in a row, I was again relieved of it and stole a basket of dog toys that I kept and got all set up here at my condo. Termite has picked out his favorite toy, a racoon dressed in a scarf and he has swung it real hard to make sure it's completely dead. The basket is wicker and will be the pet toy basket I have been looking for.
So glad to have a short and easy week at work this week and next. I think next week I'll take off NY eve just to treat myself. Last year I used about half my vacation days on the trip my dad ended up canceling plus working elections. Hopefully this year won't be so much bullshit with my family so I can take my vacation and USE IT TO VACATION.
lol, he won't be able to work in canada with that bill passing, his whole shtick is made from everything that bill means to stop.
"Roughly one million Canadians, mostly retirees, spend winter each year in the United States."
That's roughly 2 1/2 Omahas, for people who need to compare numbers to something physical.
Russians ...never pay you.
*ahem* And you know this exactly how...?
In Russia, moon…is potato.
Man this is the comments section version of that loon screaming after Trump was elected.
Good luck AZ. At least he can't vote.
It’s AZ, sure he can.
Arizona and Florida: where brains bake
Existence of said brains not in evidence.
"How do you like your brains?"
"Over easy."
I would respectively digress.
AZ deserves him. Ugh
"I'm not a Russian-paid hack because they haven't paid me..." Where do I sign up for this Peterson Academy?!?
Good riddance. If Jordan Peterson's name and/or philosophy comes up in conversation with my fellow Canadians I am sure to let them know what a toxic quack he is. I suspect he has political ambitions to lead a party. May it not be a party in Canada where he can spread his malignant mumbo jumbo.
He truly is a master at sounding smart. My spouse watches his videos once in awhile waiting for a point but he rarely gets around to one.
Elno wants a tech-bro oligarchy. He and the tech-bro douchcanoes Dementia Don has nominated want to get rid of the SEC, FDIC, CFPB, and other regulations that have tenuously kept the US financial systems from complete collapse. Given that these dickweasels see themselves and the techo-bro driven economy as the best thing ever, a lot of attempts to gut the regulations are on tap.
But ... two notes: 1. US banks are making obscene profits in the current environment. Will they stand by and let a bunch of libertarian tech-bros ruin that? And 2. if those regulations are gutted, the US financial system, and the US dollar's fixture as the world's reserve currency, will completely succumb. This is not recession ... this would be 1930s banking collapse and full-on depression. Foreign banking won't deal with it ... they'll skedaddle over to another solid currency. The Euro, maybe? Who knows ... but they aren't going to put any investment in US dollars.
So we end up with a fraud laden system where no one's money is safe. I know Dementia Don has no fucking clue what this means. I also know the FO for the average US citizen who voted for Orange Mussolini will lose most everything. I can't believe the CEOs of the big five "too big to fail" banks are going to sit idly by and watch this happen.
Gird your loins and strap in ... it's going to be a bumpy ride.
Those banks happily would allow it to happen. Yesterday in federal court in Ohio, the Ohio Chamber, US Chamber, and those banks (and other banks) sued to declare the Federal Reserve's capital stress-tests unlawful. They want to speed-run a new depression because they think they can bail out of the US dollar into Euros or Pounds Sterling or something else before everything is set on fire.
This is what comes of admiring Venezuela. When was the last time their currency was stable?
I am so glad they convinced us to ditch pensions in favor of gambling on the stock market.
Will be interesting to see the "but I am doing fine!" types suddenly not as banks fold up and there's no FDIC to back them.
Luckily, I know how to live poor. Pro tips: buy nothing new; go without anything that is not a necessity and a few things that might be; make sure rent is paid-everything else can wait; plan all trips to get it done on a single day to conserve fuel- and go to less places, one would be best; healthcare is for rich people, so live with all those things until something kills you (exception being if you have spawn- spawn get all your healthcare dollars.)
Or the stock market crashes under a Republican administration ... again.
Yeah, but if you are rich you get big bailout. It's only the little people that get stuck with the bill. I will never forgive Obama for not pushing harder to help out "main street".
Perfect gift for your MAGA neighbor
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:kbtnc422o6464xdvrmyjm6nj/bafkreiav7l5l6ibh4bqtlnyismxsacin75cz743ecyel6tdeqxxjsdvo34@jpeg
"For rectal use only."
Not this:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022-03-01T213749Z_922958743_RC2STS9VXHKO_RTRMADP_3_UKRAINE-CRISIS-ZHYTOMYR-1024x576.jpg
Yes, with votes.
We tried that.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......
well, make love, not war and all
I've posted my Festivus porn story. (ticks the box on his To Do List)
(Imperial Officer): "It's an older trope, Sir, but it checks out."
I'd tick your box, Wanderer.
Ooh, you naughty person!
So war with Greenland?
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:uo2fna47c4v6zcnklxfhcvjb/bafkreica3gms3fu5uwpqdn54oobemutwiu4lw2kagd4mn3u5ijicw3stuq@jpeg
Um, what was that?
*chirpy voice* Meet Ken. Ken's great. He's rich and does tech broey stuff. *demon voice* I want Greenland. *chirpy voice* So get out there and have fun in Denmark, Ken.
The orange idiot didn't type that.
No random caps or superfluous adjectives.
Jesus fuck. And my boss just threatened to send me back there, without a job.
Eff Trump is our new/old slogan.
omg is he back on that greenland shit?
The fuck with him and greenland? We already have an airbase there. It is actually better that we do not own it, since it is already owned and all.
Is there oil there his fucking buddies want or something?
Well, the nuclear bomb waste is still not cleaned up permanently. The original solution (dig hole in ice, dump in nuclear waste, put ice back on top) is looking iffy in the new climate we're rushing into...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash
Look, we just need a little room for our people. Also the Panama Canal.
Lebensraum. Blood and soil. Globalists are bad ... unless they're South African globalists.
So, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
Dreams of empire
Little do they know the authorities have covered all strategic areas with loose Lego blocks. The casualties on landing will make Saving Private Ryan look like The Barbie Movie.
Next, they’ll claim that they got Sweden into NATO, but they’re not paying their fair share.
Does he know that's the one that's icy, and Iceland is the one that's green?
He knows dick.
That is factually incorrect.
The correct phrase is "he doesn't know dick!!"
bet he knows elon's dick
He should, he's always standing around with his out in his hand.
Probably.
"We shall bomb them back to the Ice Age."
We're at war with AOT, K.
If he has his way he'll be worse than you-know-who.
Jesus Christ....
You know what they probably didn't find? Overnight camping at Walmart.
===
WASHINGTON — A nearly two-year investigation by Democratic senators of Supreme Court ethics details more luxury travel by Justice Clarence Thomas and urges Congress to establish a way to enforce a new code of conduct.
Any movement on the issue appears unlikely as Republicans prepare to take control of the Senate in January, underscoring the hurdles in imposing restrictions on a separate branch of government even as public confidence in the court has fallen to record lows.
The 93-page report released Saturday by the Democratic majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee found additional travel taken in 2021 by Thomas but not reported on his annual financial disclosure form: a private jet flight to New York’s Adirondacks in July and jet and yacht trip to New York City sponsored by billionaire Harlan Crow in October, one of more than two dozen times detailed in the report that Thomas took luxury travel and gifts from wealthy benefactors.
The court adopted its first code of ethics in 2023, but it leaves compliance to each of the nine justices.
“The highest court in the land can’t have the lowest ethical standards,” the committee chairman, Illinois Sen. Richard J. Durbin, said in a statement. He has long called for an enforceable code of ethics.
Republicans protested the subpoenas authorized for Crow and others as part of the investigation. No Republicans signed on to the final report, and no formal report from them was expected.
A spokesman for Crow said he voluntarily agreed to provide information for the investigation, which did not pinpoint any specific instances of undue influence. Crow said in a statement that Thomas and his wife, Ginni, had been unfairly maligned. “They are good and honorable people and no one should be treated this way,” he said.
Attorney Mark Paoletta, a longtime friend of Thomas who has been tapped to join the incoming Trump administration, said the report was aimed at conservatives whose rulings Democrats disagreed with.
Gratuities!
No specific identifiable quid pro quo between the puppeteer and his puppet.
Well, it's a cloudy morning here which means a migraine for me today, but I got my meds nice and early so it's mostly faded to a small background headache. Gives me an excuse to skip swim class this AM, but I'll need to get a walk in later.
I did pretty good at the white elephant last night. After pulling a bottle of alcohol a second night in a row, I was again relieved of it and stole a basket of dog toys that I kept and got all set up here at my condo. Termite has picked out his favorite toy, a racoon dressed in a scarf and he has swung it real hard to make sure it's completely dead. The basket is wicker and will be the pet toy basket I have been looking for.
So glad to have a short and easy week at work this week and next. I think next week I'll take off NY eve just to treat myself. Last year I used about half my vacation days on the trip my dad ended up canceling plus working elections. Hopefully this year won't be so much bullshit with my family so I can take my vacation and USE IT TO VACATION.
Take it easy, and enjoy!