I mean, I know there are so many truly horrid things at play here, but WHO THE FUCK SAYS “I HEREBY DEMAND” SERIOUSLY, LET ALONE IS THE PRESIDENT OF A COUNTRY AND SAYS, “OH YEAH BY THE WAY I HEREBY DEMAND…”?
Help me Jesus, there’s not enough shahi korma in the world to make up for any of this.
EmptyGee at long last guided by morals when it's about the victims of sexual exploitation? Buuuuuulllllllll fucking shit. Two words (two very unfortunate words): Matt Gaetz. No, EmptyGee has done what she's done for EmptyGee. I find it absurdly implausible there is any moral principle undergirding this.
About Clinton....does anybody really believe that he never partook of Epstein’s "hospitality"? Not me. Not saying he was as depraved as orange man, but I don't think for a minute he was lily-white, either.
Is is. When Law Enforcement agencies can make forecasts of how much their going to seize from citizens, for their budgeting purposes, isn't that a bit akin to turning loose troops to forage from the populace?
Many years ago, it was customary to dress up for a flight. That has since gone by the boards, Again, it used to be customary for those with white-collar jobs to dress up to go to work. That too has gone by the boards. Then again, it used to be de rigueur that if you were so privileged as to appear on national (or even local) TV that you would dress up. Even that is no longer the case. Look at Margie baby wearing a sweatshirt to an interview by no less than Lesley Stahl (one of the few really great TV journalists still around)!
Several years back I had business with the Family Court in CA over custody and some other issues. I was always taught that if you're going to court, wear a suit to show respect for the court. While waiting around, I kept getting approached by people who assumed I was an attorney, as they were only ones in the courtroom wearing suits.
I still dress up for flights, and white-collar situations. I get better treatment than almost anyone else. The subliminal social cues still carry a lot of weight. I'll take that free advantage, if others are just going to leave their lunch money on the table...
In 1987 I arrived at the Canadian border to drive to Alaska, with five other men. I was the only one with a US passport, and somehow that translated into the Canadians thinking I was leading the group (I was not leading the group). Same concept, I think.
When our kids were in elementary school, I was working in a white-collar office environment. We sent our kids to the public school in our neighborhood.
I wore dress pants, dress shirt, tie, and either a sport coat or a nice cardigan sweater every day.
Once in a while I'd need to go in to the school office for some reason, after dropping off the kids.
The office was staffed entirely by non-white women. The other parents were all working class and dressed that way too. Spanish was the main language in use.
It would fluster me that when I walked in, everyone stopped talking and stared at me. And they made it their first priority to see what the white man in a tie wanted, first. Other parents didn't even object. It was startling how effective just the costume was.
He almost definitely has a writer specifically for this who forwards it to him for final approval, who then adds in his characteristically idiotic asides and digressions.
Ugh...and well and truly she doesn't really get it. She just wanted to be on top in this unreconstructed shithole country, that's all. She wanted to be the one to have her boots on people's necks.
We'll be seeing more and more of this. And less and less official economic data.
This will eventually show up in the bond market, and then in the stock market.
And then all bets are off.
Already I'm seeing my corporate clients hunkering down, refusing to commit because they can't get clear guidance for planning. And when that goes global; fund managers not being able to tell what's really going on in the US economy; that's gonna leave one helluva mark.
That's the main one, ADP. But they're not collected in the same way as BLS data is, so the full historical data series is disrupted. And that's a huge deal.
We can all poke holes in the BLS procedures; especially since they publish their rubric, and call out when they change it, and adjust their data retroactively when needed, etc.
When that continuity is disrupted, it's really hard to be sure exactly what one is looking at. And that tends to discourage people whose job it is to invest billions of dollars of Other People's Money.
As yet, there's no one clear alternative to US Government and private bonds, and the US stock markets. But there hasn't always been one main central place to invest in; that comes and goes with Empires. It's more difficult, requires more due diligence, to invest in multiple markets and observe the various required safeguards.
But global investors are pretty clever and will figure out how to do what they need to do. They certainly have the incentive.
Historically, the reason official BLS is the "gold standard" is because they've always been completely transparent about their methodology. Especially as regards data weighting, backwards adjustments, and the entire formula. Their publications are porno for data/statistics analysis nerd-verts.
So had Biden or Harris or Tan-Suit Guy did this, they'd have also shown all their work, so as to not spook the global investors whose investments allow the US to live wildly above our actual domestic means.
I mean, I know there are so many truly horrid things at play here, but WHO THE FUCK SAYS “I HEREBY DEMAND” SERIOUSLY, LET ALONE IS THE PRESIDENT OF A COUNTRY AND SAYS, “OH YEAH BY THE WAY I HEREBY DEMAND…”?
Help me Jesus, there’s not enough shahi korma in the world to make up for any of this.
Bye bye Habba
EmptyGee at long last guided by morals when it's about the victims of sexual exploitation? Buuuuuulllllllll fucking shit. Two words (two very unfortunate words): Matt Gaetz. No, EmptyGee has done what she's done for EmptyGee. I find it absurdly implausible there is any moral principle undergirding this.
Just for the record, I can think of a LOT of things that would be improved by a dance break.
A Janet Reno Dance Party.
"For many of us releasing, [sic]..."
It's astute attention to details like this that keep me coming back to Wonkette.
Looks like Pedo the Clown didn’t enjoy it.
"Is the MAGA base revolting?" You bet! They stink on ice!
It's good to be the King...
About Clinton....does anybody really believe that he never partook of Epstein’s "hospitality"? Not me. Not saying he was as depraved as orange man, but I don't think for a minute he was lily-white, either.
I agree with someone else’s assessment which said BC is a horn dog but not a pervert.
OT - Lawless fuckers are lawless
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com
Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too?
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3m7innn5fz22z
Civil Asset Forfeiture, FTW.
It's included in budget forecast projections by law enforcement agencies.
Which I think ought to be considered as a 3rd Amendment violation.
Third amendment? I thought that one was about quartering soldiers.
Is is. When Law Enforcement agencies can make forecasts of how much their going to seize from citizens, for their budgeting purposes, isn't that a bit akin to turning loose troops to forage from the populace?
Okay, I see your point. Though I understand that the 3rd amendment is the only one that hasn't been judicially examined.
A wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Can we NOT play it again, Sam?
cue cantina band
[eye twitches]
Many years ago, it was customary to dress up for a flight. That has since gone by the boards, Again, it used to be customary for those with white-collar jobs to dress up to go to work. That too has gone by the boards. Then again, it used to be de rigueur that if you were so privileged as to appear on national (or even local) TV that you would dress up. Even that is no longer the case. Look at Margie baby wearing a sweatshirt to an interview by no less than Lesley Stahl (one of the few really great TV journalists still around)!
Several years back I had business with the Family Court in CA over custody and some other issues. I was always taught that if you're going to court, wear a suit to show respect for the court. While waiting around, I kept getting approached by people who assumed I was an attorney, as they were only ones in the courtroom wearing suits.
I still dress up for flights, and white-collar situations. I get better treatment than almost anyone else. The subliminal social cues still carry a lot of weight. I'll take that free advantage, if others are just going to leave their lunch money on the table...
In 1987 I arrived at the Canadian border to drive to Alaska, with five other men. I was the only one with a US passport, and somehow that translated into the Canadians thinking I was leading the group (I was not leading the group). Same concept, I think.
It is.
When our kids were in elementary school, I was working in a white-collar office environment. We sent our kids to the public school in our neighborhood.
I wore dress pants, dress shirt, tie, and either a sport coat or a nice cardigan sweater every day.
Once in a while I'd need to go in to the school office for some reason, after dropping off the kids.
The office was staffed entirely by non-white women. The other parents were all working class and dressed that way too. Spanish was the main language in use.
It would fluster me that when I walked in, everyone stopped talking and stared at me. And they made it their first priority to see what the white man in a tie wanted, first. Other parents didn't even object. It was startling how effective just the costume was.
"Is the MAGA base revolting?"
You bet! They stink on ice!
That post was 100% written by someone else.
1. The green-brown joke is too intellectual
2. Disjointed sentence structure but no misspellings???
"The green-brown joke is too intellectual."
TFG:
"That joke is funny, goddammit, and I'm going to keep telling it till someone LAUGHS!"
He almost definitely has a writer specifically for this who forwards it to him for final approval, who then adds in his characteristically idiotic asides and digressions.
Well,
LET THEM FIGHT.
Ugh...and well and truly she doesn't really get it. She just wanted to be on top in this unreconstructed shithole country, that's all. She wanted to be the one to have her boots on people's necks.
If Russia and Europe ever go to war, TFG will send military aid to Russia citing Roosevelt's Lend Lease policy as precedent.
Stephen Miller is still pissed about the success of Lend-Lease.
Because it's Just. That. Fantastic.
𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 — 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟐 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬
And the fed will be making decisions based on a tiny percentage of the data they should have.
"You need to give me time to falsify the numbers!"
We'll be seeing more and more of this. And less and less official economic data.
This will eventually show up in the bond market, and then in the stock market.
And then all bets are off.
Already I'm seeing my corporate clients hunkering down, refusing to commit because they can't get clear guidance for planning. And when that goes global; fund managers not being able to tell what's really going on in the US economy; that's gonna leave one helluva mark.
Buffett is building his cash reserves.
Chaos is extremely profitable!!
If you're the one doling it out, it can be.
What other reliable sources are there for that economic data? Like the ADP numbers can be used as a proxy for the employment/unemployment numbers.
That's the main one, ADP. But they're not collected in the same way as BLS data is, so the full historical data series is disrupted. And that's a huge deal.
We can all poke holes in the BLS procedures; especially since they publish their rubric, and call out when they change it, and adjust their data retroactively when needed, etc.
When that continuity is disrupted, it's really hard to be sure exactly what one is looking at. And that tends to discourage people whose job it is to invest billions of dollars of Other People's Money.
As yet, there's no one clear alternative to US Government and private bonds, and the US stock markets. But there hasn't always been one main central place to invest in; that comes and goes with Empires. It's more difficult, requires more due diligence, to invest in multiple markets and observe the various required safeguards.
But global investors are pretty clever and will figure out how to do what they need to do. They certainly have the incentive.
Murc's Law allows such a thing. Can you imagine if Joe Biden or Kamala Harris had done this?
They would call for Impeachment.
And I might agree.
Trying to leave the globe in the dark as to the US economy only encourage the planet to untether from it entirely.
As far as I'm concerned, that's so bad for America that you impeach a motherfucker that does it.
And I don't care what party they are.
(They would have done it competently)
Historically, the reason official BLS is the "gold standard" is because they've always been completely transparent about their methodology. Especially as regards data weighting, backwards adjustments, and the entire formula. Their publications are porno for data/statistics analysis nerd-verts.
So had Biden or Harris or Tan-Suit Guy did this, they'd have also shown all their work, so as to not spook the global investors whose investments allow the US to live wildly above our actual domestic means.
Too much winning