¡Buenos dias, glibs! Sloopy is out getting paid, can’t blame him at all. So lets see what we have this morning.
I was told mass shootings were a uniquely American phenomenon.
A bit of a human interest story about Argentine farmers.
It was a moment of victory for Macri, who had recently taken office, and of hope for farmers, who had been hobbled by the strict export limits imposed by the previous government. Since then, it has only been ups and downs.
Rossi says improved weather gave them some “oxygen” for this year’s harvest. But then Macri surprisingly turned in a worse showing in primary elections than the left-leaning Peronist candidate Alberto Fernández, causing stocks to plunge and the peso to depreciate even further in recession-hit Argentina, which has been struggling with rapidly rising prices and increasing poverty.
The primary results also coincided with a report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that lowered estimates for Argentina’s soy and corn crops based on weather conditions, said Esteban Copati, head of agricultural forecasts at the Buenos Aires grains exchange.
“There was a double whammy,” Copati said. “On the one side, there was this change in the political scenario that changed the intention of growers to plant since they started to become fearful of what the policies of this new government could be. And on the other hand, there was the impact of the drop in international prices.”
This brings to mind this article regarding China purchasing said soybeans….grudgingly.
Cubans are now allowed to purchase certain goods with foreign currency. What goods you ask?
Cuban officials announced Tuesday night that the prices of some consumer goods would drop for Cubans who create special new hard-currency bank accounts denominated in U.S. and Canadian dollars, Euros, British pounds, Swiss francs, Mexican pesos, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish kroner and Japanese yen.
Cubans will also be able to use the accounts to import goods through state-run companies, officials said on national television, although the precise mechanism for those private-public imports remains unclear.
Products that will be available for foreign currency include 43-inch flat-screen televisions, standing freezers, refrigerators and mini-split air conditioners. The discounts over current prices appear to be marginal — Reports in state media indicated that the government would still charge some 75 percent above the wholesale price. A 43-inch Samsung television, for example, would sell for $549, state media said, about twice the cost of a similar item in the U.S.
Buenas suerte…
For some reason, government subsidies for gasoline are common in Latin America. Protests in response to the removal of said subsidies are also common. What isn’t common is the government fleeing the capital in response to the protests.
Something that may be of interest to OMWC.
Have a catchy tune, and make Thursday great again!
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574 responses to “Jueves por la mañana enlaces mexicanos con desayuno”
Right on time? Is that a Mexican joke? Or a glibs joke? Is that racist? Can you be racist if you are not pasty white? So many questions
Also what happened to the Astros? I waited all day to find out…
The game was rained out. They play Today, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Jesus baseball is so weak scared by a little rain. NBA would not stop for rain. Then again due to the China syndrome, I can no longer in good faith say NBA > MLB so I will say NBA == MLB
Does football stop for rain? Or hockey? Lacrosse?
Basketball and hockey are played in roofed arenas.
Football is played in the winter, and has been known to be played in the snow.
Lacrosse? Doesn’t have a well-known professional organization.
Basketball and hockey are played in roofed arenas – details…
What else is there to say? They’re played indoors. Rain, snow, doesn’t make a difference on the court/rink
I’ve seen several football games stopped for inclement weather.
Unless the players froze to the field, I cry foul.
Well, usually for hurricanes or lightning.
This. The Chiefs vs. Seahawks in the 90’s played a rain game.
It was delayed for a little while due to lightning.
3.6 to 6 inches of rain fell during the game on various parts of the city.
That was actually a pretty nasty storm last night. The rain has stopped but the wind is still pretty strong which should make for an interesting game.
It’s even funnier that the Yankees built a multi-billion dollar stadium and wouldn’t put a retractable roof.
Meh. I’m a fan of leaving them open to the air. Especially for football… learn to run the ball.
Football yes. Baseball no.
When did the Yankees build a stadium? 1929?
No, in 2006.
The original Yankees stadium was torn down and retired a few years ago
The Yankees didn’t build anything in 2006, the taxpayers did despite not wanting to.
Absolutely. Racism is a colorblind affliction.
wait I thought being colorblind was considered racism these days
Also I never seen mexican sharpshooter so I may have been wrong to cast aspersions on his pasty whiteness
You mean he’s not Danny Trejo from his avatar?
I see him pretty regularly. We’re about equal swarthiness.
If you’re Mexican, it takes forever for your whole family to get out of the car. Just ask your cousin, no the OTHER cousin, no the other, OTHER cousin.
Yes.
Of course, otherwise all of us pasty bastards could just go out into the sun for an hour or so and be Redlegs.
Right on time.
That’s not a mass shooting, that’s just workplace violence.
I am sure they were American guns! I blame Obama.
How could it not happen with all the guns Holder sent down there?
Impossible. Mexico has common sense gun laws.
Great song. Right out of my 1970’s playlist ( I was a weird kid)
Cubans are now allowed to purchase certain goods with foreign currency. What goods you ask?
So sell sex to tourists and but TVs? Or how does one not connected acquire sufficient hard currency? In commie Romania there was a black marked, but I assume in the purer communism of Cuba such things do not exist
Many Cubans in Cuba receive money from relatives living abroad, most notably the large population of Cuban expatriates and their descendants living in Florida. Secondarily from tips from Canadians and Europeans who vacation in Cuba.
What monetary value do you think they get from the ip to “Buy low and sell high, cause you never go broke making a profit” that I would give them if I were ever to want to visit a commie paradise?
“”left-leaning Peronist candidate Alberto Fernández,”
Left leaning candidate Joseph Stalin beat the right candidate Leon Trotsky
Your woke-fu is strong, sir.
My friend’s wife is Mexican. They used to go twice a year to visit family. No more. Too violent. Dude straight up lit up when I asked him about the wall. ‘Absolutely the Americans need a wall. It’s chaos and violence now’. Worse, he explained it’s normalizing. A part of accepted life. So they decided no more. Buh-bye.
If the US was smart and conquered everything down to Panama in the 19th century, the Canal could serve as a moat. Also probably most of North America would be more civilized. Or less. Who knows. Point is. Could not be that much worse.
Is that you, Rudyard Kipling?
Hey you have to give Kipling credit. He was advocating for empire to bring civilization to the barbarians but he was also honest about the costs
Or, everything to the arctic could be like South America.
Neah you should have invaded Canada as well and it would have balanced out.
Two errors in North America history. The British not assimilated the French-Canadians (as per Lord Durham’s Report) deliberately leaving them alone so as to ‘keep the peace’ and the Yipee–ki-yay Yankees and their incompetence on how to properly invade.
So bad the Canadian militia blind folded them, turned them around and kicked them in the ass and said, ‘pin that tale on the donkey!’
Something like that.
assimilating.
Muppet’s axiom: Never restructure a sentence in mid-stream and keep going. You’ll forget the error needing to be repaired.
I violate the Muppet’s axiom every quite frequently. I tend to drag and drop phraalsoses and timessome miss.
I don’t know. They don’t suffer under the rank tyranny that is the US Gov. I mean in Mexico you can drag your mayor down the street behind your truck
I hope you kid.
It’s totes tyranny.
Only slightly. I’m not familiar with Central America, but there are places like Uruguay, that seem to be much freer from an overpowering government than the United States. Sure they don’t have the same guarantees written down on a piece of paper, but it means they don’t have to constantly watch the courts wipe their ass with it.
By some measures, even Quebec seems freer.
We certainly don’t have SWAT and ATF running amok.
We probably would have, but the civil war sort of got
in the way.
YOUR PROBLEM.
Now you have to deal with us.
*flicks rufus between the googly eyes*
We took your trophy and we took your drummer. How are you going to stop us when we want your trees or fracking fields?
Don’t forget their strippers!
Trophy? Hell we took half the teams.
Using mostly Muppet Canadians to win that trophy!
the government fleeing the capital
Do you know who else left a capital to fight again another day?
Napolean?
The Army of Northern Virginia?
Millions of Taiwanese?
Hilary?
The Poles?
Letterman?
The French?
Incompetent comic villains?
itler?
…
He left the capital.
*narrows gaze*
It is uncivil to violate a trademark….
“I was told mass shootings were a uniquely American phenomenon.” Only a shitlord would say something like that. Of course Mexicans are Americans; North Americans, even. Not that the term isn’t colonialist in itself. We should be using the indigenous peoples’ names for their homeland.
“We should be using the indigenous peoples’ names for their homeland.”
So… Mexican?
López Obrador told a news conference the ambush in Michoacan was “very regrettable”
Geez, let’s hope that is just a bad translation.
RIP Michigan
Why can I not ever reproduce issues other people have with the tools I am maintaining? Goddamnit.
That’s an axiom, tech support can never replicate the issue. It means there’s either something specifically wrong with the user, or the user’s machine.
I am not exactly tech support. I am a one man crew I develop the code, test it, deploy it, offer support. The testing part always sucks because it is better to have an independent tester, who does not know the code.
In my experience doing tech support, I have practically always found the reported problem to be between the keyboard and the user’s seat.
In the auto repair world, it’s frequently the loose screw between the steering wheel and the seat.
“The car caused the crash.”
“How so?”
“I turned on cruise control and it left the road!”
The M2HB .50 caliber machine gun is probably the oldest and most reliable piece of equipment in the Army. It has two forms of adjustment, setting the head-space and timing on the weapon. If a .50 doesn’t operate, that is where the problem almost always exists.
Therefore when most issues come up in something being fucked up, the expression is “There appears to be an issue with Operator Head-space and Timing”.
lol and there are some of us here who have been professional software testers for a quarter century
“Problem is on user side of keyboard.”
“Hippie Mike just called in another ID10T ticket.”
PEBKAC.
PEBTAC/PEBKAC errors, Problem Exists Between (Terminal/Keyboard) And Chair.
And Pie: Agree completely about the testing, I just had to do a deployment where the group that was requesting all of the changes refused to do any UAT on the changes… I was unhappy about that. Thankfully, another business group stepped up to do the testing for them (and made decisions for that initial group as well).
When I worked helpdesk, we had to record those calls as a “Training Issue”.
It was an official record for the client company we were providing support for, after all.
In our Service Now instance, we’ve got both Internal notes and Public notes. Information like that is always included int he Internal notes. My personal favorites are people having one off issues trying to blame it on a system wide issue.
“My VM box is locked! Could it be a system problem?”
“No. No it is not.”
We have too many managers who would not take kindly to those kinds of private notes.
And I’m not sure the service now setup here is configured to make the activity notes hidden from the users.
I’d have that.
“I think your system is down, no one in my building can access it”
“huh, it works for us here”
“Yeah it works for guys at our other building too.”
(trying not to be rude) “then I think something is wrong with your network”
“No.IT said it was good. Did you mess up our network?”
“Sir if it’s reachable from your end at a different location then the system we works, you need to tell that to your IT”
“They say everything is fine”….
Yeah… I was always tempted by that “internal” discussion feature but too afraid of, I dunno, unleashing a tirade and fucking it up. So I didn’t use it.
Fun fact: the work notes field on incident is an HTML field, and allows you to embed images without attaching them to the ticket so they don’t get included in client facing notifications. Enjoy your memes.
Years ago we had a little security incident concerning some classified frequencies. A Lockheed-Martin engineer had faxed over a specification to us including the frequencies, a big no-no.
We had to file an incident report with the DOD and our receiving engineer had to fill out the forms.
Among the questions was “Why did this happen?” Our engineer wrote “Lockheed’s engineer is an idiot.”
This, of course, did not get caught by our security manager and was sent to the DOD who shared it with Lockheed. Hilarity ensued.
So what was the frequency, Kenneth?
Thing is if I can think of a test scenario I also code it in… I need someone who thinks different than me to test
agreed.
“You’re right, I would have never thought to put in “donkey” for the tank diameter. But there it is “donkey” in the field, and you’re saying the rest of the design crapped out?”
Pretty sure everyone here would restrict the tank diameter field to numeric input only.
*”You’re right, I would have never thought to put an IP address for the tank diameter…”
Not so fast. The date field where I work has to be eight digits (MMDDYYYY), no other characters.
Things that aren’t in that format don’t necessarily prompt us to correct it.
The story of my life
Why didn’t the QA engineer order any shots or cocktails?
What about food besides lizard?
Where was the testing for ordering from stool versus table versus booth?
Your test plan needs revision.
When I worked tech support I would have this one user call in all the time:
“Why doesn’t Feature X do Y?”
“because it was designed to do X not Y”
“Yeah but I want to do Y”.
“K, I’ll add this as a suggestion”
“No, it’s a bug, I want it to do Y but it’s broken and won’t.”
“No, Y is not possible with feature X”
“It’s worked in the past, but the latest update broke it”
“Sir that was never a supported use case.”
…
I had a situation something like
A check suite had 6 checks. These were requested implemented used for several years. Than a 7th check is requested. On the requrements list: Bugfix: check 7 missing. I was like bugfix my ass, but the guy then told me it is easier to get time/budget for a bugfix than a new check because users feel there are to many checks already
At my old place, I got in trouble for closing tickets out as “Working as Intended.” My boss made me start using “Working as Designed.”
I had a boss often argue that “It’s a bug in the design.”
My countering “You approved the bugs” never seemed to matter. Until one of his bosses used it as a reason to eliminate his position.
“It’s a bug in the design.”
WTF? So the design wasn’t designed as designed?
Certainly there can be new feature requests and changes, for unforseen use cases, but “bug in the design”…
Yeah, like 737 MAX…
Bro — That’s an “undocumented feature”
Bugs in the design are far more common than actual coding errors.
The problem is the developer fails to understand the requirements properly, no this is not a problem with the requirements, that is an entirely different classification one I should add which is even more common that bugs in the design but it is not uncommon at all for a developers design to be incapable of properly satisfying either the functional or non functional requirements of the system.
Rasilio: I’ve seen both. Some seriously boneheaded design requests from the business side, and developers not understanding what the design requests are actually looking for but implementing something anyways. That’s not even talking about implementing something that is a PITA to maintain going forward.
Oh there are absolutely legit bugs in designs.
I only bring it up because the particular individual who made a habit of saying this would never admit to a bug in design until beta testing was done. The dozen times people would mention the design issues prior to QA, he would typically say “No, it’ll be fine; nobody will use it like that, we’ll document it so it’s not a problem; its a training issue, etc.” Every excuse in the book. Then when beta testing is done and the shit is obvious and the deadline will be missed, he used that as his excuse to get “just one more feature” added to the product. He did this because a couple features he wanted in got denied by the product review committee and this was his way of getting his pet features added by bypassing them. He’d tell the CEO “You’re going to walk away from a $4M comtract because you don’t want to delay a release for two weeks?” Every CEO let him get away with it because they changed CEO’s often enough. Finally one guy stuck around long enough to figure out the game and fired him.
Try to think of Sanders or Warren on tech support.
“Nobody needs more than one feature.”
“This is unacceptable! When I become CEO, I will create a multi-trillion dollar project to investigate this.”
I didn’t sleep well.
I like that design philosophy. Each tool sould do one thing, do it well, and do it as efficiently as possible.
Kinda defeats the purpose of computers, no?
You’ve never worked on a unix machine, have you?
For decades.
Then you know the computer only adds and subtracts bits very quickly and good tools exploit this to do one thing each.
Not sure what your point is here. People don’t complain about individual tools not working so much as integrated systems not working.
It’s easier to fix when you can swap out the broken part.
Get a giant black box and you’re spending years on one issue.
So you’re skipping over the “find the part that’s broken” step.
You can have one 500-feature tool, or 500 one-feature tools. The end result is the same.
Not really. It’s always been easier to trace the breakdown to the source when they’re not all clobbed together into one ball of spaghetti.
And yes, I have had to pick apart issues in both situations.
And my experience has been the exact opposite.
I have been this person, using a workaround to get the thing to do what I want. (I am the queen of the workaround solution.) Off-label utilities #FTW! And then, yes, an update breaks it.
You can’t really accuse a relatively clever user who found a way to make the thing do what they wanted it to do of operator error when the utility no longer functions the way the user needs it to for his job.
“The path is this:
Developer releases “Pile of Crap 1.0”
Users spend a couple years figuring out how to do everything they need with it, tweaking it until it is no longer a Pile of Crap.
Meanwhile back at the code ranch…
Boss “This is a pile of crap, needs moar cowbell”
Supportmonkeys “every user complaint we get says NOONE USES @#$%^& cowbell, literally every complaint is that you have to change the default setting in register 347 to off to make the thing work, why don’t we just ship it with 347 off by default?”
Boss “MOAR COWBELL, and we can’t have users changing things, make sure 347 can no longer be changed!”
Boss: Sales are down, you clearly didn’t add enough Cowbell. While you’re at it, end support on Pile of Crap 1.0, we need those users to upgrade!
This is why I never update anything. No, I don’t forget. I refuse. Drives my husband crazy.
The typical IT cop-out is “you should be trying this on a test system first”. Which is an added cost. And then they wonder why people don’t upgrade and cancel support. As if ending support for an “old release” on the vendor side of the equation is any different.
Given the number of black box patches that have broken things, we always patch test environments first. Having production down is an added cost greater than having lower environments.
Oh, you meant for home and small business where the only environment is prod. Sorry Mojeaux.
What is “the only environment is prod” mean?
You only have one setup, and it is where you do your actual work.
Prod = production.
does*
Stupid iPad wouldn’t let me go back and change it.
Because they didn’t include all of the details on the reproduction instructions?
It’s amazing how many phone problems don’t happen when agents are watched to try to reproduce the problem.
Like I said, something wrong with the user.
“What do you mean I can’t ignore the error message your stupid system gave me when I tried to force it to do something it will not allow and pretend it should have worked?”
It’s often something they do when they don’t get an immediate response. “It’s taking more than 2 seconds, I’ll just start hitting keys randomly until it works.”
Yeah, so what’s wrong with that?
Running joke in the dept here is that everything works when I get called over to look at something that isn’t working properly. Computers fear me and start behaving properly when I come around. Or the user finally goes through the correct process and gets the correct results.
All that is required is to have a technician look over the user’s shoulder and the problem goes into remission. It’s not unique to you.
It is not unique to IT. Ever had a car that wouldn’t make the odd noise for the mechanic?
No.
The Odd noise was a known warranty issue with a cable harness that needed a rubber inset to stop scraping the cabling across bare metal at highway speeds.
“Something that may be of interest to OMWC.”
Needz moar prepubescent girls.
You want Trudeau news? Here’s your Trudeau news. Trudeau news is the best news. Because his news is our entertainment:
https://buffalochronicle.com/2019/10/07/trudeau-is-rumored-to-be-in-talks-with-an-accusor-to-suppress-an-explosive-sex-scandal-that-may-force-him-from-office/
Please tell me the accuser is male…
All I know is Justin (e) likes to stick his pipi out a lot. Wouldn’t surprise me one bit he swings. He’s a total creep. He looks the part. And when you pay close attention to his mannerisms, he leaves clues to being a creep.
“Trudeau’s accuser is said to be a former student at West Point Grey Academy and the daughter of a wealthy Canadian businessman.”
This businessman owns the most jelly beans in the land!
Why?
Why what.
Why would it be different if it were a guy? Trudeau is a dirtbag regardless, no?
It would be funnier.
It’s funny when a socon that has been railing against da homosekchuals is busted for that. Trudeau? He hasn’t done that at least.
No, that’s just sad.
Nothing funny about, “And Sodom found out what the lord thought of what they were doing” on Sunday and then on Monday they’re sucking dick in an airport bathroom stall? Funny to me.
Nope, nothing funny about that. Just sad.
Which part is sad? The sermonizing or the sucking dick part?
Which part is funny?
The airport stall part adds a certain something to the situation.
Well, if a wokester like Trudeau is gay or bi and hasn’t come out, it seems just as hypocritical, only from a different direction.
I’ll give you that. Didn’t see that angle.
That was the angle all along.
He’s a SJW PM. Scolding and lecturing like Kerr and Popovich and then when the shit gets real, he’s a hypocrite like the rest.
Assholes.
It has nothing to do with being gay. Except that, a) he lies about it (if true) and b) there are indicators some of them may have been minors.
Then say that earlier. I miss jokes all the time and had no idea. I even asked “Why?” and now I’m explaining when blow jobs are funny and when they aren’t.
They are never funny when it’s your dick, or your mouth.
But that won’t stop the rest of us from laughing.
The old rules (never get caught with a dead girl/live boy) don’t apply anymore, at least not for a prog. A white male sticking it in a girl is totes oppresion though. If it was a boy he could claim it was his truth and brave or some such BS.
Or, if it’s dead black men, you need about three of them carted out of your apartment.
Sex with underage girls? Like father, like son, eh?
I’d love for that to be real but my initial take is that it seems “fake”.
This Kristian Niemietz fella amuses me, for a kraut
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1184590883276181505
Khmer Vert, that’s pretty good.
“Eco-communism = Pol Pot + wind turbines + The Hobbit”
Somebody needs to recruit this guy for us.
This also amused me
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1183848943769346050
This Boy is Exhausted ?? ☭ :
Neither, I’m just a Marxist, with some Puerto Rican nationalist tendencies.
Kristian Niemietz is a man of the people now:
Has Marxism with Puerto Rican nationalist tendencies ever been tried?
That led to this: https://twitter.com/anarchopac
Don’t even know where to start with that one.
“to professional communist theory influencers – me.”
Karl Marx is on YouTube? Trust me you ain’t a theory influencer. You’re just a bulshit peddler.
When the subject is marxism, is there a difference between a bullshit peddler or an influencer?
The number of people who listen a believe?
Libertarian communist is an oxymoron.
Only crackheads, Steve Kerr, and women with four tits (two in the front, two in the back) can think this.
I am Funny Bot.
Somebody is paying xer to be a communist theory influencer? Who? Why?
Has Marxism with Puerto Rican nationalist tendencies ever been tried?
Yes
I am Funny Bot.
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1184806947410923520
Someone explain “commuter subjectivity” to me.
Apparently the commuters of a busy subway stop at peak time were not pleased when Extinction Rebellion tried to stop the subway from leaving.
Apparently it is a class consciousness issue, they should have realized they are oppressed wage slave by the very fact that they were bothered about being late for work
Ahhh, a Plato’s Cave scenario.
They love themselves some false consciousness.
Where does the subjectivity come in?
I loved reading about these “protesters” getting their asses whooped trying to be the asshats they are. People have finally decided they have had enough of these woke people grandstanding and disrupting the lives of those of us just trying to make a living.
Photo from inside yesterday’s White House meeting
That cat. My sister sent me a meme with it a couple of years back. Cats are the best.
I believe Trump.
He may be a head case but Pelosi et al are straight up bat shit crazy.
Thot Thursday stimulates body dysmorphia in women everywhere.
http://archive.is/q8kYy
I was told mass shootings were a uniquely American phenomenon.
And the murder rate is lower in countries with stricter gun control…except when it isn’t*.
*The last time I argued with a peer about this he was too dense to grasp the fallacy of comparing countries to countries. I.e. there are too many variables and no consistent correlation between gun laws and violence.
I don’t remember the exact stats, but something like 85% of US homicides take place in 10 counties. Remove those, and the homicide rate is lower than most of Europe.
Yup, and most other violent crime is in the same areas and in cities.
Also, as similar percentage of violence using firearms is done with handguns. A tiny fraction is done with rifles, and something like 5 times as many homicides by knife than rifles of all types… But we aren’t supposed to acknowledge this because
Orange ManBlack Rifles Bad.Don’t forget they dishonestly lump suicides in with those numbers in the US. Someone’s still dead, sure, but it isn’t the same.
So we should lump Japanese suicides in with their murders?
Suicide is only important if you use a gun.
And I wonder how many murders in the US are related to the illegal drug trade. Not that those deaths don’t matter or shouldn’t be prevented, but I think there’s a big difference between drug dealers killing each other and innocent people getting murdered in a home invasion or something.
Is that true if you removed the highest homicide rate areas in European countries and then compared the numbers? (Hyperbole has been rubbing off on me)
ewwwwww
I’m just sayin’. (He’s been rubbing off on me, too.)
Everybody stop wanking on straffinrun!
Not funny.
OK. It’s funny. Anyone got a wet wipe?
Thank you, I was going to point out outliers in the data are still part of the data.
Not that it changes my mind at all on the issue. More guns!
I was going to post the same thing. Homicide rates are usually higher in urban settings, they also vary with ethnicity, economic status, education level, employment and a bunch of things that don’t start with an e. I do not think you can actually isolate for a single variable, just like with every other question in sociology. That’s a big reason sociology is not science (the other reason is that almost all sociologists are marxists)
Another tidbit I remember reading somewhere; in the UK, a murder only counts as a murder when a conviction is obtained.
Just like their infant mortality rates, where a child who dies in a few days of birth is reclassified as ‘stillborn’.
You know Bert got me fired, right?
Well, you needed better proof before trying to #MeToo him.
Ernie looks up shocked.
“Bert you whore! You slept with Rufus too?”
He’s the reason I live in a trashcan.
And the murder rate is lower in countries with stricter gun control
Even if it was true, I don’t care
It’s not, but that never stopped them from lying.
Constitutionally speaking, it would be irrelevant. But nobody gives that consideration anymore.
This is actually the correct reaction. Good job.
“…no consistent correlation between gun laws and violence.”
But there is between violence and culture and since all cultures are unique in some subtle and some not so subtle ways you are correct. Those comparisons are useless.
I suspect it is Trumps fault.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) – a key figure in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump – has died of “health complications” at 68.
Cummings died at Johns Hopkins Hospital at 2:45 a.m. Thursday morning from “complications concerning longstanding health challenges,” his office said.
He hadn’t returned to work after having a medical procedure he said would only keep him away for about a week, the Baltimore Sun noted.
The procedure already caused Cummings to miss a September hearing on Washington, D.C., statehood. The statement didn’t detail the procedure.
He previously was treated for heart and knee issues.
Lame.
It was a knee infection. Getting heart work done with an active infection is a recipe for disaster. Poor bastard was doomed.
His crooked wife will take the seat
How is that even legal? She was never elected. It should stay vacant until the next election. It’s a house seat, so there’s one every two years.
I know with Senate seats the governor can name a replacement and it is common for them to name the wife. I’m not sure what happens with House seats.
Bitch wants to get paid!
For real? When did the U.S. become a Merry Monarchy?
No. I don’t know. I was just spitballing.
Well put that spit back in your balls.
I am Funny Bot.
They hold a special election at the next election date (primary date or general date). They happen all the time.
I was going to link to this story too. But I was going to make it Cummings and Goings.
Truly Washington has lost a bright light.
Cummings and goings ALOL
Don’t read the replies. Or do, because it can be fun.
I think I won’t.
This isn’t how you tweeted about him when he was alive. You are scum.
It is customary to be respectful to the recently deceased.
When he was alive, he could defend himself. Now that he can’t, I don’t criticize him.
See, also, simple human decency. You should try it sometime.
Now do Trump after Mccain…
Dear Democrats,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD5uPZzBr5c
Rat infestation to blame? U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings dies
In July, Trump began a weeklong series of tweets and comments attacking the congressman, his hometown of Baltimore and his congressional district, which Trump called “rat and rodent infested.” Cummings chose not to respond directly but in a National Press Club speech decried “racist language” used by the nation’s leaders and urged them to “work together for the common good.”
“God has called me to this moment. I did not ask for it,” he said in the speech.
He didn’t choose the grifter life…
I wonder if he’ll accuse Saint Peter of being a bigot when he denies him passage through the pearly gates for being a crook.
That was just you asking a question you already knew the answer for was “Yes”, right?
Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.
And yes, I will continue to post this kind of thing because I find it entertaining
“Recommended fix – Remove European Union and try again.”
Romexit!
You know who else wanted to get rid of the Rom?
Obama?
Quark?
Qu-
dammit
Today he helped Baltimore more than he ever has
*snort*
Except the machine probably has an even worse grifter already lined up.
Didn’t they model the congressman from the wire Clay Davis on him? Sheeeeit!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr0A7TofowE
Possibly, but I think Elijah Cummings and Clay Davis fill different offices. US rep vs Maryland state senator
“primary results also coincided with a report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture”
Sounds like the US Government is interfering in Argentine elections. Somebody should say something.
See something say something
Burgeoning industry in Bolivia? Wait until Comrade President Morales finds out about that.
You never know. Dump enough money into anything you might get a few stragglers that avoid crashing into the mountain.
Okay, thats mean. Other South American countries have fairly successful wine industries, they might see it as a cash cow.
Adults’ Political Leanings Linked With Early Personality Traits
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/adults-political-leanings-linked-with-early-personality-traits.html
Findings from both studies indicate that children who showed higher levels of conduct problems — that is, aggression, fighting, stealing from peers — were more likely to be economically left leaning and distrustful of the political system as adults,
Since when are left leaning distrustful of the political system except when it is not them in power?
It’s nice to indulge in confirmation bias but bullshit psychology is just as bullshitty when it condemns the left and it’s wonderful how they link distrustfulness of govt with conduct problems.
“Since when are left leaning distrustful of the political system except when it is not them in power?”
^^^THIS^^^
These people’s distrust or dislike of power is only active when it is not their side in power.
CNN journalist accidentally practices journalism
Host Carol Costello asked O’Rourke, “You expect mass shooters to follow the law?”
O’Rourke responded, “Our fellow Americans will follow the law, yes.”
Costello countered, “Mass shooters … don’t follow the law — by definition.” She added, “It doesn’t make sense that people are going to hand over their ‘assault weapons’ if they’re mass shooters. If they want to do harm to people, they’re not going to follow the law.”
O’Rourke responded to Costello’s line of questioning by suggesting that anticipated compliance with a legislative proposal ought not be the litmus test for whether the proposal is adopted.
He added that legitimate constitutional authority regarding the proposed legislation also ought not be considered.
So. He’s a tyrant.
Awk-ward.
I am Funny Bot.
Worse. He’s a pajama-boy tyrant.
As a lad I was taught law needs to be 1) known to all, 2) followed by majority and 3) enforced.
By Beto stating constitutional authority adds another dimensions to three points. The immorality of a law.
How this is not decried as straight up tyrannical is beyond me.
I said the constitutional thing in jest. But it is the next logical step.
Unless you are over 85 that wasn’t true even when you were a child. Legislation by regulation breaks 1 and often 2, but BOY does it follow 3.
“compliance with a legislative proposal ought not be the litmus test for whether the proposal is adopted”
Well, legislation as virtue signaling isn’t exactly new.
The best laws are the ones you can selectively enforce.
So, maybe have a plan before traveling one way to another country.
Stupid is as stupid does.
I also enjoyed the detail that they had to use a phone translation app to communicate with him. Did he expect to find a large number of people who could speak Japanese in Cleveland?
“Konnichi wa, homey-san”
Beat me to it!
Ever get concerned with the number of times you come up with the same thoughts that I do?
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Brevity. I like it. The Baltimore Sun could learn a thing or two
Working as designed Comrade. We are just getting back to the proper State control of information.
That story though. Starts sad, picks up a little and then….
“I was born in Japan, and I am going to die in the United States,” he said.”
Awk-ward.
I am Funny Bot.
Ryo Muranaka said he sold everything to travel 6,000 miles from Japan to Cleveland’s east side.
Everything was worth $990. That’s sad.
It sounds like Cleveland let him down, one last time. And then Lou Reed found out Trump had been impeached, and before he died, shot himself in the nuts. Then the drugs fell out of his ass.
That reminds me. When we used to drive north on I-94, there was this house tat we passed and every time, someone would point to the house and say, “You know Vern Gagne got high on PCP in that house and cut off his dick with a credit card.
I smell a comedy of errors movie on this one.
Someone more creative than me can take it from here.
Michael Cera plays the Japanese guy.
Why not Dave Chappelle?
^^This. Dave Chappelle as Ryo Muranaka and Michael Cera as Bone Thugs.
They should let him stay. That area needs all the help it can get. Maybe he can start a record label or something….
It’s not about the money
About 300,000 students have no idea when they’ll see their teachers again as members of the Chicago Teachers Union go on strike Thursday.
More than 25,000 educators and their supporters started picketing at their local schools at 6:30 a.m. (7:30 a.m. ET). Later, they’ll unite at a mass rally at 1:30 p.m.
The union’s demands reflect what teachers across the country have been clamoring for: smaller class sizes, more support staff and higher raises.
But in Chicago, the dynamics are different — and in some cases, dire.
About 75% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. In some neighborhoods, gangs and violence permeate the streets.
School social worker Emily Penn fought back tears when describing how badly students need more support staff.
“Our students suffer from trauma. They suffer from so many things they need help coping with,” Penn said.
Many child deaths are “by suicide and by guns. This is a fact in Chicago,” she said.
The school district has offered hundreds more support staff and 16% raises for teachers — an average of about $19,000.
But teachers say those concessions aren’t enough.
Instead of wasting their time teaching those kids algebra, maybe they should teach them to embrace their inner femininity.
With the teachers in question, the students are probably getting better instruction with them AWOL than whe the teachers were there.
“Chicago Teachers Union go on strike Thursday.
More than 25,000 educators ”
No one needs more that 25,000 educators.
The CTU spends more time on strike than they do teaching.
All they want is to be paid more to teach fewer students.
I think the ultimate goal is to get paid -and get paid a lot – and not have to do any sort of real work whatsoever. And to have that without any accountability.
Hey, it works for the Long Island Rail Road.
How’s that working out for their pension fund?
Why do you think I got into government work in the first place.
The school district has offered hundreds more support staff and 16% raises for teachers — an average of about $19,000.
What!?
Im imagining the raise for the lower paid teachers is still in the 8-10g range. Incredible that this is being turned down
I wonder if it was even put to a vote of the membership.
Voters are unreliable, as the 2016 election showed, and might vote against their interests (meaning the union and the democrats running the shithole’s government’s interests). Can’t have that shit.
It’s butthurt over the fact that the union-endorsed mayoral candidate lost. So they’re going to grandstand for a larger deal than they would have settled for from the union-endorsed candidate.
Yeah, we got 2.5 per year for three years. Our union sucks balls.
Our union lobbied for pay cuts.
While cutting government spending is a plus, it’s sort of not the expected behaviour.
The gangs do a better job of educating the children. Homeyschooling, yo.
Public employee strikes should be illegal because it is monopolized. And all of these “educators” should be fired on the spot.
They are illegal in New York.
Uh huh.
If Illinois is anything like New York, those districts are already awash in more cash and administrators than anywhere else in the state.
So the correct answer is to dissolve the CCSD and send the students to less disfunctional institutions free from the current administration.
How dare you deny that the problem isn’t the methodology or the system, but the fact that people like you will not let the perps that inflicted this on the people to just double down on more of the same stupid shit that is causing the problem? Have you not read the wisdom of people like Krugabe that clearly point out that the problem is never with the woke and idiotic liberal policy, but with the fact not enough money is being flushed down the toilet!
UK and EU strike new Brexit deal in last-ditch talks
If Juncker likes it’ it’s a terrible deal.
That was my first thought.
Time to move the old 401K over into stocks for a bit then.
‘WE HAVE A DEAL! WE WILL CUT THE COUNTRY IN HALF!’
Some McDonald’s, KFC, Domino’s and Nandos meals could be BANNED if new NHS calorie counts given green light
https://twitter.com/TheSun/status/1184616260316909580
“Top Doc Dame Sally has made the proposals to tackle the nation’s fat epidemic”
Bullshit. It is just a matter of time before they implement the Chavez/Maduro strategy.
WTF is a Nando?
Portuguese food as fast food from South Africa according to Google.
It’s pretty good. Pricey, but good. I’ve been a couple times.
Schiff pushed Volker to say Ukraine felt pressure from Trump
In a secret interview, Rep. Adam Schiff, leader of the House Democratic effort to impeach President Trump, pressed former United States special representative to Ukraine Kurt Volker to testify that Ukrainian officials felt pressured to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter as a result of Trump withholding U.S. military aid to Ukraine.
Volker denied that was the case, noting that Ukrainian leaders did not even know the aid was being withheld and that they believed their relationship with the U.S. was moving along satisfactorily, without them having done anything Trump mentioned in his notorious July 25 phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
When Volker repeatedly declined to agree to Schiff’s characterization of events, Schiff said, “Ambassador, you’re making this much more complicated than it has to be.”
Boy this Schiff guys is a real jerk.
Yeah. You know that whole “can’t judge a book by it’s cover” thing? I’ve come to believe that, at least in some measure, that’s not true. Some people look like assholes. Adam Schiff looks like an asshole. I don’t think it’s so much physical attributes per se as it is how the person carries his or herself, facial expressions, etc.
Like I said about Trudeau, some people just exude assholery.
Adam Shiff action figure.
With lifelike hair.
“Ambassador, you’re making this much more complicated than it has to be.””
I would love it if Schiff started yelling and crying that this was selectively quoted, taken out of context and partly made up.
Red Flag laws working as designed.
I saw that over at another site. The snitch waitress and the local police dept should be metaphorically tarred and feathered and nonmetaphorically sued.
Not metaphorically. Sued, and criminally prosecuted with hot tar and feathers as the punishment. If they survive, they’re exiled from the community.
Tangentially related: I’ve got my thin-blue line SoCon Dad reading Will Grigg. There are cracks forming in his world-view. This pleases me greatly.
I have neither mercy nor pity for criminals, badged or not.
SLT:
The argument for Red Flag laws is in part that a concerned friend and relative wants the guns taken away for the safety of the individual in question. Allowing any random asshole call it in brings in a whole new level of due process abridgement. This is Leagalized Harassment of a sub culture that the left does not like.
‘Confiscate the guns first, due process later’…….may we never lose sight of who said this.
Was it Hitler?
Don’t know but it’s probably in Mein Kampf somewhere
In this case there will be no due process. Even though the police and all parties have agreed that the statement was heard out of context and the veteran had no bad intentions they are still taking away his license to own guns (Massachusetts) and will not return his guns to him.
So he did nothing wrong and everybody agrees about that but his guns are forfeit aa well as his legal ability to own any guns. WTF kind of due process is that?
I would posit that being punished before guilt has been determined automatically removes the possibility of any due process
But continuing with punishment after innocence has been established is even beyond that.
He’s old and will likely be dead by the time this case moves through the courts would be my guess as to why they’re pursuing this so vigorously.
This seems like the type of case where you couldn’t really blame the guy if he didn’t turn them over voluntarily.
Don’t know if he was supportive or sarcastic. He hasn’t done anything to push this along.
Me, I’d publicly order the DOJ to treat any red flag enforcement as a conspiracy to deny civil rights.
When and where did the European lactase persistence allele become common
https://twitter.com/mathiesoniain/status/1183112399722864640
mmmmmm cheese
I need to replenish my cheese supplies, I’m running low.
Well I was here at 6 45 it is now 16:06 I am outta here. Enough of this shit
You only lasted a little past nine minutes?
That’s like 10 hours!*
*No Literal Splainin’ please.
I forgot my goddamn sunglasses home. This is what happenes when i leave before sunrise
You don’t keep a spare coffin in the car?
He also forgot the garlic repellant.
Donald J. Trump ✔
@realDonaldTrump
Nancy Pelosi needs help fast! There is either something wrong with her “upstairs,” or she just plain doesn’t like our great Country. She had a total meltdown in the White House today. It was very sad to watch. Pray for her, she is a very sick person!”
I don’t care if I’m not supposed to laugh at that. That’s funny. Giving the office of the POTUS all the reverence it has accrued over the years. Keep going, Trump.
Lol. Troll.
Yeah, he wants to be impeached.
Hey, we’re all thinking it, he just said it.
The MSM and the Dem’s still don’t get it; Trump’s supporters like that he punches back. Who recalls the last Elephant who as willing to do this?
Not many given how many assholes Rs vote to condemn Trump for pulling (partly) out of Syria.
How could you not love it?
Beneath the office? Sure. But it’s not like previous Presidents didn’t act like shitheads albeit in different ways that were ‘beneath the office’.
It was TR (so only a sort of elephant).
Reagan fought back with humor.
The Bushes and everybody after 88 were cucks.
Teddy literally punched back if I am not mistaken.
+1 “The bombing will start in 5 minutes.”
So take a vote and declare war, you irrelevant assholes.
“Blood for the Blood God”
“SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!”
*Tries to rev gore-clogged chainaxe*
Congress is only for symbolic gestures. Meaningful action can only take place by executive fiat. This is what the lightbringer taught me.
Ahhhh, okay! Fine! I’ll vote for the guy this time around.
Bradley fuckin Beal god 4 years 130 mil. Tha chiana dime better keep rolling for the nba
It was an honest mistake
So is the new standard that whenever a cop — even just mistakenly — shoots a citizen while doing his job, it’s murder?
If so, then let’s be very clear what the natural consequence will be: cops will be less likely to do their jobs.
Really, would you want to be a cop?
You get a call at 2:30 in the morning. Adrenaline running. You hear something. You overreact. You shoot. You kill an innocent.
That is what happened last weekend when Aaron Dean, a young, white, Fort Worth, Texas officer, killed Atatiana Jefferson, a young black woman. Dean was called to her home to investigate an open door early in the morning. He shot and killed Jefferson when she appeared on the other side of the window with a gun in her hand.
To be sure, Dean violated police policy by failing to identify he was a police officer when he suddenly saw someone — Jefferson — standing on the other side of the window. It is unclear whether in that split second he saw she had a gun. Either way, his violation was deadly.
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The logical consequence of all this will be police won’t get out of their cars, what some call the “Ferguson effect.” Like you, almost all of them just want to do their jobs and go back to their families.
But if in doing their dangerous job they risk going to jail for murder when screwing up, good luck recruiting cops. Don’t complain when they stay in their cars. There’s way too much downside to do otherwise.
And as a result, we will all be less safe.
Why should we punish a cop for killing somebody? That doesn’t make any sense. Accidents happen.
Just think of the anarchic horror of a world in which a cop might be obliged to think through the consequences of what he does. What a nightmarish proposition.
The same use of force standards should apply to any civillian, badged or not.
^This. The difference ought to be that a police officer has legal authority to make an arrest, subject to subsequent legal challenge. A police officer should be a civilian who’s getting paid by other civilians to walk around and keep an eye on their shit while they’re at work.
This. Cops ARE civilians.
You can stop right there. Everything else is irrelevant.
Yup. That’s a sub minimum standard. He didn’t identify and quite frankly deserved to be blown away.
So is the new standard that whenever a cop — even just mistakenly — shoots a citizen while doing his job, it’s murder?
No that’s not the “new” standard. the standard is that when you shoot someone innocent — even just mistakenly — It’s murder.
If so, then let’s be very clear what the natural consequence will be: cops will be less likely to do their jobs.
Since cops think going around murdering people because their so yella their mommas would be ashamed is their job, then i’m fine with that.
And as a result, we will all be less safe.
Apart from black people sitting in their own homes. They might be safer.
Like you, almost all of them just want to do their jobs and go back to their families.
Then don’t go around murdering people. I don’t get the “I just want to go home to my family, therefore i should be able to murder people indiscriminately”
Really, would you want to be a cop?
No, because i have actual life prospects.
Good lord, now that’s a bad take.
“The logical consequence of all this will be police won’t get out of their cars, what some call the “Ferguson effect.” Like you, almost all of them just want to do their jobs and go back to their families.”
Since cops and their supporters love the military so much lets try this out:
The logical consequence of all this will be
policesoldiers won’t get out of theircarshumvees and go on patriol,……..” Like you, almost all of them just want to do their jobs and go back to their families.Any such soldier would be labelled a coward, court-marshaled and ushered out of the military. Yet our hero’s in blue are perfectly justified in dereliction of their duty. Curious, that.
I would also note that Soldiers are supposed to follow strict ROE, or be detained and prosecuted for their crimes.
‘Supposed’ being a key word…..every once in a while they need to make and example of someone and railroad some dude who wasn’t going to let himself get shot before he started shooting…..
And then other times the military will quietly hide and protect an outright war criminal.
If police can’t get away with murder they’ll be less likely to do their jobs? Sounds like an HR problem. Maybe don’t hire murderers.
“But if in doing their dangerous job they risk going to jail for murder when screwing up, good luck recruiting cops.”
I’ll take this option. Thanks!
I wonder what song he would be singing if she had mistakenly shot him instead. I wonder….
“This is why we need Gun Control”
Adrenaline running. You hear something. You overreact. You shoot. You kill an innocent.
Didn’t announce yourself. Didn’t knock. Fired through a window at a (probably) startled resident. At the very least it is manslaughter.
Sure seems like an admission of incompetence.
I am very impressed that throughout all this guy’s “honest mistake,” he could aim well enough to take her out with one shot. That’s pretty fine shootin’, there, Tex.
We will hound the wicked unto the very gates of Hell
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a measure Wednesday that would allow the state to pursue charges against people who have received a presidential pardon — a law seen as a direct shot at President Donald Trump.
Multiple ex-Trump aides or associates are imprisoned or facing legal scrutiny in New York.
The president, whose business and campaign are both headquartered in New York, also is facing numerous federal, state and congressional investigations related to his administration, campaign and business dealings.
The newly signed law creates a narrow exception in the state’s double jeopardy law, which prohibits the prosecution of a person who’s been tried for the same crime by the federal government. The change takes effect immediately.
“No one is above the law and New York will not turn a blind eye to criminality, no matter who seeks to protect them,” Cuomo said in a statement. “The closure of this egregious loophole gives prosecutors the ability to stand up against any abuse of power, and helps ensure that no politically motivated, self-serving action is sanctioned under law.”
No one will escape our vengeance.
Let me guess, their first target is Marc Rich.
They will have one very expensive case dragged all the way to SCOTUS, and the law will be struck down.
SCOTUS says double jeopardy is legit, as long as it’s different governments. Also I don’t see how the President should dictate state law enforcement.
Perfect opportunity to fix that mistake.
Not sure they will seeing as they made that mistake last year.
It takes a while for the appeals process. By the time it gets there, Ginsberg will have checked out.
Double jeopardy does not distinguish the State and Federal government in 5A. This will (or should…*) be struck down.
*We all know how 2A is treated despite the same lack of distinction.
No man escapes the Manhunters!
I’m surprised some woke “comic writer” hasn’t pulled an “I am not man” with some woman character.
Perhaps they don’t know enough lore to remember the Manhunters exist.
I think there’s a typo…
“helps ensure that
nopolitically motivated, self-serving action is sanctioned under law.”FIFY
354-60 vote to condemn Trump for Syria. This is exactly why you have forever wars and why I won’t vote R unless it’s someone special like Rand or Massie.
Fucking declare a war, fuckfaces.
That’d mean they bear some of the responsibility for the consequences so it’ll never ever happen.
Trump should request a declaration of war, including a draft of college students, to prosecute this war they seem to want
I hope one of those 60 no votes submit exactly that.
A war in Syria is slightly less popular than Congress, itself, and they all know it
Give them time. “If we hadn’t gone in full force, oh, you just wouldn’t believe what would’ve happened. You’re just lucky we didn’t listen to you at the time. We’re talking mushroom clouds and sharia law in Topeka. Probably at the same time.”
Fun fact – throwing water on a wax fire is an excellent way to create a mushroom cloud.
Luckily neither I nor the ceiling were ignited in the incident.
Disgusting ain’t it?
It’s disgusting that I found more in common with a sleazy real estate mogul than I do with supposed defenders of liberty.
This
^^This
プラス 1。
Once again bi-partisanship proves to only be possible when they are blatantly rubbing shit on the face of lady liberty.
Stupid + Evil = Bipartisan
Amash’s only principle is “orange man bad” apparently
Funny how he wasn’t so vocal in his criticism until the tariffs (which I mostly disagree with) started messing with his tool business.
Nah. Nothing conspiratorial about defaulting to fashion.
He fucking voted Present. What a bitch.
Voting records for those interested: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/116-2019/h560
My entire delegation voted yea, so Now i know i won’t be voting for my rep. Also thinking about how to unseat him.
Pull out the chair as he’s starting ti sit down?
Virginia always votes for more war. Always. It’s good for business.
I’m beginning to like Jim Jordan more and more.
I wonder if he explained that vote.
https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/1184571119115866113?s=19
jon walz ?
@walztv
A house vote is a yes or a no. If that’s not good enough he should resign and go write policy papers for the koch network
It’s telling who Amash is actually impressing at this point that most of the comments are pissed that he didn’t vote “yes”.
The Kochs ruin everything they touch
What a douche.
I’ll give you a hint: it begins with “muh” and ends with “Kurds”. It’s an embarrassing rationale.
I got into it with my mom over the weekend. For someone who said they want to bring the troops home, she sure doesn’t want to bring *those* troops home. It was rather fun getting her to say that. And then the mumbling over a declaration of war. At one point I asked if she could point to any troops to bring home.
I get into it with my dad who loves him some Trump even when he does bullshit like bombing Syria or continuing the conflict in Yemen. So, because Trump brought troops out of Syria it’s good, but if Trump wants to continue the war in Yemen that’s also good.
This is the same guy who vehemently opposed the Iraq War from the get go (back when it was extremely popular). I just don’t fucking understand how people can be so partisan.
I am not partisan. I don’t care who is president. I do care what policies we have.
I don’t give a fuck who does it. I would be happy if that shitweasel Obama had brought them home. He campaigned on it but just like everything else that came out of his mouth it was a lie.
I am with Trump on this one. I would Bring them all home from all of those conflicts. The endless war has made a lot of swamp denizens rich on tax payer money but the country as a whole has gotten dick out of it and no one can ever tell me what we should expect to get, how to get it and when to get it.
Let the Russians piss their money and lives away if they want. We need out now.
I kind of understand the concern that the US looks bad if they renege on their word, but here are my questions about the whole Kurd thing:
– What was explicitly promised/guaranteed to them?
– Who was making that promise/guarantee? Was it someone who had no control over that decision and said it without approval?
“Muh…Kurds” is only the fourth rationale that has been given for our continued involvement in Syria. Surely, they are telling the truth this time.
Oh, and the Kurds already made a deal with Assad and Russia to be in between the Turks and themselves. This is a deal that they wanted to make years ago, but the US pressured them not to. Because this has nothing to do with the Kurds and everything to do with regime change.
Stunning and brave.
“The House has made their resolution, now let us see them enforce it”
https://twitter.com/_celia_bedelia_/status/1184541417680572424?s=19
She seems nice.
Seems inconsistent.
“Just an FYI – logic doesn’t apply in my world so things can mean whatever I happen to want them to mean!”
Maybe you should take a page from the Dad playbook then and not give a fucking damn.
I hate everyone in that link – both her and the people replying to her, who seem to be all leftists (note the one saying “MEN CAN BE MOMS TOO”)
The left: we eat our own!
I’d wager she’s used a blocklist to filter out any diversity of opinion.
Somebody lost their custody hearing
Husband’s Lawyer: Your honor, Ms. Celia is clearly an alcoholic and…
Celia: *stands up* Aye, you…yeah, you…who you calling *hiccup*..who you calling *hiccup*…who you..
Celia’s Lawyer: *grabs client* Jesus Christ, sit down.
Judge: Um..is your client drunk right now at this hearing?
Celia: *stands up* So I had a drink or two…maybe…is that a *hiccup* crime?
Celia’s Lawyer: Your honor…umm…yes?
Celia: This whole *hiccup*…this whole…*hiccup*…court is sebest *hiccup*. Yeah, I says it
Judge: I think this hearing is over.
“Whine mom?”
WTF? Why would you link to that? Don’t you have something more culturally uplifting, like a gif of some filthy hobo shitting all over a bus stop?
https://youtu.be/VJCEzdFFIjk
This should cheer you up
Hate speech is not free speech
Boston is the latest pension plan to pull its assets from Camas, Washington-based Fisher.
The state of Michigan is withdrawing $600 million of its pension fund from the firm, as well as Philadelphia’s board of pensions, which yanked $54 million.
Fidelity Investments said on Tuesday that it was reviewing a $500 million relationship with the firm.
“We are very concerned about the highly inappropriate comments by Kenneth Fisher,” said Fidelity spokesman Vincent Loporchio. “The views he expressed do not align in any way with our company’s values.”
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CNBC obtained an audio recording last week of Fisher’s comments at the Tiburon CEO Summit, as well as audio of him speaking at a previous conference.
Clips from both were featured on CNBC Power Lunch last Friday. Combined, they show that the money manager made flippant remarks about sex.
In the audio obtained by CNBC, Fisher says at the Tiburon conference: “Money, sex, those are the two most private things for most people,” so when trying to win new clients you need to be careful.
He says: “It’s like going up to a girl in a bar … [inaudible] …going up to a woman in a bar and saying, hey, I want to talk about what’s in your pants.”
Hangin’s too good for him.
Saying sexual harassment is bad means you’re evil now?
Yeah, that’s what I am thinking too. It sounds like he is saying that inappropriate behavior doesn’t win you clients.
Also thinking the pension plan managers job is to see to it that the pension funds make money so pensions can be paid. PC aint got nothing to do with it and they even got that wrong.
I wonder why so many public pension plans are broke.
We should be walking up to girls in bars and wanting to talk about what’s in our pants. It’s how I let them know my preferred pronouns.
Even trying to think like one of … them … I can’t figure out why this is problematic.
Trying to think like one of them? That might be the problem – doesn’t seem like thinking plays much of a role for these people.
“He has money. We don’t.” Start there.
In the audio obtained by CNBC, Fisher says at the Tiburon conference: “Money, sex, those are the two most private things for most people,” so when trying to win new clients you need to be careful.
He says: “It’s like going up to a girl in a bar … [inaudible] …going up to a woman in a bar and saying, hey, I want to talk about what’s in your pants.”
What is objectionable here? He’s clearly saying that when you are doing a sale you have to be smooth, not direct. Just like at the bar you wouldn’t go up to a woman and say, “Let’s have Sex”. I think i’m a bit of a prude, and i don’t think this is objectionable.
Something something, you said “Jehovah”.
I don’t see the controversy.
You’re not woke, obviously.
But yes, this is stupid.
I think they’re sticking to the woke “offensive” stuff. I’d like to see the whole thing, but it sounded like before this became focused on the comments above, that he was a dipshit for his public comments (even if they were supposed to be “private”), that the fellow attendees had no problem with breaking their own word, that everyone dropping him now is doing so because of the backlash not the actual content, and the funds management/public pensions managers are scum.
That makes sense. Even in woke corporate American, those statements alone wouldn’t do it.
I thought he was giving advice on how to land a client, basically, don’t rush it, people think their money is private, and using sex as an analogy to make his point.
For this, he is in personed. And by organizations I thought knew better.
I actually have Fidelity accounts. If they pull out, I will close them.
This should cheer you up
Not clickin
It’s good, I promise
Extinction Rebellion protesters caused delays on England’s tube this morning. here’s vid of commuters having enough of their shit, pulling them down, and kicking their asses:
https://twitter.com/mahatir_pasha/status/1184713704673366016
Shouldn’t they be encouraging people to take public transportation? I mean, it’s idiotic, but on some level if I dumb myself down enough I can understand disrupting car travel from their point of view. But public train transport?
I can’t seem to get into the headspace of people who think pissing other people off with advance their cause with the people they pissed off.
Their purpose is to disrupt and agitate until society is dysfunctional.
Any injuries?
No?
Misdemeandor battery or mutual combat – give them a fine and send them on their way.
Nah. It’s hilarious.
It is the Police’s job to do that.
Where is this guy from? LA county?
if the cops and/or tube security did their jobs and gave the protesters a proper tune up, then the mob wouldn’t have to act. i see these leftist protesters asking Antefa for “security” next time.
It is the Police’s job to do that.
I assume he means the “kicking and punching protesters” part.
Impressive. Maybe the English have some shriveled remnant of balls after all.
Another billionaire tech know-it-all who just wants to save us from ourselves
Salesforce (CRM) CEO Marc Benioff hasn’t been sparing with his criticism of Facebook. But in an interview with CNN’s Poppy Harlow Wednesday he went one significant step further and added his name to the list of those who support breaking up the social media giant.
“It’s addictive, it’s not good for you, they’re after your kids, they’re running political ads that aren’t true … and they’re also acquiring other companies and co-mingling [data those companies have on their users] into theirs,” Benioff said, referencing Facebook (FB)’s acquisitions of Instagram, WhatsApp and other tech platforms. “And I think at that point, because they’re now doing that, that they probably should be broken up. Because they’re having an undue influence as the largest social media platform on the planet,” he said.
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Benioff is on a media tour for his new book “Trailblazer,” published Tuesday, which centers on what he says is the need for today’s CEOs to consider returns not just for shareholders, but for all stakeholders in their companies, including customers and employees.
That’s nice. Maybe you and that nattering jackass from Dick’s Sporting Goods should run for the White House.
Salesforce sucks. That is all.
Dipshit will be expressing surprise when it’s his turn against the wall.
SO what is everyone drinking?
https://www.vivino.com/pivnitele-birauas-pinot-noir/w/2394787?year=2012
Decent for a Romanian Pinot Noir . Smells a bit more interesting than it tastes
Ok wine mom
*Cheers*
A couple of weeks ago i realized it had been since February since I had a day with 0 alcohol. In the last two weeks I had one a week, this week I had two. Next week I am aiming for 3.
If I could make it a habit of 3 no alcohol days it would be good.
Biggest Revolver Yet? A 10-Gauge Colt 1855..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YziAAEG5sf8
overcompensating much?
For poor aim, probably.
looks like a Colt Dragoon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Dragoon_Revolver
which i only know about from having read Blood Meridian
whenever a big gun is featured on the channel there are people in the comments talking about a big iron. I blame video games and kids these days.
One of the reasons tech platforms are able to publish such content without consequences is the law typically shorthanded as Section 230, which allows internet platform providers to moderate some content without fear of being held liable for most of what users do on their platforms.
Benioff called Section 230 “the most dangerous law on the books right now,” and said it should be “abolished.”
“On these platforms, it’s well documented what’s happening,” he said. “And this cannot continue. It is deeply affecting our society.”
Shorter Benioff: “People who say things I disagree with should be muzzled.”
“The First Amendment needs to go too” he later remarked.
Isn’t he saying nobody should be muzzled?
I’m a collections attorney (two strikes right out of the gate!) and I’m starting to get fairly annoyed with articles like this:
https://features.propublica.org/medical-debt/when-medical-debt-collectors-decide-who-gets-arrested-coffeyville-kansas/
1- I get that some collections attorneys can be super aggressive, but if you don’t like it, change the law.
2- I feel nothing but empathy for those who face a mountain of bills. That’s what bankruptcy is for But if its to the point that you’re being arraigned on a contempt charge for a failure to appear, you’re ignoring the problem and not trying to make it better. As a judge once taught me, it is contempt of the court, not contempt of the Plaintiff. He then issued a warrant despite my not wanting one.
3- Bonus quote: “Since the Affordable Care Act of 2010, prices for medical services have ballooned…” Wait, I thought Obama fixed healthcare!?
Am I allowed to declare bankruptsy when I have more assets than debts and no missed payments on anything?
Under the bankruptcy reforms in the early 2000s, you have to first go through the “means test” (https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/finance/bankruptcy-means-test/) which determines whether you can file a chapter 7 (no asset, liquidation) or chapter 13 (payment plan). Your state set exemption limits on your assets, such as your homestead, vehicles, etc. that determine what goes into the bankruptcy estate. If you have too many assets, those will go into the bankruptcy estate and are used by the trustee to pay off any creditors. So, I think yes, you could, but if you have many or any assets over the exemption limit, it will not go well.
Huh, Thanks. I would have thought you’d be laughed out of court and sent away.
What happens is, the court sets a payment plan for full payment of debts, and now you have what amounts to a federal court order requiring you to pay your debts.
I don’t get the beef with attorneys. The complaining seems to come from people with no significant interests to protect and no professional capacity themselves.
Two things that haven’t changed in the past half century:
a/ you can’t keep your doctor, and you never could
2/ health costs will go up; you can’t stop it, and you never could
The lawyers are the face of the problem. In many cases, it’s not their fault the person is in the situation, but they’re the people associated with the stress.
I prefer the term semi-literate, thank you very much.
I don’t think the profession has done itself many favors over the years. I think many people think its the fast lane to being rich and respected, but the reality is quite different. However as my friend from law school put it: “Law school only teaches you to a.) be a douche; and b.) make numbered lists.”
Dangit, that was supposed to be under Pie.
I am speaking solely of Romania though.
I know a lawyer who failed the bar 6 time (first time he got 2.46 out of 10) until he manage to bribe and cheat his way in. Boy’s a moron. But connected by family…
Oh that happens all the time here, even when you’re just marginally connected.
My parents were friends with another couple for years. My dad also had a very good friend who was a judge.
A son of this couple-friend wanted to go to law school, but he couldn’t even get into our 62nd-tier law school at UMKC. The couple-friend asked my dad to help if he had any contacts. Dad called upon his friend the judge (verrrrry reluctantly) and got him in.
That somehow ruined the friendship with the judge, but I don’t quite remember how.
Was making that a lettered list instead of numbered done deliberately?
It was actually one part of a much longer list. So those are subparts.
JATNAS confirmed
Yeah, I have numbered lists inside of sentences. ‘Tis true.
Also, can confirm correlation of law school and assholes.
I don’t think I’ve met a more concentrated group of assholes as compared to law school. There were nice people and smart people, but they were diamonds in the rough. It doesn’t appear much better in practice.
Don’t have to be a lawyer to speak in bullet points. Just a mite OCD.
Triggered!
You reached to the bottom of the barrel for that pun.
Fair, I should renew my stocks.
There weren’t that many fish in it.
my beef is many are semi illiterate morons who make a lot of money off a corrupt system. I don’t know about the US though.
Not sure about the semi illiterate morons, but we have our share of self dealing sociopaths. See: Michael Avenatti.
This really can’t be emphasized enough. The Democrats were so insistent that this thing was going to fix healthcare forever and “bring us up to par with every other nation”. They said they had all the right incentives in place for individuals, employers, insurers, and healthcare providers; we were told it was going to work just like a Swiss watch.
But that’s the story of every law designed to “fix” American healthcare – it’s always the once-and-for-all solution that will make healthcare affordable for every single person. And it fails, of course, and a few years later we’ll be hearing about the next wonderful utopian solution that will make healthcare free and easy for everyone.
I just found out we pay $900/month through my husband’s work for health insurance. Talk about sticker shock. Yet, we can’t do without it.
I saw somewhere Walmart’s getting i to the healthcare game? I have advocated for that for at least 10 years. Walmart General Hospitals and Clinics.
Getting close: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2019/09/13/walmarts-first-healthcare-services-super-center-opens/#16b9021179d2
“The Repubelicans ruined it.”
“Like that was ever allowed to work.” <- Actual quote from a leftist acquaintance when I mentioned the failure of the PPACA to live up to it's name.
well it was designed to fail from the start. That way they could say “Look we tried the free market with the ACA and it doesn’t work” and then nationalize it.
And Eliminate private insurances because fuck people who want to pay for beter healthcare. Healthcare is a human right, and the government will make sure you don’t get any more than you need.
That, plus “But Republicans are the bad guys because they refuse to help fix it!”
“But that’s the story of every law designed to “fix”…everything.”
This came up last night with regards to a different market. Markets operate on the immutable laws of nature. Attempting to alter that to ‘fix’ them is a vain attempt that will no more work than turning lead to gold.
Of course that is leaving aside my personal belief that Obumblecare was deliberately designed to fail.
Despite a great economy, people over 50 are getting laid off because their insurance is too expensive through employers. Be nice if we could just go back to people buying their own unregulated health insurance.
This is what my brother has been hammering into me. Our mistake was in waiting too long to get out from under our money pit of a house. I loathe this piece of shit, but we were stuck with repairs we can no longer afford to make (e.g., now needs a new roof), and so it was in no condition to sell. We were stuck.
No, our mistake was buying this piece of shit in the first place.
Were there any warning signs you overlooked? Or did the house blindside you?
We found some things beforehand and the seller fixed them. One was the electrical panel, which had to be completely redone. Otherwise, the “inspection” was a joke.
One month after we moved in, the sliding glass back door just … fell out. It’s December. Freezing. Had to put thick plastic up until we could shell out for a $1500 door and installation.
I can’t remember if I was about to be induced into labor or if I had just had the baby. My husband had just had an ACL reconstruction. Neither of us were in any condition to do anything.
Isn’t he saying nobody should be muzzled?
My interpretation of what he’s saying, from the full article, is “Some people are allowed to ‘hide behind’ Section 230 in order to spread their right wing lies. This must be stopped.”
Ah, didn’t read the article. Thanks.
https://twitter.com/NormOrnstein/status/1183395729584377856
Norman Ornstein
@NormOrnstein
Rand Paul is not just despicable. He is a Russian agent in the form of a senator.
They’re not funding our best. That’s for sure.
Maybe Congress should outlaw Russia and we could nuke them?
Ornstein is Hillary Clinton in drag.
@FreedomFan
Also Gabbard
At least Michael Malice set up a poll to vote on who was worse Norm Ornstein or Rand Paul
The Kochs always, always, always fund the warhawks. The Intercept pointed this out about six years ago. Go through the representatives that receive the most funding from the Koch network. You’re not going to find Rand or Massie on that list.
Take a guess who funds Ornstein and his little cabal of managed market enthusiasts?
Oh i know this one. Hitler?
Donald J. Trump
Verified account
@realDonaldTrump
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Senator Rand Paul just wrote a great book, “The Case Against Socialism” which is now out. Highly recommended – as America was founded on LIBERTY & INDEPENDENCE – not government coercion, domination & control. We were born free, and will stay free, as long as I am your President!
The replies are mostly awful: see some here:
The scope of Kompromat in our government is staggering
Kentucky needs to be looked at with a microscope. How is it that both he and #MoscowMitch come out of there?
The Kentucky/Russia connection is *strong*
There seem to be many Russian agents in high places.
I’m astounded by the idiocy of the people in this country who are convinced that everyone who disagrees with them is a compromised ruissan agent.
I think some of those are sarcasm.
You wish.
Twitter, We Give Voices To Morons
These days who isn’t?
The worst part is trying to find a store that takes Roubles.
What a pity that neighbor didn’t do a better job.
WTF is wrong with people.
One last reply that gaveme a chuckle:
Said Orenstein with the name that sounds like Epstein
I mean using Ornsteins logic, it’s hard to argue against that.
Trump Blamed For Causing Violence In Typically Peaceful Middle East
Perfect
“It’s sad that the usually serene resort destination of Syria has been transformed into a war-torn hellscape under Trump,” said Hillary Clinton. “Under my watch, the Middle East was basically a big golf resort.”
Heh.
Today’s earworm. You’re welcome.
*Your
Can’t tell if serious …
**Yore
*Kant
***Yor
Oh, damn. Totes missed it.
*stretches* *yawns*
Good morning, Glibbies.
****Youre
My apologies
Thanks to DBL Eagle, I had this stupid earworm stuck in my head all last week. So I checked to see if there was a Japanese version of it and… Well, let’s just say they completely changed the lyrics into a love song about their first love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmpOLryIi4M
LOL
I actually like that song. /true confessions
I was completely wrong about that song. It’s great. Lyrics like:
I’ve spent my life exploring
the subtle whoring
that costs too much to be free.
and
I’ve moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo
and showed ’em what I’ve got
I’ve been undressed by kings
and I’ve seen some things
that a woman ain’t supposed to see
I really should’ve listened to the lyrics more closely because that is gold.
I will tell you that that hit teenage me in the feelz. Hey, that life didn’t sound so bad. Did I REALLY want to get married and have kids?
I’m not kidding. That song made me stop and think about what I wanted to do with my life (other than going to BYU, getting married, and having kids or, alternatively, getting a degree in accounting and getting a decent job) which was the first and only time I had ever done so.
I regret to say I did not go find myself when I had no responsibilities.
I never had no responsibilities, but when I had the least, I also had the fewest resources with which to attempt anything. I think I wrote a crappy book while job searching.
No, that one is not for sale.
You never went whorin’ on the Isle of Greece? That is a big regret I don’t have.
Sadly, no.
/totes serious
You can live vicariously through me. It wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.
Though he was popular with the furred pederasts.
TBF, nothing ever really is.
Whorin’ isn’t easy. If the furred pederasts got money, I’ll show them what a woman ain’t supposed to see.
Also, “The Dreams of the Everyday Housewife” by Glen Campbell.
animal welfare will be the death of animals.
https://www.iol.co.za/saturday-star/sas-largest-private-rhino-breeder-john-hume-says-seized-rhino-horns-are-his-property-22221195
Hume’s attorney, Ulrich Roux, said the suspects were arrested “while in possession of 181 rhino horns, which were lawfully purchased from our client. Said arrest pertains to the alleged violation of the terms of the required permits to transport the horns. Our client, when supplying the said suspects (Mr Clive John Melville and Mr Petrus Stephanus Steyn) with the horns set out above, was in possession of the valid selling permit,” issued by the Department of Environmental Affairs.
Roux said the suspects were acting in their capacity as “agents” for the Port Elizabeth buyer, who was in possession of a valid buying permit, possession permit and transport permit.
“In terms of the agreement between our client and (the buyer), our client would receive payment for the said horns upon (the buyer) successfully selling same.
“Our client has accordingly not yet been paid for the said horns and the horns therefore remain his lawful and rightful property,” he said.
Hume, who is sitting on a six-ton stockpile from his 1600 dehorned rhinos, said it costs $5 million a year to safeguard and maintain the animals. He now claims bankruptcy.
Yeah, if you want an animal to go extinct, make sure nobody benefits from keeping them around.
John Hume’s quote from trophy hunting documentary Trophy:
“Give me one animal that’s gone extinct when farmers were breeding it and making money out of it. There’s not one.”
Someone’s beak didnt get wet.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/viral-liberal-hoax-claims-chick-fil-a-backed-a-law-to-execute-gay-people
“Viral liberal hoax claims Chick-fil-A backed a law to execute gay people”
FTA:
“Snopes is the latest fact-checker to do its readers a massive disservice. This time, their dereliction of duty concerns the smearing of Chick-fil-A. The story here is an audacious liberal hoax that accused the delicious fast food chain of supporting anti-gay death penalty laws in Uganda.”
AND
“These false posts literally claimed that Chick-fil-A had financially supported these laws, and, unfortunately, thousands if not millions of people were taken in by this hoax, spreading the fake news widely across social media. And what did our trustworthy fact-checkers at Snopes do? They rated the bogus claim’s truthfulness “mixed.”
Here’s how hard they stretched the truth.
Chick-fil-A’s only connection to any of this is that its owners — not the company — through their separate foundation donate to the National Christian Foundation, the 8th-largest nonprofit in the U.S. That foundation works with Christian charitable groups. And there’s a weak connection between a tiny percentage of the groups NCF works with and anti-LGBT ministers in Uganda. Yet connecting those groups to ministers does not connect them to this legislation. Even Snopes admits “it’s not clear to what extent National Christian Foundation-funded entities were involved in the creation or promotion of a bill to make homosexuality punishable by death.”
So the truthfulness of the progressive claims that Chick-fil-A “funded” these laws is not “mixed.” It’s completely nonexistent.”
Howcome you hate facts?
Snopes says “fact checking Fact Checkers is for Nazis.” All fact checks are final.
the woke set doesn’t eat there anyway.
and Babylon Bee will be along shortly to excoriate Snopes over this.
Thomas Massie
Congress never voted to send troops to Syria, but in five minutes we will be voting on a resolution that disapproves of Trump removing them. We should have never gone to Syria. We should leave Syria. I’m voting no on this resolution.
This guy is principled so he’s clearly not getting Koch cash
He’s also from Kentucky, so clearly a putin stooge, getting all those putin moneys. I Bet he went to Russia on July 4th. Everyone knows a
commiePutin Stooge can’t stand to be in the US on the 4th of July, Proof that he is a russian agent.Bernie’s a Russian agent?
If anybody is, it’s him.
Trump told them to play with sand. How can you be so heartless, Thomas?
Cheap money is bad because it hurts bank profits
Zero or negative interest rates will do “tremendous damage” to the economy in the long run, analysts warn, adding that the addiction to cheap money has become a problem as central banks around the world go on a path of increasingly lower rates.
The trend of zero interest rates is “perverse” and can “poison” the business environment, said Yuwa Hedrick-Wong, a visiting scholar at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
Low interest rates hurt lenders’ profits as they narrow the margin that banks can earn. In a negative interest rate environment, lowering rates deeper into negative territory essentially means that lenders are paying more to the central bank to keep their excess funds overnight.
MSNBC business channel- they’re really on the ball, over there.
How about the fact that it impacts consumer saving rates, albeit indirectly? One would think that the reason artificially low interest rates suck is because it incentivizes people to live on margin.
The fact that interest rates are manipulated by the Fed is oddly minimized, prolly so they can blame Trump (which they do).
“And I think at that point, because they’re now doing that, that they probably should be broken up. Because they’re having an undue influence as the largest social media platform on the planet,” he said.
As a point of reference, Facebook has 22.1% of its market (digital advertising). That’s less than Google’s 37.2%. In contrast, Salesforce has a 19.5% market share, double it’s largest competitor (SAP) and three times the next biggest (Oracle). Benioff might want to be a teensy bit more reticent when he’s talking about the glories of anti-trust action in the tech sector.
Benioff might want to be a teensy bit more reticent when he’s talking about the glories of anti-trust action in the tech sector.
That’s totally different. Benioff provides a valuable, much needed service. Facebook is just like turning teenage girls into crack whores.
He’s an angel for advocating the spending of millions of other people’s dollars on attracting more homeless to San Francisco.