Poor Hunter Biden, he went from a $142k Porsche from Kazakhstan in April 2014 to borrowing dough from Joe for a Ford Raptor in January 2019 lol

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Four gold bars in possession of Senator Bob Menendez traced to 2013 armed robbery of Fred Daibes, who is accused of bribing Menendez

  That's on top of the cash in Menendez' possession which has also been traced to Daibes, but which the senator says he took out of the bank:

Menendez has denied taking payoffs from Daibes even though prosecutors allege testing shows Daibes’ fingerprints and DNA are on some of the tens of thousands of dollars in cash found in Menendez’s home.

“For 30 years, I have withdrawn thousands in cash from my personal savings account, which I have kept for emergencies and because of the history of my family facing confiscation in Cuba,” Menendez said.

Looks like they'll finally get this guy.

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Dems trot out loser 2016 Hillary advisor to assert Newsom won vs. DeSantis

 Fabulous!

Newsom-DeSantis Debate Was a Pyrrhic Victory for Dems

Kaivan Shroff, The Hill

 

83 million still on Medicaid

 Down from 94 million but up from 65 million before the pandemic.

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They don't call it lala land for nothing

 

Newsom Trounced Desantis on His Own Turf

Sacramento Bee

White nationalists say they are against foreign and military aid to Israel, which has averaged about $3.8 billion annually since 1950

 According to Richard Spencer and Nick Fuentes, who agree that Trump broke their hymen, being anti-Israel just means you are educated. Being pro-Israel means you are a moron.

How Much Aid Does the U.S. Give to Israel?

The cucks have spoken.

 

 

For the tax write-off you idiots

 Why would Elon Musk want to deliberately destroy X?

 Arwa Mahdawi

 

Musk can extract the $44 billion price tag for tax loss purposes and relaunch the thing as the everything platform he keeps talking about. 

This reminds me of the incredulity of Wall Street over Powell's relentless increases to the Federal Funds Rate. He telegraphed it repeatedly months in advance and then raised rates incrementally and said he would keep doing so, but they would not believe, and still do not.

 

Meanwhile Bidenomics gave us 0% inflation again in October 2023

 

In obscure economic news, the death economy really boomed in 2021 for some reason

 

Hey, speaking of dumb Democrats

 Jussie Smollett headed back to jail after conviction upheld by appeals court...

 

 

Christmas means it's time for someone to find more evidence of Chicom slave labor in a garment

 Reported here.

Florida has been the left's target since the pandemic began because it was an early adopter of lockdown skepticism under DeSantis

Newsom is just full of it, as usual. 

California Governor Gavin Newsom, dumbest Democrat politician alive, walks into French Laundry door . . . again

Newsom: “You were a lockdown Governor… you locked down your beaches bars and restaurants… that’s just a fact. He’s running away from his record.”

DeSantis: “He’s imposed restrictions on his own people while exempting himself from those restrictions and going to the French Laundry while his people were suffering.”

 

 

 

Core pce inflation, which excludes food and energy measures, is still high at 3.5% year over year in October 2023, down 0.2 points from September or 5.4%

 Price increases at 3.5% instead of 3.7% year over year. This level remains outside of most people's experience since the late 1990s.

The broad measure fell to 3.0% from 3.4%. The energy goods and services component yoy has been negative, that is deflationary, for eight months in a row. The food component was up 2.0% year over year in October but is now in its tenth month of declines out of twelve on a year over year measure monthly.

Declining energy input costs have been the story behind declining inflation measures overall, primarily natural gas which is twice as important to the U.S. economy as gasoline on a BTU basis.

The Biden administration's green energy policy is at war with the reason for the happy circumstance of declining inflation measures it finds itself in, and Biden could be sailing to re-election if he were instead supporting fossil fuel production, which would slay the inflation dragon dead.

Inflation remains very, very profitable for corporations and federal government spendthrifts, at your expense

 

LOLOLOL Drudge headline is "Treasury rout" when savvy bond investors have made 8.23% in the last month

 You can't make this stuff up it's so perfect. They're only a month behind the turn.

 

Treasury rout: Worst stretch for govt bonds since Civil War... 
 

Nikki gets Koch hahahahaha

 Billionaire-backed Koch network endorses Nikki Haley for president

That would be a fabulous way for Trump to waste his second term, just like the first

 

Will a 2nd Trump Presidency Try To Repeal Obamacare?

Jonathan Chait, NY Mag

 

Whatever he wastes it on, waste he will.

The Financial Times lol: Liberal democracy good, conservative democracy bad

 Is The Financial Times' coverage worth a pound sterling?

 

Politico: Northampton County Pennsylvania touchscreen voting machines in 2019 election had reliable paper backups, but not in 2023

The 2019 election was the first time Northampton used the touchscreen voting machines from Election Systems & Software. That year, a programming glitch caused the ES&S machines to significantly undercount the votes for the Democratic candidate in a local judges’ race. Then on Nov. 7 this year, Northampton residents who showed up at their local polling station found that printouts from the same devices didn’t match the votes they had submitted digitally for two down-ballot judges contests. ... “In 2019, when the issues came up with the touchscreens, we were told, ‘Don’t worry about it. The cards are recording the votes,’” Northampton County Republican Committee Chair Glenn Geissinger told POLITICO. “OK, you’re telling me now, in 2023, ‘Don’t worry about what’s printed on the card?’”

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