It never occurs to this potato that Musk buying Twitter is no different than Bezos buying WaPo

 

Stelter: "A Lot Of Folks" Saying It Is "Troubling" To Have Elon Musk, The World's Richest Person, Buy Twitter

When this stops happening it's over

 The stock market will be closed for Good Friday.

Mamet: The New York Times isn't a newspaper, it's a rag for The State

 

Mamet declined through a representative to comment for this article; in “Recessional,” he dismisses The New York Times as “a former newspaper” and suggests that The Times and other media insist on works that “express ‘right thinking,’ that is, statism.” 

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Vaccine failure: Gridiron Club dinner on April 2 was a superspreader event among the triple-jabbed elites of Washington

New York City Mayor Eric Adams tested positive for the virus on Sunday after waking up with a raspy voice. Adams attended the Gridiron Dinner in Washington, an annual event that brings together prominent government officials and journalists. At least 80 people who attended the dinner, the first since 2019, have tested positive for Covid including several senior government officials, according to Gridiron Club President Tom DeFrank.

Attorney General Merrick Garland, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Reps. Joaquin Castro and Adam Schiff, and Sen. Susan Collins all tested positive after attending the dinner.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D- Calif., also tested positive for Covid last week but wasn’t experiencing any symptoms and didn’t attend the Gridiron Dinner. Pelosi’s positive result came a day after she stood next to President Joe Biden at a bill-signing ceremony. Biden, who also did not attend the Gridiron Dinner, subsequently tested negative for Covid. 

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In calendar year 2021 in the US 99.85% didn't die of COVID, with mass vaccination, and in calendar year 2020 in the US 99.89% didn't die, with no mass vaccination.

Abortion has left a "million empty spaces" every damn year since 1973 but we're supposed to view the COVID-19 death toll as cruel somehow

 Million empty spaces: Chronicling Covid's cruel American toll...

 

A reckoning is surely coming, and a million dead from COVID-19 is nothing compared to the utter evil cruelty and complacency of Americans in the face of this unspeakable holocaust of over 60 million.

We're as bad as any of the evil perpetrators of communist democide in China or Russia.

LOL, the record used goes back only to 2009

 Producer prices rise 11.2%; Biggest gain on record...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PPIFID

The oldest measure goes back to 1913:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PPIACO .

The percent change from a year ago is really bad, as in 1974 bad, but hardly the "biggest gain on record", as you can plainly see.

 

 

 

Instead, instead, my kingdom for a head

 

The purchasing power of the US dollar is down 9.4% since Joe Biden was elected in November 2020, just sixteen months ago

 

Percent change from a year ago is shown

 

From 38.4 to 34.8 on the index = 9.375%.

From the spring to the summer of 1933 when FDR confiscated gold and devalued the dollar from $20 to $34 (70%), the decline in this index was 5%, and then 14% by 1940.

 

Yeah, you and The Judds

'Why not us?': Latinos stuck at Mexico border as Ukrainians enter USA... 

 

The country is tired of Donald J. Trump

 Ex-President's NC Rally Draws Fewer Than 2,000 People...

"She", you nitwit

 

LOL, he gets a rapid COVID test every morning and it showed he was negative, despite symptoms

 NYC Mayor infected...

Another incompetent FBI sting operation against the vast right wing conspiracy comes a cropper in Michigan

Remember the Hutaree in 2010?

Obama's FBI tried to transform them, a bunch of yahoos living in a trailer park, into some sort of "armed revolt" against the government hot on the heels of protests after passage of Obamacare. 

"Five days away from fundamentally transforming America", lol, meant sending in paid government operatives to fabricate a dangerous political threat to the nation from the right. 

The m/o hasn't changed.

Now the 2020 Wolverine Watchmen Militia conspiracy to kidnap Governor Hitler has unraveled along similar lines, involving FBI infiltration with multiple actors, orchestration, and entrapment, all of which resulted in a lot of "tough talk" from the so-called conspirators, who were high on drugs and alcohol supplied by the FBI, but no planning of a mission, let alone no possession of an independent capacity to carry one out.

Two Defendants Found Not Guilty in Alleged Plot Against Whitmer

Mistrial Declared for Two Others

2 acquitted in alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov... 

 

BLACK EYE FOR DOJ... 

 

Meanwhile in the real world, BLM and Antifa are responsible for $2 billion in riot damage all across the fruited plain in 2020 but the authorities continue to do not one thing about any of them even as BLM leaders have misused funds they raised and lavished it on themselves.

 

Like many so-called January 6th insurrectionists who have been kept locked up for over a year without trial, the two who were acquitted yesterday had been kept locked up for 18 months even though they were ultimately found not guilty. 

The travesty of justice continues in America, at the hands of those entrusted with it.

Abolish the FBI.

LOL, the Drudge help writes "takies" talking about "Thiel" "taking aim"

 Takies aim at Bitcoin's 'enemies' Dimon, Fink...

Republican Senators Collins, Murkowski, and Romney vote to confirm soft-on-sex-crime Judge Jackson to Supreme Court

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There was clearly a rush to push Breyer out and confirm a candidate before Biden becomes any less competent in office than he already is.

AP Obama's coverage is comic:

Jackson will take her seat when Justice Stephen Breyer retires this summer, solidifying the liberal wing of the 6-3 conservative-dominated court. ... Jackson could wait as long as three months to be sworn in, as the court’s  session generally ends in late June or early July. She remains a judge on the federal appeals court in Washington, but she stepped away from cases there when she was nominated in February. 

We won't have Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan to kick around anymore

It's amazing how the new Democrat redistricting law was able to bump off a Republican who has been in Congress since 1986 when beating him fair and square in an election never worked.

That said, Bill Huizenga better represents West Michigan conservatism than Upton ever did, but the redrawn district may mean he'll have a tougher time of it in country club Republican Berrien County.

GOP Rep. Fred Upton to retire :

... redistricting put Upton on a collision course with Huizenga for the newly drawn district.

Remember last fall when a bunch of Nobel economists assured us that gobs more spending by Joe Biden wouldn't have serious inflationary impacts?

 Here's what the ring leader of Tom Nichols' vaunted expert class of economists had to say at the time:

Some, however, have invoked fears of inflation as a reason to not undertake these investments. This view is short-sighted. ... We need safe school buildings and bridges, and affordable child and elder care, whether inflation is 2% or 5%. With the investments being financed by tax increases, the inflationary impacts will be at most negligible ...

The Build Back Better package ... would transform the U.S. economy to be more efficient, equitable, sustainable, and prosperous for the long run, without presenting an inflationary threat.

From Joe Stiglitz' letter last September, here. Robert Shiller of all people signed on to this load of hooey. Carl Schramm unloaded on all this yesterday, here.

Stiglitz wrote that with a straight face when inflation had already soared to 5.3% in July. The orgy of coronavirus spending in 2020-2021 was already stoking the inflation engine, but the experts then simply ignored it, and called for more! more! more!

Now look where we are, even without more.

Government spending in the United States hasn't been financed by tax increases in decades. We wouldn't be $30 trillion in the hole if it were. It's financed by borrowing, and the interest payments on that borrowing progressively accumulate to crowd-out other spending. One day soon interest payments on the debt will become the biggest part of the budget, severely limiting our ability to allocate resources responsibly.

 

 

Redsteeze is supposed to be a writer, but not infrequently posts embarrassments like this

 

"she and them breach public ethics"

US COVID-19 cases and deaths both steeply declined in March 2022

There were about 980 deaths per day in March 2022 from COVID-19 in the United States.

Normal flu deaths per day in an average year are 98.

COVID-19 remains at least ten times more deadly than influenza as Omicron becomes dominant.

There were about 948 deaths per day in 2020, and about 1,310 per day in 2021. 

So far in 2022 deaths per day are 1,726 through March.

Case counts are increasingly unreliable as mass self-testing, which usually goes unreported, becomes more commonplace.

 

Average temperature in 2021 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was the eighth highest on record in 124 years

The trend line after 123 years of data shows average temperature in Grand Rapids, Michigan, rising 0.7 degrees F, or 0.388 degrees C, 65% less than the 1.1 degrees C claimed for the world by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change yesterday.

And the minimal warming in Grand Rapids may in fact be misleading. Five of the data points in those top eight are from the last twenty-five years, during which increasing development around the KGRR measuring station may well be contributing heat island effects.