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Should be a wild four years.

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To try and illustrate what I mean, images from the leaks instantly made me think of that Coke Esports thing.

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"If you think we should do it, let's go. Let's just make sure our messaging is tight here."

"Keep it up! We're unstoppable!"

It's like a marketing/PR's person idea of what a group chat between state officials would be like.
To put it another way, I've played enough video games to know a scripted cutscene when I see one. That's why I had that pegged as bullshit. For one, this is supposed to be a bunch of boomers or near boomer conservatives typing on their phones? No way in hell. They all but paused and stared at the camera waiting for the applause track to stop.

Wait, will a degausser actually kill an RFID chip?
No. Put it in the microwave for a minute or two. Not your microwave, of course, use a truck stop one or something. (Do not actually do this, it won't work and you'll just ruin the card and the microwave.)

JFC. How has Fauci not been put in a deep dark hole yet? Just what dirt does he have on DC's most powerful? Was he the secret puppetmaster pulling Epistien's strings or some shit?
He was "the guy" behind fighting AIDS. (Of course, his solution at the time intentionally caused the pandemic to be 100 times worse but made a SHITLOAD of money for big pharma.) So he probably was contacted, discreetly, by HIV infected or gay elites and thus knows who they are. He's also the bag man for the Pharma industry, being their de-facto unelected leader.

He's untouchable.
 
Honestly, if it means less kids on Tik Tok and doing retarted things for clout then is this really a bad thing?
These little summer jobs and flipping burgers are fine, but it's offloading all the menial grueling slave labor that Mexicans were paid nothing for off to the American youth and reinforced the idea that some jobs just have to be slave labor. The idea that it's okay to have jobs with shit hours, shit pay, no benefits is retarded. I'm not saying teenagers need perfect jobs, but it's creating that expectation that work needs to be grueling and miserable and dehumanizing so some boomer retard can afford a second condo to rent out and that's just how the system has to work. It goes back to the idea that if the system can't guarantee people decent jobs that they can afford to live on, own a home, support a family, what's the point in supporting the system?

It just doesn't sit right with me, there should be a push for workers to be paid what they're owed and worth instead of the continuing exploitation that the US loves because god forbid we talk about class.
 
He was "the guy" behind fighting AIDS. (Of course, his solution at the time intentionally caused the pandemic to be 100 times worse but made a SHITLOAD of money for big pharma.)
I don't know how much Fauci had to do with it, but AZT pretty much killed Ryan White.

With an advance from the movie “The Ryan White Story,” the family moved to Cicero in May 1987. Shortly after, Ryan began taking AZT, a failed cancer drug that was the first anti-HIV medication. And shortly after, he started his journey to becoming a worldwide spokesman for AIDS education.
Was kind of funny once they stopped using AZT as a primary treatment people stopped wasting away within a year or two of using it.

ETA: I think X is under attack or something again. nm, temp glitch i guess
 
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The CEO of NPR had a real real real bad day in front of the Congressional Hearing today.

She pretty much openly lied about...well everything and got caught red handed on it. Really very stupid of her to not think the GoP wouldn't check her Tweets and have them on hand to hang her with.

"Madam CEO have you ever read "The Case for Reparations?"

"Mr Chairman no I have not"

"Hmm how do you explain your tweet on Jan 21 2022 that read you are taking the day off to fully read and appreciate a book called the case for reparations because it's a necessary topic of discussion?"

"....silence"

She is getting roasted alive the dumbass woke cunt. My biggest question is how did the Right lose control to such a group of fucking useless, vapid, mindless cunts? Really some of these "leaders of tomorrow" are so stupid they should be in a group home. This female is running NPR right into the ground and getting paid 200K a year for it.

They took power because the last Republican administration burned uselessly away a 90%+ approval post-9/11 to engage in disastrous neoconservative military adventurism in Iraq and was only capable of engaging in the culture wars from the perspective of a hypocritical evangelical with a stick up their ass. Both of those viewpoints are as out of touch with reality as a crazy man in a dress, just in a different way. McCain might have been able to separate himself from that brand, but not with Palin in tow. Romney read as a slicker, mormon Bush, with a history of vulture capitalism that nobody really admires.

The Democrats are also not used to their cultural opponents coming from a perspective other than christian conservatism, it's why they drown so hard on the transgender issue when it is argued from the perspective of biology. Back when they decided to go after gamers, there were zero mainstream political or media figures prepared to fight back with the gamers because they were all used to nodding along with people like Joe Lieberman and Jack Thompson on the evil video games and none of them got internet culture. Now here comes Trump and he definitely panders to the Christians at times but he can also talk in secular terms on culture war issues and dominates in online spaces.

The Bush administration was real good at burning away the lives of thousands of US soldiers for nothing in a mountain sized bonfire of cash and little else.

Anyway, the lady in the video's delivery reminds me of how Natalie Portman answers questions in her lonely island song. (not the rapping part, but the interview bits)
 
These little summer jobs and flipping burgers are fine, but it's offloading all the menial grueling slave labor that Mexicans were paid nothing for off to the American youth and reinforced the idea that some jobs just have to be slave labor. The idea that it's okay to have jobs with shit hours, shit pay, no benefits is retarded. I'm not saying teenagers need perfect jobs, but it's creating that expectation that work needs to be grueling and miserable and dehumanizing so some boomer retard can afford a second condo to rent out and that's just how the system has to work. It goes back to the idea that if the system can't guarantee people decent jobs that they can afford to live on, own a home, support a family, what's the point in supporting the system?

It just doesn't sit right with me, there should be a push for workers to be paid what they're owed and worth instead of the continuing exploitation that the US loves because god forbid we talk about class.

You will never get beyond that expectation so long as the means of production are separated from the worker. I'm not saying Socialism is "the way" or anything. But that's the society we signed up for. Labor costs are one of the few liability companies CAN control and so they fiddle fuck it down to the penny for maximum gains. Shit, we're so mind broken that working your ass off and being broke is romanticized by the same people who suffer the most from it.
 
He was "the guy" behind fighting AIDS.
Please don't remind me. Good people died because of how he handled the AIDS crisis, enough so that not a lot of people remember his hand in it. During COVID, when I was trying to warn my friends about Fauci, one told me I needed to check my "internalized homophobia". I nearly punched him in is smug face right then and there. I'm going to shut up now before I get any more MATI.
 
I swear to god almighty, if Trump bails out the VCs Wall St., I'm gonna put my foot through the wall. IRL.

We bring up all of this because it's almost time for the Fed's next hedge fund bailout.

Bloomberg reports that a panel of financial experts advised the Fed to set up an emergency program that would close out highly leveraged hedge-fund trades "in the event of a crisis in the $29 trillion US Treasuries market."

According to the experts, a vicious unwinding of the roughly $1 trillion in hedge fund arbitrage bets would not only hamper the Treasuries market, but others as well, "requiring Fed intervention to assure financial stability." When the US central bank did that in March 2020, during the initial Covid crisis, it engaged in massive outright purchases of Treasury securities, to the tune of about $1.6 trillion over several weeks.

So, the thinking goes, since the Fed is powerless to regulate several multibillionaire hedge fund managers and rein them in, the next obvious action is to prepare trillions in taxpayer funds for another massive bailout enema, and leave them on the hook for trillions in capital just so the billionaires can keep on billionaireing.

For those asking who is behind these basis trades, we share our updated chart of hedge fund leverage among the 6 largest multi-strat funds, all of whom are known to aggressively participate in basis trades. As seen below, the regulatory capital of just the "Big 6" multistrats - Millennium, Citadel, Balyasny, Poin72, ExodusPoint and Lighthouse - is a record $1.5 trillion, an increase of $300 billion from the previous year.

What is far more scary is that the average regulatory leverage, or the ratio of regulatory assets (i.e., levered exposure) to assets under management (or actual, tangible capital), has increased to a record 7.8x from 6.3x a year ago!
 
Florida Considers Easing Child Labor Laws To Make Up For Fewer Illegal Workers

I will never take any conservatives serious when It comes to immigration because republican states constantly use Mexicans/Central americans to subsidize their labor. I think Florida and the southeast are the only one strict on worker verification. Texas/Michigan/Ohio/PA are free reign. I worked as a traveler Electrician in Texas from CA and I thought I was in Mexico again
 
These little summer jobs and flipping burgers are fine, but it's offloading all the menial grueling slave labor that Mexicans were paid nothing for off to the American youth and reinforced the idea that some jobs just have to be slave labor. The idea that it's okay to have jobs with shit hours, shit pay, no benefits is retarded. I'm not saying teenagers need perfect jobs, but it's creating that expectation that work needs to be grueling and miserable and dehumanizing so some boomer retard can afford a second condo to rent out and that's just how the system has to work. It goes back to the idea that if the system can't guarantee people decent jobs that they can afford to live on, own a home, support a family, what's the point in supporting the system?

It just doesn't sit right with me, there should be a push for workers to be paid what they're owed and worth instead of the continuing exploitation that the US loves because god forbid we talk about class.
The weird way you format your text bugs the shit out of me. I don't know if you're making the font smaller or using a slightly different font, but it's triggering my autism.
 
I will never take any conservatives serious when It comes to immigration because republican states constantly use Mexicans/Central americans to subsidize their labor. I think Florida and the southeast are the only one strict on worker verification. Texas/Michigan/Ohio/PA are free reign. I worked as a traveler Electrician in Texas from CA and I thought I was in Mexico again
There are whole swaths of Texas that are literally just Mexico. You go onto a dating app and 70% of the profiles are in Spanish. It's insanity.
 
Trump lost his appeal in DC for the Judge Boasberg case vs Gangersters

Judge Boasberg issued a order that all deported people must be returned and each and everyone be given a separate chance to appeal their deportation as Trump doesn't have the power to just do mass deportations.

Of course the DC court of appeals found no grounds and that Boasberg is 100% in the right here (shock and surprise!!) so off it goes to the SCOTUS for a final ruling.,

Will Roberts and ACB cuck? Probably. I bet they will find and excuse to rule in the gangsters favor on some obscure legal grounds. Roberts would see America filled to the brim with criminals and drug dealers then have the power of the judiciary diminished in any way.

Imagine ruling that you have to re-import illegal aliens back into your country then give then room and board until you have processed them "properly" and gotten the courts permission to deport them again.

Fuck these Dem judges, fuck them with a rusty stick.
 
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