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Not quite there yet. This guy's great!
https://www.tiktok.com/@sparks8675309/video/7418238798099713311?_r=1&_t=8q1V9pxnNXy
I'm not quite there ... Hope I'm as coherent and active as this gentlemen!!
LMAO!!!
Tough call!!!
Ex-NYC COVID czar details in secret recording how to use media to ‘spin’ monkeypox drug stories
https://nypost.com/2024/09/25/us-news/jay-varma-details-in-secret-recording-how-to-use-the-media-to-spin-stories-about-mpox-drug/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=mail_app
Ex-NYC COVID czar details in secret recording how to use media to ‘spin’ monkeypox drug stories
https://nypost.com/2024/09/25/us-news/jay-varma-details-in-secret-recording-how-to-use-the-media-to-spin-stories-about-mpox-drug/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=mail_app
Species dysphoria: The new gender dysphoria?
By Eric Utter
Since boys that identify and want to girls are put into situations (sports, locker rooms, bathrooms ect) maybe wolf boy should be put out into the wild to run with the wolf packs. Can do that with dinosaurs though!!!
Gender dysphoria is so yesterday!
According to the Daily Mail, a youngster in Britain has been officially allowed to identify as a wolf.
Officials say the secondary-school student is suffering from 'species dysphoria,’ which occurs when someone believes they aren’t truly human and instead belong to a different animal species. Voilà, welcome to the trans-specied community!
As you might well guess, teachers are said to be ‘supporting’ the pupil, who authorities say belongs to a group called ‘furries.’
Oddly enough (O.K., not really), species dysphoria is becoming ever more common -- along with all the other dysphorias — in an age when it seems nearly everyone wants to identify as something they aren’t and can never be. (I myself sometimes identify as a 6’ 4” 27-year-old Chippendale dancer named Lance.)
We are told that increasing numbers of schoolchildren are taking on the personalities and identities of creatures from cats and dogs to birds and snakes. Apparently, a few even claim to be dragons or dinosaurs.
Well, that should make for interesting classrooms. And locker rooms. What could go wrong? Cats and dogs, mongooses and cobras. Oppressors and the oppressed. Just what we need, more division and chaos in hallways, schools, and society in general.
Dictionaries state that dysphoria is the opposite of euphoria. That’s as may be, but it is certain that it is exacerbated (if not created) by the dismissal of standards, consequences, religion … and objective truth.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/species_dysphoria_the_new_gender_dysphoria.html
Species dysphoria: The new gender dysphoria?
By Eric Utter
Since boys that identify and want to girls are put into situations (sports, locker rooms, bathrooms ect) maybe wolf boy should be put out into the wild to run with the wolf packs. Can do that with dinosaurs though!!!
Gender dysphoria is so yesterday!
According to the Daily Mail, a youngster in Britain has been officially allowed to identify as a wolf.
Officials say the secondary-school student is suffering from 'species dysphoria,’ which occurs when someone believes they aren’t truly human and instead belong to a different animal species. Voilà, welcome to the trans-specied community!
As you might well guess, teachers are said to be ‘supporting’ the pupil, who authorities say belongs to a group called ‘furries.’
Oddly enough (O.K., not really), species dysphoria is becoming ever more common -- along with all the other dysphorias — in an age when it seems nearly everyone wants to identify as something they aren’t and can never be. (I myself sometimes identify as a 6’ 4” 27-year-old Chippendale dancer named Lance.)
We are told that increasing numbers of schoolchildren are taking on the personalities and identities of creatures from cats and dogs to birds and snakes. Apparently, a few even claim to be dragons or dinosaurs.
Well, that should make for interesting classrooms. And locker rooms. What could go wrong? Cats and dogs, mongooses and cobras. Oppressors and the oppressed. Just what we need, more division and chaos in hallways, schools, and society in general.
Dictionaries state that dysphoria is the opposite of euphoria. That’s as may be, but it is certain that it is exacerbated (if not created) by the dismissal of standards, consequences, religion … and objective truth.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/species_dysphoria_the_new_gender_dysphoria.html
Since boys that identify and want to girls are put into situations (sports, locker rooms, bathrooms ect) maybe wolf boy should be put out into the wild to run with the wolf packs. Can do that with dinosaurs though!!!
Some knew from the beginning that that's part of the plan!
Who knew that too many people would create a problem?
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
Some knew from the beginning that that's part of the plan!
Who knew that too many people would create a problem?
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
Some knew from the beginning that that's part of the plan!
Ex-Gov. Cuomo ‘inappropriately influenced’ witness in text message as House probed COVID deaths: memo
https://nypost.com/2024/09/25/us-news/ex-gov-cuomo-inappropriately-influenced-witness-in-text-message-as-house-probed-covid-deaths-memo/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=mail_app
Ex-Gov. Cuomo ‘inappropriately influenced’ witness in text message as House probed COVID deaths: memo
https://nypost.com/2024/09/25/us-news/ex-gov-cuomo-inappropriately-influenced-witness-in-text-message-as-house-probed-covid-deaths-memo/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=mail_app
Trump’s Campaign Gambit: Rewriting the Rule Book
A high-risk, high-reward strategy.
by Mark Angelides | Sep 25, 2024
The 2024 presidential election campaign is shaping up to be anything but normal. Put aside for a moment that the GOP contender is technically a non-incumbent incumbent and that the Democrat hopeful has not won a single primary vote. What yet remains is the most bizarre electoral contest in modern history in which all things that were once held true are now – at best – highly debatable.
While Vice President Kamala Harris is leaving the groundwork to surrogates and only engaging in cozy tête-à-têtes with friendly media outlets, Donald Trump appears to be in the process of remaking what it means to campaign for office. It’s a high-risk gamble that is leaving the GOP cognoscenti with sweaty palms and a sense of spiritual unease.
Outsourcing the Campaign Shoe Leather
Traditionally, campaigns would pay staff or rely on volunteers to pound the pavements and speak to voters in key neighborhoods. A decision earlier this year by the Federal Election Commission, however, changed the way ground games can now be played. In March, the FEC determined that:
“Canvassing literature and scripts are not public communications, and as a result, are not coordinated communications under Commission regulations. Further, the costs to produce and distribute the canvassing literature and scripts are not coordinated expenditures.”
What this means in practice is that outside groups can spend their own time and treasure hitting the sidewalks, freeing up resources for campaigns to spend elsewhere. And that’s precisely what is happening now.
Turning Point USA and the Elon Musk–backed Save America PAC, among others, are running ahead with the “get-out-the-vote” efforts, knocking on doors and making the case for Trump – and the operatives are being very specific with their targeting. The Hill reports that these groups are focusing not on die-hard Trump supporters but rather on “those who may not be locked into supporting a candidate in November … Strategically, the campaign is focused on low- and mid-propensity voters who are known to support the former president.” It’s a bold strategy but one that could pay dividends if, and that’s a risky “if,” one assumes that Trump’s base is holding strong. Essentially, doors will be skipped if it is believed they are already counted on for a vote.
Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary under Trump, said, “They have a plan, the question is, is it going to work? … An effective ground game is worth 2-3 points, and every one of these battlegrounds is within 2-3 points.” His math is both obvious and flawless. This election will be decided by a handful of votes in a handful of states.
However, it’s not only the door-to-door gambit that Trump hopes will get him across the finish line.
A Digital Battlefield
Trump has determined he will talk to anybody at any time about any subject under the sun, whether that’s an in-depth discussion on policy lasting two hours, hosted by Musk on the most significant media platform in the world today, or joining popular podcasters for a chat about mortality and UFOs. The former president is reaching out to audiences that may be averse to partaking of legacy media fare.
As Liberty Nation News recently noted:
“Combined with the growing popularity of long-form podcasts that reach audiences who are skeptical of Big-Box media, it is almost a certainty that Trump’s approach to this election, whether successful or not, will set the model for future presidential contests. American voters may have rewarded Joe Biden with the keys to the White House in 2020 despite his basement-style campaign. But the times they are a-changin’, and the public’s demand for accessibility and spin-free coverage is a wish that the new media nexus of independent outlets and social media ubiquity seems poised to grant.”
Conversely, Kamala Harris is eschewing these new audiences in favor of friendly turf. She appears to be running a campaign best suited to the admittedly successful Obama ’08 juggernaut: somewhat revolutionary at the time. And why wouldn’t she? It worked for Barack Obama twice; she has many of his people intertwined with her own nascent campaign. And when she ran as Biden’s number two in 2020, the whole campaign could have been effectively run from a small studio with occasional special guests.
But 2008 was 16 years ago. The digital world has changed, and it seems Harris and her cohorts have not. It’s the same people, same strategy; they seem to be hoping that a tried-and-tested formula will prove efficient ad infinitum. Team Trump, it appears, is rolling the dice on a new method of campaigning that could shatter the old playbook and usher in the new normal. A keen gambler knows when the odds are in his favor, but it is the long shots that captivate the public’s imagination.
https://www.libertynation.com/trumps-campaign-gambit-rewriting-the-rule-book/
Trump’s Campaign Gambit: Rewriting the Rule Book
A high-risk, high-reward strategy.
by Mark Angelides | Sep 25, 2024
The 2024 presidential election campaign is shaping up to be anything but normal. Put aside for a moment that the GOP contender is technically a non-incumbent incumbent and that the Democrat hopeful has not won a single primary vote. What yet remains is the most bizarre electoral contest in modern history in which all things that were once held true are now – at best – highly debatable.
While Vice President Kamala Harris is leaving the groundwork to surrogates and only engaging in cozy tête-à-têtes with friendly media outlets, Donald Trump appears to be in the process of remaking what it means to campaign for office. It’s a high-risk gamble that is leaving the GOP cognoscenti with sweaty palms and a sense of spiritual unease.
Outsourcing the Campaign Shoe Leather
Traditionally, campaigns would pay staff or rely on volunteers to pound the pavements and speak to voters in key neighborhoods. A decision earlier this year by the Federal Election Commission, however, changed the way ground games can now be played. In March, the FEC determined that:
“Canvassing literature and scripts are not public communications, and as a result, are not coordinated communications under Commission regulations. Further, the costs to produce and distribute the canvassing literature and scripts are not coordinated expenditures.”
What this means in practice is that outside groups can spend their own time and treasure hitting the sidewalks, freeing up resources for campaigns to spend elsewhere. And that’s precisely what is happening now.
Turning Point USA and the Elon Musk–backed Save America PAC, among others, are running ahead with the “get-out-the-vote” efforts, knocking on doors and making the case for Trump – and the operatives are being very specific with their targeting. The Hill reports that these groups are focusing not on die-hard Trump supporters but rather on “those who may not be locked into supporting a candidate in November … Strategically, the campaign is focused on low- and mid-propensity voters who are known to support the former president.” It’s a bold strategy but one that could pay dividends if, and that’s a risky “if,” one assumes that Trump’s base is holding strong. Essentially, doors will be skipped if it is believed they are already counted on for a vote.
Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary under Trump, said, “They have a plan, the question is, is it going to work? … An effective ground game is worth 2-3 points, and every one of these battlegrounds is within 2-3 points.” His math is both obvious and flawless. This election will be decided by a handful of votes in a handful of states.
However, it’s not only the door-to-door gambit that Trump hopes will get him across the finish line.
A Digital Battlefield
Trump has determined he will talk to anybody at any time about any subject under the sun, whether that’s an in-depth discussion on policy lasting two hours, hosted by Musk on the most significant media platform in the world today, or joining popular podcasters for a chat about mortality and UFOs. The former president is reaching out to audiences that may be averse to partaking of legacy media fare.
As Liberty Nation News recently noted:
“Combined with the growing popularity of long-form podcasts that reach audiences who are skeptical of Big-Box media, it is almost a certainty that Trump’s approach to this election, whether successful or not, will set the model for future presidential contests. American voters may have rewarded Joe Biden with the keys to the White House in 2020 despite his basement-style campaign. But the times they are a-changin’, and the public’s demand for accessibility and spin-free coverage is a wish that the new media nexus of independent outlets and social media ubiquity seems poised to grant.”
Conversely, Kamala Harris is eschewing these new audiences in favor of friendly turf. She appears to be running a campaign best suited to the admittedly successful Obama ’08 juggernaut: somewhat revolutionary at the time. And why wouldn’t she? It worked for Barack Obama twice; she has many of his people intertwined with her own nascent campaign. And when she ran as Biden’s number two in 2020, the whole campaign could have been effectively run from a small studio with occasional special guests.
But 2008 was 16 years ago. The digital world has changed, and it seems Harris and her cohorts have not. It’s the same people, same strategy; they seem to be hoping that a tried-and-tested formula will prove efficient ad infinitum. Team Trump, it appears, is rolling the dice on a new method of campaigning that could shatter the old playbook and usher in the new normal. A keen gambler knows when the odds are in his favor, but it is the long shots that captivate the public’s imagination.
https://www.libertynation.com/trumps-campaign-gambit-rewriting-the-rule-book/
Another from the Bee:
10 Most Devastating Effects of Getting Rid of the Department of Education
https://babylonbee.com/news/10-most-devastating-effects-of-getting-rid-of-the-department-of-education?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm
When Donald Trump recently promised that, if elected, he would abolish the Department of Education, Democrats pounced on the statement, foretelling an apocalyptic hellscape of the uneducated should the federal government no longer oversee education in the United States.
Through extensive investigation, The Babylon Bee has compiled the following list of far-reaching and terrifying consequences of abolishing the Department of Education:
Fewer tax dollars taken by the federal government: You may now be forced to take your kids to Disneyland this year.
Children will only learn about two of the seventy-two genders: Unless they live in California, then they can still learn about all seventy-two genders AND how to smoke pot out of a banana peel all before second grade.
Child might be left behind: This has not happened once since it was declared America declared NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND.
Kids will learn how to do math the actual way instead of with those weird number lines: Imagine the world returning to actual mathematics instead of the mysterious, arcane processes of Common Core.
No one to write "this page intentionally left blank" on intentionally left blank pages on standardized tests: States won't be able to handle this level of complicated bureaucratic fenangling.
4,400 unelected government bureaucrats will have to find new jobs as CNN correspondents: Nothing is more terrifying than adding more CNN correspondents.
Kids will never learn how to do anything: Just like how it was before 1979 when the Department of Education was founded.
Decentralizing government power is always a bad idea: In such a dangerous scenario, freedom may ensue.
No one will D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs: Illicit drugs will run rampant through American schools which is totally different from the way things are now.
2+2 will equal 4 again: Back to the horrific, oppressive days of the 1950s we go!
Don't fall for Donald Trump's evil plan to improve the quality of education for America's school children.
From Babylon Bee:
Mark Cuban Inspires Thousands By Proving Even The Very Retarded Can Become Wealthy
https://babylonbee.com/news/mark-cuban-inspires-thousands-by-proving-even-the-very-retarded-can-become-wealthy?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm
DALLAS, TX — Mark Cuban was recently recognized for his monumental contributions to human morale, as the businessman and investor has inspired thousands of people by proving that even the very retarded can become wealthy.
According to several very retarded people, Mark Cuban has been a shining light for their aspirations of one day owning several companies and a failing basketball team despite being handicapped by a severe case of retardedness.
"DUUURRRR! DUHH, DER!" Cuban said to reporters. "DUUUHH DER!"
"In many ways, Mark's success is a win for morons everywhere," said Jimmy Bungo, who was late for his interview after he repeatedly tried to pull open a push door. "I'm personally inspired that someone so idiotic managed to make something of himself in the world. I mean, if he can do it, maybe I can, too! Thanks, Mr. Cuban!"
In addition to receiving the National Stupid Peoples' Association Award for Inspiring The Dumb That They Can Get Rich Good Too, Cuban has been recognized for his other philanthropic efforts, such as giving the NBA a great laughing stock to make fun of all the time.
At publishing time, Cuban had endorsed fellow retarded person Kamala Harris for President.
Mark Cuban Inspires Thousands By Proving Even The Very Retarded Can Become Wealthy
https://babylonbee.com/news/mark-cuban-inspires-thousands-by-proving-even-the-very-retarded-can-become-wealthy?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm
DALLAS, TX — Mark Cuban was recently recognized for his monumental contributions to human morale, as the businessman and investor has inspired thousands of people by proving that even the very retarded can become wealthy.
According to several very retarded people, Mark Cuban has been a shining light for their aspirations of one day owning several companies and a failing basketball team despite being handicapped by a severe case of retardedness.
"DUUURRRR! DUHH, DER!" Cuban said to reporters. "DUUUHH DER!"
"In many ways, Mark's success is a win for morons everywhere," said Jimmy Bungo, who was late for his interview after he repeatedly tried to pull open a push door. "I'm personally inspired that someone so idiotic managed to make something of himself in the world. I mean, if he can do it, maybe I can, too! Thanks, Mr. Cuban!"
In addition to receiving the National Stupid Peoples' Association Award for Inspiring The Dumb That They Can Get Rich Good Too, Cuban has been recognized for his other philanthropic efforts, such as giving the NBA a great laughing stock to make fun of all the time.
At publishing time, Cuban had endorsed fellow retarded person Kamala Harris for President.
Mark Cuban Inspires Thousands By Proving Even The Very Retarded Can Become Wealthy
https://babylonbee.com/news/mark-cuban-inspires-thousands-by-proving-even-the-very-retarded-can-become-wealthy?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm
DALLAS, TX — Mark Cuban was recently recognized for his monumental contributions to human morale, as the businessman and investor has inspired thousands of people by proving that even the very retarded can become wealthy.
According to several very retarded people, Mark Cuban has been a shining light for their aspirations of one day owning several companies and a failing basketball team despite being handicapped by a severe case of retardedness.
"DUUURRRR! DUHH, DER!" Cuban said to reporters. "DUUUHH DER!"
"In many ways, Mark's success is a win for morons everywhere," said Jimmy Bungo, who was late for his interview after he repeatedly tried to pull open a push door. "I'm personally inspired that someone so idiotic managed to make something of himself in the world. I mean, if he can do it, maybe I can, too! Thanks, Mr. Cuban!"
In addition to receiving the National Stupid Peoples' Association Award for Inspiring The Dumb That They Can Get Rich Good Too, Cuban has been recognized for his other philanthropic efforts, such as giving the NBA a great laughing stock to make fun of all the time.
At publishing time, Cuban had endorsed fellow retarded person Kamala Harris for President.
10 Most Devastating Effects of Getting Rid of the Department of Education
https://babylonbee.com/news/10-most-devastating-effects-of-getting-rid-of-the-department-of-education?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm
When Donald Trump recently promised that, if elected, he would abolish the Department of Education, Democrats pounced on the statement, foretelling an apocalyptic hellscape of the uneducated should the federal government no longer oversee education in the United States.
Through extensive investigation, The Babylon Bee has compiled the following list of far-reaching and terrifying consequences of abolishing the Department of Education:
Fewer tax dollars taken by the federal government: You may now be forced to take your kids to Disneyland this year.
Children will only learn about two of the seventy-two genders: Unless they live in California, then they can still learn about all seventy-two genders AND how to smoke pot out of a banana peel all before second grade.
Child might be left behind: This has not happened once since it was declared America declared NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND.
Kids will learn how to do math the actual way instead of with those weird number lines: Imagine the world returning to actual mathematics instead of the mysterious, arcane processes of Common Core.
No one to write "this page intentionally left blank" on intentionally left blank pages on standardized tests: States won't be able to handle this level of complicated bureaucratic fenangling.
4,400 unelected government bureaucrats will have to find new jobs as CNN correspondents: Nothing is more terrifying than adding more CNN correspondents.
Kids will never learn how to do anything: Just like how it was before 1979 when the Department of Education was founded.
Decentralizing government power is always a bad idea: In such a dangerous scenario, freedom may ensue.
No one will D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs: Illicit drugs will run rampant through American schools which is totally different from the way things are now.
2+2 will equal 4 again: Back to the horrific, oppressive days of the 1950s we go!
Don't fall for Donald Trump's evil plan to improve the quality of education for America's school children.
10 Most Devastating Effects of Getting Rid of the Department of Education
https://babylonbee.com/news/10-most-devastating-effects-of-getting-rid-of-the-department-of-education?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm
When Donald Trump recently promised that, if elected, he would abolish the Department of Education, Democrats pounced on the statement, foretelling an apocalyptic hellscape of the uneducated should the federal government no longer oversee education in the United States.
Through extensive investigation, The Babylon Bee has compiled the following list of far-reaching and terrifying consequences of abolishing the Department of Education:
Fewer tax dollars taken by the federal government: You may now be forced to take your kids to Disneyland this year.
Children will only learn about two of the seventy-two genders: Unless they live in California, then they can still learn about all seventy-two genders AND how to smoke pot out of a banana peel all before second grade.
Child might be left behind: This has not happened once since it was declared America declared NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND.
Kids will learn how to do math the actual way instead of with those weird number lines: Imagine the world returning to actual mathematics instead of the mysterious, arcane processes of Common Core.
No one to write "this page intentionally left blank" on intentionally left blank pages on standardized tests: States won't be able to handle this level of complicated bureaucratic fenangling.
4,400 unelected government bureaucrats will have to find new jobs as CNN correspondents: Nothing is more terrifying than adding more CNN correspondents.
Kids will never learn how to do anything: Just like how it was before 1979 when the Department of Education was founded.
Decentralizing government power is always a bad idea: In such a dangerous scenario, freedom may ensue.
No one will D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs: Illicit drugs will run rampant through American schools which is totally different from the way things are now.
2+2 will equal 4 again: Back to the horrific, oppressive days of the 1950s we go!
Don't fall for Donald Trump's evil plan to improve the quality of education for America's school children.
I like to call them the Dregs of Society!!!
Biden-Harris irresponsible legacy: Debt is 100% of GDP, highest since WWII
By Brian Riedl Published Sep. 24, 2024, 7:15 p.m. ET
Besides the illegal votes, there are still brain dead people that will vote for Harris.
The Biden-Harris administration has seen the national debt grow to be the same amount as the GDP — the first time this has happened since WWII.
Under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, federal spending and debt are at the highest levels in US history outside of wars and recessions. Here's how public-held debt has compared to the Gross Domestic Product dating back to 1790. This year debt will hit 100% of GDP, a level seen only once before, at the end of WWII.
NY Post composite
The presidential campaign season is once again turning politicians into pandering game show hosts, promising voters huge tax cuts and spending expansions with no regard to the debt crisis these policies will accelerate.
Budget deficits are set to exceed $2 trillion this year — despite relative peace and prosperity — and then surge to $4 trillion within a decade under current policies.
For the first time since the end of World War II, the federal debt will top 100% of the gross domestic product.
The impending completion of the Biden-Harris administration brings an opportunity to assess their role in these rising deficits.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris surely inherited an economic and fiscal mess. President Trump had already signed legislation and executive orders adding $4 trillion to 10-year deficits before the bipartisan pandemic response added $4 trillion more.
Post-pandemic toll
That said, as Biden-Harris entered office, the pandemic-ravaged economy was finally reopening and Americans were returning to work. Thus, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecast that budget deficits — which had temporarily leaped to $3 trillion — would drop back to the pre-pandemic $1 trillion levels as the pandemic aid expired.
Instead, the administration immediately disregarded the advice of even liberal economists and pushed through his $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.
Because CBO had calculated that the recovering economy was only $420 billion short of its operating capacity, this $1.9 trillion bazooka wildly overshot its economic stimulus purpose.
Consequently, just as economists warned, the excessive stimulus overheated the economy and contributed three more percentage points to an inflation rate that was already rising due to past pandemic stimulus and supply constraints.
Overall, this inflation cost typical families more than $10,000.
Moreover, the American Rescue Plan’s individual expenditures were largely unnecessary. This pent-up Democratic wish list included $350 billion to bail out state budget deficits that did not actually exist, a bloated union pension bailout, and a decade’s worth of additional federal school funding — all sold to the public with added unemployment benefits, taxpayer rebates and child tax credits.
$28.2 TRILLION OWED
The Biden-Harris administration’s spending spree did not stop there. It also signed $1.4 trillion in new spending in omnibus appropriations bills, $620 billion in student loan bailouts, $520 billion for new veterans’ benefits, a $440 billion infrastructure law, a semiconductor bill, and $360 billion in new SNAP and health spending forced through by executive order.
The offsetting savings promised in the Inflation Reduction Act and Fiscal Responsibility Act are unlikely to materialize.
Adding it all up and including the resulting interest costs brings the total to more than $5 trillion in new 10-year costs enacted under President Biden.
And that bloated figure would have been even higher had the Supreme Court not blocked an even larger student loan bailout, and had a Democratic Congress not reached its breaking point and blocked the original “Build Back Better” proposal costing $2.3 trillion.
Nearly all of this spending occurred during the first two years of Biden-Harris administration, before inflation-weary voters staged their own intervention and elected a Republican House in late 2022.
Thus, instead of the pandemic’s conclusion returning budget deficits to $1 trillion as CBO had projected, the Biden-Harris spending pushed the deficit back up to $2.8 trillion in 2021, and approximately $2 trillion this year.
The results are shocking:
• CBO-projected deficit for the cumulative 2021-2031 period has jumped from $14.5 trillion to $21.3 trillion — reflecting an additional $6.8 trillion in deficits.
• Last year’s federal spending level (24% of GDP) and budget deficit (7.5% of GDP) were both the largest in American history outside of wars and recessions.
• The US debt is expected to be $28.2 trillion this year, 100% of the GDP — the highest level since the end of WWII.
• Since 2021, annual interest costs have nearly tripled, from $352 billion to nearly $1 trillion.
• The debt held by public is currently $212,600 per household.
White House gaslighting
Rather than take responsibility for this sea of red ink, the White House gaslit voters by claiming to have reduced budget deficits.
President Biden brags that his $2 trillion budget deficits are $1 trillion below the 2020 pandemic peak of $3 trillion.
Of course, that 2020 figure was a one-time pandemic anomaly that had been preceded by $1 trillion deficits that were expected to return as soon as the economy reopened and pandemic aid expired.
Essentially, the president is treating the previously-scheduled expiration of temporary pandemic spending as his own historic spending cut — and then spending its savings. This gaslighting was rebuked by the fact checkers at the Washington Post with a rare “Bottomless Pinocchio” rating.
Biden’s successor will inherit $2 trillion deficits, soaring interest costs, and Social Security and Medicare’s trust funds approaching insolvency. Truly a dismal fiscal record that leaves Washington closer to a debt crisis.
Brian Riedl is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Follow him on X @Brian_Riedl.
https://nypost.com/2024/09/24/opinion/biden-harris-irresponsible-legacy-debt-is-100-of-gdp-highest-since-wwii/
Biden-Harris irresponsible legacy: Debt is 100% of GDP, highest since WWII
By Brian Riedl Published Sep. 24, 2024, 7:15 p.m. ET
Besides the illegal votes, there are still brain dead people that will vote for Harris.
The Biden-Harris administration has seen the national debt grow to be the same amount as the GDP — the first time this has happened since WWII.
Under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, federal spending and debt are at the highest levels in US history outside of wars and recessions. Here's how public-held debt has compared to the Gross Domestic Product dating back to 1790. This year debt will hit 100% of GDP, a level seen only once before, at the end of WWII.
NY Post composite
The presidential campaign season is once again turning politicians into pandering game show hosts, promising voters huge tax cuts and spending expansions with no regard to the debt crisis these policies will accelerate.
Budget deficits are set to exceed $2 trillion this year — despite relative peace and prosperity — and then surge to $4 trillion within a decade under current policies.
For the first time since the end of World War II, the federal debt will top 100% of the gross domestic product.
The impending completion of the Biden-Harris administration brings an opportunity to assess their role in these rising deficits.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris surely inherited an economic and fiscal mess. President Trump had already signed legislation and executive orders adding $4 trillion to 10-year deficits before the bipartisan pandemic response added $4 trillion more.
Post-pandemic toll
That said, as Biden-Harris entered office, the pandemic-ravaged economy was finally reopening and Americans were returning to work. Thus, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecast that budget deficits — which had temporarily leaped to $3 trillion — would drop back to the pre-pandemic $1 trillion levels as the pandemic aid expired.
Instead, the administration immediately disregarded the advice of even liberal economists and pushed through his $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.
Because CBO had calculated that the recovering economy was only $420 billion short of its operating capacity, this $1.9 trillion bazooka wildly overshot its economic stimulus purpose.
Consequently, just as economists warned, the excessive stimulus overheated the economy and contributed three more percentage points to an inflation rate that was already rising due to past pandemic stimulus and supply constraints.
Overall, this inflation cost typical families more than $10,000.
Moreover, the American Rescue Plan’s individual expenditures were largely unnecessary. This pent-up Democratic wish list included $350 billion to bail out state budget deficits that did not actually exist, a bloated union pension bailout, and a decade’s worth of additional federal school funding — all sold to the public with added unemployment benefits, taxpayer rebates and child tax credits.
$28.2 TRILLION OWED
The Biden-Harris administration’s spending spree did not stop there. It also signed $1.4 trillion in new spending in omnibus appropriations bills, $620 billion in student loan bailouts, $520 billion for new veterans’ benefits, a $440 billion infrastructure law, a semiconductor bill, and $360 billion in new SNAP and health spending forced through by executive order.
The offsetting savings promised in the Inflation Reduction Act and Fiscal Responsibility Act are unlikely to materialize.
Adding it all up and including the resulting interest costs brings the total to more than $5 trillion in new 10-year costs enacted under President Biden.
And that bloated figure would have been even higher had the Supreme Court not blocked an even larger student loan bailout, and had a Democratic Congress not reached its breaking point and blocked the original “Build Back Better” proposal costing $2.3 trillion.
Nearly all of this spending occurred during the first two years of Biden-Harris administration, before inflation-weary voters staged their own intervention and elected a Republican House in late 2022.
Thus, instead of the pandemic’s conclusion returning budget deficits to $1 trillion as CBO had projected, the Biden-Harris spending pushed the deficit back up to $2.8 trillion in 2021, and approximately $2 trillion this year.
The results are shocking:
• CBO-projected deficit for the cumulative 2021-2031 period has jumped from $14.5 trillion to $21.3 trillion — reflecting an additional $6.8 trillion in deficits.
• Last year’s federal spending level (24% of GDP) and budget deficit (7.5% of GDP) were both the largest in American history outside of wars and recessions.
• The US debt is expected to be $28.2 trillion this year, 100% of the GDP — the highest level since the end of WWII.
• Since 2021, annual interest costs have nearly tripled, from $352 billion to nearly $1 trillion.
• The debt held by public is currently $212,600 per household.
White House gaslighting
Rather than take responsibility for this sea of red ink, the White House gaslit voters by claiming to have reduced budget deficits.
President Biden brags that his $2 trillion budget deficits are $1 trillion below the 2020 pandemic peak of $3 trillion.
Of course, that 2020 figure was a one-time pandemic anomaly that had been preceded by $1 trillion deficits that were expected to return as soon as the economy reopened and pandemic aid expired.
Essentially, the president is treating the previously-scheduled expiration of temporary pandemic spending as his own historic spending cut — and then spending its savings. This gaslighting was rebuked by the fact checkers at the Washington Post with a rare “Bottomless Pinocchio” rating.
Biden’s successor will inherit $2 trillion deficits, soaring interest costs, and Social Security and Medicare’s trust funds approaching insolvency. Truly a dismal fiscal record that leaves Washington closer to a debt crisis.
Brian Riedl is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Follow him on X @Brian_Riedl.
https://nypost.com/2024/09/24/opinion/biden-harris-irresponsible-legacy-debt-is-100-of-gdp-highest-since-wwii/
Sounds like the Haitian Gov. is getting nervous about not being able to send their unwanted citizens here!!!
I drive a 2011 Nissan Frontier with no special electronic gadgets. 103000 miles, very little rust and hope it keeps me motoring until they pull the plug on my license.
The wife drives a 2012 Nissan Rogue with the add on GPS, screen and that crap but we never use it. Only has 43000 miles on it and it better outlive the both of us!!!
Years ago ... Today!!!!
😂🤣😂 pic.twitter.com/QyyO604TzJ
— A Man Of Memes (@RickyDoggin) September 24, 2024
That frickin' awesome!!!!
I like the way you think!!
Yep, this is unusual for me.
Seems to work OK from my phone.
Seems to work OK from my phone.
Anyone getting long wait times when moving around IHub and on occasion the 503 error? Looks like the Q&A board hasn't had a post in a while ... Opps, I see K² just get one to go through.
Migrant crime crisis comes to Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, playgrounds for rich and famous
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Migrant crime crisis comes to Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, playgrounds for rich and famous
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An aid for Big Brother?
From Malwarebytes: Ford wants to eavesdrop on passenger conversations to help target ads
Posted: September 13, 2024 by Pieter Arntz
Essentially, the car you’re driving would not only spy on your driving behavior, your present and future locations, and your requested driving routes, but it would also eavesdrop on you. And let’s not forget the safety implications of displaying advertisements while you’re driving.
Car manufacturer Ford Motor Company has filed a patent application for an in-vehicle advertisement presentation system based on information derived from several trip and driver characteristics. Among those characteristics—human conversations.
In the abstract of the patent application publication Ford writes:
“An example method includes determining vehicle information for a trip, the vehicle information including any one or more of a current vehicle location, a vehicle speed, a drive mode, and/or traffic information, the user information including any one or more of a route prediction, a speed prediction for the trip, and/or a destination, determining user preferences for advertisements from any one or more of audio signals within the vehicle and/or historical user data, selecting a number of the advertisements to present to the user during the trip, and providing the advertisements to the user during the trip through a human-machine interface (HMI) of the vehicle.”
Further one it details that “the controller may monitor user dialogue to detect when individuals are in a conversation.”
Based on this info, the controller can decrease or increase the number of advertisements. And “the conversations can be parsed for keywords or phrases that may indicate where the occupants are travelling to.”
Okay.
Essentially, the car you’re driving would not only spy on your driving behavior, your present and future locations, and your requested driving routes, but it would also eavesdrop on you. And let’s not forget the safety implications of displaying advertisements while you’re driving.
We have spoken about cars and privacy at length and came to the conclusion they’re not very good at it. Many politicians in the US agree with that point of view. US senators have asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate car makers’ privacy practices and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued General Motors for selling customer driving data to third parties.
We explained why car location tracking needs an overhaul and we’ve implored that automakers work together to help users by providing them with the ability to turn tracking features off (a serious vulnerability for people fleeing from an abusive relationship).
Yet nowhere in the entire document exists one word about how Ford intends to keep the acquired information secure. We’d advise all car companies remediate existing security vulnerabilities before introducing potential new ones.
What’s next, Ford? Will you stop working if we drive past one of the establishments that sponsor your ads? Or was that “feature” to disable a functionality of a component of the vehicle or to place the vehicle in a lockout condition only for the repossession plans you attempted to patent earlier on?
Another controversial Ford patent filed in July described technology that would enable vehicles to monitor the speed of nearby cars, photograph them and send the information to police.
In a statement to Fortune, the company clarified that filing a patent is a standard practice to explore new ideas and doesn’t necessarily indicate immediate plans to release such a system.
We realize that advertisements make the internet go round. Many useful websites could not exist without them. But do these in-vehicle advertisements benefit the owner of the car? If it makes the cars cheaper, I’d be willing to pay some extra to not be bothered and eavesdropped on while driving. How about you? Let us know in the comments.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/09/ford-seeks-patent-for-conversation-based-advertising?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=b2c_pro_oth_20240923_septemberweeklynewsletter_v4_172682174704&utm_content=Ford_logo
An aid for Big Brother?
From Malwarebytes: Ford wants to eavesdrop on passenger conversations to help target ads
Posted: September 13, 2024 by Pieter Arntz
Essentially, the car you’re driving would not only spy on your driving behavior, your present and future locations, and your requested driving routes, but it would also eavesdrop on you. And let’s not forget the safety implications of displaying advertisements while you’re driving.
Car manufacturer Ford Motor Company has filed a patent application for an in-vehicle advertisement presentation system based on information derived from several trip and driver characteristics. Among those characteristics—human conversations.
In the abstract of the patent application publication Ford writes:
“An example method includes determining vehicle information for a trip, the vehicle information including any one or more of a current vehicle location, a vehicle speed, a drive mode, and/or traffic information, the user information including any one or more of a route prediction, a speed prediction for the trip, and/or a destination, determining user preferences for advertisements from any one or more of audio signals within the vehicle and/or historical user data, selecting a number of the advertisements to present to the user during the trip, and providing the advertisements to the user during the trip through a human-machine interface (HMI) of the vehicle.”
Further one it details that “the controller may monitor user dialogue to detect when individuals are in a conversation.”
Based on this info, the controller can decrease or increase the number of advertisements. And “the conversations can be parsed for keywords or phrases that may indicate where the occupants are travelling to.”
Okay.
Essentially, the car you’re driving would not only spy on your driving behavior, your present and future locations, and your requested driving routes, but it would also eavesdrop on you. And let’s not forget the safety implications of displaying advertisements while you’re driving.
We have spoken about cars and privacy at length and came to the conclusion they’re not very good at it. Many politicians in the US agree with that point of view. US senators have asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate car makers’ privacy practices and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued General Motors for selling customer driving data to third parties.
We explained why car location tracking needs an overhaul and we’ve implored that automakers work together to help users by providing them with the ability to turn tracking features off (a serious vulnerability for people fleeing from an abusive relationship).
Yet nowhere in the entire document exists one word about how Ford intends to keep the acquired information secure. We’d advise all car companies remediate existing security vulnerabilities before introducing potential new ones.
What’s next, Ford? Will you stop working if we drive past one of the establishments that sponsor your ads? Or was that “feature” to disable a functionality of a component of the vehicle or to place the vehicle in a lockout condition only for the repossession plans you attempted to patent earlier on?
Another controversial Ford patent filed in July described technology that would enable vehicles to monitor the speed of nearby cars, photograph them and send the information to police.
In a statement to Fortune, the company clarified that filing a patent is a standard practice to explore new ideas and doesn’t necessarily indicate immediate plans to release such a system.
We realize that advertisements make the internet go round. Many useful websites could not exist without them. But do these in-vehicle advertisements benefit the owner of the car? If it makes the cars cheaper, I’d be willing to pay some extra to not be bothered and eavesdropped on while driving. How about you? Let us know in the comments.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/09/ford-seeks-patent-for-conversation-based-advertising?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=b2c_pro_oth_20240923_septemberweeklynewsletter_v4_172682174704&utm_content=Ford_logo