Depressing lede of the week that nonetheless tells us a great deal about our current predicament:
Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus sponsored more than $900 million worth of earmarks over the last two years…
There is absolutely no fiscal discipline left in Washington. Instead we have a Late Empire every man for himself mentality that is simply not sustainable. Our national debt is rising by $1 trillion every 100 days. That’s more than the annual GDP of the Netherlands. The total debt of almost $35 trillion is more than the annual GDP of China, Japan, Germany, India, UK, and France combined. Cost to service the debt hit $870b. this year, $50b. more than our massively bloated defense budget. Still these warning signs go unheeded. Maybe when debt service hits an even $1 trillion things will change, but don’t hold your breath.
Don’t look now but Net Neutrality has risen from the dead and is set begin throttling speeds and increasing costs in the name of “fairness” just as soon as the FCC can get around to it.
Surprise, surprise, the South Carolina Bar appears to have once again quashed an attempt to reform the Judicial Merit Selection Commission, the perversion that has trial lawyer legislative members picking (and paying) judges for the state. Not only does this wacky arrangement have the judiciary totally subservient to the legislative branch, it essentially makes judges the employees of commission members who may appear in their courtrooms. Then add in the potential for nepotism, insider dealings, and all manner of back-scratching and log-rolling; not a serious judicial system.
Lucid primer on the relationship between Marxism and epidemic of squatters.
Guess what our friends at the CDC hid from the American public, requiring a judge’s order to compel their release?
…780,000 reports … received shortly after the COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out, [that] show people experienced a wide range of post-vaccination problems, including heart inflammation, miscarriages, and seizures. …
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of federal flunkies and Big Pharma lobbyists, researchers, and execs who should spend the rest of their lives in prison. No exceptions, no compromise.
Investigative journalist Steve Baker has pled not guilty to being a journalist on J6. If past is prologue, this means our fascist Regime will now attempt lie him into a federal prison for years on end. Related, just how many FBI assets were at J6?
More Regime legal gymnastics, a Fulton County judge has declared that the First Amendment does not apply to claims of election fraud when no fraud exists. When does fraud exist? When the Regime says so.
Speaking of Fulton, did fabulous Fani Willis violate Maryland's Wiretap Act by recording a convo with a defendant’s attorney?
This just in, puberty blockers have massive negative side effects for teens. This is a slo-mo attempt to head off a huge liability exposure for American medical quacks. We had no idea… The science has changed…. Watch.
When CVS goes after Cost Plus Drugs you can be certain Mark Cuban is directly over target.
Something else Pat McCrory touches turns to shit; the No Labels grift will have no POTUS candidate this year.
Big win for Pat McAfee as ESPN fires longtime exec and McAfee nemesis Norby Williamson. Sports!
Despite being in heavy rotation in slick TV ads designed to scare chubby white women, turns out Pfizer’s Paxlovid does fuck all to treat COVID:
The time to sustained alleviation of all signs and symptoms of Covid-19 did not differ significantly between participants who received [Paxlovid] and those who received placebo.
Arrest the C suite immediately.
However bad you think things are at Boeing, it is much, much worse:
…right now, we have an executive council running the company that is all outsiders. The current CEO is a General Electric guy, as is the CFO whom he brought in. And we have a completely new HR leader, with no background at Boeing. The head of our commercial-airplanes unit in Seattle, who was fired last week, was one of the last engineers in the executive council.
The headquarters in Arlington is empty. Nobody lives there. It is an empty executive suite. The CEO lives in New Hampshire. The CFO lives in Connecticut. The head of HR lives in Orlando. We just instituted a policy that everyone has to come into work five days a week—except the executive council, which can use the private jets to travel to meetings. And that is the story: it is a company that is under caretakers. It is not under owners. And it is not under people who love airplanes. … Status games rule every boardroom in the country. The DEI narrative is a very real thing, and, at Boeing, DEI got tied to the status game. It is the thing you embrace if you want to get ahead. It became a means to power.
DEI is the drop you put in the bucket, and the whole bucket changes. It is anti-excellence, because it is ill-defined, but it became part of the culture and was tied to compensation. Every HR email is: “Inclusion makes us better.” This kind of politicization of HR is a real problem in all companies.
If you look at the bumper stickers at the factories in Renton or Everett, it’s a lot of conservative people who like building things—and conservative people do not like politics at work.
The radicalization of HR doesn’t hurt tech businesses like it hurts manufacturing businesses. At Google, they’re making a large profit margin and pursuing very progressive hiring policies. Because they are paying 30 percent or 40 percent more than the competition in salary, they are able to get the top 5 percent of whatever racial group they want. They can afford, in a sense, to pay the “DEI tax” and still find top people.
But this can be catastrophic in lower-margin or legacy companies. You are playing musical chairs, and if you do the same things that Google is doing, you are going to end up with the bottom 20 percent of the preferred population.
True.
What is going on with the intersection of Social Security number verification and voter registration across the country? Why is there a wild divergence in numbers from state to state?