I have a contractor with a dozen states to audit today, a company I am more invested than I should be has an earnings call, and since my kids are on spring break I’m going to try to get my son to the gym early. Let’s just get to it.
¡Enlaces!
¡La Dia de Mujeres Internaccional! Strikes Mexico City. Feminists there aren’t any better looking. Speaking of feminists, I thought decades old allegations were fair game?
Both Mexican Presidential candidates promise the Catholic Church their commitment to peace. Feel good story.
The triumphant of the helicopter joke! Since this one happened in Texas, we can be sure Murdock had nothing to do with it.
In a move surprising nobody, New York City implements restrictions on migrant buses…so they dropped them off in New Jersey. Gee hasn’t New Jersey banked off their proximity to New York since…forever?
Milei apologizes for talking about communism—its dangerous you know. In other news he took a page from El Presidente Dudebro’s playbook.
Haiti’s Prime Minister resi—wait, this entire time they had a government in place? Anyways, they’re doing the Fall of Saigon thing again, so it will be interesting to see what happens when they send in the Marines, again.
For whatever reason, people forget about Queensryche. I’m not going to.
First? You’re god damn right I am.
“Feminists there aren’t any better looking” No kidding. Those two make Frida Kahlo look good.
That takes real artistry
Jaime does paint quite the picture.
I’m assuming in about 7 articles UCS could have some better looking feminists (or at least ones that apparently have armor stapled to their hips [seriously, UCS… what’s holding that on?!?] and their tunic from a spray-on fabric can).
Extra Strength double-sided tape. Why, what did you think was used?
Here you go.
Ay caramba!
Kkkorporate greedheads
Tyson Foods (NYSE:TSN) is set to shut its pork packing plant in Perry, Iowa — culling about 1,200 jobs in the process — as the meat packer looks to cut costs amid a slump in the demand for its products.
The plant closure was scheduled to close by the end of June. Tyson, which still employs about 9,000 people in Iowa, said it would encourage employees to apply for other positions within the company.”While this decision was not easy, it emphasizes our focus to optimize the efficiency of our operations to best serve our customers,” said a company spokesperson.
Tyson, which is the largest U.S. meatpacker, has shuttered about nine processing facilities since the start of 2023, in an effort to streamline its operations. Its plant locations in Florida, Arkansas, Columbia, and Indiana were among some that were closed down last year.
In its recent quarterly results in February, the Arkansas-based company posted topline and bottom-line numbers that were ahead of expectations.
“Going forward, we will continue to prioritize our liquidity and financial health, our focus on operational excellence, and our relentless pursuit to win with customers and consumers,” the CEO had said.
Joe’s gonna be pissed. They owe those people lifetime employment.
Just another auld lang swyne.
Glad to see Swiss hasn’t intimidated you enough that you chicken out of puns on Tyson threads. Even if you dodged the whole question of pork barrel politics there to go whole hog with the joke.
As you sow, so shall you reap
If Swiss has a beef with Shpip he’ll learn that Shpip will not be cowed.
But I bet Swissy’s narrowed gaze will boar right into him.
So that’s what the other end looks like.
A cat’s narrowed gaze. Bravo Swiss, bravo.
He’s a real sooey generis.
“The plant closure was scheduled to close by the end of June.”
Is it even possible for a plant closure to close?
Mr Henry had led the country on a supposedly interim basis since July 2021, following former President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination, but had repeatedly postponed elections – saying security had to be restored first.
Many Haitians questioned the length of his unelected governance and Mr Henry’s resignation had been one of the key demands of the heavily armed gangs that have recently tighten their grip on the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Say what you will about the guy’s methods, but this sort of thing didn’t happen when Papa Doc was
overseerin charge.He’s a verry bad man
Elon Musk is notoriously skeptical of charity, preferring to focus on his for-profit ventures, which he believes will offer more transformative change for the world.
As CEO of Tesla, “I’ve done more for the environment than any single human on Earth,” he told the New York Times last year. (He wasn’t exaggerating for effect — he seems to really believe it.) Just last week, he attacked MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire philanthropist who divorced Jeff Bezos in 2019, for her own (significantly more generous) charitable work.
“‘Super rich ex-wives who hate their former spouse’ should … be listed among ‘Reasons that Western Civilization died,’” Musk wrote in an X post that was later deleted.
Despite his outward derision, Musk did set up a charitable foundation back in 2001. And it does give out some money. Sometimes.
But the foundation appears to be consistent with Musk’s general disdain toward non-profit work, giving ammo to his detractors who see him as less of a visionary and more of a trolling profiteer hell-bent on acquiring power.
Apparently the NYT has done an expozay! of Musk’s completely unacceptable philanthropy.
His philanthropy isn’t as important as him normalizing electric cars, which no one prior to him had ever done. Was that mentioned? No?
Electric cars, solar panels, batteries for cars and homes, infrastructure for said cars to be even remotely useful in the real world, and my personal favorite: the
obvious tax scambusiness model enabling normal homeowners to afford installing solar panels, copied by no fewer than a dozen other solar companies.My panels were installed (I own them) 7 years ago facing my backyard. I STILL get door to door salesmen asking if I want to install panels because they can’t see them from the street.
Yep, and he is going to hell for that.
But it may be a few degrees cooler!
*Looks outside*
It’s not.
I think significantly advancing mankind into space is a hell of a lot more worthy than handing out more free money to the masses, yes. But I’m a big believer that we as a species need to get off this rock in the long run.
That too. And his battery and solar cell business. Overall his businesses did more for the environment than any charity work. I do think he needs to install some steam power turbines over an active volcano, just for that Bond villain vibe.
Free stuff to the masses? That’s not the purpose of charity and charitable organizations. They exist so that those noble souls employed by them are not sullied in the pursuit of profit, or other mundane human shit.
Elon Musk is notoriously skeptical of charity, preferring to focus on his for-profit ventures, which he believes will offer more transformative change for the world.
He ain’t wrong.
I can’t understand why anyone would be skeptical of charity. I mean other than having to go through the pile of mail from charities that my mom receives every single week. It could almost make one believe that the purpose of these charitable organizations is to raise money so they can turn around and raise more money.
The cynical side of me notes that religions and charities are very, very effective (honed for thousands of years) at separating people from their assets by playing on their guilt or empathy for others. Almost like they were designed that way.
On a related note… I do miss Jewsday Tuesdays and the hijinks of the High Priests….
It’s hard not to notice the tricks they play. One is they send a membership card. Ooh, I’m a member. I better renew. Another is a fake handwritten letter. Oh, they took the time to write so thoughtfully. And then there’s the false sense of urgency. “Urgent reply requested!” Oh, it must be important.
If the charity doesn’t require a stamp I’ve started stuffing the envelope with their papers and no check so they incur a cost for their bullshit.
There might be a Glibs article in this.
Much charity is counterproductive. Especially foreign aid.
“he believes will offer more transformative change for the world”
I would say SpaceX, Tesla, and StarLink make a very convincing argument.
The Musk Foundation’s record of giving is, according to a New York Times analysis, “haphazard and largely self-serving.” The non-profit has a total of zero full-time staff, just a board that includes Musk and two volunteers, and it “has failed in recent years to give away the bare minimum required by law” to justify his tax breaks.
Of course, there’s no law compelling billionaires to give away money to charity.
A grievous oversight, to be sure.
Real visionaries do like Bill Gates and use their charity to test experimental vaccines on lied to populaces.
I have to assume Gates has invested in a proper volcano lair at this point since he’s channeling Blofeld and all.
Great minds think alike.
These same cunts probably call it “charity” when Zuckerberg gives a billion to fund the expansion of mail-in-ballots.
There is no greater charity than saving Our Democracy.
Charity means taking your money at the point of a gun and giving it to whomever I feel like after keeping a large percentage… maaaaan!
It must truly grind the grifters that run the NGO Industrial Complex to see all of Musk’s money and not be able to get their mitts on it.
Think of all the useless Ivy League grads who could be gainfully employed if he’d just give them a bunch of money in a slush fund.
There is an entire chapter to be written in the book on the downfall of western civilization on how the tech industry became a make-work program for useless Ivy League grads. Indoctrinated, overgrown children who came in and ruined what could have been one of the greatest liberating forces in human history.
Some are just useless leeches who may or may not have been hired to meet quotas. Others have been actively harmful. Toxic cancers who saw them as a means of control and power.
And just like that His Holeyness gets to the heart of it.
I hate the term “non-profit.” Because all of the people employed by non-profits seem to be turning quite a nice profit for their ‘efforts.’ They’re just as focused on growth as any capitalist enterprise and in some cases incredibly small amounts of money actually go to the causes they supposedly seek to aid.
I’m singing to the choir here, but what gulsl me is how the right allows the left to control the language of debates. They get to frame everything in the terms they want and we mostly all play along.
An underrated aspect of Trump’s game is that he’s able to coopt their language and turn it against them. Fake news being the most notable example.
“haphazard and largely self-serving”: as opposed to the Clinton Global Initiative which is focused, disciplined, and largely self-serving.
That remains the most obviously corrupt influence-selling scheme in the history of this country, and nothing else happened because of it. In the downfall of western civilization, you could do an entire chapter on that, as well. That would have been disqualifying even in the 90’s if something like that was done that openly. Sort of like how Biden was a laughing stock in the 90’s even on the left because he was caught plagiarizing. Even the shit Biden has engaged in with his son and the rest of his family is nothing compared to the Clinton crime syndicate.
Plagiary was disqualifying. How…quaint that seems now given what modern politicians get away with.
Look how well it served Haiti!
The estate tax is close enough.
Ugh… that one winds me up the most — it is just so transparently immoral theft, stealing from the family someone worked their whole lives to provide for — because Fuck you, we have guns!
Fucking greedy assholes.
Community notes. 🤣
https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1767305062966034902
Ha!
I dont get it. I have no idea who that girl is. She is attractive, her breasts are ample…so what? Why does anyone care?
Ooohhh. Slate. Envy. I get it.
She is a hot blond who is famous because she is hot. She is what the left has tried to do away with in the Me Too era.
so she has become a pair of symbols for both sides.
In this case I like both the left and the right.
Boobpedia says she is wears a 34D. That’s a decent size.
Boobapedia has impeccable sources.
“Feminists there aren’t any better looking. ”
No esta una mujer, esta una ogra.
I am really enjoying today’s Tuesday links.
O una bruja.
Verdad.
That tickle in your throat? You should get that looked at
If I wake up with a soar throat, I really need to stop dreaming about flying.
You try running spell-check on your article when you’ve got a leech crawling around your throat!
STEVE SMITH HAVE BROWN THING FOR BACK OF THROAT…
Oh, never mind.
HERR STEFAN SCHMIDT ALSO HAVE BROWN THING FOR BACK OF….. SCHEISSE… STEVE IST SCHON BEI EUCH!
Protesters shout at police and throw light objects such as plastic cups or other rubbish.
Your “feminist protest” in a nutshell.
Minnesoda’s new pot laws are a complete shit show. Instead of just repealing laws that make it illegal to have pot, they had to regulate the shit out of it. Of course, the incompetent boobs were so busy dispensing justice that they couldn’t write coherent regulations. Now they are trying to fix them one stupid rule at a time
*Yes, the current law does make the bartender at Bar A guilty if he sells them a THC drink if the patron bought a beer at Bar B in the previous 5 hours.
It must truly grind the grifters that run the NGO Industrial Complex to see all of Musk’s money and not be able to get their mitts on it.
Think of all the useless Ivy League grads who could be gainfully employed if he’d just give them a bunch of money in a slush fund.
He has a foundation with NO FULL TIME EMPLOYEES! There oughtta be a law…
I generally forget about all Queensryche after Mindcrime.
I remember now…
I can’t remember yesterday, I just remember doing what they told me…
Their first four albums are some of the greatest of all time to me.
I punched out after Promised Land, which is still my favorite. Too bad they had to step on their dick and slit their own throat.
Live Evolution is peak Queensryche, for me. Doesn’t get much better than that, even though Chris Degarmo was no longer involved with the band, sadly.
Also, before I forget, it was great to see ZARDOZ this morning.
I had no idea this is in week 3.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/03/12/unitedhealth-change-healthcare-white-house-becerra-hhs/
Bonus might be a little light, but still double digit increase I’m sure.
What I think whenever Milei is mentioned
https://images.app.goo.gl/eJ4GUk8aefdQ95ux8
That is perfect.
I just had a chat with a woman I work with, she is originally from El Salvador. We talked back in 2019 about her trip home she had; no going anywhere after 6 pm, when riding in a car all the windows had to be down because if a gang member couldn’t see your face they would assume you’re a cop and start shooting. The little kids she knew as babies were all gang members and she wasn’t comfortable in their parent’s houses. She told me she went back last year and it was a completely different place. White people hanging out at the tourist areas, driving around the cities after midnight, no random gun fire, friendly people taking care of their gardens and yards. She said her husband is set to retire next year and they are considering moving back – a woman that almost did not make it out alive at age 19, considering going back! She has American kids who don’t know any country besides this one so that is what is keeping her from moving back, but her heart is torn since she loves the country of her youth, and now it is better than ever.
Of course there are problems, the parents of alleged gang members have no one to take care of them and the human rights abuses. But then she said, “where were the human rights people when little kids were gunned down for not wanting to join a gang and trying to go to school? Where were they when people were kidnapped off the streets? Where were they when shop owners were extorted to the point of them having to steal just to buy food for their families? They had nothing to say then, why would we listen to them now?
I found it to be enlightening – I wasn’t sure of her views on El Salvador now that President Dude Bro is in charge. He has her support.
El Salvador gives tough on crime conservatives a serious woody. Want to implement the same shit here.
I wouldn’t want that here. Then again, I wouldn’t want what San Francisco is going through either. There needs to be a balance.
When we went to Costa Rica about 12 years ago we found cheap flights that had layovers in El Salvador. It sounded like something from a Bad Ideas Jeans commercial.
Taca Air? I once took an all smoking flight with them that stopped in every single Central And South American country on the way down to Santiago, Chile. They kept the booze cart flowing the entire flight too.
It think that was it.
Ken Buck for President?
“It is the worst year of the nine years and three months that I’ve been in Congress. And having talked to former members, it’s the worst year in 40, 50 years to be in Congress. But I’m leaving because I think there’s a job to do out there that I want to go do,” he said.
Upon his exit from Congress, Buck said he will shift his attention to the 2024 presidential election, which is on its way to being a rematch between President Biden and former President Trump.
“Everybody I’ve talked to is complaining about the choices they have for president. And it is time that we start talking about how we elect presidents and how we elect senators and congressmen and local leaders,” Buck told reporters Tuesday. “And I feel very strongly about that. I don’t have an organization to join, I just know in my heart I want to get involved in this election cycle and work on that issue.”
The comments sparked speculation that Buck himself may be eyeing a bid for the White House, a notion he quickly shot down.
I hope he gets a good teevee gig whining about Trump.
Too bad not Ken Bone
He should kick-off his campaign here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bone_Lick_State_Park
But then she said, “where were the human rights people when little kids were gunned down for not wanting to join a gang and trying to go to school? Where were they when people were kidnapped off the streets? Where were they when shop owners were extorted to the point of them having to steal just to buy food for their families? They had nothing to say then, why would we listen to them now?
They were raising money to fund their money-raising operations.
“where were the human rights people when …”
I haven’t been to El Salvador but if it is like other Latin countries the missionaries and human rights people are hanging out around the docks where the pubescent hookers are.
Maybe that whole thing about Robert F Kennedy being a deep fake are accurate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/us/politics/rfk-jr-aaron-rodgers-jesse-ventura.html
Part of me wants to see Jesse on the ticket just for the laughs
All of the self-styled right kind of people would have an aneurysm.
In a move surprising nobody, New York City implements restrictions on migrant buses…so they dropped them off in New Jersey.
And you have to pay to get out of New Jersey, so they won’t be back.
I cant help but get enormous satisfaction watching the execrable virtue signalers stew in their own juices.
Morons decided to slay a dragon but accidentally picked a real one instead of the usual imaginary dragons. I cant help but laugh.
Brigitte Macron is trans.
A few years ago I would have dismissed this as an insane conspiracy theory. But these days I have no idea what to think about it. Doesn’t she have three children from her first marriage? Some of them even campaigned for Emmanuel Macron in 2017.
A. I dont believe it.
B. If true, so what? Biggest scandal in history? Becauuuuse……? What am I missing here?
Not scandal but normalization.