Month: May 2023

Import the third worldBecome the third world 🙏 — Reminiscences of an American Capitalist (@4Awesometweet) May 15, 2023

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“Google has agreed to an $8 million settlement with Texas over deceptive ads for its Pixel 4 smartphone, in which radio DJs were hired to provide testimonials without being given the phone to use.” https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/05/15/219201/google-to-pay-8-million-settlement-for-lying-to-texans-state-ag-says

You assume they are good intentions. They are not. He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 16, 2023

via fortune: “Credit card balances were flat in the first quarter, at $986 billion, bucking the typical trend of balance declines in first quarters,” researchers wrote in the report. “US households showed signs of increasing financial stress in the first quarter, with credit card balances not declining in the way they typically do at the … Read more

I asked the Texas National Guard if this is one of their soldiers who opens the gate for the group of migrants. They tell me she is NOT a TX soldier & is not TX ARNG. I’m told she is a Title 10 soldier from the Missouri ARNG under orders from the federal gov & … Read more

by freestateofflorida Link to post (read the screenshots): https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1658196453573926953?s=46&t=rQks-ZMtRHGDrfJntd-foQ So Biden has collaborated with the CIA to try to rig an election twice, but Republicans don’t want to file articles of impeachment because that would be too polarizing?  

by confoundedinterest17 I used to think that The Kabuki Theater surrounding the raising of the US debt limit and passing a Federal budget would be over by now. But since Biden is being controlled by the hard left “Progressives” in Washington DC, he may be reckless enough to let the US default just so he … Read more

There’s a massive divergence between CDS price and the $VIX 👀 Notice how they typically move together Image: HolgerZ pic.twitter.com/lrjcjcU9F2 — Cheddar Flow (@CheddarFlow) May 15, 2023 "vol control funds alone have added about $72B in US stocks in the past 3 months a greater flow than in 80% of 3 month periods over the … Read more

via RT: Singapore has further relaxed its restrictions on women freezing their eggs, raising the age cap for the procedure from 35 to 37, the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Social and Family Development announced on Monday, with the new regulations set to take effect in July. The move comes as Singapore’s birth rate … Read more

  via dailymail.co.uk: Companies are already vowing to leave Chicago over additional taxes promised by its new mayor – a progressive tasked with addressing the city’s dwindling image under predecessor Lori Lightfoot. Sworn in early Monday, Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson beat out more moderate Chicago schools CEO Paul Vallas earlier this month to earn the hallowed … Read more

The biggest treasonous scandal in U.S. history against a sitting President and "we the people" was exposed yesterday – and some people spent the entire day tweeting about DeSantis. Talk about tone-deaf and out-of-touch. If you can't give the primary a rest for just one day and… — Catturd ™ (@catturd2) May 16, 2023 pic.twitter.com/vascijGW89 … Read more

Argentina’s central bank on Monday hiked its base interest rate by six points to 97 percent as the government prepares to announce a spate of measures to tackle soaring inflation. It is the second time in less than a month that the bank has ramped up interest rates as year-on-year inflation hit almost 109 percent … Read more

⚡️#BREAKING Russia's defence ministry: Russian forces destroyed patriot air defence system in Kyiv — War Monitor (@WarMonitors) May 16, 2023 Proofes, guys pic.twitter.com/bGVsxDUvZv — Mr. Miracul (@MMiracul) May 16, 2023 ⚡️Russian MoD claims that its air defense systems intercepted seven Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles — War Monitor (@WarMonitors) May 16, 2023 https://twitter.com/_/status/1658417301916471296 🚨🇷🇺🇺🇦 Over … Read more

via Zerohedge: Ahead of this week’s earnings-season ending barrage of retail data, analysts and traders were asking if the strong consumer spending momentum from early in the season would carry through or if we would see an uglier side to the US consumer. The answer was delivered moments ago from Home Depot, is decisively the latter. Home … Read more

Google, $GOOGL, Trends has reported that searches for “how to make friends,” “where to make friends,” and “where to meet people” had reached an all-time high, per Bloomberg. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 16, 2023 The US Surgeon General released a report this month declaring that loneliness is at epidemic levels. And Google Trends reported last week … Read more

TAR. FEATHERS. Diverse Group of Organizations, Law Professors Call on Supreme Court to Hear Case of Grandmother Arrested for Criticizing Local Government Officials.   At the end of April, IJ filed a petition for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to reverse the Fifth Circuit’s ruling providing qualified immunity to a mayor and a … Read more

The IRS on Monday removed the “entire investigative team” from its long-running tax fraud probe of first son Hunter Biden in alleged retaliation against the whistleblower who recently contacted Congress to allege a cover-up in the case, The Post has learned. The purge allegedly was done on the orders of the Justice Department, the whistleblower’s … Read more

via William L. Anderson: In the summer of 2020, the Smithsonian Institution created a chart meant to condemn what it calls “whiteness,” and it listed a number of characteristics it claimed were essential to “white culture.” Among the so-called characteristics it described in pejorative terms was delaying gratification, or saving for the future, what Austrian economists would … Read more

The IRS fired the entire group of investigators looking into Hunter Biden and a whistleblower included in the group accused the Biden administration of retaliating against his revelations. In April, the whistleblower came forward to accuse the Biden administration of improperly obstructing the investigation into the president’s son. A letter from attorney Mark Lytle to members of … Read more