PHONE SCAMMERS EXPLAINED: Willingness to give away money among older adults linked to cognitive profile of early Alzheimer’s.
Archive for 2022
June 20, 2022
PARTY OF YOUTH UPDATE: The Taboo Lifts on Discussing Biden’s Age. “Almost overnight, Biden’s age, mental state, memory, and health changed from the elephant in the room to a topic that is now acceptable for Democrats and the media to discuss. Hey, how about the rest of us who noticed all of this a long time ago?”
Related: Jim Treacher: Biden Wishes They’d Build Bikes Better.
MATT MARGOLIS: Here’s What You Haven’t Been Told About Juneteenth. “While Americans agree that slavery was a horrible institution, thousands of Americans died to end it, and its demise should be celebrated federally. But is Juneteenth really the best day for that?”
THAT’S DISAPPOINTING: Alzheimer’s drug crenezumab has disappointing results in clinical trial.
BATTLESWARM BLOG: Japanese Boobs 1, Feminists 0. “I know you linked the original story, but I’ve added what I think the piece cried out for: Visual aids.”
Indeed.
INSIDE THE END OF SILICON VALLEY’S DYNASTY:
Tesla was one of Silicon Valley’s higher-value companies — then it moved its HQ to Texas. Following the move in December 2021, the company’s new HQ is listed as a “gigafactory” near Austin. Although they maintain a presence in California, up to 50% of the company’s Palo Alto workforce is expected to follow Tesla to Texas. One of the reasons Tesla owner Elon Musk cited for the shift was the high cost of living in California, which he claims made it difficult for workers to afford homes. Musk first hinted at the move after a disagreement with Alameda County health officials in 2020 (via US News). The world’s richest man is also expected to save around $2.5 billion in capital gains tax because of the move (via Business Insider).
Musk’s electric car company wasn’t the only Silicon Valley giant to make the move and is unlikely to be the last. Bloomberg reports that Hewlett Packard made the shift after citing the difference in real estate expenses between the Golden and Lone Star states, with Oracle Corp also making the move. If other major companies also make the decision to leave Silicon Valley, it could spell disaster for the area — especially given how income and employee numbers are split. If just Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Cisco left Silicon Valley would lose 20% of its employees and billions of dollars in GDP. High taxes and living costs may soon drive companies and workers away from Silicon Valley, and towards cheaper states with Texas a regular target. If it declines to nothing, there may never be another Silicon Valley, but if a second tech hub springs up it will likely be in the Lone Star State.
How’s that Welcome Wagon program coming along?
FACT-CHECKING BIDEN’S PRIDE SPEECH: The Washington Stand’s Joshua Arnold took a close look at a bunch of claims by President Job Biden in his speech last week commemorating Pride Month. Conclusion? The Chief Executive has a real problem telling the truth.
WOKE MADNESS: Man Not Allowed Donate Blood Because He Won’t Say If He’s Pregnant. “Sorry. I hope I didn’t offend womyn with lady-penises.”
BIDEN’S BIKE CRASH ISN’T ABOUT HIM. IT’S ABOUT THE MEDIA:
“Trump’s Halting Walk Down Ramp Raises New Health Questions” shouted The New York Times headline in June 2020 after he gave a speech at West Point. The story authored by favorite Trump media foil Maggie Haberman raised questions about Trump’s own health. CNN’s Chris Cillizza wrote, “Why the Donald Trump-West Point ramp story actually matters,” citing Trump’s advanced age. “The President turned 74 on Sunday. He is the oldest person ever elected to a first term in the White House. Earlier this month, the White House released a memo on the results of Trump’s annual physical that only briefly outlined the overall picture of his health (height, weight, etc.).”
When it came to Joe Biden spilling onto the pavement in front of an adoring crowd, however, Cillizza’s only response was “Been there.” Joe Biden was at a complete stop when he fell over. Sure the culprit seems to be a stuck pedal, but maybe he had a moment of exhaustion or heat exertion. At the edge of 80, who knows?
Biden’s own campaign made a point of the president’s physical fitness, comparing him to Trump’s awkward ramp walk. The problem with going that route is exactly what we saw this weekend. Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates immediately took to Twitter to fend off mockery and trolls, to no avail. It was hopeless, and this very online administration should have just laughed it off. But because they themselves made Biden’s fitness an issue, it is now fair game.
And because the media decided to go full Woodward and Bernstein over Donald Trump’s own health, they are now also fair game for their unequal and biased coverage now as well, no matter how silly the entire matter may be.
At least the Washington Free Beacon reached out to get the culprit’s side of the story: Why I Busted Joe Biden’s Elderly Ass on Father’s Day Weekend. ‘This is my truth: I hate being Joe Biden’s bicycle.’
WHEN CORPORATIONS ARE AN ARM OF THE STATE: Whistleblower Docs Reveal Deep State Desire to Deputize Big Tech as Speech Police.
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Two prominent Democratic lawmakers violated a federal conflicts-of-interest law. Again.
Sen. John Hickenlooper of Colorado and Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland are in violation of the 2012 Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act’s disclosure provisions, according to an Insider review of financial filings the lawmakers made with Congress.
Hickenlooper, who ran for president in 2020, failed to disclose purchases of varying classes of stock from by his wife. They include shares of Liberty Media Corporation, Qurate Retail, and Liberty Broadband Corporation in 2021 and early 2022. The stocks were valued between $516,006 and $1.2 million.
Hickenlooper was also late in reporting that his wife sold between $130,004 and $300,000 worth of stock in Liberty Media Corporation and Liberty Broadband Corporation from March 2022.
Lawmakers are only required to report the value of such financial trades in broad ranges.
It’s nice to write the laws that concern you. It’s even nicer to be able to ignore them.
DEAL OF THE DAY: NEXPOW Car Jump Starter. #CommissionEarned
TIKTOK WAS AND REMAINS CCP SPYWARE AND CULTURAL AGITPROP: TikTok staff in China allegedly accessed U.S. user data.
STOP ASIAN HATE: Chinese UW-Madison student beat up by four locals, but cops say no hate crime. “A Chinese University of Wisconsin-Madison PhD student was attacked and roughed up by what appear to be four minority locals early last week — the third such assault in the last two weeks — but, at least so far, authorities say it’s not a hate crime. On Tuesday evening the student was knocked to the ground by the assailants, who then proceeded to ‘kick and punch him,’ WGLR reports. The suspects did not take anything from the victim.”
MEGAN FOX SUBBING ON KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Disney Got Wrecked on ‘Woke Lightyear’ and We Are Laughing! “Kruiser is attempting to take a vacation and I’m filling in, and I cannot stop laughing. Why, might you ask, am I so full of mirth? Well, dear friends, it’s because the groomers at Disney got a mouth full of failure this weekend as parents everywhere skipped the LGBTQWTFery in the new woke Lightyear where Buzz gets schooled on his white privilege.”
FORGET THE INFLATION MESSAGING, HOW ABOUT SOME ACTION? CNN reporter says Democrats have been ‘panicking privately’ about Biden’s inflation messaging for months.
IT’S A FAKE, BUT IT’S A PLAUSIBLE ONE THESE DAYS:
HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT NO ONE IS PROTESTING OUTSIDE JOHN ROBERTS’ HOME? “Bloody” protesters outside Amy Coney Barret’s home.
MICHAEL WALSH: Dead on Arrival.
At the opening of the 1950 classic film noir, D.O.A., Edmund O’Brien strides purposefully into a big-city police station, proceeds down long, endless corridors, and finally arrives at a door marked Homicide Division. “I want to report a murder,” he says to the head detective. “Who was murdered?” asks the cop. “I was,” replies O’Brien.
In this, year two of the dreadful administration of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., we Americans know just how he feels. From the moment this blustering blowhard of a United States senator of no accomplishment from a meaningless state took office in January 2021, he has been busily poisoning the country for the simple reason that he can, he wants to, and there is no one to stop him.
The beneficiary of the hinkiest election in modern American history thanks to the illegal changes in balloting occasioned by the unnecessary Covid panic, and given the narrowest possible margins of control in both the House and the Senate, the superannuated chief executive has done everything in his power to show his contempt for the American people, to damage our patrimony, and make our lives increasingly miserable. . . .
Since Robinette took office, gas prices have more than doubled, part of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been emptied, our hard-won energy independence achieved during the Trump era has been frittered away, and we’ve been reduced to begging erstwhile enemies like the “kingdom” of Saudi Arabia to do the jobs Americans just can’t be allowed to do. If this looks like a conspiracy to you, don’t worry: it is. And one that the conspirators have been quite open about for decades. They’re a suicide cult, hell-bent on killing us as well as themselves.
That’s a fair summary.
THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE IS A SUPERSPREADER SITE: National security adviser Jake Sullivan tests positive for Covid.
OF COURSE THEY DO: Flustered FEC Democrats link Trump campaign to Watergate.