Pooky

Tim Walz is a lying liar wot lies … all the time 😒

I suspect the family may not be the ones underwriting the attorneys. As is so often said, if you want to know what’s going on, follow the money.

Should have been Trump’s VP pick.

Even Karine Jean Pierre doesn’t want to let Kamal Harris distance herself from Bidenomics.

With whose money?

Denver as a whole is a dumpster fire 🔥

Classic Israeli playbook … get your retaliation in first 💀

No interview yet, and likely not any time soon. She is being advised to stay away from interviews and questions, as the current strategy of putting nothing out there, apart from the disaster that was her grocery price controls policy, that can be evaluated on its merits appears to be working in her favour. Because if you don’t have specifics on policy that people can question, everything else can be brushed off as a personal attack, and just so Donald Trump.

How a rumor about Beyonce at the DNC fooled the world The rumor started on X, got big on CNN and ended in a wave of disappointment on the floor of the Democratic convention. https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2024/08/23/beyonce-rumor-dnc/ So, the viewing figures for Kamala’s speech had nothing to do with the VP? Way to hide the disappointment of still no policies Kamala, by making people more disappointed Queen Bey didn’t show up. 😒

So, if it’s not cheese, I panicked over the crackers for nothing????

Not even … Wensleydale?🤔

Kamala Harris' dream of stopping cops responding to 911 calls resurfaces... and her worrying argument for why the U.S. 'doesn't need a law enforcement response' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13766309/amp/kamala-harris-defund-police-911-calls.html

Technical issues yesterday. The “Submit” button did not seem to be doing anything. Apparently, it was lying like a Democrat. 😗

Those open, loving arms would embrace you, carry you inside, up to the roof to celebrate, hold you out over the very edge, to let you see the neighbors, shouting their love for all to hear, then drop you. Because sometimes, when you love someone, you have to let them go. 💀

Journalists are fact-checking the Democratic National Convention. https://www.yahoo.com/news/journalists-fact-checking-democratic-national-030000494.html Could there be a glimmer of hope for actual journalism in this country after all?

is it possible that she’s not familiar with the Department of Labor because SHE’S NEVER DONE A DAY’S REAL WORK IN HER LIFE????? 🤦🏼

The descent into lunacy has gone nuclear ☢️ Biden-Harris Department of Energy official calls for 'queering nuclear weapons' as part of radical DEI agenda Biden-Harris official says, '####### theory is also about rejecting... the tenet that nuclear deterrence creates security and disarmament creates vulnerability' https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-harris-department-energy-official-calls-queering-nuclear-weapons-part-radical-dei-agenda.amp

Jobs have been a major talking point, with the Biden administration taking credit for returning the jobs lost under the pandemic shutdown, which Governor Walz enforced with almost religious zeal. Now, it turns out, some of the previous strong “growth” was just the Feds being less than honest with their numbers, overstating them to the tune of up to a million phantom jobs. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/job-market-revisions-shake-up-fed-stock-market-this-week-2024-8 it will be interesting to see how this hits the stock market, especially while the Democrat convention is in full swing.

They have to say it was a very large crowd. To admit the truth would be un-Democrat 😒

Where are all the Democrats? https://www.the-sun.com/news/12238899/dnc-empty-seats-joe-biden-hillary-clinton-speeches/amp/ Empty seats to go with empty promises.

Price fixing and price control, Commie Kamala style". Robert Sterling, CFO of Alfa Lion, breaks down the Harris plan for price controls on food: ------ People need to stop overreacting about Kamala’s plan to reduce food inflation, as if it would lead to communism, mass starvation, and the end of America. I worked in M&A in the food industry. Here’s a step-by-step summary of what would actually happen: 1. The government announces that grocery retailers aren’t allowed to raise prices. 2. Grocery stores, which operate on 1-2% net margins, can’t survive if their suppliers raise prices. So the government announces that food producers (Kraft Heinz, ConAgra, Tyson, Hormel, et. al.) also aren’t allowed to raise prices. 3. Not all grocery stores are created equal. Stores in lower-income areas make less money than those in higher-income areas, as the former disproportionately sell lower-margin prepackaged foods (“center of the store”) instead of higher-margin fresh products like meat (“perimeter of the store”). Because stores in lower-income areas aren’t able to cover overhead (remember, even if their wholesale costs are fixed, their labor, utilities, insurance, and other operating expenses aren’t fixed… yet), grocery chains start to shut them down. Food deserts in rural areas and in low-income urban areas alike become worse. 4. Meanwhile, margins for food producers are also quickly eroding. Their primary costs (ingredients, energy, and labor) aren’t fixed, and their shrinking gross profits leave less cash flow available to cover overhead, maintain facilities, and reinvest in additional production capacity. 5. Grocery chains, which have finite shelf space, start to repurpose their stores (those they didn’t have to shut down, I should say) to sell more non-price-controlled items—everything from nutrition supplements to kitchenware to apparel—and less price-controlled food products. Your local Kroger or Safeway starts to look and feel more like a Walmart. 6. Food producers stop making products with lower margins. Grocery chain start competing with each other to secure inventory. Since they can’t compete by offering stronger prices (remember, producers aren’t allowed to raise prices here, and, even if they could, grocery chains no longer have the gross profit to bear price increases), they compete on things like payment terms. 7. Small grocery chains start to shut down entirely, or get sold to larger chains like Kroger. In addition to not being able to cover fixed costs, a major reason for this is because they can no longer reliably secure delivery of products, due to producers prioritizing sales to larger customers, which are able to leverage their stronger balance sheets to offer superior payment terms. 8. Smaller food producers—which typically sell via distributors, rather than directly to grocery chains—start to go out of business. Because these producers have an additional step their value chains, and because they have lower volumes over which to spread their fixed costs, their cost structure is inherently disadvantaged compared to major food producers. When grocery stores aren’t able to raise prices, cutting product costs becomes all the more important, and deprioritizing purchases from smaller producers is an easy way to do so. 9. As supply chains break down, lines start to form outside grocery stores every morning. Cities assign police officers to patrol store parking lots, and food producers draft contingency plans to assign armed escorts to delivery trucks. 10. The federal government announces a program to issue block grants for states to purchase and operate shuttered grocery stores. The USDA also seizes closed-down production facilities. 11. The government announces that prices for all key food costs—corn, wheat, cattle, energy, etc.—are also now fixed, to stop “profiteers” from gouging the now-government-operated food industry. 12. Shockingly, the government struggles to operate one of the most complex industries on the planet. The entire food supply chain starts imploding. 13. Communism, mass starvation, and the end of America quickly ensue. Hey wait a second ... 🤔

In this case, although the icing warning was given, the pilots may not have been aware of an issue with the plane. Most likely it was their attempt to regain altitude that precipitated the stall, further bleeding off airspeed until one wing stalled, throwing them into the spin. it would be interesting to know whether there was anything on the cockpit voice recorder for the minute or so it took to from the initial problem to the final impact. I understand that there was no distress call, so the possibility the crew were incapacitated cannot be ruled out.

And now this … 😱 Secret Service Investigating Report Agent Left Trump Event to Breastfeed https://www.newsweek.com/secret-service-investigating-report-agent-left-trump-event-breastfeed-1939973 Seriously, even the Babylonbee couldn’t make this up if they tried.

The flight track data shows a loss of speed and altitude, immediately followed by a climb to regain the altitude loss. The it fell out of the sky. Likely icing caused the loss of speed an altitude, and the climb caused the plane to stall. The stall cause the flat spin from which the flight crew could not recover. The ATR family does not respond well to icing.

‘Resentful’ Joe Biden Set to Snub Barack Obama and Kamala Harris Speeches at DNC https://www.yahoo.com/news/resentful-joe-biden-set-snub-134106186.html