Getting Ready For Sleepy Joe

Pres. Biden will have his first press conference at 1:15 ET today. If you enjoy afternoon naps, tune in and see if you doze off before Sleepy Joe does.

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[henry]

Press Conference, Lid, all look the same.

[Melinda]

Yes, as Ig pointed out, an hour and a half on Global Trade:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LsXs5fm_U0

And it's BEFORE the Ever Given grounding.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--So the identified Babbit’s murderer - but still no arrest?--

He almost certainly won't be arrested because that would destroy their "insurrection" lie.
But WTF is a guy who apparently for months, in public, threatened to kill Trump supporters doing on the job as a cop?
If a Trump supporter or Republican spent months talking about shooting BLM clowns or Biden voters he would have been fired and had his life cancelled.

[Manuel Transmission]

Just read the Federalist piece on Noem someone linked earlier. I’m still of the opinion that Noem is trying to do what she thinks is least worse re the tranny sports mess. There’s a certain rigidness in the counter arguments including TuCa’s that I don’t think covers the slimy way the legal system routinely messes with their conservative adversaries.

As the exception to prove the rule, would we have a single case on our side if not for that (now considered wacky) Lin Wood’s success slamming the nuze scammers on behalf of the MAGA hat kid?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

We don't know what success he had re the nuze scammers because of NDAs.
If they admitted no liability and settled for peanuts what difference does it make?

As for Noem, isn't the desire to always settle for the least worse choice thrust on us by progs why we are in this situation? We're running out of hills to die on, and if dudes taking showers with our daughters isn't one, I'm not sure what is.

To paraphrase Patton, until we start making the dumb bastard progs start dying on their own hills we should consider ourselves losing.

[jimmyk]

There may be a rationale for what Noem is doing, but it's her job to communicate that. That aside, calling the left's bluff is a better strategy. "Oh, so the NCAA is going to shut down SD college sports? Let them try, and see what that does to public opinion, not only on this issue of men crossing over to compete against women, but on the NCAA and the entire leftist agenda. Go ahead, make my day."

[Dave (in MA)]

Happy Howard Cosell's birthday.

[MissMarple2]

anonamom,

The second hour of Bannon's show has information on payoffs to people affiliated with WHO and Peter Daschle's Eco-something group.

Profiteering off the virus, sounds like.

I am sorry I can't do a more comprehensive recap today. It took me 20 minutes to get onto the site AFTER Mozilla helpfully informed me it was an unsafe site and wouldn't connect, so I had to go through a different route.

After things calm down here, maybe over the weekend, I can get my computer squared away and get myself on a new browser. This was set up long ago and all of my sites like the bank and the grocery are used tot his configuration.

The first company who invents a "we promise to keep your basic computer use the same" site will get my business.

I am now off to lunch with sisters and friend. Hopefully my dem sister won't feel like we have to watch the press conference.

[Neo]

Investigative journalist Laura Loomer has revealed that Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa, the terrorist who perpetrated Monday’s deadly attack in a Boulder, Colorado supermarket, was actually inspired by ISIS and targeted the supermarket, King Soopers, because it is kosher friendly. The supermarket keeps lots of kosher foods and is known as a place where Jews will be present to purchase such foods.
https://thejewishvoice.com/2021/03/colorado-terrorist-targeted-kosher-friendly-store-days-before-passover-but-mainstream-media-ignored-this/

[Jane]

Actually Neo, I think the killer was a far leftist, doing their bidding and the Isis stuff is a cover-up for the democrats. His original goal was to kill Trump supporters.

JUST THE SAME GOAL AS Ashley Babbit’s killer had. And the bemocrats are also covering that up. The revolution is upon us.

[Neo]

REPORTER: “Would you mind putting on a mask for us?”

CRUZ: “Yeah, when I’m talking to the TV camera, I’m not going to wear a mask. All of us have been immunized.”

REPORTER: “It’d make us feel better.”

CRUZ: “You’re welcome to step away if you’d like.”

[jimmyk]

“And the bemocrats are also covering that up. The revolution is upon us.”

And Republicans too. Has a single R in Congress spoken out about this?

[Neo]

Secret Service reportedly got involved in bizarre gun case involving Hunter Biden
https://nypost.com/2021/03/25/secret-service-got-involved-in-bizarre-gun-case-involving-hunter-biden-report/?

[Narciso]

Here you go:

https://pandemic.warroom.org/2021/03/24/episode-823-border-crisis-spills-into-america-w-christy-hutcherson-ben-bergquam-victor-avila-todd-bensman-dr-peter-navarro-boris-epshteyn/

[Narciso]

Its something john cardillo noted about the markets advertising he may be an islamiat he may be a leftist (the intercept is one of his faves) both greenwald and taibbi used to work fot omidyar the owner

[Narciso]

Well fredo was a one man vector

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=393347

[Jane]

You are right Jimmy! And it sucks!

[Narciso]

Ann lewis still a thing?

https://www.timesofisrael.com/democratic-pro-israel-group-appalled-by-kahanist-factions-entry-into-knesset/

[matt - deplore me if you must]

The Thing! That building ver there! The general! Dog faced pony soldier! Trunalimunumaprzure!!!

[Neo]

WWII codebreaker Alan Turing honored on UK’s new 50-pound note

[Narciso]

Its like a tim conway sketch, but they would never make it that broad.

[Manuel Transmission]

Iggy and jimmyk, thx for your responses. I’m trying to understand the depth of the infighting and am bewildered by all of it.

[jim nj]

So I'm watching The Young and The Restless waiting for the Old and Well Rested to come on.

[Dave (in MA)]

I've heard that Biden was provided with a list of questions that he'll be asked, in advance.

So he could try to memorize the answers that his handlers want him to give, most likely.

[jim nj]

He's late or CBS lied about airing the presser live.

[Narciso]

Collins and murkowski approved bruce vilanch for hhs.

[Narciso]

Next up

https://mobile.twitter.com/rachelbovard/status/1375123092612190209

[Dave (in MA)]

aka Doug Shoen/Mel Cooley/Fred Rutherford in a dress.

[Dave (in MA)]

No credit will be given to the
VACCINE DEVELOPED UNDER THE TRUMP ADMIN.

[henry]

Xiden get lost en route to the podium?

[Narciso]

Ymmv dave.

[Dave (in MA)]

"Journalist":

Biden is the "moral decent man".

Ass kissing with a mask on.

[Dave (in MA)]

Shutting this asshole off.

[Narciso]

Strong stomach she has

https://mobile.twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1375141209136640015

[jim nj]

He's making threats on the filibuster.

[Dave (in MA)]

You call this a press conference???

😂😂😂😂😂😂👉🤡 pic.twitter.com/bUBXEgwfc7

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) March 25, 2021

[Dave (in MA)]

Joe Biden's brain just malfunctioned...? pic.twitter.com/QWUBa9v8iD

— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) March 25, 2021

[Narciso]

How could you tell?

[Narciso]

Norman the android says dial it down.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Biden, earlier;
"There's not a single thing a man can do that a woman can't do as well or better. Not a single thing."

What can you say to something that stupid?

[jimmyk]

Under the new definition of ”woman” (which includes men declaring themselves women) he
Might be right.

[jim nj]

The way Xiden* keeps looking down and the dais I'm convinced he is reading off cue cards.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Rabo guy who is always good;
"Central Banks Are Gonna Need A Bigger Boat"

Perhaps jimmy or OL or someone equally sharp can help me out here;
I used to believe that interest rates and debt had an indirect and at times independent relationship. I used to believe that the Fed could generally set short term interest rates, but that market forces [subject to certain manipulations] usually and generally set long rates.
However, after looking at that long term chart I mentioned awhile back on the relationship between debt and interest rates, I'm wondering if I have been wrong all along and that interest rates are in fact largely set by, and the range that they move in is constrained by, the amount of outstanding debt, and that the Fed and other actors have very limited ability to alter them beyond those constraints, if at all.
If that is substantially true then my question is does the market [which the amount of debt essentially represents, though not the actors in it] in fact set rates based simply on supply and demand?
Over supply of debt creates a low cost to that debt. But eventually that low cost creates such an oversupply [or vice versa] that the market corrects by raising the cost, to cut supply because fewer people want to buy it? And the Fed itself eventually loses the ability to step in and buy up the excess at which point interest rates roll over [because markets can only be denied so long]? And debt shrinks out of necessity because people and governments can simply no longer afford it?
And the only other method to relieve the pressure of all that debt is to create inflation [along with the ballooning interest rates] which also helps to eliminate the imbalances of oversupply? But, is a general inflation [other than hyperinflations] an actual choice and policy of a central bank or does it simply appear to be and is in fact just a method by which the market rebalances accounts?
I have wondered how and what causes a high debt/low interest rate regime to end. If central banks had control of interest rates then MMT would work and governments would never not pile up debt, but we know historically that isn't true. But my previous presumption was that actors, both public and private, monetary and fiscal determined when and if those trends reversed. But now I'm thinking they're more like ice ages. A conscious decision may be made to lose fiscal discipline and pile up debt [because that's what people do, especially with OPM] but the ending of it is purely a result of the glaciers growing so thick they fail of their own weight regardless of what public and or private actors want to happen. Correct?

[Jane]

Holy shit. That is the “president”

No word about the pandemic.

No news. Interesting he believes “the people” are for him.

[Narciso]

That was the usurper the real occupant spoke six weeks ago.

[Narciso]

Lucille bluth has left the building.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

I am waiting for a woman to run 9.8 in the 100, Joe. I'll even take a trans woman.

[jimmyk]

Iggy, I take the view that the quantity of debt itself is not so impactful on interest rates, especially with the Fed buying it up like a crack addict. Long rates are mainly affected by longer term real economic growth and inflation. Growth will suck once the economy's climbed back from the lockdowns, but the markets seem to think the Fed can somehow squeeze the toothpaste back into the tube. I don't think so, but as Keynes said, markets can stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent.

[PDinDetroit]

Biden: "I think the filibuster should be what it was when I came to the Senate 120 years ago..."

[Davod]

Neo. I mentioned this the other day. Muslim ratbags have gone back to the mental problem defense.

[Narciso]

Like strangelove

https://mobile.twitter.com/Kredo0/status/1375132777499275266

[Narciso]

Indeed

https://mobile.twitter.com/LiamSD12/status/1375069944086462469

[Davod]

Neo. I was surprised to find spellcheck actually recognizes ratbags.

[MissMarple2]

Back home, in time to see 2 more kittens off!

Lovely get-together and no press conference!

[Narciso]

The kittens could do a better job, with only a few translation issues

[Narciso]

Meanwhile

https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/03/israel-election-final-tally-leaves-netanyahu-short-of-majority/

[Dave (in MA)]

Biden/Harris now having been safely ensconced, Nose Ring Rasputin now admits blocking the Post's Hunter expose was a mistake.

[Dave (in MA)]

Meanwhile

Sounds like he could still prevail with a little bit of horsetrading.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Thanks Jimmy;
This isn't the chart I was looking at before but it serves;

It's not a perfect correlation and there are other factors like inflation/deflation but the general trends of public debt vs interest rates seem to be pretty closely inversely proportional.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I clicked on our new avatar and still couldn't tell what is Dave.

[Jane]

It’s getting hot here in Florida. Up to 90 today. Yikes!

[MissMarple2]

Darren Beattie from Revolver on Bannon's show:

"What is sign language for America's screwed."

[henry]

Dave’s cat likes him.

[Marlene]

Good afternoon! So,about the press conference. I'll just do an *eyeroll.* What I thought was so stupid (besides Biden) were the reporters and their double masks. We are living in an alternate universe. Tomorrow we are getting our 2nd Covid shots. I told hubby that we are going laminate the vaccine cards and I'm going to walk into every hotel and restaurant on the trip to Maine next month flashing that card. NOT WEARING A MASK!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

It's a heart made out of kitty litter?

[Dave (in MA)]

Correct.
http://www.elevendayempire.com/JOM2/viewtopic.php?p=6225#p6225

I still kick myself for not getting a photo of the cat dish the time my cats years ago ate away everything on the plate except two dots and a curved line forming a perfect smiley.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Marlene, before you flash the card try my tactic which I may never get to test because no one ever bugs me about not wearing a mask;

Dumbass; Why aren't you wearing a mask?
Marlene; I'm exempt.
Dumbass; Why are you exempt?
Marlene; Because I'm not a dumbass.

If that doesn't work you always have your laminated vaccine card in reserve. :)

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Gee, the Israelis have the election results the next day and we take months.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Ah, a tribute to your late putty-tat. I never thought clumped cat pee could be so touching, but here we are.

[Jane]

Marlene,

Store it in your passport, because then you will always know where it is. (now where did I put my passport?)

[Jane]

Boy this place is slow!

[CCGirl]

Hi Jane!

[CCGirl]

Based on the chatter here and at jom2 it seems most of us began the day in a funk. I sure did. So did my daughter. Then I headed to the store and kept busy. We are all suffering from fatigue at this one-year point in the continuing nightmare.

Not much to say. That chatter about the DOJ making up info while prosecuting so-called 1/6 rioters is just another notch in the scary-things column. Also the marine testifying that the DOD is adding Catholics to the domestic terrorist list is a bit much, not to mention bizarro, as Biden is Catholic. Huh?

The good news is my major hardware supplier sent us a fat check based on 2020 purchases. It was an unprecedented year for hardware sales nationally! I knew that, but always nice to receive money - that’s from private enterprise!

[Jane]

Congrats CCgirl! How are your brothers doing?

[CCGirl]

We are all well! Thanks! I believe they lurk from time to time :-)

The one you know - his daughter’s wedding invitation arrived today! So nice to be invited to a wedding. I miss normal life.

[Melinda]

Wanna bet?

Non-Jags Board Game Guy
@MoviePaul
Sure, if she has a 2/3rd concurrence, as per Article 1, Section 5, Clause 2. Not that I expect her to understand the Constitution.

Daily Caller @DailyCaller
Speaker Pelosi says it is her “right as Speaker” to seat or unseat any member of Congress she wants even if the election is certified
pic.twitter.com/b6yyJMf1EA

https://twitter.com/MoviePaul/status/1375212995509424133

[MissMarple2]

CCGirl, Jane,

My computer is very slow to reload so I am reading and when I refresh, it takes about 10 minutes.

Judging on the slips and reports I saw from normal people (not CNN) Joe looked frail and weak, had inappropriate smiling or anger as his 2 emotions, and thought kids still drank out of water fountains at schools.

[CCGirl]

Scary times, MissM! Glad you had fun with the sisters!

[Neo]

Louise: It's for sure a white man's world in America. Look here: I raised that boy since he was the size of a piss-ant. And I'll say right now, he never learned to read and write. No, sir. Had no brains at all. Was stuffed with rice pudding between th' ears. Shortchanged by the Lord, and dumb as a jackass. Look at him now! Yes, sir, all you've gotta be is white in America, to get whatever you want. Gobbledy-gook!

[Dave (in MA)]

Ig@5:44 Well, that happened after she passed away, and I'm guessing that was courtesy of one of the males. We have a new kitten that we're getting around the end of April.

[Pinandpuller]

Was riding a horse bareback in the old days like driving a stick shift today?

[Jane]

I know 2 of them!

[Sidwhite]

On the Kristi Noem controversy, Shipwreckedcrew has written 3 columns on the subject. First said it looked smart and next two in full support. I didn’t dig enough to fully get the technical legalities, but seems he thinks the law as currently written will get tossed by the first judge that rules on it and the NCAA knows that. No opinion here. Shared FWIW.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Leno loses a good deal of respect for groveling about making jokes about Koreans eating dogs even though...uh, Koreans really do eat dogs.
WTH is the matter with these apologizing pussies?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

We're gonna need a bigger cage;
Gallup Poll: 42 Million More Latin Americans Want to Come to U.S.

[Jane]

Time to disband thebFBI:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/03/23/here-we-go-fbi-knew-boulder-colorado-suspect-identity-prior-to-shooting/

[Jane]

I’m mad at Jay. That doesn’t sound like him!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Biden essentially says that if the Democrats fail at HR1 making the USA a one party state and a Republican Senate ever exists again the filibuster would be a good thing. But for now it is only acceptable with a Democratic Senate if the GOP doesn't use it; or to put it another way, four leg Mister Smith good, two leg Mister Smith bad.

[Dave (in MA)]

https://nypost.com/2021/03/25/mr.mashed-potato-head-used-cheat-sheet-during-his-first-press-conference

[Narciso]

Some people are too tapioca sensitive

https://mobile.twitter.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1375178712820355072

[Jane]

After that presser you have to wonder what world Biden is living in. Are his puppet masters telling him that stuff I’d true?

[Narciso]

So whats the answer?

https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2021/03/24/why-the-complaint-about-gov-noem-excluding-college-athletics-is-baseless-n349574/amp?__twitter_impression=true

[Jim Eagle]

Biden and cheat sheets? I am hoffified.

They guy has been a phony., liar and exagerrator alll his life.

I am still bafffled how anyone voted for him?

[Neo]

Barack Obama (@BarackObama) Tweeted:
VP Biden on Afghanistan: "We are leaving in 2014. Period."

https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/256576278818353152

[lurkersusie]

Good

John Solomon on Twitter: "Breaking: Michael Flynn’s relatives sue CNN for $75 million over report alleging QAnon affiliation | Just The News https://t.co/7RuskwHbKP" / Twitter

[CCGirl]

Steyn on Tucker was hilarious tonight!

[lurkersusie]

Mueller crew back together

Jeff Carlson on Twitter: "John Carlin is officially back as top aide to DAG Lisa Monaco... They will be running Jan 6 investigation w/Acting US Attorney for DC - Channing Phillips. Thanks a lot @GOP https://t.co/nPZ1nHDdYj" / Twitter

[CCGirl]

I meant to add that we may as well laugh while watching the demise of the country.

[Narciso]

Steyn does capture the insanity of the situation well.

[Narciso]

You know i thought all the references in thor were all fake, but they are genuine to norse mythology.