Alex Jones is so 2015. He wasn't nutty enough for the True Believers, so they'ave graduated to something called #QAnon, which posits that Barack Obama has been arrested and is in Guantanamo awaiting execution and the guy who went to Barbara Bush's funeral was really a body double. Supposedly, there is someone very close to President Trump called "Q" (and it might be Trump himself!) who posts updates to the Trump Underground via 8chan in a sort of Burroughs-like cutup poetry. It's crap-on-the-floor crazy and almost certainly an FSB psy-op, judging by the accounts that only seem to exist to advance the conspiracy theory. It's a LARP for incels and foreign cops, and the tiny group of Americans involved are probably going to end up getting themselves hurt.
#FollowTheWhiteRabbit #StormysComing #April in Paris #IJustShitInMyHand #TrustSessions #JesusIsLord #QAnon
You do realize that the Republicans sent a recommendation for prosecution [house.gov] to the AG for Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Loretta Lynch, right?
And the Justice Department under Jeff Sessions put it right in the circular file where it belongs. There will be no charges.
And also note that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher claims to have physical proof [breitbart.com] that the Russians did not hack the DNC.
You mean the Dana Rohrabacher who the Kremlin has considered an intelligence source for the past two decades and so important that they gave him a code name? THAT Dana Rohrabacher?
Yep, one or two trips to the guillotine, and the rest will start...fleeing your country and taking what they can with them. For an example, see Venezuela.
So, you're saying it's a win-win? And why would billionaires fleeing the US go to Venezuela?
First of all, Houston is NOT "crime-rotted". In fact, it has a lower crime rate than Anchorage, Alaska. It's one of the safest big cities in America.
Second, Houston is most definitely run by Democrats. It's an extremely liberal city. They had the first openly lesbian mayor of any city in the US and currently has Democrats in all leadership positions.
I mean, six months ago there weren't these constant drumbeats of anti-facebook stories.
There were anti-Facebook "drumbeats" as early as 2007, when they first announced the Beacon project (Facebook scripts on non-FB websites). There were plenty of warnings, for those with ears to year and eyes to see.
The reason you only started noticing them six months ago is because you see attacks on Facebook as attacks on Donald Trump's legitimacy. Which they are.
Trump was a total outsider,
Nobody with money is an outsider when it comes to US politics. Donald Trump is the ultimate insider. He's been shmoozing politicians and the powerful for decades. They way he's opened the executive branch to every two-bit huckster and leech (DeVos, Pruitt, Mnuchin, Pompeo, etc etc) is the Swamp personified. Remember the chief scientist for the Department of Agriculture that had no background in science? Remember Kris Kobach? He made Mike Goddamn Flynn the national security advisor and it turned out he was an agent of at least one foreign government.
For chrissake, where did you get the idea that he's some kind of outsider, or that someone with absolutely no experience governing and little experience running successful businesses could possibly do well as president?
If people are willing to take the jobs, then Amazon is paying what the market will bear. If Amazon couldn't fill their positions, they'd have to offer higher salaries.
The theory of "supply and demand" hasn't been operable in over half a century. Big employers distort anything like a free market. What you end up with is more akin to a monopsony than a marketplace.
Don't get me wrong, people do need to earn a living, but cherry-picking a few successful businesses and giving them the stink-finger for not paying decent wages isn't the solution.
The only other option that has ever worked is collective bargaining. That's why the biggest corporations and "conservative" politicians have conspired since the mid 1970s to destroy organized labor.
There are only two forces that can possibly counter corporate power: 1) unions and 2) government regulation. I would much rather see 1 than 2.
You wouldn't have to seize anything. One or two well-publicized billionaire trips to the guillotine and the rest would start behaving better. It's possible that the most humane thing you could to do better the lives of the most people is executing a few billionaires. However, I'm pro-life and don't believe in the death penalty, so I think curb-stomping should suffice. We've tried the carrot, now it's time to try the stick.
It's like the broken window theory of law enforcement, except applied to plutocrats. If you let them get away with underpaying employees to increase their own wealth, the next thing you know they're creating private armies and destroying media outlets who report on their bullshit.
And this one is to show that profit is being reported as costs when a pharma does R&D and clinical trials (this one might be behind a paywall for you).
Forbes did a survey of 100 pharmaceutical companies. The average estimate they gave for the cost of developing a new prescription drug and bringing it to market was $5 billion (with a "b"). It turns out that the average new drug costs $30-40 million for R&D plus clinical trials.
Other reasons for this: (1) Classism. "We don't want poor or immigrant customers who don't have a credit card or check card. We cater to millennial hipsters only."
Except the data shows those "millennial hipsters" prefer paying in cash. I mean, it's right in the summary.
"For starters, upscale Millennials -- among the most coveted of diners because of their youth and affluence -- prefer to pay in cash, according to Bankrate.com data. "
What I cannot fathom is someone paying tens or hundreds of millions for a clinical trial.
The numbers that get thrown about regarding the cost of conducting clinical trials are inflated by thousands of percent. Profits are disguised as costs. It's a huge scam. Plus, much of the cost of clinical trials in the US is subsidized by the taxpayers.
Without profits, there is no incentive to do any R&D.
That's utter horseshit. You've been so brainwashed by the ubiquitous marketing of a late-stage capitalist system that you can't even fathom someone doing research without corporate sponsorship. It's robbed you of imagination.
Yes, you can. The prosecution of corporations for crimes was established in 1909, in a case called, New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Co. v. United States.
The Arthur Anderson company learned about this first-hand back in 2002.
If you don't work for more than a quarter of a year, you should be called part-time FFS. Was hoping you meant weeks, not months.
Well, technically, summer vacation is a little less than three months. All the grades have to be in by the third week of June and the next academic year starts the second week of September. And since I have to prepare for the next quarter, Winter Break is really only about three weeks' long. And I usually have to do yard work during Spring Break, so that doesn't really count as vacation.
Personally, I don't care if someone wants to call it part-time or full-time. As long as I get paid year round and have full benefits and a pension, you can call it whistling dixie. I don't exist to meet your work requirements.
If QAnon is a fraud, how do you explain the fact that Obama is in Guantanamo awaiting execution and I just made a dukey that looks exactly like #45 raising his hands like Rocky?
Anyway, I suppose it's better than killing Tigers and other endangered species for their bone(r)s because some old guys can't get a proper erection any more.
Why do you libs have to make everything about President Trump?
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Alex Jones is so 2015. He wasn't nutty enough for the True Believers, so they'ave graduated to something called #QAnon, which posits that Barack Obama has been arrested and is in Guantanamo awaiting execution and the guy who went to Barbara Bush's funeral was really a body double. Supposedly, there is someone very close to President Trump called "Q" (and it might be Trump himself!) who posts updates to the Trump Underground via 8chan in a sort of Burroughs-like cutup poetry. It's crap-on-the-floor crazy and almost certainly an FSB psy-op, judging by the accounts that only seem to exist to advance the conspiracy theory. It's a LARP for incels and foreign cops, and the tiny group of Americans involved are probably going to end up getting themselves hurt.
#FollowTheWhiteRabbit
#StormysComing
#April in Paris
#IJustShitInMyHand
#TrustSessions
#JesusIsLord
#QAnon
And the Justice Department under Jeff Sessions put it right in the circular file where it belongs. There will be no charges.
You mean the Dana Rohrabacher who the Kremlin has considered an intelligence source for the past two decades and so important that they gave him a code name? THAT Dana Rohrabacher?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/11...
https://www.vanityfair.com/new...
http://thehill.com/homenews/ca...
The way unemployment is measured and calculated has not changed since before Ronald Reagan.
This is a common misconception. It's also why I linked to a source that includes the U5 and U6 figures.
Of course not. I'm no monster. You clearly missed the part where I said this:
So, you're saying it's a win-win? And why would billionaires fleeing the US go to Venezuela?
You're not making much sense, lad.
First of all, Houston is NOT "crime-rotted". In fact, it has a lower crime rate than Anchorage, Alaska. It's one of the safest big cities in America.
Second, Houston is most definitely run by Democrats. It's an extremely liberal city. They had the first openly lesbian mayor of any city in the US and currently has Democrats in all leadership positions.
Unemployment was lower during the Clinton administration, which I'm pretty sure was less than 67 years ago.
See September of 2000, for example:
http://www.macrotrends.net/137...
And that the three main measurements of unemployment, the official overall, the U5 and the U6.
There were anti-Facebook "drumbeats" as early as 2007, when they first announced the Beacon project (Facebook scripts on non-FB websites). There were plenty of warnings, for those with ears to year and eyes to see.
The reason you only started noticing them six months ago is because you see attacks on Facebook as attacks on Donald Trump's legitimacy. Which they are.
Nobody with money is an outsider when it comes to US politics. Donald Trump is the ultimate insider. He's been shmoozing politicians and the powerful for decades. They way he's opened the executive branch to every two-bit huckster and leech (DeVos, Pruitt, Mnuchin, Pompeo, etc etc) is the Swamp personified. Remember the chief scientist for the Department of Agriculture that had no background in science? Remember Kris Kobach? He made Mike Goddamn Flynn the national security advisor and it turned out he was an agent of at least one foreign government.
For chrissake, where did you get the idea that he's some kind of outsider, or that someone with absolutely no experience governing and little experience running successful businesses could possibly do well as president?
The theory of "supply and demand" hasn't been operable in over half a century. Big employers distort anything like a free market. What you end up with is more akin to a monopsony than a marketplace.
The only other option that has ever worked is collective bargaining. That's why the biggest corporations and "conservative" politicians have conspired since the mid 1970s to destroy organized labor.
There are only two forces that can possibly counter corporate power: 1) unions and 2) government regulation. I would much rather see 1 than 2.
You wouldn't have to seize anything. One or two well-publicized billionaire trips to the guillotine and the rest would start behaving better. It's possible that the most humane thing you could to do better the lives of the most people is executing a few billionaires. However, I'm pro-life and don't believe in the death penalty, so I think curb-stomping should suffice. We've tried the carrot, now it's time to try the stick.
It's like the broken window theory of law enforcement, except applied to plutocrats. If you let them get away with underpaying employees to increase their own wealth, the next thing you know they're creating private armies and destroying media outlets who report on their bullshit.
OK...I'd think by know you ACs would know better than to challenge me.
This one is to show R&D and clinical trial costs are inflated.
https://www.npr.org/sections/h...
And this one is to show that profit is being reported as costs when a pharma does R&D and clinical trials (this one might be behind a paywall for you).
https://www.nature.com/article...
Forbes did a survey of 100 pharmaceutical companies. The average estimate they gave for the cost of developing a new prescription drug and bringing it to market was $5 billion (with a "b"). It turns out that the average new drug costs $30-40 million for R&D plus clinical trials.
Except the data shows those "millennial hipsters" prefer paying in cash. I mean, it's right in the summary.
The numbers that get thrown about regarding the cost of conducting clinical trials are inflated by thousands of percent. Profits are disguised as costs. It's a huge scam. Plus, much of the cost of clinical trials in the US is subsidized by the taxpayers.
That's utter horseshit. You've been so brainwashed by the ubiquitous marketing of a late-stage capitalist system that you can't even fathom someone doing research without corporate sponsorship. It's robbed you of imagination.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, you can. The prosecution of corporations for crimes was established in 1909, in a case called, New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Co. v. United States.
The Arthur Anderson company learned about this first-hand back in 2002.
Except Washington DC.
That sounds like the beginning of a joke.
There you are! I keep missing you. We must be on different schedules.
Well, technically, summer vacation is a little less than three months. All the grades have to be in by the third week of June and the next academic year starts the second week of September. And since I have to prepare for the next quarter, Winter Break is really only about three weeks' long. And I usually have to do yard work during Spring Break, so that doesn't really count as vacation.
Personally, I don't care if someone wants to call it part-time or full-time. As long as I get paid year round and have full benefits and a pension, you can call it whistling dixie. I don't exist to meet your work requirements.
If QAnon is a fraud, how do you explain the fact that Obama is in Guantanamo awaiting execution and I just made a dukey that looks exactly like #45 raising his hands like Rocky?
#TrustSessions
#WeAreTheStorm
#NoVaccines
#ETPhoneHome
#IJustCrappedInMyHand
So don't blame Chicago for something the state tollway authority does.
It's "whack" job, and everyone here knows dead serious is my jam.
Do I have to choose?
Why do you libs have to make everything about President Trump?
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Maybe the crazy old bat thinks this time she'll win by even more than 3,000,000 votes.
But it won't work because the video of her torturing and raping an adolescent girl is about to come out. You think I'm kidding?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
#QAnon
#StormysComing
#FolllowTheWhiteRabbit
#PatriotsDay
#AprilShowers