Odds and Ends — 30 March 2022
I’ve mentioned more than once that I don’t relish playing against Life (it’s the splinter that I grok the least) but using Quix does seem to help when running into General Sloan.
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:
Ripple co-founder wants to change Bitcoin into a shitcoin a la Ripple🤣 pic.twitter.com/17UMytzOUn
— PlanB (@100trillionUSD) March 29, 2022
8/9. That's the Fed’s record on triggering a recession while trying to fix inflation.
“Global supply strains that started to ease in early 2022 are worsening again as headwinds strengthen from the war in Ukraine and China’s Covid lockdowns, threatening slower growth and faster inflation across the global economy,” Bloomberg reports.
New York Times: “In a world contending with no end of economic troubles, a fresh source of concern now looms: the prospect of a confrontation between union dockworkers and their employers at some of the most critical ports on earth.”
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
FDA Authorizes Second Booster Shot
India sees tuberculosis resurgence after Covid-19 hit fight against ‘silent killer’
Politics:
Here is a secret no one in Washington is willing to say out loud: Ginni Thomas is an idiot. The only reason she was texting the president’s chief of staff instead of being the angry cat lady on Facebook is because she married a man who got himself appointed to the Supreme Court.
Oh, do read the whole thing. It’s a hoot.
REMINDER: Clarence Thomas covered up over $685,000 that his wife Ginni received from the right-wing Heritage Foundation. In the space on the disclosure form where he was supposed to write his spouse’s income, he wrote “none” instead.
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) March 29, 2022
Perdue Now Claims He Didn’t Lose His Re-Election Race
The former U.S. senator this week falsely claimed for the first time that he didn’t lose to U.S. Jon Ossoff in the 2021 runoffs. And he doubled down on that lie at the Trump rally, claiming that he and Trump were both victims of “stolen” elections.
Merrick Garland Has More Than Enough on Trump
A federal judge thinks that former President Donald Trump likely committed fraud — and probably knew it — when he and one of his lawyers, John Eastman, plotted to block Congress’s certification of the 2020 presidential election so Trump could hold on to power.
So how much longer will it take Attorney General Merrick Garland to draw the same conclusion about that attempted coup?
GOP Lawmaker Wants to ‘Expunge’ Trump’s Impeachment
Yeah, it doesn’t work that way.
Donald Trump conspired with the Russian government to steal an election, blackmailed the Ukrainian president to dig up dirt on his political rival, sexually assaulted dozens of women, committed tax fraud, and incited an insurrection but nobody slapped him.
— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) March 29, 2022
January 6th White House Logs Show 7-Hour Gap
Heh. Nixon famously had an 18-minute gap.
More on those 7+ missing hours.
But wait, it gets better:
NEWS: Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton said in an interview Tuesday, after the CBS-Post reporting was published, that he recalls Trump using the term “burner phones” in several discussions and that Trump was aware of its meaning…
— Robert Costa (@costareports) March 29, 2022
Gangsters never learn. Often, it’s not the crime that gets you, it’s the coverup.
G7 Won’t Pay for Russian Gas in Rubles
Trump’s January 6 Plot Appears Darker by the Day
Former President Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election is being revealed week-by-week to be deeper and broader than it initially appeared, sharpening the national dilemma of if and how he could ever be held to account.
It’s extraordinary that, more than 14 months on, new details of efforts by Trump and those around him to subvert President Joe Biden’s victory are still emerging.
Odesa defies Russia and embraces signs of life
Ukraine Releases Names of 600 Alleged Russian Spies
Ukraine’s defense intelligence ministry released a list of more than 600 alleged Russian spies working in Europe in an apparent attempt to burn them and weaken Russia’s intelligence operations across the continent.
Rand Paul Stalls Bill to Punish Russia
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is planning to sit down with Rep. Madison Cawthorn and talk to the North Carolina Republican about his latest incendiary public comment — suggesting that some of his colleagues invited him to orgies as well as used cocaine in front of him.
During a closed-door House GOP conference meeting on Tuesday, multiple Republicans in the room said lawmakers stood up to air their anger and frustration over Cawthorn portraying his own colleagues as bacchanalian and sexual deviants.
Only in America: Mayoral candidate smashes election laptop with hammer labeled ‘truth’ and’'justice,’ pleads no contest
McCarthy Threatens Tech and Telecom Firms
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is threatening telecommunications and social media companies that comply with a request by the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, declaring that Republicans ‘will not forget’ their actions.
Serendipity:
Why U.S. Population Growth Is Collapsing
Dirty bomb ingredients go missing from Chornobyl monitoring lab
