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2025-03-06 07:00 by Karl Denninger
in Corruption , 47 references
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Oh its better in Illinois (or insert some other state) than at the Federal level.

"This audit shows that the governor, that the program was rampant in overspending. It spent well in excess of 200% more than what was estimated in budgets and in appropriations," state Senate Republican leader John Curran told Fox News Digital in an interview. 

Faux liars, of course, call this "mismanagement."

It is not.  Spending in excess of appropriated limits is intentional and malicious theft from the taxpayer of the jurisdiction.

If I authorize you to spend $20 as a CEO and you spend $40 of the firm's money you stole the other $20.

That's a criminal act and in the amounts involved it is an extraordinarily serious felony.  Further, to the extent that anyone got paid those funds they are subject to clawback through legal process whether services and goods were provided or not since you never get title to a thing that is stolen.

If I steal a car and sell it to you then it matters not how long you've had it -- if the theft is discovered the vehicle is not yours as you never got actual title to it; it can and will be confiscated from you and returned to its lawful owner.

The same is true for money; no matter how much time passes until the people who had it stolen from them discover, or reasonably could discover, that it was stolen the clock does not start to run on criminal sanctions for the thief and title to the funds never passes to the person who stole it or those who got it as a result of the theft.

Oh, and the Governor deliberately tried to hide it:

"The governor was papering over this large spending with tax increases over the last several years, as well as COVID relief funds being spent on this rather than actually trying to rein in spending in the state of Illinois," Curran said. "Now that federal dollars have tapered off, we have a large budget deficit in Illinois this year and the governor is now being forced to try to end the program for all working adults."

That makes his actions obstruction of justice which is an additional felony.

Incidentally this EXACT bull**** below was Chief's argument for Biden ignoring the Supreme Court when it came to student loans.

Despite Pritzker's plan to cut funding for healthcare programs, he said during a Wednesday press conference that he supports some kind of universal health coverage: "The broader context is people need to get health care." 

Theft and obstruction of justice are ok if someone needs something?

No they're not, so **** you Pritzker -- with a cactus.

That is a bankrupt argument and if its your justification for deliberate obstruction we'll add that as proof of intent so there goes your argument that it was due to "accident" or "bad data."

YOU DID IT ON PURPOSE ****HEAD and off to prison you damn well have to go RIGHT ****ING NOW.

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2025-03-05 18:06 by Karl Denninger
in Health Reform , 110 references
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... and anyone who pushed this crap, when it was blatantly obvious from the outset this would be the case and thus their actions were intentional and profit-driven, should hang for it.

The study focused on 107,583 patients 18 and over with gender dysphoria, some who underwent surgery and others who did not.

They determined rates of depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation and substance-use disorders were "significantly higher" among those who underwent surgery, assessed two years later.

Males with surgery had depression rates of 25% compared to males without surgery (11.5%). Anxiety rates among that group were 12.8% compared to 2.6%.

The same differences were seen among females, as those with surgery had 22.9% depression rates compared to 14.6% in the non-surgical group.

Well duh.

If you cut off your genitals since there is no way to make functional other-sex components you have permanently destroyed the capacity for an adult sexual relationship.

You cannot gestate or sire a child (this should be instantly obvious.)

But much worse:

You cannot have an ordinary adult orgasm because the neural connections that were originally there have been severed and cannot be recreated.  Since those connections are different between men and women it is not possible to create the interconnections of one sex in another after the point of conception as they grew differently from the first cellular division onward.

In short someone who undergoes this cannot have ordinary heterosexual relations, whether said stimulation is digital, oral or penetrative (e.g. intercourse) with another person and enjoy it as an adult of that sex ordinarily would as it is impossible to create a functional, including the neural connections necessary, penis or vagina; the best of medical technology produces the appearance but not a functional sexual organ even if only for personal pleasure (with reproduction obviously entirely and permanently off the table.)  Worse, this problem does not extend only to you; the other person you engage with will, with certainly, not have an ordinary adult sexual experience with you either.  Any person of said other sex who desires said ordinary adult sexual experience is likely to be disappointed (at best.)  This will severely limit your choice of partners to those individuals who are willing to be with you despite these self-imposed limitations.

All of this is both certain (not speculative) and utterly irreversible.

Go have this conversation with someone who supports "trans" ****.  Not cross-dressing which is entirely cosmetic and does nothing to your actual sexual capacity, but rather cutting off and fashioning fake sexual organs.

Having read a couple of "common" consent forms this is not clearly explained at all and much of it is claimed to be "speculative" -- that is, the word "might" or "may" instead of "WILL" is used.

There is no MIGHT about any of the above -- it will occur 100% of the time, with absolute certainty, and THAT is what "informed consent" must disclose to each and every person contemplating this or any physician and medical center personnel involved MUST BE BANKRUPTED AND THEN HANG for their INTENTIONAL AND FRAUDULENT DESTRUCTION OF SAID ADULT'S SEXUAL FUNCTION.

Adults are free to mutilate themselves and face the consequences if and only if they give actual informed consent -- and the current "forms" do not do this, intentionally so.

But no part of that, however, including any chemical path that leads there, can be permitted to be practiced upon someone who is not an adult and thus fully personally and financially responsible for all of the above and thus qualified to make that decision irrespective of the circumstances.

Ever.

Period.

Violating that stricture must be a death penalty offense.

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2025-03-05 16:04 by Karl Denninger
in Musings , 28 references
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I'm speaking of crypto of course.

"Oh, you transacted and it flowed through an offshore place, to or from an offshore entity?  Pay up."

And let's not forget that every transaction is traceable, with mathematical certainty so there is no denying you did indeed transact.

Oh, the transaction crossed a border twice (one to an exchange and then back to you)?  Pay twice assuming both nations levy a tariff, of course.

Try to evade paying?  Why that's a criminal offense (tax evasion) so now you get to pay up and go to prison.

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2025-03-04 19:24 by Karl Denninger
in Podcasts , 34 references
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Yes, it will be.

I will embed the Rumble for this closer to the time -- but be aware, it will be live, no-bull**** commentary which means I WILL mute the TV.  If you want video turn it on somewhere else because my end will be audio only, plus me -- no, I'm not going to broadcast Trump's face or Congress.

Here it comes.

Basic rules:

  • "Make America Great Again": DRINK
  • "Secure Border": DRINK
  • "DOGE": DRINK

  • ANY reference to ARRESTING Health Executives or those who harbor or assist Illegal Aliens backed with actual threats to do it (or better, actual indictments): DRAIN THE BOTTLE

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2025-03-03 22:47 by Karl Denninger
in Interviews , 26 references
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Karl Denninger aka The Ticker Guy is an author, and owner of the market-ticker.org. He talks suppression on social media, what might have lead to the Trump/Zelensky argument, Europe, war with Russia, AI, dollar, healthcare in this country, recession concerns, and much more.

https://rumble.com/v6q32q8-i-want-a-transcript-of-the-conversation-zelensky-had-with-the-democratic-ca.html

Come and get it!  Long, but worth it.

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