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Economics / Re: These States Are Quietly Going Bankrupt (And No One Is Watching)
« Last post by SVPete on May 13, 2026, 09:26:29 AM »
More accurately:

And they've known it for decades, and to paper over their over-spending sprees they steal from pension funds which likely will never be paid back.

CA has under-funded pensions for decades and played games with shifting $$ from one purpose to another, and still is held together by the industries that the state and local gooberments are driving out of the state.
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Another Trump-Is-Dying fantasy-wish-post? :rotf: How unoriginal. :tongue:

And Trump is so eeeee-vile that he will return from China in the same good health as when he departed. :-)
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Update May 2026

Almost four years debt free. My wife retired last December and I'm going to hang it up this December. We purchased a 2 year old car last May, paid cash.

Still maxing out my 401K and our brokerage account is growing well. I have a pre-tax rollover IRA, will start converting to Roth this year and finish  by Dec 2028. 2029  will have to start doing RMDs for my wife's 403B.  A solid retirement account system.

Because we waited to age 69 to retire and start our SS (and we have a small pension) and we have cut out unnecessary spending and have no debt, our fixed income will pay our expenses with a decent (and investable) surplus. I can say with a straight face that most of the progress we have made to secure our financial (and retirement) future took place during the last 10 years, from age 59 to 69. We plan on leaving our nest egg alone for the foreseeable future, let it grow and compound.

Have a great day everyone!
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The DUmpster / Re: I aced the S.A.T's and my IQ test
« Last post by FlippyDoo on May 13, 2026, 08:06:39 AM »
Your duties as fictional spirit guide to wayward DUmmies kept you busy. :-)

Yeah, it was a very frustrating endeavor. I remember my dad asking me one day why I put up with all of their filth and hatred to try to help them. I told him that sometimes you have to go through the bad to get to the good. I’ll never forget his reply. He shook his head in disbelief and said, “What ‘good’ do you hope to get to? They’re brainless pustules of hatred. It’s somewhat like dealing with a rock. You can spend all sorts of time and energy trying to clean it and even polish it, but when you’re finish you’re still ultimately dealing with a rock!”

Dad really didn't think much of lefties like those idiots at DU.
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Dog whistle for "is he dead yet."   :whatever:
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These States Are Quietly Going Bankrupt (And No One Is Watching)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IkmN7bL9z0

Not surprised by the usual suspects, like California, Illinois, and Connecticut. Their problems are their own doing. They spend way beyond their means.

And they've known it for years, and to paper over their over-spending sprees they steal from pension funds which likely will never be paid back.
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What "heart failure"? Grossly overweight?

I guess PC Janitor has been listening WAY too much to MS-13NOW and reading "Blueski".
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The DUmpster / Frankly, if my grossly overweight patient with heart failure and
« Last post by CC27 on May 13, 2026, 07:03:13 AM »
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PCIntern (28,562 posts)

Frankly, if my grossly overweight patient with heart failure and

Obvious deterioration both mentally and physically, progressing rapidly, grossly swollen legs and feet and history of Transient Ischemic Attacks, I would advise against a 20,000 mile round trip airline flight, no matter how mobile you could in fact be during that flight.

This trip has potential to be highly problematic health-wise. But what do I know?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221234762

Only a DUmmie could come up with something this stupid.  They just want to fail on this trip to China. Did this idiot see the line up of CEOS Trump bought with to China
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The DUmpster / Re: I aced the S.A.T's and my IQ test
« Last post by Ptarmigan on May 12, 2026, 09:53:58 PM »
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PCIntern (28,502 posts) Thu Apr 30, 2026, 03:09 PM

I aced the S.A.T's and my IQ test as well as every

Other test I’ve been given. When I was in dental school, many of the instructors asked me for clinical advice and I graduated first in my class, receiving grades which had never ever been seen by anyone before.

When I entered clinical practice, people who observed my results would literally gasp in amazement and big strong men would come up to me with tears in their eyes and say, “Doctor, sir, I didn’t think it was humanly possible to create such beauty.” DaVinci and Rembrandt were said to be the greatest of their times, but many tell me that they think that I’m more artistic. Maybe, I guess maybe I might be.

I am very critical of the design of dental equipment and supplies: I know more about this technology than anyone and I know more about disease and the science of pathologies than anyone. I am the master of curing people of any ailment, although I confine myself to the oral cavity because my beautiful wife prefers it that way. She’s an Einstein-level person and knows twelve languages and the history of a hundred countries to the nth degree.

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Now imagine I was saying this on a daily basis: I would be measured for a straitjacket and having my license suspended indefinitely. People would be both laughing at me and shaking their heads in disbelief that anyone was so capable of clearly lying continuously. I would be the subject of countless denigrating dinner conversations and the butt of every joke. Just outrageous.

Well then.
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More than a Dozen Washington, DC Cops Suspended in Fake Crime Stats Scandal
https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2026/05/06/more-than-a-dozen-washington-dc-cops-suspended-in-fake-crime-stats-scandal/

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Thirteen Washington, DC police officers, including reportedly some “high ranking” department officials, have been suspended in connection with an internal investigation into how the department has been formulating crime statistics — a matter also probed by Congress and the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Washington interim Police Chief Jeffery Carroll announced the suspensions on Tuesday. It is seen as the first step in part of a sometimes lengthy process of terminating their employment.

Carroll took over the top cop spot six months ago after the resignation of former chief Pamela Smith amid allegations that Metropolitan Police Department officials were manipulating crime data in the District.

Carroll said Tuesday at a news conference that assessments and training were underway for officers on how to submit data. He said the internal investigation would not be released publicly.

I consider crime statistics dubious. I am pretty sure crime statistics manipulation are happening in other cities as well.
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