Sick times

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It’s not just Greenwich’s Taylor Lorenz who wants to see CEO’s assassinated. Every proper leftist from Elizabeth Warren to that crazed racist on The View have expressed support for the killing of Brian Thompson, and that’s to be expected, but the rot has metastasized downward into the lowest ranks of the wokists. Here are just three examples:

The founder of a high-end backpack company has been bombarded with vicious online abuse and death threats after providing police with a tip about murder suspect Luigi Mangione.

Peter Dering, CEO of Peak Design, said he and his employees have been targeted with terrifying messages after he contacted law enforcement about recognizing his company's bag in surveillance footage of the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Online trolls branded him a 'snitch,' some even calling for his execution and the downfall of his company after he admitted in a December 5 New York Times article that he contacted police immediately after seeing his product in images of the alleged shooter.

The bag, found stuffed with Monopoly money in Central Park, was linked to Mangione, the suspect in Thompson's killing.

Shocking online messages revealed the extent of the vitriol directed at Dering. 

One X user warned: 'All CEOs are the same and deserve the same fate as Brian Thompson.'

Another made a chilling joke about a 'Closing sale event coming soon' for his company.

'Don't buy @peakdesignltd their CEO @dering_peter is a rat. #FreeLuigi,' yet another user chimed in. 

The founder of a “socialist apparel” brand who has called online for the death of corporate executives is planning to sell a deck of cards of “most wanted CEOs” — complete with names and faces and decorated with illustrations of gun range targets.

Comrade Workwear founder James Harr announced the disturbing project just days after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was executed on the streets of Midtown Manhattan.

He said it was inspired by the “most-wanted Iraqi” playing card decks famously distributed to US and coalition forces during the 2003 invasion of Iraq to help identify key targets in Saddam Hussein’s circle.

That deck helped soldiers “find and do what they needed to do” to those depicted, said Harr, whose social accounts are loaded with anti-capitalism posts and images including one reading “the CEO must die.”

He then blithely rattles off numerous A-list CEOs — whom The Post is choosing not to name — to be included in the deck, asking his combined 109,000 followers between Instagram and TikTok to help come up with more.

The comment thread below the Instagram post was flooded with praise from followers, who threw out scores of suggestions for other potential targets to feature in the deck, with many pledging to buy it as soon as it’s available for purchase.

Does it include addresses?” asked one commenter inquiring what information would be available on the cards.

“We need cards for good guys like Luigi [Mangione] too,” wrote another in reference to Thompson’s accused killer.

In a follow-up post on TikTok, Harr gleefully shows off preliminary design mock-ups of the deck, which he said will be separated into suits representing different industries.

Clubs, for instance, will include CEOs of pharmaceutical and chemical companies, Harr says in the video. Hearts will represent “things you need to survive” like retail and real estate; Diamonds will feature CEOs in “tech, finance and media” while spades will depict chief executives of companies involved in “oil and war.”

The reverse side of each card includes the words “most-wanted CEOs playing cards” and an image of a red human silhouette gun range target.

UnitedHealthcare and a number of other corporations have scrubbed the names of their top executives from their websites or marked their Wikipedia pages for deletion in the wake of Thompson’s murder.

The cards’ obverse sides feature a black-and-white close-up of each CEO’s face, with their name and affiliation, along with QR codes under the heading “why they’re evil,” which Harr says will lead to dedicated web pages outlining their apparent sins.

Rushing to bury the bodies

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“All I know about it is that it’s bigger than a choo choo train, and Hunter’s friends like it.”

Free Beacon: Dem Lawmakers Hinder Federal Investigation Into Biden Admin's $400 Billion Green Energy Loans

Democratic lawmakers are seeking to hinder a federal watchdog investigation into misconduct within the Biden administration’s $400 billion green energy loan program—a sign Democrats could be growing concerned about what the long-running probe has uncovered.

The inspector general for the Department of Energy has spent over a year investigating the Loan Programs Office, which has been accused of dishing out billions in government loans to politically connected recipients, including companies teetering on bankruptcy and entities linked to foreign adversaries.

Now Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have taken the unusual step of launching an investigation into the investigators. In a letter last week, Democrats accused DOE inspector general Teri Donaldson of "bypass[ing] competition requirements that exist to ensure taxpayer dollars are not wasted" when she hired an outside law firm, Rabalais & Associates, to assist in her probe.

Energy insiders said the Democrats’ move to target the inspector general was "weird" and indicates that the Biden administration is concerned about what the forthcoming IG report will reveal.

"To be investigating the IG, that’s a little weird," one former DOE official told the Washington Free Beacon. "They’re trying to discredit the report before it’s even released."

"That probably means the report’s pretty bad," the former official added.

Donaldson, who defended the law firm’s hiring in a written response on Wednesday, is expected to release a report on the loan office that could contain damaging revelations about the Biden administration's program. The once-sleepy loan office, whose budget was expanded more than 2,200 percent under President Joe Biden, now has a lending authority that rivals the commercial loan portfolio size of Wells Fargo and other international banks.

In recent weeks, the loan office has been scrambling to push out multibillion-dollar loans before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

Donaldson told lawmakers in 2023 that her office was "looking at conflicts of interest particularly in the Loan Programs Office," following Free Beacon reports that the loan program’s director had personal, professional, or financial ties to some of the companies receiving loans. Last summer, Donaldson expanded the probe by hiring Houston-based energy law group Rabalais & Associates.

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She also defended her probe as "long over-due," noting that the loan office had a "checkered history" and hasn’t been properly reviewed in over a decade. In 2012, the Loan Programs Office was embroiled in scandal after issuing a $500 million loan to Solyndra, a politically connected solar company that went bankrupt and defaulted.

The type of person who would base his buying decision on a neighbor’s politics is not who I’d want moving in next to me, but still … creepy.

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on the other hand, if it saved me from buying next door to a house filled with crippled transvestites and illegal aliens, maybe this app would be useful

From FWIW’s Taos correspondant, this:

New real estate platform lets homebuyers check their neighbors’ political affiliations

A new real estate platform is giving homebuyers an unprecedented peek into their potential neighborhoods — revealing everything from political leanings to local demographics — before they even commit to buying.

Oyssey, a tech startup soft-launching this month in South Florida and New York City, lets buyers access neighborhood political affiliations based on election results and campaign contributions, along with housing trends and other social data.

The platform is betting that today’s buyers care just as much about their neighbors’ values as they do about square footage or modern finishes.

“It’s about getting buyers homes that they love,” CEO Huw Nierenberg, a former Boston real estate agent told Axios, which reported news of the tool. Nierenberg didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

He says buyers’ priorities have evolved, explaining that during house tours, “buyers often move from asking whether the water heater is leaking to wondering if their neighbors are folks they’d like to invite to dinner someday.”

Surprisingly, only three students volunteered to waste their time on this course; the professor will still be paid, of course (UPDATED)

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From The Maine Wire

Down the Crapper: Maine University Offers Class on Bathrooms

Students of the taxpayer-funded University of Maine at Augusta will have the opportunity to take a college-level course all about bathrooms starting in the spring semester, studying under gender studies professor Lisa M. Botshon.

The upcoming class, “An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Bathroom,” promises to consider the various “values” surrounding the act of using the bathroom in different cultures and examine the way the “politics of identity” influences our thoughts on restrooms.

“Everyone has to go to the bathroom. However, where we go, how we go, when we go, and the ideas and values that surround that act vary among cultures and across time and space,” said a flyer advertising the course.

…. Professor Botshon, a member of the English department, focuses her research on female writers, gender, race, and ethnicity, along with American pop culture.

Botshon is a registered Democrat and, according to publicly available payroll information, makes $93,616.23 a year in her taxpayer-funded salary as a professor at one of Maine’s many state-funded universities…. Her other Spring 2025 classes include the distinct courses “Women Writers” and “Major Women Writers.”

Botshon’s bathroom class is not the only outlandish course funded by Maine taxpayers at UMA.

Students can bask in the knowledge of “Feminist Praxis for Radical Self and Community Care,” which boldly claims, “Radical self-care is inside-out work,” and promises to teach attendees how to develop their own self-care routines.

Education students can take the “Mindful Teachers Teaching Mindfulness” course, which promises vaguely to enumerate the benefits of “practicing mindfulness.”

“Mindful teachers teaching mindfulness can reduce stress and anxiety, promote focus and deeper engagement, and improve both academic and behavioral outcomes,” said the class description.

English majors can take the “Embodied Writing” class, which will “explore approaches for writing about our bodies (e.g., athleticism, disability, habitual actions) as well as what it means to be a body writing (i.e., physical ways of composing).”

Here’s hoping the DOGE program starts off by focusing on governmental subsidies for the nation’s colleges and universities.

UPDATE: Fewer potty training classes, more of these:

As predicted

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When 169 Old Church Road first appeared on the MLS back in November I wrote “[Being] sold ‘as is’, it’s not unfair to say that it’s worth whatever an acre of land of Old Church is worth, and no more.” Today it’s been reported sold for $2,210,000; the selling agent often represents builders, as I’m sure he did here.

So now we know what an acre of land on Old Church is worth.

Well, golllee — surprise, surprise surprise!

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how much!!!???

Cost to convert entire Greenwich fleet to electric leaf blowers 'shellshocking,' officials say

GREENWICH — Town officials voted to enact a summertime ban on gas-powered leaf blowers earlier this year and now the bill is coming due.

The Departments of Public Works and Parks and Recreation have asked finance officials for $476,000 to buy new electric leaf blowers and upgrade facilities to store the new gear.

… DPW and Parks and Recreation leaders told the Board of Estimate and Taxation on Dec. 10 that the $476,000 is basically the bare minimum they need to go electric and comply with the legislation.

“We're not over-asking,” Parks and Recreation director Joe Siciliano said. “We're just asking for what we think we need based on our work capacity and also the amount of acreage, which in Parks — it's over 2,000 acres.”

The total would allow the two departments to convert half of their respective blower fleets to electric, Deputy Commissioner of Public Works Jim Michel said.

"If we were to truly do this for the whole fleet, full power and so forth, we'd probably be looking at all new (electric) services, basically from the (utility) poles out on the street," he said. “Which would have been a significantly higher number than you even have in front of you today, which we knew was going to shellshock (the BET) because it was shellshocking us.” 

Parks and Recreation wants to buy 21 Stihl backpack leaf blowers, dozens of accompanying batteries, handheld leaf blowers and 21 portable power stations to charge up in the field. DPW is requesting the same equipment in smaller quantities.

The bulk of the cost, Siciliano said, comes from the batteries. The Parks Department asked for 21 primary backpack batteries which cost $1,529 each, according to BET documents, and each of the 42 backup batteries cost $1,299.

The departments have also asked for money to upgrade electrical panels in storage sheds so they can handle the excess power demands as well as money to buy specialized cabinets to hold the batteries. The cabinets are designed to stop the spread of fire if a battery fails and combusts.

Each battery lasts about two hours, officials said, but that can vary depending on how vigorously the batteries are being used. A light job may extend battery life past two hours, but intense blowing will drain the charge quicker.

Given that capacity, officials are working off the assumption that a blower will start a work day with two full batteries and one filling up on a mobile charger. As batteries are drained, they will go on the charger — and even then crews may run out of juice.

“I do think that the three (batteries) are gonna get us through the day, just barely, in most of our jobs,” Daniel Carlsen, assistant director of parks and recreation, said.

Those of you who employ private yard services can expect to add similar costs to your own bill, as well as joining your fellow tax payers in paying for this particular harebrained scheme. Did no one really not price this out before whooping it through the legislative process? Of course not; government by good intentions doesn’t work that way.

Fat, dumb and clueless is no way to go through life, Timmy

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Hey, I know what we should do next time: double-down on woke!

The failed VP candidate has been returned by his handlers to Minnesota, where he’s given an interview to a sympathetic local newspaper, expressing his disappointment and wondering where things went wrong.

"How in the world did we lose to a billionaire or a venture capitalist, when we were making the case of a country attorney and a high school teacher?" he asked later in the interview, contrasting his ticket with Trump’s.

Walz made the point that he thought his more humble economic status should have appealed to voters, and seemed puzzled that wasn’t the case.

"And I thought that would be something people say, ‘Well, this guy knows where we’re coming from. He’s had to pay his bills and still does,'" he said, referring to himself. [Vance grew up even poorer than Walz, but unlike this assistant high school football coach, made something of himself.]

Earlier in the discussion, Walz stated, "And this is the one that keeps me up at night, is I focused my whole career in focusing on the middle class… And it seemed like a lot of good ideas were coming from the Democrats."

"I still believe that," he continued, "but apparently in this election, not the majority of Americans did. They chose to vote with a billionaire, who’s talked about not paying overtime, who has a long history of not paying his workers, someone who wants to take away the ACA." [Heavens, how could the peasants possibly not be worried that ObamaKare might be repealed?]

Seeing this, Walz concluded that this happened because his party did not communicate their middle-class appeal well enough.

"So, I come back to the conclusion, is we did not do a good enough job – we as a Democratic Party and we as a ticket – did not do a good enough job of showing them that we understand where they’re coming from," the governor said.

He added, "And I feel like one of my roles is – going forward here is – figuring out a way to make the case to the public, the American public, is that the Democratic Party really is focused on the things they care about."

Clueless to the end, and beyond, Walz doesn’t realize that he has no role “going forward”; worse, he still believes that his party is “focused on things the American public care about”, like genital mutilation of minors, open borders for the world’s poor, forced purchase of $70,000 battery cars, elimination of cheap, abundant energy, destroy our military, and, of course, mandate tampon dispensers in boys bathrooms.

Keep it up, guy; may your party stay out of power forever.