Those whose memories aren't holed up somewhere so they retain pattern recognition will ask what swath of land is coveted by deep-pockets and political connections in La Isla del Encanto but currently inhabited by inconvenient and troublesome locals blocking grand 'redevelopment' plans?
Polymarket is adjusting odds accordingly.
As an aside, just noting where you're enjoying the Medalla's. I've never stopped in there but walked above it countless times on the path I frequently take between Old San Juan and Condado. Even enjoyed dancing with my love atop to the musicians playing at Ladi's below. Will have to go down the stairs to stop in next visit...if the lights are still on!
It depends, really, on whether or not the organization requires actionable results. With heavily-regulated utility companies, which is where she came from, the regulatory environment provides myriad opportunities to avoid accountability at the executive level, by the simple expedient of instigating "circular firing squads" of blame, when things go wrong.
I always think of author Ross Thomas's character "Otherguy Overby," in this context. "Otherguy" always managed to avoid consequences by insisting that it was "some other guy" that did it.
I've seen entire series' of middle executives operate on the "otherguy" principle, sometimes for decades, drawing generous compensation for continual failure.
Most are carpetbaggers, and Quinones fits that mold. Getting out just before the "hammer drops" is a superpower, one we observe at scale with functional psychopaths.
You kind of have to dig a bit deeply into the regulatory structure to wrap your mind around the "nuts and bolts" of it all.
While I don’t disagree. The right is following closely behind with their Cheeto savior syndrome. They can’t see the crypto Jews agenda. As they have Been too brainwashed with trust the plan ; q anon crap.
Its to break the system so they can implement "solutions" for the problem they created thereby blocking out actual solutions while simultaneously getting money to fix the problem they created so they can come up with more solutions that beget more problems.
If it sounds circular...or a word salad...thats cuz it is...and exactly the environment necessary to fail upward. And, incidentally why, when these morons speak, they speak in "salad-tongues".
“Too big to fail.” Arguably the highest point of the Wall Street/government rackets:
Let's get rich making ridiculous bets for as long as it holds, then when it crashes, plead ignorance, pocket gains, and convince the public we are in the best position to fix it. Rinse and repeat.
It is very much a plan. A well thought out synchronized plan. If you think it amiss. It’s because YOU can’t see it. These parasites are very cunning. Do t underestimate them. They merely play stupid because they want you to think they are. They are not. They play the long game.
It’s really not about them getting more money. As they showed they can just print more. It’s about driving us in debt. Taking away our power. so they have absolute.
2D FlatLander AngleLand down in the apartheid tunnel vision reptilian brain stem, the Amygdala. Governed by the Death and Aging hormones, Adrenaline and Cortisol.
Breath Deep, but instead of sucking in the Moody Blues Gathering Gloom, visualize God’s Love in your heart instead. And smile. These actions will erase Adrenaline and Cortisol. With DHEA. And restore 3D common sense up in the frontal cortex. Which allows 4D time lapse Divine Wisdom and Best Practices to be pragmatically incorporated into 3D common sense actions.
Now you understand how to return from Locust to Grasshopper. Wax on/Wax off creates 3D common sense muscle memory.
You are free to move about the universe freed from bondage to 2D FlatLand.
“But I can’t control my heart rate! Thar’s a mountain lyin’ on my Chest!”~ Ricky Bobby, Talladega Nights
“Hell, Ricky, I was high when I said that! That makes no sense at all! "First or last"! I mean, you could be second, third, fourth--hell, you could even be fifth!”
Oh, good lord, I am so sorry to hear this. I’m in LA and while I’m glad to finally see this criminal gone I don’t wish her on anyone. Prison would be too good for her. If we end up sending Karen Bass your way too then we know for sure it’s a conspiracy to send the most dangerously incompetent people to PR as a kind of imperial prison experiment. 🤦♂️
Send gruesome newsome with. He has enough grease on his head to light that brainless island afire- hopefully with some talentless, nasty naughty rabbit.
gato, you wrote that in PR, "if you don’t have a generator, you’re likely to deal with 'power out' about 28 hours a year (about 15X the mainland) in just a normal (non hurricane) year".
Consider yourself lucky, gato. For years, my family in La Habana has been enjoying DAILY 4-hour outages, matching your yearly outages in a single week's time. In the interior, my countrymen get about 4 hours of electricity a day. That's 4 hours of the power running, not 4 hours of blackout, every day.
Needless to say, they fail even on that score, as "some animals are more equal than others." Fidel Castro had a private detached home in the woods with fenced-off grounds and a swimming pool.
The power grid is in such disrepair because, most likely, money otherwise tagged for the grid, is being siphoned off elsewhere, into the accounts of people, who no doubt hold the Minneapolis scandal mongers in high esteem.
That being the case, the last thing they want to do is hire a competent overseer to come in, start banging heads, making changes, fixing infrastructure, and in general diverting all that money away from fraud.
It's happening everywhere. Infrastructure in blue cities and states is coming apart and when people complain the Democrats run the "vote to raise taxes or we'll have to fire the fire department" gambit. Pay no attention to the city councilwomen all having new fancy hair weaves or the mayor's new Mercedes.
Perhaps, next, Janisse Quiñones could fail upward to being in charge of developing and running the power an water for the big Artificial Intelligence centers. So, there may be some good that come out of all this after all.
At least you can sit at a table overlooking the ocean and drown your soon to be legion, sorrows. We are setting the clocks ahead to spring tonite and I still have two feet of snow covering everything.
Oh no! you must be high north. Yesterday here in Georgia we had to start cooling, it is 85F right now outside and probably a thunderstorm brewing, just like yesterday. I wish I could send you some sun to melt the snow away!
Are you sure Pakistan doesn't secretly own Puerto Rico? This sounds so...so...similar.
And--still learning awful new things about FDR after all these years. Starting to think Eleanor was maybe not all that saintly, to stick with a guy like that (even just for appearances). Perhaps her moral frailty matched well with his bodily infirmities to make a First Couple from hell. Good lesson in the power of public relations.
As a rule of thumb, Democrats and other Western leftists don't marry because they love each other, it's about image and power. Obama all but admits he picked up Big Mike because he needed a wife to run for President and she gave him the black credibility he lacks on his own.
love your cattitude towards this lady - makes you wonder just how they make it and have the audacity to keep applying for new jobs - AND getting them! Guess they just believe in themselves!
CEO Teresa Broyles-Aplin of NES (Nashville Electric) says “Hold my cerveza.”
“Internal records obtained by WSMV4 Investigates show NES had only 160 linemen working on Jan. 25 when more than 230,000 customers lost power. The documents also reveal NES had no inventory of some power poles in stock and a 14-page list of supplies that had to be ordered during the storm.”
My condolences that our trash from California has been dumped in Puerto Rico. We do have power outages here in the golden brown out state. Perhaps not as often as PR. But it sure seems incompetence prevails across many borders.
Well, here’s another story failing upward, to share their catastrophic abilities with others:
The guy who had been instrumental in helping create the incalculable disaster with the Flint, Michigan water system fled from there to…wait for it: to oversee the sewage system in DC.
How’d that work out?
David L. Gadis, the CEO of DC Water, is the individual linked to both the Flint water crisis and the recent Potomac River sewage spill.
Role in Flint Water Crisis: Gadis served as Vice President of Veolia North America, the engineering firm hired in 2015 to assess Flint’s water system after the city switched to the Flint River in 2014. Despite residents reporting foul-smelling, discolored water, Veolia issued a report in March 2015 stating the water met safety standards, blaming discoloration on iron in aging pipes. Independent research later confirmed elevated lead levels in children. In 2024, Veolia paid a $53 million settlement to Michigan over claims it failed to detect the lead contamination, while denying liability. Gadis publicly assured Flint residents the water was safe during this period.
Role in DC Sewage Disaster: Gadis became CEO of DC Water in 2018 and oversees the regional sewer system. In January 2026, the Potomac Interceptor, a major sewer line, collapsed along the Maryland side of the Potomac River, spilling over 240 million gallons of raw sewage into the river—described by some sources as the largest sewage spill in U.S. history. DC Water attributes the failure to aging infrastructure, but critics point to Gadis’s leadership and focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives as contributing factors.”
The corruption is systemic... after all, it is "politics"... and speaking of "politics", its participants seem to be nothing more than a revolving blob of filth that, as the Cat has said, continually falls upward... or in more colloquial terms "shit floats".
Its almost as if they want to demoralize you so bad you forget what it feels like to be demoralized.
we're the memory hole for inconvenient people
Those whose memories aren't holed up somewhere so they retain pattern recognition will ask what swath of land is coveted by deep-pockets and political connections in La Isla del Encanto but currently inhabited by inconvenient and troublesome locals blocking grand 'redevelopment' plans?
Polymarket is adjusting odds accordingly.
As an aside, just noting where you're enjoying the Medalla's. I've never stopped in there but walked above it countless times on the path I frequently take between Old San Juan and Condado. Even enjoyed dancing with my love atop to the musicians playing at Ladi's below. Will have to go down the stairs to stop in next visit...if the lights are still on!
There are two possibilities. Either they're so incompetent that its criminal. Or they're maliciously evil.
I tend to believe the former in general, but we're getting to where it has to be the latter.
Stupidity at scale becomes evil.
I think we turned the corner on that a few years ago.
Well said.
When you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
Why be part of the problem when you can be the whole problem?
Solid point. No reason to settle for half-measures.
😂
Overachievers
To be fair, getting paid $750,000 / yr to be the problem is awfully tempting.
Ignorance in action is frightening.
Ryan, the exact date was Nov. 4, 2008.
Right!? Because she wasn't too stupid to read the room, pack her bags and fly off to settle into the next group of dumb asses.
Apologies for the naive question but aren’t CEOs held to account for their negligence? If so,there’s something seriously amiss with the system.
It depends, really, on whether or not the organization requires actionable results. With heavily-regulated utility companies, which is where she came from, the regulatory environment provides myriad opportunities to avoid accountability at the executive level, by the simple expedient of instigating "circular firing squads" of blame, when things go wrong.
I always think of author Ross Thomas's character "Otherguy Overby," in this context. "Otherguy" always managed to avoid consequences by insisting that it was "some other guy" that did it.
I've seen entire series' of middle executives operate on the "otherguy" principle, sometimes for decades, drawing generous compensation for continual failure.
Most are carpetbaggers, and Quinones fits that mold. Getting out just before the "hammer drops" is a superpower, one we observe at scale with functional psychopaths.
You kind of have to dig a bit deeply into the regulatory structure to wrap your mind around the "nuts and bolts" of it all.
She definitely fled North Haverbrook.
"Monorail! Monorail!"
Fundamentally the Left is Satanic. The good news is that they're also wildly incompetent, for the most part.
It's good news except for when they end up in charge of critical infrastructure...
While I don’t disagree. The right is following closely behind with their Cheeto savior syndrome. They can’t see the crypto Jews agenda. As they have Been too brainwashed with trust the plan ; q anon crap.
?????????
I used to think it was the former. Now I think it’s the later.
if there was punishment either way regardless of cause, we wouldn't have to live like this.
Again, how can “dumb” & its enervating brother “stupid”, produce so many iterations?
Hiring by sex, hiring by race, hiring by age, and/or a mixture of all of those.
Unfortunately, bingo.
Oh, they know exactly what they’re doing… 😡
They’re both. Useless zionists are evil bc they are useless. So they manipulate the Competant worker bees to parasite off them.
Yes
Sounds like a Chris Bray column
Its to break the system so they can implement "solutions" for the problem they created thereby blocking out actual solutions while simultaneously getting money to fix the problem they created so they can come up with more solutions that beget more problems.
If it sounds circular...or a word salad...thats cuz it is...and exactly the environment necessary to fail upward. And, incidentally why, when these morons speak, they speak in "salad-tongues".
The less it makes sense, the better for them.
“Too big to fail.” Arguably the highest point of the Wall Street/government rackets:
Let's get rich making ridiculous bets for as long as it holds, then when it crashes, plead ignorance, pocket gains, and convince the public we are in the best position to fix it. Rinse and repeat.
"Titanic is syncing"
Are you sure they are smart enough to have a plan? Ask Bud Lite...
It is very much a plan. A well thought out synchronized plan. If you think it amiss. It’s because YOU can’t see it. These parasites are very cunning. Do t underestimate them. They merely play stupid because they want you to think they are. They are not. They play the long game.
Good point
Classic Cloward-Piven. Make the system break down, and then when people beg for a solution, you offer them communism.
Sounds like the Department of Redundancy for the Department of Redundancy in the Department of Redundancy . Department of Redundancy.
Reminds me of the movie “Brazil.”
The movie Brazil also demonstrates we become what we build.
Meaning architecture
A modest proposal - no extra money for things that fail, or don't improve the situation.
Tax strike, said the broken record from Minnesota.
Sounds a lot like the compen$atory feedback loop upon which Big Pharma operates.
It’s really not about them getting more money. As they showed they can just print more. It’s about driving us in debt. Taking away our power. so they have absolute.
BidenKamal for Pres, of Puerto Rico. Word salad for all those breakfast tacos 🌮.
Micheal Crichton’s 24/7 State of Fear.
2D FlatLander AngleLand down in the apartheid tunnel vision reptilian brain stem, the Amygdala. Governed by the Death and Aging hormones, Adrenaline and Cortisol.
Breath Deep, but instead of sucking in the Moody Blues Gathering Gloom, visualize God’s Love in your heart instead. And smile. These actions will erase Adrenaline and Cortisol. With DHEA. And restore 3D common sense up in the frontal cortex. Which allows 4D time lapse Divine Wisdom and Best Practices to be pragmatically incorporated into 3D common sense actions.
Now you understand how to return from Locust to Grasshopper. Wax on/Wax off creates 3D common sense muscle memory.
You are free to move about the universe freed from bondage to 2D FlatLand.
“But I can’t control my heart rate! Thar’s a mountain lyin’ on my Chest!”~ Ricky Bobby, Talladega Nights
AD, I was struggling to keep up until you brought it home with a quote from the immortal "Ricky Bobby."
"Okay, but if you won how am I gonna win? Think about it." - Ricky Bobby
“Hell, Ricky, I was high when I said that! That makes no sense at all! "First or last"! I mean, you could be second, third, fourth--hell, you could even be fifth!”
-The Immortal Reese Bobby
Just what I was thinking!
Pay attention they do it in the us as well. Thru taxes and debt.
Oh, good lord, I am so sorry to hear this. I’m in LA and while I’m glad to finally see this criminal gone I don’t wish her on anyone. Prison would be too good for her. If we end up sending Karen Bass your way too then we know for sure it’s a conspiracy to send the most dangerously incompetent people to PR as a kind of imperial prison experiment. 🤦♂️
I have to laugh Russell, although it is not a joke. But it should be.
Yeah its setting the bar lower than Hunter Biden sniffing parmesan from a dirty carpet floor
Lower than snail shit. 🐌
On the bright side, they can use Janice Quinonez’s forehead as a landing strip at the airport.
Send gruesome newsome with. He has enough grease on his head to light that brainless island afire- hopefully with some talentless, nasty naughty rabbit.
gato, you wrote that in PR, "if you don’t have a generator, you’re likely to deal with 'power out' about 28 hours a year (about 15X the mainland) in just a normal (non hurricane) year".
Consider yourself lucky, gato. For years, my family in La Habana has been enjoying DAILY 4-hour outages, matching your yearly outages in a single week's time. In the interior, my countrymen get about 4 hours of electricity a day. That's 4 hours of the power running, not 4 hours of blackout, every day.
Will the wonders of socialism never cease?
"Will the wonders of socialism never cease?"
But those wonders are distributed equitably, with the entire proletariat sharing equally in the misery, so there's that.
LOL, thanks! 😄
Needless to say, they fail even on that score, as "some animals are more equal than others." Fidel Castro had a private detached home in the woods with fenced-off grounds and a swimming pool.
The power grid is in such disrepair because, most likely, money otherwise tagged for the grid, is being siphoned off elsewhere, into the accounts of people, who no doubt hold the Minneapolis scandal mongers in high esteem.
That being the case, the last thing they want to do is hire a competent overseer to come in, start banging heads, making changes, fixing infrastructure, and in general diverting all that money away from fraud.
Yes, they leared.
🤣🤣🤣
Spot on. On the money. Nail on the head. Ding. Ding. Ding.
It's happening everywhere. Infrastructure in blue cities and states is coming apart and when people complain the Democrats run the "vote to raise taxes or we'll have to fire the fire department" gambit. Pay no attention to the city councilwomen all having new fancy hair weaves or the mayor's new Mercedes.
Good point, GK.
Save those bottles on the table. We'll need them to hold candles.
Bee’s wax candles of course.
How can there never be consequences? Did Bass go with her, assistant to destructor in chief?
Consequences are only for average white men.
Competent white women get them sometimes, too.
I was think a witty response. Martha Stewart land Lori McLoughlin come my mind. Rich while woman who pissed some off
Haven't seen that, I've only heard.
But just to be sociable, I'll take your word.
Kristi?
Perhaps, next, Janisse Quiñones could fail upward to being in charge of developing and running the power an water for the big Artificial Intelligence centers. So, there may be some good that come out of all this after all.
🤣😇
Love that!!
At least you can sit at a table overlooking the ocean and drown your soon to be legion, sorrows. We are setting the clocks ahead to spring tonite and I still have two feet of snow covering everything.
Oh no! you must be high north. Yesterday here in Georgia we had to start cooling, it is 85F right now outside and probably a thunderstorm brewing, just like yesterday. I wish I could send you some sun to melt the snow away!
That would be sweet of you.
Bless your heart. (Couldn’t help it, sorry 😬)
Thanks for reminding me. So hard to keep up with the news flow.
Are you sure Pakistan doesn't secretly own Puerto Rico? This sounds so...so...similar.
And--still learning awful new things about FDR after all these years. Starting to think Eleanor was maybe not all that saintly, to stick with a guy like that (even just for appearances). Perhaps her moral frailty matched well with his bodily infirmities to make a First Couple from hell. Good lesson in the power of public relations.
marry into a very wealthy family and be an independent woman with her own girlfriend living at the house.
Old formula.
She was from a different branch of the same family and at the same privileged status.
She still had to marry into wealth for the same reasons, lifestyle
Her family and Franklin's family were equally wealthy and equally socially prominent.
And equally wretched, it would seem.
As a rule of thumb, Democrats and other Western leftists don't marry because they love each other, it's about image and power. Obama all but admits he picked up Big Mike because he needed a wife to run for President and she gave him the black credibility he lacks on his own.
Feel free to look up the creation of the Bush dynasty.
I’m sure Eleanor was born a man anyhow.
Well, this is silly.
I expect to see her as the Democratic candidate for president in the future.
Woman ✔️ Incompetent✔️ Grifter✔️ Democrat ✔️✔️
love your cattitude towards this lady - makes you wonder just how they make it and have the audacity to keep applying for new jobs - AND getting them! Guess they just believe in themselves!
Expect to see her teaching at Harvard someday.
made my day - thanks... we have to get a laugh where we can! Or was that a good cry?
Laugh.
More likely running the place.
Knee pads Newsom believes in himself.
I'm so old that I remember when kneepads were for tile-layers and dirt bike riders. My how time flies...
CEO Teresa Broyles-Aplin of NES (Nashville Electric) says “Hold my cerveza.”
“Internal records obtained by WSMV4 Investigates show NES had only 160 linemen working on Jan. 25 when more than 230,000 customers lost power. The documents also reveal NES had no inventory of some power poles in stock and a 14-page list of supplies that had to be ordered during the storm.”
😳
as a woman, I am tired of corrupt women being hired when I know there are qualified people with ovaries all over the place
Dios mio!
My condolences that our trash from California has been dumped in Puerto Rico. We do have power outages here in the golden brown out state. Perhaps not as often as PR. But it sure seems incompetence prevails across many borders.
clearly the democrats listened to bad buny and immediately sent their best people.
You must have committed great sins.
I'm still laughing about that one... :D
Well, here’s another story failing upward, to share their catastrophic abilities with others:
The guy who had been instrumental in helping create the incalculable disaster with the Flint, Michigan water system fled from there to…wait for it: to oversee the sewage system in DC.
How’d that work out?
David L. Gadis, the CEO of DC Water, is the individual linked to both the Flint water crisis and the recent Potomac River sewage spill.
Role in Flint Water Crisis: Gadis served as Vice President of Veolia North America, the engineering firm hired in 2015 to assess Flint’s water system after the city switched to the Flint River in 2014. Despite residents reporting foul-smelling, discolored water, Veolia issued a report in March 2015 stating the water met safety standards, blaming discoloration on iron in aging pipes. Independent research later confirmed elevated lead levels in children. In 2024, Veolia paid a $53 million settlement to Michigan over claims it failed to detect the lead contamination, while denying liability. Gadis publicly assured Flint residents the water was safe during this period.
Role in DC Sewage Disaster: Gadis became CEO of DC Water in 2018 and oversees the regional sewer system. In January 2026, the Potomac Interceptor, a major sewer line, collapsed along the Maryland side of the Potomac River, spilling over 240 million gallons of raw sewage into the river—described by some sources as the largest sewage spill in U.S. history. DC Water attributes the failure to aging infrastructure, but critics point to Gadis’s leadership and focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives as contributing factors.”
The corruption is systemic... after all, it is "politics"... and speaking of "politics", its participants seem to be nothing more than a revolving blob of filth that, as the Cat has said, continually falls upward... or in more colloquial terms "shit floats".