My favorite leftist

 

AOC pictured dining maskless in Miami Beach as Omicron cases soar

Who is the guy? I am jealous.

Xi Ping Pong is having problems

 CHINA’S PRESIDENT XI CALLS FOR EFFORT TO ENSURE ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS IN THE LONG RUN.

No one is going to alpha centauri

‘We’re falling behind’: 2022 seen as a pivotal lap in the space race with China

The real race is which nation can make the more stable government, and we all seem to be losing that one.

Something about Ghislaine Maxwell

 

In the news lately.

Takeaway number one: Bubba Clinton likes his BJs

Five takeaways from the Ghislaine Maxwell verdict

Praise the lord, god save the king.

Getting Conservative Ideas Up and Out into the World

I hope you can show your support to NRI this season.

There, I have done my part. 

Alan likely porked the little girls

BBC apologizes for Alan Dershowitz interview after Ghislaine Maxwell verdict

The BBC was forced to apologize Thursday for bringing on attorney Alan Dershowitz to discuss Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction — even though he faces allegations of sex abuse by a Jeffrey Epstein accuser.

Dershowitz, who previously represented Epstein in his controversial wrist-slap 2008 plea deal, used his airtime Wednesday night to blast his accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, as not credible.

As did a bunch of other well knowns, like Bubba and Bill Gates. 

My choices

The 10 Republicans most likely to run for president

Maybe Larry Hogan.

Then Biden's corpse would be my second choice for pres

Where is Mitt Romney? Held hostage by bunch of NRA nuts on Utah. I would take Liz Cheney.

I want none of the other Tin Horn Wannabe Dictators Repubs on this list, none. Any Repub getting a favorable review by the National review is off my list. Pence is a bone head religious fanatic. Pompeo would likely be assassined by one of Assange's friends anyway. Pompeo has no clue and is worth less than my dog's shit. No one in there right mind is supporting the dingbat from South Dakota.

The Dems will foul the primaries with color-generizing, and a waxed Biden corpse with a one by four to prop him is better than any candidate the Dems put up, except for Mayor Pete. Keep all Californians off the ticket, they all have lobotomies. Newsom will simply date teenagers, his specialty.

How about a Liz Cheney/Hogan paired against Mayor Pete/AnyoneButKamala?

Wokes beget pokes

 Biological Males Have Repeatedly Sexually Assaulted Females in Washington Women’s Prison, Former Inmate Claims

Not with a 7% inflation rate and spending inefficiency at the pentagon

Stick It to Vlad

Just as the family budget is not really a very good model of the national economy, schoolyard rules are not normally the best guide for international relations. That being said, sometimes the best thing for a bully is giving him a bloody nose.

Kevin Williamson is delusional. No one is rebuilding shit. Just keeping our defense spending neutral is requiring a likely 10% hike in spending and we are well into our rte cycle with the one year now at .37% .

Nor is it ur business to drag the Ukraine back into NATO, as they are as corrupt as the Ruskie. Kevin needs to STF and stick to his delusional religion where fantasy is expected.

No wearing goggles at Apple, says Timmy

Apple Aims to Prevent Defections to Meta With Rare $180,000 Bonuses for Top Talent

Deranged NRA Nut suffers attack of penis envy

Denver shooting spree suspect Lyndon McLeod harbored extremist views: report

Encourage these nuts to go home and have sex with steel pipes or fill them with fentanyl.

Compared to the Californians, Trump is beginning to look normal

Taibbi: The Democrats' Education Lunacies Will Bring Back Trump

Biden's California team is simply ignorant, mostly made of color-genderizers. 

Outsiders need to understand the recent history of California since 2001 to understand just how deranged we are out here. We have undergone some disease if stupidization., an IQ drop among the politicians.

A ritual bluff

Progressives Are Bluffing on Build Back Better via Executive Action

No one believes it, so no one will call the bluff.

Elon Musk is a dunce

BEIJING, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Chinese citizens lashed out online against billionaire Tesla (TSLA.O) founder Elon Musk's space ambitions on Monday after China complained that its space station was forced to take evasive action to avoid collision with satellites launched by Musk's Starlink programme.

Explaining American government to California Delusionals

"Look, There Is No Federal Solution": Biden Backtracks On Vow To 'Shut Down' Covid-19

His statement here has a specific audience.

And the rumor is that Chicago is having a hard time covering paychecks

Census: People fled blue states for red states in massive numbers in 2021

This is the big whoops.  For Californians the big stimulus was their last hope, now they are faced with a 6% COLA across pensions and salaries. California does not have the tax base and will flounder.

The Wizard of Oz sells snake oil

"Magic" cures: Dr. Oz under the microscope

Just like in the movie.  Dumbshit Trumpsters will love this guy.

Demonstrating the limits of the log linear assumption

 

Menzie points this out.

What we see in this chart is hyperbolic discounting. What else we see is bad pricing functions in the Fed model, and we see the supply chain effect.

As long as he is upright and well waxed

'Biden Seems Confused': CNN Openly Questions President's Cognitive Health After Yet Another Slip Up

Believe me, you do not want the alternative

Elon is not the only billionaire getting federal subsidies

What we do know is revenues on packages climbed $3.9 billion this year over last thanks to the pandemic-induced online shopping. But the Postal Service still lost $6.9 billion and expects to lose $160 billion over the next decade. It faces still more spending, for new trucks, mail-handling centers and equipment, and new employees, to accommodate its emphasis on packages.

Looks like Bezos is in on the take. Nice racket when one has dumbshit politicians.

And hispanics

Biden finds uneven footing with Black voters

Thee is no second term for Joe. And just about everyone despises Kamala. We will get someone new, or we will get one of the Wannabe Tin Horn dictators.

Rick Scott and Florida school shootings

 

There Never Was a Republican Death Cult

Can't find a better death cult then Rick, except maybe the governor of Texas.

She will lose every state except California and Illinois

The Inevitability Of Kamala Harris

We will be stuck  with one of the wannabe Latin American tin horn dictators. Even Trump will whallop the gal. By the time primaries heat up, we will be in yet another recession, and 49 states will be stuck bailing out California. This will not work.

Retiring politicians is not the retirement problem

Democrats confront rising retirements as difficult year ends

There bigger problem is the massive boomer retirement, all of whom expect inflation adjusted payments from the government sector.

I assume Powell is lying about the taper

Democrats look to scale back Biden bill to get it passed

As long as we have endless boneheadism in the Swamp, Powell is not tapering, bet on it.

The rep most responsible for the Choo Choo fiasco in my home town

Fresno congressman Jim Costa plans to run again. Here’s where he plans to campaign in 2022

Tim Cook's porn peephole strikes again.

Polish spyware scandal stokes tensions with Brussels

Neither Putin nor the Ping Pong are trusted with CBDC

China Is Mining Bitcoin Underground: Report

Both boneheads have already indicated they intend to spy.

South Korea had the better idea, trials of direct digital cash. And we are having trials, right here in the USA.

Putin plans to gas Ukraine

US Mercenaries Preparing Chemical 'Provocation' In Eastern Ukraine: Russian Defense Chief

The entire problem in the government sector

 

Waiting for California. It leads us into recessions then drags them out. California is the bot anchor among the US states.

No amount of color-genderizing by Kamala solves this problem.

She defends crooks

Pelosi faces pushback over stock trade defense

Xi Ping Pong is a Commie Rat

Tennis player Peng Shuai denies making sexual assault allegation

Not just covid, NYC was going broke anyway.

De Blasio tells Biden: New York needs help now

Delusional Californians screw themselves royally

Dems trip over their own sky-high expectations

We did not expect another outcome.

BBB Bye Bye Bye

Manchin says he will not vote for Build Back Better: 'This is a no'

US military preparing an offensive against deranged Trumpsters.

washingtonpost.com

Opinion | 3 retired generals: The military must prepare now for a 2024 insurrection

A military breakdown mirroring societal or political breakdown would put all Americans at severe risk.

My favorite leftist

 

A Delusional AOC Provides the Tweet Irony of the Day

The pink with cleavage look, pretty nice.

Aiding and abetting mass killers

Rick Scott says White House hung up on him

Just another stupid fuck from Florida

No, it is the American Lithuanians who lack dual loyalty

 Trump: American Jews aren't showing enough dual loyalty to Israel

Trumpster coup plot number ten rejected

 

GOP blows off Trump’s bid to oust McConnell

Stupid, fickle voters

San Francisco Mayor Finally Blasts "All The Bulls**t That's Destroyed" The City, Demands More Money For Cops

boomer stampede

New York (CNN Business)One of the more insidious myths this year was that young people didn't want to work because they were getting by just fine on government aid. People had too much money, went the narrative.
Only trouble is, the numbers don't back it up.
Instead, early retirement — whether forced by the pandemic or made possible otherwise — is playing a big role in America's evolving labor market.
People have left the workforce for myriad reasons in the past two years — layoffs, health insecurity, child care needs, and any number of personal issues that arose from the disruption caused by the pandemic. But among those who have left and are not able to — or don't want to — return, the vast majority are older Americans who accelerated their retirement.

What kind of inflation did I expect?

 I expected California to flounder,I did not expect the imports to jam up. But we managed to extract quite of bit of capital gains, the equities holding up better than expected.

Repub welfare bums cave

Senate poised to raise debt limit by $2.5T, avoiding default

Coup plotter busted

Meadows moves to center of Jan. 6 probe

Causing Paul Krugman to yap incessantly

Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation

Real earnings, or wage growth less inflation, turned sharply negative the last two months,

Expect public sector strikes in California. 

Or make the men strap on twenty pounds of sand around their chest

Women’s Sports Should Be Women’s Sports

When your son discovers you are an idiot

Meadows texts show Hannity, Don Jr. wanted Trump to stop Jan. 6 riot

Happens to all fathers., eventually.

The Wizard of Oz?

Dr. Oz: The liberal media is trying to cancel me by calling me by my given name

Kiss your BBB bye bye

Manchin raises inflation concerns ahead of pivotal Biden talk

And delusional Californians in the Swamp caused this:

As Dems sprint against the clock, child tax credit might slip away

Lawmakers are crooks

 'Conflicted Congress': Key findings from Insider's five-month investigation into federal lawmakers' personal finances

Save you the bother of reading this.

Sure, give the Talibunnies a break.

The AP Interview: Taliban seek ties with US, other ex-foes

They don't have the time for this

Moderate Democrats are pushing the Federal Reserve to move more aggressively towards tighter monetary policy to stamp out inflation, in a sign of their mounting concern about the political fallout from high prices.  

If the ems think Powell can stop inflation before the elections, then the Dems have given up on their latest stimulus. Anyway, these are the median states speaking.

Cut the defense budget

A retired Army colonel who circulated a PowerPoint document detailing a proposal to overturn the 2020 election results claimed to have visited the White House on multiple occasions after the election and met with then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, according to the Washington Post.

Slim pickings

Pence fuels speculation of 2024 presidential bid

Better than Trumpster and better than Kamala. About the best one can say.

The NYT will be the first to reject any path back to normalcy

We have to get back to normal

A useless, fake NYT editorial about trust in government.

We just discovered this?

Massive U.S. Debts Could ‘Trap’ Powell as Fed Fights Inflation

By now I would think the massive debt theory is standard economics Both sides are packed with welfare bums, from Trump to Kamala to Musk and going back 200 years.  This is not recently discovered.

At this point the Supremes have fouled things enormously

In response to Texas abortion law, California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he is working on a bill to allow private citizens to sue anyone who makes or sells assault weapons

Why not?

If the union fails, the starting point might just be the boneheads we have put on the Supreme Court.  California now has clean slate to ignore most  federal rulings, no longer having to fake it. Maybe it is for the better,  maybe that was the plot all along.

Reverse psychology? Or maybe a brain tumor?

Tucker Carlson: Getting COVID “does feminize people. No one ever says that but it’s true.”

Something in the last two years made this guy much more nuttier than usual.  Maybe he got Trumpstered?

They bought Amazon smart milk machines

Hackers Blamed For Cream Cheese Shortage Currently Afflicting The US

Then the hackers took down Jeff's network.

Coup plot number nine fizzles

Former President Donald Trump and his allies are struggling to clear the Republican field in North Carolina’s wide-open U.S. Senate race and galvanize GOP voters around his preferred candidate, Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.).

Despite winning the former president’s endorsement early on, Budd has so far failed to become the runaway favorite in the GOP primary and has regularly trailed his chief rival, former Gov. Pat McCrory, in polling.

Moscow?

 

California cut off his welfare checks at the union behest

Tesla's Elon Musk says he is 'thinking of quitting' his jobs

The 'angst' is about having Californians in charge in the Swamp

New inflation number feeds angst about Democrats’ $2T bill

The Citizen's United justice?

Chief Justice John Roberts warns Supreme Court over Texas abortion law

Tricky issue

The Supreme Court appears really eager to force taxpayers to fund religious education

We cannot single out religion on shutdowns, we figured that out.  Nor do churches get exemptions for zoning rules on big buildings. But we cannot enforce a state religion.

Due process rears its head when we selectively eliminate vouchers for religious schools. I am not stating a position on this, it is one of the inherent conflicts in judicial law. i say let those idiots on the Supremes flip a coin, they have done much worse.

I heard the drug was a scam?

A woman died while taking a controversial new Alzheimer's drug, increasing concerns about its safety

Which brings up the question, what stupid doctor believed the scam.

He means repub welfare bums doing oil deals with the Saudis

Biden Orders "Immediate Halt" Of US Federal Aid For Oil, Gas And Coal Projects Overseas... With Lots Of Exemptions

Repub socialist welfare bums promising Saudis trillion dollar defense treaties based on me paying taxes.

The solution is a 20% cut in the defense budget, shutting down the NRO welfare propaganda machine, and rooting Kevin McCarthy out of office.

I am voting for the president who is eager to see Hillary punished

Greenwald: Biden Administration 'Eager To See Assange Punished' Over 2016 Election

I am not voting for Biden, that is now fact. Any bonehead who wants to protect either Kamala or Hillary, both uneducated hysterical dingbats, is not my candidate.

Gaetz and Bannon are having sex with steel pipes

Matt Gaetz and Steve Bannon said an 'army of patriots' and 'shock troops' should take over the government if Trump runs and wins in 2024

Latin American wannabe be tin horn welfare bum dictator

 

Biden’s cash fuels DeSantis' budget wishlist

The governor wants to use $3.5 billion from Biden's American Rescue Plan to help fund his budget.

Florida voters. Either they want mass killers like Rick Scott or welfare bums for governor. 

Wait a minute. Didn't he just round up 14 of his welfare bum pals to vote for a debt increase?

McConnell Won't Block Debt Ceiling Increase, Says He Wants Democrats To 'Proudly Own It'

Yes, indeed. Just after the big government repubs passed a whopper of a budget, old McConnell went a hunting for at least some of the same welfare bums to increase my tax payer debt payments and send the economy into a tail spin.

Find me a time when the repubs did not run up the debt. You can go all the way back to Reagan, each and everyone of these welfare bum repub presidents had no other desire then to drive up spending to mammoth highs and run up the debt.  It is in their platform, I think, article 1:

'Spend like nutcases and drive up the debt'

Spent my youth in that river

 In Bakersfield, many push for bringing back the flow of the long-dry Kern River

Grew up in the town, moved to Fresno later. The usual activity was an inner tube and a six pack for the float.

Impossible, I am from California

Incompetent Kamala Harris is even worse than you think

I have evidence she still struggles with the 3 Rs. It is not lack of confidence it is a complete lack of anything except color-genderizing.

14 welfare bums actually agree to pay for the massive spending plans

14 GOP senators help advance McConnell debt limit deal

The rest are hiding in the gutter after passing a massive budget.

The mayor of Chicago cannot afford public sector cops any more

Lightfoot under fire for suggesting retail stores increase security to prevent smash-and-grabs

Stores will have to hire security from the private sector, and she has the Second amendment to back her up, the right to a regulated militia. This problem is long lasting and started many years ago.

They bonded with a common desire to spend another boatload of money

How Schumer and McConnell got the debt deal done

Socialist welfare bum

Elon Musk: Government Is 'the Biggest Corporation, With a Monopoly on Violence, Where You Have No Recourse'

All of his business requires welfare payments, to him.

Delusional Californians made him do this, mostly Kamala

 Why Did Biden Nominate Saule Omarova in the First Place?

Biden is stuck with a lot of contradictions mainly due to the absolute ignorance of California Teachers Union, who own and operate the Biden.

Schizo dufas in charge

Twitter Un-Nukes Ghislaine Maxwell Trial Tracker Account Following Outrage

The new CEO is ring to manage our thoughts. Good luck with that.

American family having sex with steel pipes

 

Mostly organized by males with tiny penis.

We are done with that

Conservatives prepare new push for constitutional convention

been discussed, polled, voted many times; rejected in every case.

I suggest the conservatives go worship snakes instead, it has more utiliy.

Bizarre crap

(Bloomberg) -- The outage at Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud-computing arm left thousands of people in the U.S. without working fridges, roombas and doorbells, highlighting just how reliant people have become on the company as the Internet of Things proliferates across homes.

Literally, when Jeff sells a smart toilet, we can only crap when Jeff gives us permission. 

Almost back to normal with oil and the ten year

 Oil at 72 and the bond at 1.5%. Near the standard position. Oil should be closer to 75, the ten year closer to 1.6. But the jumping around here has slowly moves the equilibrium as inflation in Texas takes hold.

Top US Shale CEO "Worried" Years Of Underinvestment Could Boost Oil Over $100

The CEO would know better than I, but this is the slow migration of the equilibrium point. He gives is a timeline of the 'next several years'. I have no timeline, I always shade my predictions here, but the trend is up in price.

And the city fired a bunch of firemen

LAUSD school board fires hundreds of unvaccinated employees

Thus saving us a bunch of expense. Keep up the good work.

We mostly agree the Fed dunnit

Billionaires increased their share of global wealth more in 2020 than any year on record

At this point we can mostly blame Bernanke and the foul idea of QE. Given that QE is an unconstitutional right to tax arbitrarily, then the Shay's Rebellion is quite justified. 

Who will represent the cardboard cows?

Nunes resignation sparks massive political shakeup

Horse manure

This debt-ceiling crisis threatens democracy as well as solvency

The debt ceiling farce is America's way of sneaking into devaluation, as traditional as Apple Pie. It is right there, in the Constitution, the Power to Coin, designed to defeat the socialist bums like this author.

Repubs agree to massive government spending binge

McConnell closes in on support for new debt ceiling strategy

Senate leaders seem to have found a path forward to avoid a debt cliff without Republican votes.

We already know the result. 

More drone

Kamikaze drones: A new weapon brings power and peril to the U.S. military

Some experts believe the spread of low-cost, light-weight "killer" drones will change ground warfare as profoundly as the machine gun did.

And makes life uncertain for ex presidents who take pride in using them. 

House of Horrors

Let’s Play: Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?

Keep Joe upright and well waxxed for three years.

As long as it is a much smaller one

‘I need a budget’: Pentagon officials thrash Congress over gridlock

Rand Paul is worse

 Mish: Fauci And Biden Are Medical Hypocrites & A Political Disgrace

Color-genderizing is not a skill

Kamala Harris A 'Soul-Destroying Bully' Who Lacks Self-Confidence According To Former Staff

Nor is being selected by the Cal Teachers Union a skill.

JPM and GS have been spoofing the market

JPMorgan Strategist Says Buy the Dip as Omicron May Accelerate Pandemic’s End

Their stock holding got caught a bit low so they need retail investors to bail them out.

Here was have GS spoofing us:

"Red Light Is Turning Green": Goldman Breaks Down Everything You Need To Know In The Market For December

I suspect they artificially drive futures up before the open.

More intelligent Islamonuts would be nice

There need to be consequences for Rep. Lauren Boebert’s Islamophobic comments

But they are in competition with Christian psychotics. Between both freaked out groups we have a mess.

Kevin McCarthy's district

‘Devil on the loose’: What’s behind Kern County’s soaring homicide rate?

California delusionals learning how our government sector works

The incredible shrinking Democrats

Heart be still, but America is in the early stages of what could be a major political shift. On issue after issue, from soaring crime to inflation to critical race theory, Democrats and the far left are being forced to play defense because their radical policies are failing.

Biden got stuck with funding from the California public sector.  And that philosophy does not work in the Swamp. Now we waste a lot of time waiting for them to figure it out.

Whoops

As concern over the omicron variant mounts in California — with the state’s second case confirmed Thursday in Los Angeles County — another public health crisis is lurking in plain sight: the drug epidemic.

A jaw-dropping report released Wednesday by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy found that nearly 1,500 people, the vast majority believed to be homeless, died on the streets of Los Angeles during the pandemic — 40% because of a drug or alcohol overdose. The staggering number is almost certainly an undercount, experts say.

California does not do infrastructure

The proposal calls for purchasing 77 parcels that Caltrans had purchased for a project to extend the 710 Freeway. That project had been formally canceled in 2018, after decades of opposition from the community, with many of the properties remaining unoccupied for years.

Now it is a fact, California mainly makes pension payments. California is stuck, and that makes the Swamp stuck, we will have sudden stop. Probably a good idea, just stop and regime change in the government sector.

Whoops

 Bitcoin Plunges Over 20% in Another Sign of Global Market Nerves

A dash to the safety of ten year Treasuries, now yielding 1.34%.

Tin horn wannabe Latin American dictator

DeSantis proposes civilian Florida State Guard military force he would control

Florida voters are nutty as fruitcakes.  Even worse than Texas voters.

Pot, kettle, black

McCarthy laments distractions from far-right members

Wasn't McCarthy a big supporter of Trump's various coup plots?

And Rick Scott charged in the Florida high school massacre

Suspect’s parents charged in Michigan school shooting

Didn't Rick Scott pass out assault rifles to deranged kids? Hell, half of Florida voters approve of mass killings. Mass shooting are nearly legal in Texas.

nice green day in the markets.

 It was fun, and Texas and the petros took a beating. FX hedges safe.

The one year treasury market is active, and ten basis above IOR The government interest costs up a few points in the budget. This looks deflationary from the oil price perspective. OPEC+ is the temporary winner. But those earned dollars get only 1.45% long term. 

Split government, I like it

WASHINGTON - The House passed a bill Thursday to fund the government through Feb. 18 as Congress tries to stave off a shutdown that could happen Friday if lawmakers don’t act.

Along with spending blocks, deadlocks, delays in the Swamp. I want a frozen Supreme court, and a Fed that can keep Fedwire costs to a minimum. I want revenue sharing for what is left. Quit trying to do stuff back there.

My favorite leftest

 

AOC’s Ugly Delegitimization of SCOTUS

Looking cool in blue, I love the stern look.

I wholly agree with her, SCOTUS is stuck with numb skulls. Their idiocy costs the economy hugely in legal expenses, triple that if you live in California.

NRO are a bunch of religious welfare bums, their remaining audience consists of log cabin fools having sex with steel pipes.

Sung to the tune of

Powell's Wild Ride: 

Taper, taper, taper

Stop the money vapor

Have no curve inverting

Rate hike!

Spoof about, squirm a lot, then I shout

Rate hike!

Hoping that Yellen's by my side

Self defense is well enshrined

Roe Is Extralegal

If you call a fetus human, then it is also a potential foe.  You cannot have it both ways.

In the end it may not matter, the Federal court system is a jammed up mess, thinks to bonehead conservative and liberal justices both.  California will completely ignore the Supremes on this, and the Supremes are currently one of the worst set of boneheads we have in the Swamp, almost worse than the Repub welfare bums.

NRO has no purpose anymore, they have no thinkers, they mostly make shit up to support some long lost Will Buckley nonsense.

And JPMorgan can escape its trap

JPMorgan Strategist Says Buy the Dip as Omicron May Accelerate Pandemic’s End

Got my vote

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Wednesday night blocked a quick deal for votes on amendments to a sweeping defense policy bill, the latest setback for hopes of passing the legislation this week.

I liked blocked spending, the best kind.

A family of NRA nuts

Bullied suspect Ethan Crumbley, 15, allegedly used dad’s pistol in school shooting

Inter-Generational castration anxiety.

Markets down 1.5%

 Oil still at 66, ten yer yield dives  few basis to 1.42.

We are still dashing to safety.  How soon before Powell goes Untaper?

Racing backwards

More than 1,000 people have been murdered in Cook County this year, the most since 1994

Pot, Kettle Black

Instead of agreeing to extend the debt ceiling so Democrats can spend more, the GOP should stand firm for responsible fiscal policy

Peter Morici is clueless. Give the repubs an inch and the spending goes up a mile.