Three years ago today, on Sunday, February 12, 2017, glibertarians.com burst upon the interweb blog-thingy publishing scene, and here we are today three years later and still going strong. We made a good start on day one with eight posts, all essays and fiction. Starting on day two, we have had daily morning links posts seven days a week, well over one thousand posts in that category alone. Also starting on day two we have published afternoon links every single weekday, plus managed to have at least a midday post every weekday. We have always managed to have some sort of evening post Saturday and Sunday evenings.
All the posts here are the contributions of your fellow Glibs. Stalwart linksters Sloopy, Brett, Mexi, Banjos, Swiss, and OMWC have worked hard to ensure you have a framework and pretext to hang out with your fellow miscreants each morning, and on weekday afternoons. The morning and afternoon links are our lifeblood. We are a tribe with traditions and one of those is the ritual of the link.
We have missed publishing links exactly once, the morning links of Jan 16, 2020. Let’s just say that little problem has been dealt with.
In addition to the links, your fellow Glibs have also provided you with over a thousand other posts of essays, fiction, reminiscences, histories, cartoons, firearms history, polemics, photo essays on hobbies, fitness advice and encouragement, recipes, and personal struggles. Whether you have contributed a single post, or many, we thank you from the bottoms of our hearts.
No mention of Glibs would be complete without Sugar Free, whose contributions both purify and putrefy, and who has defined a new sub-genre of smut.
We have also published a detailed exposé of government malfeasance which deserves a far wider audience than it has received here, and which it hopefully will.
Often out of mind, but always present, SP designs and manages this website – everything from the look and feel of the site as a whole to the scheduling, illustrating and formatting of articles. She is assisted in this by a small irregular force of editors who help make the posts here look purty.
Then there is you, dear commenter. You who are the community for which this site exists. You whose snark, puns, wit, bile, spleen and links enrich us all. Particular thanks to those who do regular in-thread featurettes such as Social Justice Wednesdays, Spot the Not, and the much beloved links to buxom babes wearing boob hammocks. While we did not officially celebrate our first or second Gliberversaries, we did mark the millionth comment posted here, a testimony to you all.
We also appreciate our lurkers, even you boys and girls at Fort Meade. Because every time we make you spew coffee all over your TEMPEST-compliant monitor and keyboard an orphan gets a crust of bread.
Glibs is entirely a volunteer operation. Nobody draws a salary, nobody gets compensated in any way. Donations go to domain registry and website hosting; the only actual expenses we have. Each year, the funds remaining after expenses are paid are donated to two liberty-oriented civil rights litigation groups – the FIRE, and the Institute for Justice. The good works of these groups is often noted in our posts and comments.
So thank you, everyone, for making this place what it is.
Swiss Servator adds… Our First Anniversary, the Second. And a shout out to our Cryptid contributors (when they aren’t revolting or throwing me across the room).
Wurst!
Perhaps putting Splenda in your coffee isn’t the way to start this anniversary
That seems about right.
Worst link.
Yes, I rather left myself open to that! What a load of balony. No more (frank)furtive sausage links.
Blurst link!
Wurst!
That one was a bit obvious for you, Ted, but I appreciate it all the same. Meanwhile, in Japan.
Just had to add to this dead thread to ensure the anniversary announcement hit 600 comments! 599 was just inadequate.
Woohoo, Happy anniversary!
If we are celebrating our anniversary now does that mean we still have to celebrate valentines day?
^^^THIS^^^
YAAAAAYYY!!!
Bless this ship, and all who sail on her.
It’s easy to grin, when you ship comes in…
Has it been that long?
I know, right? We were all so giddy and caught up in the thing we sailed right past the first two anniversaries.
I might not been amongst the first to find the promised lands, but I have to admit that finally finding this place and being able to avoid that shithole we all came from, was a blessing.
Amen!
See my update above.
Oops. Eek. Sorry. Thanks. My bad.
That Big Tyrone bit was most excellent.
“We have missed publishing links exactly once, the morning links of Jan 16, 2020. Let’s just say that little problem has been dealt with.”
Is it true that this is what happened to the “problem”?
**NSFW**
I suppose the chipper would be overkill. A first time links missing is not a capital violation.
That is brilliant. Thank you.
Uffda. You guys picked my b-day to miss the links? You HATE me! You really HATE ME!
Happy birthday, Jimbo! 52?
Let me see, carry the one…
*takes off shoes*
*unzips*
53!
Congrats, Mr Jimbo ! I’d help you with the math but those big numbers hadn’t been invented yet when I went to school. In any case I salute you with a cuppa joe.
Awesome! You are older than me for a few months!
It was just a co-inkey-dink brah….
Happie burthdae U moron!
We also appreciate our lurkers, even you boys and girls at Fort Meade. Because every time we make you spew coffee all over your TEMPEST-compliant monitor and keyboard an orphan gets a crust of bread.
*raucous applause*
Damn. That went fast.
Thanks to all of You People® for making this place what it is.
Happy Anniversary, all.
Please ignore any and all whining and bitching I’ve done recently or will do in the near future. I’m slightly unhinged at the moment.
I love you guys.
Only slightly, and only now? :-p
Yeah but why?! Share! Share! Share!
Otherwise you will just have to suffer prayers and good vibes.
Wait, just how many registered lurkers are there?
Maybe not many since once doesn’t need to be registered to read everything that’s posted here.
Spend enough time screaming into the void, and sometimes the void screams back.
It depends on how often you count Michael Hihn and Rollo.
I like to think registration has completely foiled Hihn, and every time he fails, he takes it out on TOS.
*raises hand*
Fuck off, Tulpa! Happy Gliberversary.
Just one… his name is Tulpa.
If there is a way to have WordPress tell you that I’m not able to see it, or maybe haven’t looked in the right place.
If one of TPTB has SQL skills, they could figure it out.
Only one: Tulpa.
Presnt! Happy anniversary everyone! Tulpa 2020.
*Adjusts “Tulpa” nametag*
meekly raises hand
Not that I don’t luv this motley crew right back, but life has been too weird lately to have the time and energy to participate in the shenanigans.
One day…
Long time lurker, first time Tulpa. Thanks for the great site and all of the hard work that goes into it!
Insert appropriate Tulpa comment here…
I am grateful for the efforts of all of you that take your time to provide us with a daily dose (X3) of reality. Hats off to the horsepower. Coffee and Glibs gets me going in the morning and keeps me refueled all during the day.
The comments and humor are great, even as I don’t understand the wild ass music you kids are listening to, the beer that I’ll never drink and the recreational things some participate in. Thanks to all for the safe space.
A question I have though is why most of us (you) are not the youth of today? Is there something in the water that takes 40 years before we figure out that government is the problem? Why are there very few 20s/30s of us? Does it take a certain amount of living, of life, before we understand some things?
You have to be kicked around a little to turn bitter enough.
The youth of today have been subject to leftist indoctrination their entire lives.
I grew up in the sixties and seventies. It was pretty pervasive then, too.
Me too, but schools still taught actual US history, socialism was recognized as evil, etc. etc. But for the past few decades the far left has had almost complete control of education and media.
See AOC.
Nothing like it is now. Entryism has purged the media and academia at all levels of wrongthinkers.
Exhibit A: the odious NYT Project 1690, a steaming pile of hateful garbage that immediately went into government school curricula.
RC is one of the people whose argumentation helped me fully embrace individual liberty. The Iron Laws in particular. Thank you.
And for all you butt-biters, there is your official, genuine author-provided link, albeit late.
Me too. But most young people were also exposed to religion which at least gave a person the ability to see two wrong ways of looking at things. The left has now become as closed-minded and dogmatic as the Billy Sunday/Jerry Falwell types.
I thought there were quite a few of us younguns here.
It depends on how you define ‘youngun’
There are at least 4 people that I know are younger than me, and I’m 31
lol, OK boomer.
Really? I suppose one of them is SP, who at 16 has to be the youngest here by far.
SP, who at
166 has to be the youngest here by far.FIFY
For me it was having a good job and a house — something I wanted to protect and which others wanted to tax and regulate. That put things in a whole other perspective. Also, the repeated and egregious failures of government as pointed out by many here and by our friends at TOS. I do remember being outraged as a teenager when I got my first paycheck and saw how much was being taken out, but like many young people I became enamored of progressivism and the mistaken belief that government could provide a safety net.
I had the same reaction with my first check. I wondered why I was never taught that in government school. Then I learned – from a math teacher that was grumbling about a possible strike – that government school employees DON’T PAY FICA. These hypocrites are telling me how great government is and yet have their own separate safety net?
So many of us were trained in government schools. After you get spat out of the school and into a job, life, and family there is an incredible amount of distractions to keep people from thinking (freely w/o the existing framework of how you have been taught) of how and why things around them operate.
^This. Which is why those government indoctrination camps and failure academies have to go.
I went libertarian in my teens. I blame Republican parents, hypocritical teachers (and authority figures in general), Rush, punk music (you’d really think fuck authority would resonate more), and Heinlein.
Most punk bands were commie as hell. Music is the wrong place to look.
Not arguing that, but remember, they also railed against the D’s as well. And there’s enough out there that ran into the same problem as Pixar did with the Incredibles, Parks and Recs did with Ron Swanson, and Whedon did with most of his stuff. Argue against corruption, show a corrupt government, and you may accidentally teach some people some libertarian messages.
Whedon is hilarious. He admits to, and is annoyed by, all of his heros being libertarians.
Apart from perhaps Nick Fury and Phil Coulson; company men wielding a bottomless septillion dollar budget (Stark’s potential contribution aside), and unbelievably vast resources, somehow even when their agency has been dissolved.
Joss Whedon also endorsed voting Mitt Romney for president in 2012 for those voters who want a zombie apocalypse.
Well, yes and no. The bands that were political at all were commie as hell – Dead Kennedys (although “Holiday In Cambodia” remains the greatest skewering of rich kid leftists ever) being the most prominent example. A lot of them, though, were pretty apolitical – my beloved Misfits, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, the Descendents, the Dickies, Screeching Weasel, etc.
There were a few individual righties in punk bands. Johnny Ramone, Lee Ving (although I’ve always thought a lot of his redneck posing was shtick). Ben Weasel definitely was never a lefty – see the lyrics of “Nicaragua”:
You pompous ass your moral outrage
Gives me a fucking headache
Closed your mind got all the answers
Don’t even realize you’re an asshole
If you had any brains I guess you’d see
You’re a narrow minded judgmental left wing nazi
It was a bit later for me, because it took me a while to accept drug legalization arguments. I was basically libertarian on everything else forever, but identified as a conservative because of drugs. At some point in my early 20s, I decided to be consistent.
Well, as consistent as possible in world where Goedel exists.
Also, and I have mentioned this before, but I “blame” CS Lewis for finally pushing me over the edge to libertarianism.
If I had to go with one work, it would be his collection of essays “God in the Dock.”
I should have — but I was and probably still am more of a small-c conservative in many ways.
Thinking back, it is amazing to me how “Leave me alone!” libertarian-ish a lot of the media was in the late 70s/early 80s of my formative years. Smoky and the Bandit, Dukes of Hazzard, The A-Team — tons of shows with corrupt/incompetent government and folks needing to work their problems out on their own in most cases. Probably a backlash due to Nixon/Carter in many ways, I suppose.
Also the draft and associated body bags. But all that gets forgotten as time goes on and people born after 1967 become the economically important bloc.
I went libertarian in my teens. I blame one anti-authoritarian but otherwise shitty
Republicanparents, hypocritical teachers (and authority figures in general), Rush,punk musicHeavy Metal Music!@ (you’d really think fuck authority would resonate more), andHeinleindystopian novels like A Wrinkle in Time, Lord of the Flies, and 1984 – the only good thing my dad ever did for me is get me to read those before age 10.As a 30 something, I would mainly folks are indoctrinated. I think I knew one libertarian in HS he flipped to leftist in college. I knew several conservatives, but few of them were principled or thought about politics. Mainly their parents were conservative or Republicans, so by college or beyond school or their significant other had indoctrinated them since they had no deep philosophy
Is there something in the water that takes 40 years before we figure out that government is the problem?
12-16 years of indoctrination does not help. But I was always skeptical of government and became more libertarian in college while many of my peers were becoming
Marxistsdemocratic socialists.
I was too busy to pay much attention back then. As I got further in my career and started bumping into the government at every turn I started to scrutinize. It was never about the lofty philosophies for me, I just wanted to be left alone to pursue happiness.
Is that too fucking much to ask?
I was garden-variety conservative with libertarianish tendencies. Watched Waco and the conservative part started falling away. After graduating and getting a real job, my employer sent everybody to Freedom School (Kevin Cullinane), and then later I read Sobran’s “The Reluctant Anarchist”, and that was pretty much it.
So for me it just took a few years to find all the connections.
“Watched Waco…”
It always amazes me how anybody could understand that our government burned women and children alive – and nothing else happened.
– – – And still have any level of agreement that this government should be trusted.
35 here . . . Just a point of order. Most of us came here from TOS. For my college years Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch were the face of TOS. They do not scream cool or attract younger folk easily. Especially when they wouldn’t STFU about the “libertarian moment”
To be perfectly honest, I never read the articles at the old site. So the commentariat was the face of the site.
So, Hihn and Palin’s Buttplug kept you there?
fascr had a block feature.
Have some age appropriate music Fourscore! Does it bring to mind your youthful forays?
1 Hour of Dark & Powerful Viking Music
Music to Pillage By! It’s actually pretty good for background noise. I can feel my beard/bloodlust growing as I listen to it
More viking music: Atavistic Viking by Stuart Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg8dwjJj-TU
Gen X, born contrarian. Even as a kid I hated hippies, yuppies, commies, politicians, televangelists, ass kissers, boot lickers, scummy punks, petty criminals, cops, bureaucrats, blue noses… Kind of liked rockstars, drug runners, Gary Larson and the A-Team. Never liked The Man but recognized that it was about as good as it could be since everyone sucks and the Top Men are getting dumber and dumber and the bread and circuses bigger.
Please ignore any and all whining and bitching I’ve done recently or will do in the near future. I’m slightly unhinged at the moment.
Don’t give up the ship.
I mean there are no links in this post, so does that mean links were missed again? /Sarcastic
Congrats glibs and thanks to everyone who makes this the finest hive of scum and villainy on the net.
Technically correct is the best type of correct.
We should at least put links in the title.
Yes to “missed” and yes to “Congrats”
And a big thank you right back at TPTB, pbut. This is my favorite on-line hangout by far.
It’s a great site and a great++ community.
The Glibertarian Website is three years old already?
Well then, Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday
Sorry. This is absolutely the Glibs’ birthday song.
Drunkin Sin – birthday song by Satan.
Happy Birthday!
Jan 16th also known for its anomalous increase in productivity.
Link:
Victims of Socialism in Venezuela Warn U.S.: ‘Don’t Fall for It,’ ‘People are Eating from Trash Bags’
Musical selection:
Tantalized
Make it a great day, y’all!
All purported victims of socialism are disgruntled members of the capitalist class upset they no longer get to exploit the workers. Wake up.
I’m convinced to the hard core socialist it’s better to all be in misery than have rich people in a society.
Venezuela IS the rule for how to conduct a revolution. Just like we saw in Russia and Ukraine.
You can’t usurp the system without wreaking havoc, murder and mayhem.
Dostoevsky’s ‘The Devils’ painted a warning in such viivd ways.
“Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.” Francesco Guicciardini
Or….’meet the new boss, same as the old boss…’
/Townshend guitar windmill move.
Man… here I figured that first link would be to the Bee.
THAT WASN’T REAL SOCIALISM!!!1111!!!!
And if it was America sabotaged it.
We have missed publishing links exactly once, the morning links of Jan 16, 2020.
I don’t see any links in this post…
There are plenty above. The whole point of this site is audience participation.
Can I make a request? I don’t know if it is possible with wordpress, but response levels dont go deep enough. It makes me want to go P Brooks on the world sometimes and we dont need two of us doing that.
Only Brooks can get away with it. We would ignore anyone else who tried to.
A request? Are you sure you’re not new here?
No! ?
Any more levels will get squashed.
I am okay with that. Squashed levels are better than not being able to respond directly.
Being unable to read the comment makes it impossible to respond at all.
Just buy a wider monitor.
I now have a 34″ ultra wide monitor for work. AMAZING!
A: No.
B: I mostly visit this site at work, and there are rules against personal computer equipment.
C: We should not be forced to accommodate your convenience.
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That is an SP type of thing. I’ll send you the request form. Press hard since all three copies have to be readable.
Make sure to include lots of quality wine with the request.
*pops a handful of off-brand Mexican viagara*
Alright, let’s see if this works.
Bloomy is having a bad week. Audio released of his wrongthink comments on minorities and guns. None of which ever slowed him down from trying to take everyone’s guns.
Talking to a guy last night who knew him way back in his Salomon Brothers days before they tossed him out. Smart guy but a real prick was his recollection.
From his own mouth that he was aware and condoned throwing minorities against walls as a routine part of “stop and frisk” whether or not they resisted.
What will the reaction of the Ds be?
He has the right letter next to his name – a “D” – and thus can’t be any of those things others get accused of by the mindreaders. That’s why he is also one of the cool billionaires, and not an evil fucking parasite.
But this is primary season and the D’s have to lock down the “urban” vote.
Glibs accounts for an embarrassing amount of my time. Thanks to everyone who keeps it running.
Politicization of everything, ch 4,962
The resignations and the unusual moves by Barr come as Trump has sought revenge against government officials who testified after congressional Democrats subpoenaed them in their impeachment investigation. In the days since the Senate acquitted him, Trump fired his ambassador to the European Union, a political supporter whom he nominated, and had other officials moved out of the White House.
“This signals to me that there has been a political infestation,” NBC News legal analyst Chuck Rosenberg, a former U.S. attorney in Virginia, said on MSNBC. “And that is the single most dangerous thing that you can do to the Department of Justice.”
In the Stone case, a new filing Tuesday says the previous recommendation “does not accurately reflect the Department of Justice’s position on what would be a reasonable sentence in this matter.” A nine-year sentence “could be considered excessive and unwarranted under the circumstances,” the filing says, declining to recommend a specific term and instead asking the judge to consider an “appropriate” sentence.
“I’ve never seen this happen, ever,” said Gregory Brower, a former U.S. attorney for Nevada and senior FBI official. “I’d be shocked if the judge didn’t order the U.S. attorney to come into court to explain it.”
Earlier Wednesday morning, Trump appeared to praise Barr for intervening in the Stone case, which was an offshoot of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. He claimed, without evidence, that the case was improper and “tainted” and that Mueller had “lied” to Congress.
President Cartoon Villain is demolishing the Justice Department by not letting our preferred career operatives push for vindictive sentences in their politically motivated prosecutions.
What is this, the Fourth Reich?
“This signals to me that there has been a political infestation,” NBC News legal analyst Chuck Rosenberg,
Well there is, but not how you think…
Exactly. I find it scary that they make the argument that cleaning up a politically biased and corrupt entity, one whose ideology they share, is the problem. Not that the entity was weaponized by the inept guy they helped win a presidency that went ahead and did that,
“This signals to me that there has been a political infestation,”
There is but not how you –
*looks down*
Leon beat me to it.
I like how getting rid of the bad actors who tried to sabotage the administration is framed as “seeking revenge”. Yeah, okay.
This site and its denizens have come to mean a lot to me. I don’t get to comment as often as I’d like due to real-life concerns intruding, but I do read almost every commenton every story.
Happy Anniversary, Glibs. May the Glibertarians site and its empire last for a thousand years.
And thank you, sir, for your many fine contributions here.
Yes, as one of the semi-prolific shitposters, I am humbled by people who write actual quality for here.
I enjoy reading your posts, but I usually don’t get around to it till after they’re dead.
Yeah yeah yeah but is libertopia kicking in? If not what is the point huh?
We need to get this glibertarian revolution started already,
The revolution has already started. I have been not ordering people around for years now.
A good revolutionary wears a raspberry beret
And if it was warm, she wouldn’t wear much more
Thanks to all the TPTB and all you glibs. Love you all. Except that one guy. Fuck him/her.
Hey!
Names from the < 1% crown in yesterday's NH Primaries:
Joe Walsh – surely not…
President Boddie – really?
Name I didn't see:
Bloomberg – not on the ballot?
Wrong Joe Walsh.
He last ran for Prez in 1980, I think. And for VP in 1992?
*crowd, oy.
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Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, is having a really bad night. I think she is sending signals that she wants out. Calling for unity is her way of getting there, going home, and having a “nice cold beer” with her husband!
He missed an opportunity. Should have said “smoke signals”.
I put “smoke” right in there as I read it. He didn’t need to.
#metoo & I bet it was intentional
Wait, just how many registered lurkers are there?
The folks at Fort Meade could probably tell us.
So, who has been here from the start? 2 years? 1 year? And who’s the newest? (Tulpa, yeah, yeah)
Not me.
You’re about a year or so, no?
off course not. more than that.
You feel fresher than that.
My first comment was
There ought to be a law about not having to many laws
on
2017/03/04 at 12:38 pm
I did not get one single reply. Not even one calling me Tulpa
TULPA!
There ya go.
All in all I have 67 posts and a little over 16200 comments.
I chat in the comments more than I post.
28 posts over 36,000 comments.
I’m at 29.5K . What are doing with our lives?
I comment a lot form work.
So apparently I’m spending a lot of time at work.
Quality time bruh.
4 and 10,800. I have been such a slacker. I need to write another post.
“My first comment was….”
I am interested in learning how I can retrieve information on my own comments. Please share if you are so inclined.
Well, I cheated and went to the comments section of the dashboard, clicked the header “mine” and found the last page.
That’s the best way
Do you need to be a contributor to see the “Mine” page? I get a lack of permission error.
“Well, I cheated and went to the comments section of the dashboard, clicked the header “mine” and found the last page.”
Thank you, UnCivil. Unfortunately, I cannot access the links in the dashboard. This is the message I get: “Die in a fire, Tulpa Sock.”
In truth, this is the message I see: “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
Can you do a search? If you search on a handle you get all the comments made under that name.
If you are not someone who changes their name a lot, it will work just as well.
Huh. I was earlier than I thought – 02/13/2017 at 11:33 am.
The first comment of the Tulpa Sock “Charles Easterly” was This one on October 16, 2019 at 3:49 pm
I do not think that I have used a different name at H&R in many years, and I cannot remember using a different name here.
“This thread is triggering me! Now I have to go join a death cult.”
3/17/17
I stayed at TOS for a few more months before hopping over. I thought it was going to be like previous diaspora.
My first article was on 3/12/2017, so it was more like 2 weeks than 2 months.
https://www.glibertarians.com/2017/03/in-defense-of-the-single-land-tax/
I still havent written part 2 or 3.
SP once told me there were no promises at Glibs. We all have lives outside this place. Well, most of us.
That is the very article I officially “came out” as Romanian.
Actually, day 5, my first comment was on 2/16:
I sign up and get treated to a EJ Dionne link? Ugh.
That’s because the single land tax is indefensible.
My first comment was Comment 356 on “February 14, 2017 at 2:49 am”
*cough* suckup *cough*
A comment from you about translating something in Japanese dragged me out of the shadows. I lurked for years at TOS and here for while.
I was hoping straff would be able to answer you so I could remain in the shadows.
That said I should credit you from handle as I was I picked it specifically as I was answering your question.
That was the shirt with the koi on it, wasn’t it?
I honestly don’t remember, but it was rather odd Japanese.
I got here on day 4.
First post, first day.
There are some people there I really miss.
Indeed. I considered including a list of absent friends but I wanted to keep this light and celebratory. They are missed.
I miss John too.
*ducks*
You are just pulling our chain, right?
My first comment was on February 19, 2017 at 11:08 am. So I’ve been here closer to the beginning than I remember.
I also make up around 1% of all comments….
“So, who has been here from the start?”
I visited when the website was first created following the failure of TOS when they would not publish/address the incident concerning Sloopy’s(?) mother, but I do not think I began to comment until much later.
I am not sure I would have believed anyone who would have suggested at that time that this website would become superior in so many ways, although because I knew some of the individuals who had joined Glibertarians.com, I understood that the comments would likely be at least as entertaining and ofttimes informative, and a place where I could type out a run-on sentence or two that I ended a preposition with.
Solid.
Can’t remember when I first commented, but think it was just after TOS refused to defend Sloop’s mom. Soured me for them.
Happy birthday to all y’all!
I lurked at TOS for years. I remember JsubD, Groovus’ departure for Ukraine, and when the Reason writers weren’t obviously such prog-symps. I was on the short-lived H-n-R refugee Steam groups, before Glibs opened for business. Then the Glibbening happened, and it’s like the best days of H-n-R again.
The wheels of change: Human capital, millwrights, and industrialisation in 18th-century England
Joel Mokyr, Assaf Sarid, Karine van der Beek 30 January 2020
The consensus among economic historians has been that Britain’s leadership during the Industrial Revolution owed little to the school system. But recent work on human capital suggests that we should rethink this consensus on the role of human capital. This column shows how millwrights – highly skilled carpenters who specialised in constructing and repairing watermills – had a persistent effect on the mechanisation of textile- and iron-making and on the economic expansion that was taking place on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
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https://voxeu.org/article/human-capital-millwrights-and-industrialisation-18th-century-england#.XjTYcHT1y22.twitter
This suggests that the content of education mattered as much – or more – than the quantity of education, as expressed in years of schooling. It stresses that the quality and competence of workers in the top few percent of the distribution mattered more to technological advances than the capabilities of the average worker. This is becoming known as ‘upper-tail human capital’ (e.g. in Squicciarini and Voigtlaender 2016).
And again I will recommend “The Busiest Man in England: The Life of Joseph Paxton.”
A marvelous biography that covers that period and the immediate priors.
This suggests that the content of education mattered as much – or more – than the quantity of education, as expressed in years of schooling. It stresses that the quality and competence of workers in the top few percent of the distribution mattered more to technological advances than the capabilities of the average worker.
Not at all surprising. Quantity of education is a measure for bureaucrats not businessmen, and of course the quality and competence of the top few matters the most as they’re the ones who will be steering the economy, especially at a time of technological and social change.
Happy anniversary to us all! And [fill in deity of choice…or don’t] bless us, every one!
Holy crap. Three years. Many thanks to TPTB, glad I had the chance to break bread with some of them.
I wasn’t on the Mayflower, so to speak – got invited/alerted by Dr. Groovus not too long after it landed, so I was pretty much on the next raft of refugees. I wonder what the good doctor and his hot Ukrainian wife are up to?
I think Groovus was actually Hunter Biden.
Is Nikki Pocahontas?
Last I remember, she was taking a knife to his balls.
[golf clap] for Brooksie’s 7:42 AM comment
Oh, you mean DEMOCRATIC socialism.
You listen to Bernie explain it, and it’s always so relatable … This isn’t Soviet communism, this is policies that meet human needs, like “Medicare for All” … canceling student debt, getting rid of people’s medical debt — these are policies that are popular! Majorities support these. So, for me, democratic socialism is about building a movement of ordinary people that can demand change. So I don’t think it hurts Bernie at all.
When these people say socialism they mean welfare. And popular does not a wise or constitutional policy make.
Handouts, they all wants handouts and to have the government shield them from the consequences of their choices.
*flicks idiot in the forehead*
It means Venezuela.
*accepts award, thanks God, and curses Trump to thunderous applause*
Oops…. I meant
*accepts award, thanks God for abortion, and curses Trump to thunderous applause*
Unknown Florida Man or Florida Woman illegally killed two porpoises in a week and a third last May.
nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-dolphins-murdered-shot-stabbed-florida-noaa-reward-20200212-xikp3novjjddnfryxvy2xnljtm-story.html
Happy birth…whatever.
How can you celebrate a stupid birthday when the earth literally has a fever and the literal Hitler Trump is literally a Nazi and everything is literally falling apart?
Two of those three got fixed. “The state of our union is stronger than ever before.” — Trump
https://www.vox.com/2020/2/4/21123394/state-of-the-union-full-transcript-trump
With a literal celebration. Or scotch. Or some good Tequila.
#metoo for Tonio’s 7:49 AM comment
Bernie wants pro-lifers excommunicated from the supposedly inclusive, supposedly tolerant party.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/bernie-sanders-doesnt-see-a-future-for-pro-lifers-in-the-democratic-party
Says the guy who’s been a Democrat for a few months.
Is he actually a Democrat party member now?
Yes, because he was (fittingly) forced to.
It’s actually quite astonishing to me that I am about to see in my lifetime the Democrat party nominate a no-shit communist for the presidency.
The Booty Judge was close in both Iowa and New Hampshire.
Special K is the only one left who doesn’t share that position.
Special K is more tolerant.
On The View, Meghan McCain asked her, “Do you think there’s room for pro-life Democrats to vote for you?”
“I’m strongly pro-choice. I have always been pro-choice, but I believe we’re a big-tent party,” Klobuchar responded. “I think we need to bring people in.”
That’s one way to disaffect a large swath of potential voters.
I mean if your base is full of people fine with killing babies, it could hurt your voting demographics.
Townhall accuses Bernie of snitching OMWC’s shtick..
Nice link.
Dangnabbit!
Did anyone notice James Carville has now spoken out and claims he’s not interested in being in a cult of Bernie gets the nod?
Also, apparently Chris Cuomo has his own radio show. My brother in law was listening to it and he was telling me how he seems to be a different guy from his persona on CNN.
He was also letting the DNC have it particularly with their attacks on billionaires.
Does anyone listen and know more about his show?
That figures, because his family socializes with an inordinate number of them on a regular basis.
I flirted with a bit of lefty “anti-government-ism” in college, until I figured out their objections to government oppression had nothing to do with oppression, and everything to do with who was doing it.
Watership Dune
https://twitter.com/MikeBrooks668/status/1227571319119675393
Nightmare fuel
So, who has been here from the start?
I, as is my wont, wasn’t paying attention, until I had a “Hey, where’d everybody (worthwhile) go?!” moment.
Fortunately, somebody tipped me off.
The rest of us are still trying to figure out who that was.
Took me a couple of months to follow over here, but I never commented at TOS.
Stand Up America✔
@StandUpAmerica
Victory! National Popular Vote just passed in the Virginia House.
NPV will ensure that the candidate who gets the most votes in all 50 states becomes president.
It means that every vote in every state will matter.
This is a huge step. Next stop: The VA state Senate.
1)That is not how it works. This is a republic, not a democracy. The president is the president of the States, not of the people of the States. NPV would ignore State boundaries and that they are separate political entities.
2) Actually it means the votes in NY and CA will matter, not the votes of the people of VA. Also, compacts among the States are illegal.
This is simply a power play by people that mean to rule you.
So if the vote in VA does not match the national popular vote, then their votes don’t actually count for anything.
I will laugh my motherfucking ass off if Trump wins the national popular vote, but loses in Virginia, yet these shitheels will have given the state to him. The tears from that will make 2016 look like peanuts.
Not sure how California cast 40 million votes for the Presidential race but there it is. You will note it has been certified by the Secretary of State. Whada gonna do?
Mark it Dude, next frame.
You can grow industrial hemp in the tropics without problems from the climate, right?
who needs industrial hemp?
Industry?
The Hemp Industry?
It’s a colony for resupplying sailing ships, which use a lot of hemp rope in their rigging.
Yes, that’s why it’s called “manilla.”
This is why we conquered the Philippians (auto correct changed it to this. Fuck it, we goin with it). To protect and bolster our strategic folder supply.
Seccombe on Brenner. I always thought kinship differences were neglected but must matter for debate on proletarianisation
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today in terms of local/family solidarity networks. Win for MacFarlane + J Scott + Marcel Fafchamps!
https://twitter.com/pseudoerasmus/status/1225786867964137472
I am split on economic history as a thing. It can be interesting but I cannot see it ever getting anything clear in the current intellectual environment.
SJWednesday: Vocabulary Edition
To make room, they had to give up on plots, character developments, and entertainment value.
It’s refereed to as Wokanniblism: A low-carb, high-protein diet consisting mainly of eating your own.
Tedious and boring.
Divide and conquer.
While graysexuality is usually under the asexuality umbrella, a huge term that includes a lot of different identities
I think the fact that the people who talk about not generalizing people into overly broad groups, end up saying that only one aspect of your life defines your identity fits the definition of Irony.
It’s a way to be special without any real effort other than self-identification. It’s the punk mohawk of the 21st century.
The amount labor these people put into tedious, irrelevant bs…
According to the Asexual Visibility and Education Network, people who are graysexual (or gray-A or gray-ace) might not normally experience sexual attraction, but do sometimes. They might also experience sexual attraction, but a low sex drive. Or they could experience sexual attraction and drive, but not strongly enough to want to act on them.
aka Wives
Nice to know I’m not alone in this world
Or, people could just not rely on increasingly overcomplicated sexual preference demographic charts to derive their identities as individuals. But what fun is that, right? There aren’t any grants for not loudly declaring your offense at people making assumptions about whose butt you want to touch.
We have discovered that human beings are individuals and hard to categorize. We looked at this fact and were faced with a choice. Either we could treat human beings as individuals, worthy of respect and entitled to live their own lives, or we could create an ever increasing matrix of categories along various axes and loudly denounce any one who objects as a hatey-faced hatemonger of hate!
SHUT THE FUCK UP, LIBTARD!
Thanks for letting us get cat-butted!
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SJWednesday: I’m Cool With The End Times As Long As It’s Diverse
I think one of the things that drives the left the most insane is that trump doesn’t give a shit about their stupid “Your a Racist” complaints. That was supposed to work for forever and always.
It’s Nazinoia: A delusional tendency to see Nazis as hiding behind ideas or practices one opposes, and by accusing anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders of being Nazis, fascists, white supremacists, or alt-right.
I still recall fondly learning Dr. King’s message that we should judge each other not by the content of our character, but by the color of our skin.
The irony of ironies is that King’s speech has been described as an example of white privilege.
I know, quoting that passage is now “racist”.
I’m 41 so I’m probably late on this, but last I heard the new hotness is that even when a black person says race shouldn’t matter or anything like that it’s an example of the power of white privilege and/or colonialism or something having essentially brainwashed that person into not caring enough about identity politics. It’s a BA in Intersectional Studies way of calling someone an Uncle Tom.
This suggests that the content of education mattered as much – or more – than the quantity of education, as expressed in years of schooling.
Wait, what? Impocerus!
Well, I donated and bought some of you Cafe Press crap. Don’t spend all that dirty lucre in one place.
BTW, you started a fight between me and Cafe Press over sales tax. Clothing shouldn’t be taxable in Minnesoda, but Cafe Press collected money for it anyhow. We’ll see how they respond. But now I’m wondering how many online sellers are “collecting” that money and just pocketing it.
You got the footed pajamas, didn’t you?
I like to eat a big bowl of bean soup and then pump up the
volumePJ’s! Without the feet, that is impossible.While “Can’t touch that” is playing Mc Hammer?
Why? You need me to ship you some?
So, you’ve been to a sleep over at Jimbo’s?
Let me tell you, the footies are a big upgrade over the sheer pajamagram ones he was wearing.
Fuck the supreme court and the Sales Tax regime in the US.
Unless Cafe Press is physically in Minnesota, you shouldn’t be paying at all for anything. There HQ is in Louisville, but not sure if they have other physical locations.
Their…honestly, I know the difference.
That was the rule before the Wayfair decision. Thanks Supreme Court!
Now everyone selling on the internet has to be the tax collector for any taxing jurisdiction that they sell into.
Not any more, you’re now required by federal law to comply with every state’s law regarding sales tax nexus.
Okay, so why do use tax forms still exist? Are states just to lazy to get rid of them?
Because if the retailer didn’t collect it for whatever reason, you’re still required to pay it.
It isn’t just state is it, you have to know all the city/county/special taxing districts, right?
Yes. It is utterly bullshit. and so you end up where people are just adding taxes and sending them to the jurisdictions where they think they have to go. It is stupid shit.
Fuck the government of South Dakota and the SCOTUS for that awful decision. That was one that made no legal sense, it was just the decision that “made common sense” i.e it is what Roberts wanted, and so now we have an ever increasing awful tax regime in the US.
It’s made companies like Avalara a fortune.
They automate sales tax across all jurisdictions for ecommerce businesses, but their service starts at around $30k/year.
It depends on the state. They can make it easy, or they can make it hard by having a shitload of taxing districts that need to be accounted for. In practice, making a good faith effort to collect the tax and remitting it to the state will keep you out of trouble, at least for now.
They would fall under the economic nexus rules (thank you Wayfair Decision)
Very unlikely that they are pocketing it, because that’s how you get into serious trouble. It’s almost certainly going to Minnesota.
Does Minnesota have a use tax form on their state income tax? If so, claim a negative amount for overpayment.
Has any individual (as a business, I have) ever put anything on a use tax form? Why?
Because you were audited for state sales tax and they asked to see a record of all internet purchases.
/been there, done that
And I missed the whole “individual” part of your question.
*heads to coffee machine*
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!! 🙂
Happy Anniversary!
I didn’t realize the Glibs anniversary is the day before my wedding anniversary. That makes things easy to remember.
Your wife will be happy that you finally stop forgetting your anniversary.
Really? That would make it more difficult for me.
Which might explain the rolling pin indentations on the back of my skull.
Just tell her “How am I supposed to remember our anniversary when you never look any older?” If that doesn’t at least get you laid, you’re doing it wrong.
It’s very easy to remember your anniversary when it’s the day before a “holiday” or whatever you call Valentine’s Day. I recommend it.
“Jussie Smollett is indicted by a special prosecutor in Chicago on SIX counts ‘for lying to police about being the victim of a racist homophobic attack’, a year after similar charges were dropped”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7993001/Jussie-Smollett-indicted-special-prosecutor-Chicago.html
He’ll be top of the list for a full pardon by the next D president.
Justice for Juicy!
Today is Lincoln’s birthday. There is some sort of irony on it also being glibs bday.
Also, it is my Dad’s birthday. Even if he doesn’t understand. Happy birthday! And fuck Alzheimer’s.
With a red-hot poker.
I hope your dad and you have a good day.
I always reminded my family that my dad got to meet new people every day of the last few days of his life, which might have been exciting for em…
To the rest of us it was all fucked up.
Reason is going to launch an invasion?
She’s a little young to do much invading really.
Nothing left to cut.
So $200K to alert people that skin lightening creams are chock full of mercury and best left alone. And why would anyone want to be white? I thought that was the worst?
To get in on that privilege
Now do spray tans.
“This may be the most Chicago election ever ”
https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1227254706138996736
That’s some gerrymandering.
Is he buried in the district?
Thats what upsets me when Utah Democrats complain about “Gerrymandering”. Look at the fucking state and look at how the population of the state is distributed. You can’t make a district without it taking a bite of the Ogden-SLC-Provo metro. That doesn’t make it gerrymandered. Look at the states elsewhere to see what a gerrymandered state looks like.
Maryland checking in here. The place is rife with it, right down to the city/municipality level.
If only the races lived in single, compact regions, we wouldn’t have to gerrymander so much.
Distinct 11?
District 9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyLUwOcR5pk
He is just pining for the fjords!
It’s actually quite astonishing to me that I am about to see in my lifetime the Democrat party nominate a no-shit communist for the presidency.
Seriously. Jimmy Carter may have been a feckless imbecile, for the most part, but at least he wasn’t a commie.
It remains to be seen, and I’ll admit to some wishful thinking on my part, but I think if they nominate Bernie they will have crossed the Rubicon. The Dems have flirted with Socialism but they’ve generally represented themselves as free market capitalists with a lot of regulation. Nominating a straight-up Socialist would be a bell that can’t be unrung, and I think it would strand a lot of Dems who might not be ready to join the Glorious Workers’ Revolution.
SJWednesday: I’ve Never Been To Southwest Virginia
And the author completely misses the opportunity to discuss why getting a chipped tooth repaired is so expensive. It’s more important to talk about the unequal distribution of dental care and why everybody doesn’t have somebody else paying for it.
I’m just baffled by how one manages to chip a tooth by accidentally biting down on a fork.
The funnest thing has been the people we’ve met in meatspace. Although we’d personally known a few of the old HyR folks, the community that developed here allowed us to experience some absolutely wonderful, witty, and engaging people over drinks, food, and music, people we would not have otherwise met. We feel far less alone now, and it’s great to socialize with people with whom we don’t have to hide our beliefs.
Thanks to each and every one of you.
If you moved out of deep blue areas, you wouldn’t need to hide your (((beliefs))).
I didn’t move to a deep blue area – the deep blue area moved to me.
*pours one out for what home used to be like*
If you moved out of deep blue areas, you wouldn’t need to hide your (((beliefs))).
Pretty sure they have a Republican Congresshole and State Rep.
Andy Biggs, beloved of Team Red authoritarians.
Truly, you have moved in with America’s strategic reserve of frightened old people.
Our neighborhood is predominantly Mormon. Not Mojeaux Mormons, unfortunately.
Have you seen the Ward map? Is your house heavily blacked-out with Sharpie? “WARNING! Do NOT proselytize at this address.“
For whatever reason, they have never showed up here. Lots of Jehovah’s Bystanders, though.
There is a house around the corner that is used by an ever-rotating group of kids on their missions. Every few months I have to offer up some strawberry-lemonade to a new pair of wonderfully fresh-faced young people, while I explain what our Mezuzah is and why they may safely disregard any home that has one on the door frame. Great kids though; they shovel snow and mow lawns for their neighbors.
Apparently that was my 10,000th comment.
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We feel far less alone now, and it’s great to socialize with people with whom we don’t have to hide our beliefs.
Oh dear god, yes. I’ve only met two people from here one time, but that one lunch was incredibly refreshing – the only other times when I don’t fanatically guard my comments is when I’m with close family.
I leave out the dirtiness and profanity, but otherwise I have no problem telling people what I believe. Unless I’m drinking in which case I leave in the dirtiness and profanity.
Keep in mind it seems like every statement declaring an opinion in Japanese ends with 。。。と 思う。
So really your opinion is always qualified. 😉
かもしらない。
知らんけど。
Heeey Joe, who won a Second World War, you so smart?
Not responsible.
Betty-Joe Bialoski on a speedy cruise-boat?
The skipper of PT109?
allowed us to experience some absolutely wonderful, witty, and engaging people over drinks, food, and music,
And that doesn’t even count the revenue from stolen bikes!
That piece of shit in Minnesota only got us like $5.
Hey, I thought that was all it was worth.
Serves you right for selling it in Little Mogadishu. You gotta go to Edina or St. Louis Park for the real money.
Happy Gliberversary! I love this site and all on it. Glory be to all the contributors, posters and TPTB.
Quaere: So there are various local Glib meetups… Ever thought of having a summit sometime, somewhere, open invites to all? …somewhere interesting, with bars to socialize in and wooded trails for the hermits to escape to for awhile?
Meetups tend to be events of opportunity, or individually organized.
If you want to try to herd enough cats for a summit, you’re welcome to try.
Honey Harvest 2020
I think I’ll try that.
It was really fun. I, of course, was the only one who did any actual work. Jimbo was flirting with the girls, Leap was teaching his children woodscraft, Mike and Matt were hungover, Nick was telling cool stories and being all badass with his motorcycle, and Hobbit and his lovely wife were too busy being charming and interesting.
Poor Fourscore was pretending we were all escaped mental patients.
Definitely worth the trip.
It sounds cool…..but there’s virtually no chance I’m ever in Minnesota.
To all, I just bought 4 hives of bees. Honey Harvest 2020 Lives !
Sounds like you’re buzzing with excitement.
It will bee a harvest to remember!
Hope you’ll be here, UCS, the ticks will be gone but new tics will be available. But you’ve already met the Midwest folks…
Cool. Where can I find details on that?
I have an email list for that stuff. minnetundra@ those evil fucks
Where are you geographically? Our Minne group has expanded to ND, MT, IA and WI.
I’m just south of Nashville, TN.
You and the Memphis crew could meet in S. Illinois and car pool from there.
You forgot Hobbit, NM
Synchronized Swimming event at the Tokyo Olympics. Bring your own nose plugs.
The crowds of gaijin really do stink, don’t they?
and speedo.
…somewhere interesting, with bars to socialize in and wooded trails for the hermits to escape to for awhile?
Sounds like a good idea. I recommend Utah. It is relatively central, it Has lots of wooded mountain trails, and there are ostensibly bars, and the good thing is you can’t get drunk at them so you really get to socialize.
relatively central,
Ummm…what?
There is a reason UPS and FedEx use Louisville and Memphis as their primary air hubs.
The center of US population is near Plato, MO.
It’s relatively central to Leon.
Fourscore’s Honey Harvest has grown pretty well. Nearby towns, lots of woods on Four’s estate.
Not to toot my own horn too much, but I’m quite the influencer. After Fourscore let me escape the first HH, I was quite the influential Judas Goat and there were lots of us at the next one. We even had Non-Minnesodans there! Quite the deal.
“Not to toot my own horn too much…”
Man, if I was that flexible, I wouldn’t get anything done!
The problems would be organizing it, finding a location for it, and getting those outside driving distance to get to it.
Mall of America!
Anyone flying in can take light rail right from the airport to the MOA. TSA and mass transit. That screams libertarianism.
I was there ~four years ago as part of Mini Takes the States. The girlfriend forced me to go to the mall… I responded by a forced trip over to Surly. I wasn’t able to participate in MTTS two years ago as it came nowhere near Ohio, and I’ll be coming back from several weeks in Europe when it kicks off this year (it goes every other year).
Hard no.
I suggested Great Taste of the Midwest for a summit type meetup.
2nd saturday in August, have to apply for the ticket lottery on…May 1st, I think.
That would be fun.
I can’t be the only person here who can’t tell robc and brocettaward apart.
You’ve gone native? And can’t tell us round-eyes apart anymore?
Gone native? It only took Costner six months. My tentacles alone have decades of rings.
I thought that was Tom Cruise who went native samurai?
Never can tell them Hollywood prettyboys apart.
Tom Cruise is the guy who got into a canoe accident in The South and turned into a NASCAR driver.
brocettaward is an a-hole, Robc is usually not an a-hole.
Must try harder.
Do I need to switch back to my beer glass avatar?
You could at least spell my name right, guy.
“Four major journalistic errors in just 10 hours”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/a-banner-day-for-news-media-four-major-reporting-errors-in-just-10-hours
Just four?
Fair enough.
Yeah, “errors” – that only go in one direction.
Autobiographical trivia:
I lurked for years at TOS, never trusted the registration there.
I only registered here to submit some content to keep the lynx from touching. That article I decided to write was a review of “Torment: Tides of Numenara” which is where my handle came from.
Consistent with my work ethic and commitment, that article has yet to be written.
Don’t feel too bad. I’ve got a lengthy article that’s been almost finished since July just waiting for the right moment.
I’ve got three not completed!!
two
One I completed and never submitted, ’cause it kinda stunk.
I’m working on one about Banff. I just gotta buckle down and finish it.
I meant to continue on to articles on Article II and III at least but every time I start I realize again that Article I is really the crux of the Constitution. Congress was the Federal Government in the original design. The other branches were not meant to drive anything they were meant as additional brakes on Congress and we are so far from that now that discussions of Articles II and III end up being:
Madison tried to avoid monarchy by creating a weak executive and splitting courts (which are the heart of Monarchical power) off from the head of state role. His attempt failed.
Regarding the ongoing Californication of Virginia…..maybe I’m just desperate to cling to anything to avoid despair, but it really seems like the Donks are acting like they don’t expect to hold majorities for too long. Otherwise, why the big rush to ram through every leftist hobby horse under the sun this Assembly session? There are more bills being introduced this year than there ever have been before, and by a fairly comfortable margin.
Or maybe I’m just deluding myself. That is probably more likely.
Seems to me they are introducing plenty to attempt to stay in the majority. Remove the one term limit on the governor*, remove voter ID requirement, redistricting, etc.
They showed their hand with the senate and house gun ban bills though. Whatever ends up passing, we know what they really want. And they will come back to address it.
*But I believe this would take a constitutional amendment.
Christ, are they really trying to remove the one term limit? I hadn’t even noticed that, probably because the news is too depressing to closely follow. That’s how I didn’t know that we now have a tax on plastic shopping bags.
Northam today, Northam tomorrow, Northam forever!
I forgot about the bill to criminalize “derogatory” speech regarding government officials, particularly the governor. They are full bore authoritarians.
They’re paying back their voting base with legislative movement while consolidating their hold on power. Getting the hell out of Virginia s the only good strategy (maybe seceding or switching to WV but that’s way more complicated).
maybe seceding
Only one county can legally do that without consent of the legislature as a result of the original formation of WV, the formation of which itself is debatable as to its original legality.
If counties really want to push the issue, I’m curious to see how that goes. Taking it to the ridiculous but logical extreme, would they really send in the National Guard to prevent a county from joining West Virginia? Only the leftiest of the leftys would support that, I imagine.
Selfishly, I hope no counties secede because that will definitely ensure a permanent far-left majority in the GA, and my county ain’t going anywhere.
send in the National Guard
VA Nat. Guard is what, 6-8 thousand strong? Leftist might get giddy dreaming about the jackboot of the state being brought down on bitter-clingers, but that scenario would not go how they think. There would be mass-defection and they probably would not even venture into the rural areas.
Lefties have no freaking concept for the people who wear the uniform.
I was the unit armorer for my Army Reserve unit. Every time I went to the armory where I handled my unit’s affairs it kinda made me chuckle; I have more hardware in both quantity and depth in my personal arsenal back in the US.
+1 Rifle Behind Every Blade of Grass.
I spent some quality time with the VAARNG in Afghanistan – they worked my area I was the CAO for…
They were all in the counties that would leave – so there really would be no “National Guard to send, if the WV AG said “Welcome aboard the WVNG!” and confirmed all appointments and ranks.
The Federal Government would not allow such a thing, and since all the officers have to be federally recognized….
State appointments. Also, think Trump wouldn’t tell Sec Def to do so?
You’re deluding yourself. They are 100% confident they are a permanent majority, which is why they are jamming through their long-pent-up wishlist. They have no fear that going hard left will cost them their seats.
Or they’re just really stupid.
It’s just the scope of it that’s surprising. They’re going incredibly far left, further than places like NJ and MD in some ways.
The balance tipped over. They have Fairfax, they have the urban core of Richmond, Petersburg, Hopewell, and the Tidewater cities, plus the students and staff in C-ville and Blacksburg.
If they ram through 50 proggy bills, even if the GOP manages to retake the legislature and the state house, how many will be repealed and how many will stay in the name of bipartisan civility and compromise and gentility?
The American left has spent a century following the same plan, and it works wonders: when you are in power, ram through every thing you can, and then even if the Republicans repeal half of it, which they never do, you’re still winning the long game. Two steps forward, one step back.
The Democratic party seems to be currently infected with Revolutionaries, crowding out the old Fabians. Revolutionaries tend to want Year 0 to come ASAP.
I was wondering if she was really going to testify in Congress under oath – somebody would have asked about the Carter Page warrant and she would have been in a pickle.
Trump Pulls Nomination of Corrupt Deep State US Attorney Jessie Liu to Treasury Dept.
So who will be nominated in lieu of Liu?
ICWYDT NTTAWWT
*narrows gaze*
What? Are you saying I created an endless loop? A loop-d-liu?
As puns go, that was a Liu Liu.
Happy Glibversary to all. 95% lurker, but as my handle implies this place came about as I was getting settled into the Desk Jockey life after college. Kept my sanity and learned a hell of a lot just by wandering to this site 2-3 hours a day.
If all goes well, I will be vacating the desk life (and the hellscape of New York) before the year is out. Maybe I’ll see if anything interesting enough for an article occurs.
But because of the quality of people here, I’ll still be making time to check in.
Tulpa: fornicate afield!
You may now fuck directly off, Tulpa !
Ass Wednesday wants you to be a booty judge.
http://archive.li/5ZysG
Work just went from delayed opening to closed for the day. It’s currently -18F with sustained winds of 39mph with gusts to 49mph. I’m ready for spring.
That bullshit will be here later tonight. Above freezing by Saturday, though!
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
UUUUUUUCCCCCkkkk this I can’t believe I’m pining for the weather back in Cleveland.
You can always come back… The Indians have at least another year of potentially being good, and you can join us at the bars laughing at the dumpster fire that is the Browns.
…but not good enough.
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When my maternal grandfather was working on the construction of McMurdo Station in the late 1950s, they had to wait until it warmed up to -50°F before they could safely venture outside to work.
l0b0t is The THING!
Thank the mountains that wind isn’t going to reach me.
Stay safe, Mike, the wind chill in your place is like a -50 or more.
…and the furnace keeps kicking out. Near as I can tell the strong wind is creating back pressure on the exhaust vent, causing it to error out and shut down. A “re-boot” of the furnace works to get it going again for a while. It was 53F when I woke up at 6am. In fits and starts I’ve got it up to 64F now.
Pressure switch is weak, guaranteed
Weak enough so that a strong wind trips it, but it’s fine when it isn’t dealing with wind blowing right down the vent? Sound plausible?
yep, they are cheap and easy to change, but don’t let any one bypass it, except for testing
Can you see the top of the vent from outside? Make sure the cap hasnt blown off, it happens pretyy often
It exits the side of the house just below first floor level. It terminates with a 90 degree elbow pointing down. There is no special cap of any kind.
Condensing furnace, OK, pressure switch it is, and there are many on your furnace,
The LED status code that HAL blinks is:
When I reboot it, it will run for varying amounts of time before it errors out again. As long as 30+minutes once, often only 5-15 minutes.
Since the trouble coincided with these very strong north winds (vent exists on north side) I just assumed “Excessive wind” was the cause. ?????
By the time (Friday) it gets to the North Coast here in Ohio, it’s supposed to be all the way up to a high of 18, with a low of 8. Overall, it’s been a pretty mild winter this year, so I’m not complaining.
This may be the most retarded, self-indulgent thing I’ve read all week.
https://www.insidehook.com/article/relationships/how-to-date-younger-women-without-being-the-worst
What’s so retarded about it?
The pointless and unnecessary injection of SJW talking points into the entire article, the lack of any discussion whatsoever of biological drivers, the notion that people might have personal preferences that aren’t driven by politics to be incredible somehow.
That, along with the lecturing tone coming from a fucking 22-year old; all of which I find retarded.
“the notion that people might have personal preferences that aren’t driven by politics to be incredible somehow”
I didn’t see where she wrote that.
“Age tends to factor heavily into our romantic decisions because it is often a useful indicator of where a person may be in their career, how they might feel about future family planning, their taste in music, etc., etc. Many people choose to date people close in age because they assume that means they will have more in common. Other people may prefer to seek partners in other age ranges for various other reasons, or perhaps even for no real reason beyond the often uncontrollable forces of personal preference. Ultimately, there’s no real reason we should read a preference for older men or younger women as fundamentally different than a preference for redheads over blondes or bearded men over clean shaven. That, as they say, is why they make chocolate and vanilla.”
When you suffer from Phrenological Reflux Disease (This disease is characterized by an inability to digest scientific work on group differences, especially common with respect to intelligence without intermittent ejaculations of “phrenology!” or “phrenologist!”) you got to do that shit, man.
If you actually WANT to read contenders for “the most retarded, self-indulgent”, try City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5 of 6) by Cassandra Clare from IIRC 2012.
Woman, 25, who had sex with older men before setting their homes on fire is jailed for arson
I wonder if Daddy was a fireman.
Crazy eyes.
The defendant has previously been convicted for sleeping with men up to 40 years her senior and committing arson on their properties.
So sleeping with men much older is a crime?
What an oddly specific fetish.
Confess your sins. Abase yourself. Give us your money.
We know that having an overwhelming police presence in a community frequently yields antagonistic or traumatic relationships between the police and the policed — often resulting in more, not less, criminal behavior. We know that a whole series of punitive laws built over decades means that an arrest and a conviction can entirely upend a person’s life, leaving them struggling to get a job, often barred from public housing, stripped of the right to receive necessary benefits like food stamps, blocked from receiving funding for a college education and unable to support themselves, let alone a family — feeding into, not interrupting, a cycle of trauma, poverty and crime that then justifies powerful politicians like Michael Bloomberg pushing for more of the same, despite the devastating consequences.
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That doesn’t mean there’s no place for Bloomberg to make amends. I hope he takes large chunks of his tremendous fortune and hands it off to the groups now fighting the scourge of surveillance, trauma and violence to which he contributed. I hope he gives handsomely to the effort to make sure Donald Trump loses in 2020. I hope that the public shows him a humanity and sense of mercy that he and his NYPD refused so many New Yorkers.
I hope he makes amends for the sprawling damage he has done. But these comments prove that the White House isn’t the place for him to do it.
The “There oughtta be a law” party doesn’t want you, Bloomberg. Just your money.
Don’t forget, the real problem with criminalizing every goddam thing under the sun is that it makes it harder to get on the dole.
Fuck you, Alan Page.
Minnesota business leaders launch push for constitutional amendment on education
Everyone in this story is asshole. We know all about the ‘achievement gap’ and why it’s there. We just won’t say the words aloud.
guarantee all children the fundamental right to a quality public education
Next up:
Not sending your kids to a government school is a violation of their right to a government school education. Non-government schooling effectively outlawed.
Court orders raising taxes and budgets for government schools to “ensure” that they can provide a “quality” education.
Sigh. Yeah, this is going to be a bad one. On paper it sounds like you are trying to do right by the kids. In reality it will be a train wreck.
Why not just decide that each kid should be able to spend $X on education and give each kid a voucher for that much. Then let them spend it anywhere they like?
Then the kids might learn about things their betters don’t want them learning.
Because they might go non-union.
These people learned how to influence other people you want to fleece/fool from the people that wrote the constitution of the U.S.S.R.. On paper it “guaranteed” all these incredible things. In practice it made everyone slaves of the oligarch or oligarchy running the shithole this ideology always produces (120 million plus murdered and 3 billion that lived in hell on earth in the name of creating utopia).
a proposed constitutional amendment that would guarantee all children the fundamental right to a quality public education.
You keep using that word, etc.
Hm. I must also have a fundamental right to quality pens/paper/megaphones/firearms/legal representation/etc.
My first post:
kinnath
Hello. I have arrived.
2017/02/20 at 10:05 am
Apparently, I failed to stay on topic right from the get go.
I’m too lazy to look up my first post, but I’m sure it was something completely forgettable.
You are correct sir, completely forgettable.
Just playing the odds – my ratio of forgettable to profound is dismal.
MD is also trying to out-CA CA.
The proposed registration requirement would kick in on October 1st, 2020, and features a sliding scale of registration fees. The longer you wait to register a firearm, the more expensive it would be.
“A PERSON WHO VOLUNTARILY REGISTERS AN ASSAULT LONG GUN OR A COPYCAT WEAPON AS DESCRIBED IN SUBPARAGRAPH (II) OF THIS PARAGRAPH IS SUBJECT TO:
1. ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2021, AND BEFORE MAY 1, 2021, A REGISTRATION FEE NOT EXCEEDING $290 PER FIREARM;
2. ON OR AFTER MAY 1, 2021, AND BEFORE NOVEMBER 1, 2022, A REGISTRATION FEE NOT EXCEEDING $580 PER FIREARM;
AND 3. ON OR AFTER NOVEMBER 1, 2022, AND BEFORE MAY 1, 2023, A REGISTRATION FEE NOT EXCEEDING $1,000 PER FIREARM.
(IV) 1. A PERSON WHO LAWFULLY POSSESSED AN ASSAULT LONG GUN OR A COPYCAT WEAPON BEFORE OCTOBER 1, 2020, AND WHO REGISTERS THE ASSAULT LONG GUN OR COPYCAT WEAPON ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2021, AND BEFORE MAY 1, 2023, ONLY AFTER BEING DISCOVERED IN POSSESSION OF THE ASSAULT LONG GUN OR COPYCAT WEAPON BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE PENALTIES IN § 4–306 OF THIS SUBTITLE.”
According to the legislation, anyone found in possession of an unregistered “assault long gun” after May 1st, 2023 would be subject to a misdemeanor charge and could face up to a year in prison as a result.
WTF is an “assault long gun”? I thought assault guns were generally shorter-barreled than a comparable bore field gun, as they are meant for a direct-fire role in support of infantry.
WTF is an “assault long gun”?
1) black
2) pistol grip
3) thing that goes up
Schwerer Gustav, maybe?
Fires more than one bullet an hour.
“assault long gun”
I have to assume that means anything other than a musket loaded long gun. Probably including ‘assault’ pellet guns.
Muskets? That’s a weapon of war! You’re not allowed that!
/Governor Blackface
The irony being that no army on the planet has ever issued the AR-15, whereas muskets were standard issue all over the planet for centuries. Also, never mind that the entire point of 2A is for citizens to possess weapons that a tyrannical gov’t might use against them.
IIRC, that was pretty much the argument promulgated by FedGov in US v. Miller (upholding the NFA)- Miller’s sawed-off shotgun was not subject to 2A protection because it was not in common use by the infantry.
Yep. But a milita, by definition, is armed with whatever weapons they bring to muster. The whole Miller case is one of the more egregious bullshit.
“Neither the defendants nor their legal counsel appeared at the Supreme Court. A lack of financial support and procedural irregularities prevented counsel from traveling”
So FDRs lawyer argued against air, and won.
A long gun of war? I am pretty sure a musket fits that description.
Fuck you, Alan Page.
Alan, I am disappoint.
I will add my thanks to the pile. This is a great website, and I’m thankful to everyone who makes it possible.
Also,
Is it a new genre of smut, or a new genre of horror?
both.
Oh stop it already, ya’ll is making me sick with this lovefest!
Although SF is an internet legend, ya’ll be making me sick.
It’s part of the cult love bombing.
Smorror.
+1
“A woodpecker disturbed network coverage in California by storing over 300 pounds of acorns in a wireless antenna unit”
https://twitter.com/NaturelsLit/status/1227589051080798208
That’s nuts.
Bernie Woodpecker sez: “Nobody needs 300 pounds of acorns.”
Happy third to all! I love you all, Except ZardoZ, he doesn’t do love,
and I got Bella three years ago this week, YAy!
So, Bloomturd got 0% of the vote in NH and his most recent adds are claiming that Trump is terrified of him because he can beat Trump. Hahahahhahahaha, he can’t even beat any of the other dem candidates.
I don’t think he had ballot access in NH.
He got two write-in votes in Dixville Notch.
LOL!
https://www.newser.com/story/286854/trump-scores-record-win-in-new-hampshire.html
Emphasis added. Dems are fucked.
2018: Another Problem for Trump: A 2020 Primary Challenge Is Growing More Likely
LOL
Jennifer Horn is one of the Bill Kristol Never Trump dead-enders, the people who keep creating new organizations no one pays attention to with names like the Coalition for Republican Decency or Principles Not Parties to keep the grift going, You know, bullshit like this.
Hey, look who’s on the list of speakers!
baaaahahahahahaha
Trump’s total vote count in the New Hampshire primary is higher than that of any previous incumbent president, reports the AP.
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That’s pretty crazy. I mean, obviously population growth accounts for a good portion of that, but it’s still pretty nuts that thousands of Republicans went to the polls just to make sure the incumbent won the primary.
It’s sending a message to the LSM and DC.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-doubles-obamas-2012-vote-total-in-new-hampshire-signaling-fired-up-base
A big “Fuck you!” message.
As a daily lurker and occasional commentor, I would just like to say thank you for teh awsome.
Shut the fuck up, Tulpa!
I heard you like Tulpas. So i threw some Tulpae on your Tupla so you could Tulpa while you have Tulpa.
Wouldn’t a traditional jump-in where we beat the shit out of the new guys be more humane than the emotional beating of being called a Tulpa?
*Fuck off Tulpa-zwak!
Is this what we usually refer to as a “double tap”?
“Ours is not to wonder why
-but to fuck of and die!”
-Charge of the Tulpea Brigade – Lord Sad Beard Browning.
*unzips*
Happy third to everyone!
I was a more active commentor in the first year but have since fallen off the wagon. I still lurk here almost every day though. This site is always interesting and entertaining, and a spot of sanity in a crazy world.
Sanity? FAKE NEWS!!!!
Go back to your corner TULPA!
I feel so honored. I missed the Tulpa call when I first started here.
IIRC we were searching for the real Tulpa, and then realized,
We are all TULPA!
Oh. Well, fuck off, Tulpa!
Portland continues to descend into shithole status:
https://youtu.be/pXyUiDuo_eY
‘We’re Not Gonna Save You’
And you aren’t allowed to carry a weapon for self-defense.
In Baltimore City, you can’t even carry pepper spray for self defense. They don’t want you hurting their voters. And if you get mugged and/or raped/killed, it was your fault for being a xenophobic racist, or something.
Needs more helicopters
Just a few hours ago my mother-in-law passed away. She had gone through a very rapid Alzheimer’s degeneration – 2 years ago starting to forget small things, 18 months ago multiple trips to the ER from falling down stairs, etc. Soon after that she needed full-time care – which she fought at first. A year ago she no longer remembered that she had had a home somewhere else.
She stopped eating last October and ended up hospitalized, being fed intravenously. But she was at peace – mostly sleeping but happy when awake. She still had flashes of lucidity and knew who we were – but mostly didn’t remember anything but at least wasn’t scared or confused. And she wasn’t in pain until about a week ago when the cancer really spread. At that point she was on morphine and sedatives.
So her transition was about as good as I could have asked for. She had just turned 80 – a pretty good run.
I have already buried my own parents and more friends and peers than I want to think about so this isn’t too hard on me. My wife is glad to see her mom out of pain now so I’d say we’re at this journey’s end.
Condolences, MIL is right there, 80 isn’t bad though
My condolences for your family’s loss.
Going through this right now with both of my in-laws.
Sorry for your family’s loss.
Condolences, Tejicano
Sorry 🙁
So sorry for you Tejicano.
I just got back from spending a weekend with my dad as he copes with Mom passing away last fall. It is always a tough transition for all the people who loved her. Hope your wife and other in-laws are coping well.
Sorry for your family, Tejicano.
My condolences.
Tejicano,
My condolences and I won’t say what so many of those that knew your MIL will say. It seems to me, as I watched so many classmates/friends get the olden Age Virus 2 years is like the average time after diagnosis.
Every time I forget something and lately it seems to be more often, I get concerned, hoping that no one will notice or that I’m wrong. I watch my friends closely, see what could be the signs and try to separate out normal old behavior from serious old behavior. I’m guessing my friends are also watching me or maybe they think, “Oh, its normal, he’s a libertartian”
Good that you had your MIL so long. and the best to you and your family.
Sorry for your loss, bro. I lost my mom a year ago, she was 81, passed away from stage 4 bone cancer.
Our medical institutions are stuck in the stone age. It’s more than a little scary. I work in a field where most of my clients do medical research and the disturbing trend I am setting is the researchers moving away from real research on medicine and technology and towards ‘health equity’, basically, it’s OK if you’re sick, as long as everyone is equally sick. I hate these fucking luddite commies with the passion of a thousand burning suns.
Condolences, Tejicano. It’s the end of one journey and the beginning of another. I know there are some (many?) here who may believe otherwise, but I offer one testimony that it is not THE end, just an end, and a return home, for whatever that’s worth.
I really appreciate all your condolences. I’m not feeling too bad – my wife is OK as well. It was too obviously where things were going to end up so it was just a matter of when.
She was actually born in Manchuria when it was part of the Greater Japanese Empire. Her father worked for the railroad there and made a lot of money – most of which they unfortunately had to abandon when they fled as the Soviets were moving in after the war. They still had a little tucked away and did OK. All things considered, she had a pretty good life.
Really sorry, man.
All my best to you and your wife.
Condolences. On one level, losing someone who makes it to an advanced age is cause to reflect that you were lucky to have them with you for so long, but it’s still hard. When my grandfather died about a month ago, I thought it wouldn’t hit me quite as hard because he was 96 and it’s hard to say he was taken from us too soon……but no, it didn’t really help. Still seemed unimaginable that he was gone – he’d been such a big part of my life for all of my four decades, and until he rapidly declined at the end it seemed like he was going to live forever.
Sorry for your loss.
Condolences Tejicano, and to your wife and family.
Sorry Tejicano
Just for you:
This morning’s sunrise as seen from Casa Dean.
Gorgeous!
RC, the other side, Chez Yusef,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/vK4qxXpnCwtkYYSo7
Paging Fourscore: I see a bee rescue video just below that.
Wow! Some kind of bees. Hope he got the queen, he’ll be all ready. Good that they were rescued.
Truth, justice, and the American Way
State attorneys general have filed an unprecedented number of lawsuits against the Trump administration, as Democratic-led states exercise new levers of power to block some of President Trump’s most controversial initiatives.
States have formed coalitions to file 103 multi-state suits against the administration in its first three years, according to data compiled by Paul Nolette, a political scientist at Marquette University. The vast majority of those suits, 96, have been led by Democratic attorneys general.
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“Every time this guy breaks the law, we take him to court,” said Xavier Becerra (D), California’s attorney general who has led 31 suits and been party to 25 others. Joining with other states to file suit “adds strength, it certainly adds value, and it shows unity. It demonstrates that the unlawful action that the Trump administration is looking to take impacts more than just one state.”
The attorneys general have sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) more than any other agency in government. All told, the EPA has faced 31 lawsuits over proposals to roll back Obama-era environmental laws or to implement new rules. States have sued the Department of Health and Human Services and the Interior Department about a dozen times each.
Nolette said the new pattern of multi-state legal actions are part of a trend that began during the Obama administration, when Republican-led states began suing at a faster clip. The Obama administration was sued 53 times during his second term in office, twice as many suits as during his first term.
“It has much less to do with the Trump administration itself than it does with the attorneys general and how they’ve realized how effective their lawsuits are and how many incentives they have to bring these lawsuits in the first place,” Nolette said. “This is a more permanent part of the landscape now.”
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Observers expect a new normal, regardless of whether President Trump wins a second term in November. Bruce Mehlman, a lobbyist in Washington, said the lawsuits are a function of what is becoming a much broader political fight that extends beyond the Beltway.
“This is broader than the Trump era. This reflects an age of empowerment where everybody from activists to CEOs to mayors to attorneys general feel empowered to drive policy, block things they don’t like and champion their own priorities,” Mehlman said. “It’s yet one more arena for policy advocates. Twenty years ago, the fight was in Washington. Today, the fight is in Washington, state capitals, agencies implementing the laws and the courts.”
Mobocracy in all its splendor.
Observers expect a new normal,
i’m sure the next Dem President will be thrilled, especially with Trump appointed judges applying all the precedent to conclude “Yup, good for the goose, good for the gander.”
Its like these people have never seen the Iron Laws.
They expect pressure from the dnc operatives with bylines will cower these judges to just let them get away with whatever the fuck they want when their guy is in power. I remind us all that large reason for the resistance against orange man comes from these people feeling their guy Obama that first did this should be protected. Both his legacy and the shit he did.
All told, the EPA has faced 31 lawsuits over proposals to roll back Obama-era environmental laws
Laws?
I think you mean regs. And those, like E.O.’s, instituted by the executive can be rescinded by the executive.
Happy Gliberversary! My contribution from last year.
Eek again. Sorry I missed that.
Happy Third to Everyone! And thanks to the leadership for all your wonderful work making this site possible.
What? No mention of Titty Tuesday?
Oh, and Happy Anniversary!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKwjaObtd_c
Happy Gliberversary!! I recommend an extra polish to one’s monocle today and, if one is so inclined, perhaps even some extra crumbs for the orphans. (I was going to recommend a suspension of the lash for the day, but let’s not get crazy. Save that for the really big ones, like Silver and Golden annys.)
I came late as I mostly lurked at TOS. I noticed the exodus, however, and couldn’t find where all the cool kids had gone. Fortunately, somebody at TOS let slip the name and my Google-fu brought me here. Ahhhh…. the good life.
/Plucks grape from tray brought by orhpans, breaths on monocle ?
Same here.
Ditto.
Wrecker! Saboteur!
Former Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein has said Russia should back Bernie Sanders for president in order to “best screw up the U.S.”
Following his win in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, Sanders has emerged as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination to face President Donald Trump in November’s election.
In a rare outburst on Twitter, Blankfein suggested that Sanders becoming the nominee would mean “the Russians will have to reconsider who to work for to best screw up the U.S.”
“Sanders is just as polarizing as Trump AND he’ll ruin our economy and doesn’t care about our military. If I’m Russian, I go with Sanders this time around,” the former Wall Street titan tweeted.
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In response to Blankfein, Sanders’ campaign manager Faiz Shakir tweeted: “This is what panic from the Wall Street elite looks and sounds like.”
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, a long-standing critic of President Vladimir Putin, tweeted his support of Sanders after results emerged from New Hampshire.
“So nice to wake up and find out that Bernie won! I cheered for him,” he tweeted, according to a translation.
Rise up, Proletarians. Throw off your chains. Death to the oligarchs! Take back what is rightfully yours!
What will be fun, is seeing all the Trumptards parrot how Bernie is a Russian plant, despite knowing that the whole russian narrative is a deep state one. Honestly people who are still peddling that nonsense are dumber than the people they think they are fooling.
You sure Bernie isn’t a Soviet plant? The guy DID honeymoon in the U.S.S.R. when sane people believed the place was a giant evil shitstain.
Notice Navalny’s reaction. I guess that’s why some people in Russia keep supporting Putin.
3 years!? Wow, the time has flown by. Happy anniversary to the Glibs. This place rocks.
my second comment,
Yusef drives a Kia
Hi guys, Long time Reasonoid Lurker, sometime poster Yusef here, I just wanted to say Thanks to All of you for doing this. Commenters starting a Website, and it’s instantly filled, how cool is that? I may run my mouth from time to time in the future, and Bonus, NO Tulpa!
Bob
Sunday Go To Meeting Links
2017/03/19 at 12:41 pm
Why your Second comment? What was the first?
“Hi. My name is Tulpa”
I put up the second, due to the no Tulpa statement…….
the first one is work related gibberish,
SUCK IT TRUMP! The wokesters in SW Minnesoda have totes thwarted your nefarious plans!
Hipster college profs go to local county meeting to make sure that the county will accept refugees. So brave.
Pics of the Minnesoda Resistance are +3 Smug.
“Meet requires access to your camera and microphone.”
Pass.
Uffda. That was for a popup meeting to discuss more testing at my company. You really missed out on some fun.
Try this instead.
https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2020/02/support-for-refugees-in-lyon-county-trumps-divisive-plan-backfired/
Well. Since they don’t want to decide for themselves, Trump should just do it for them and place all refugees in Lyon County.
If they are MEasterners Lyon County is just a stop over before Mogadisha 2.
Is there packing plants (Chicken or beef) in Lyon County? Maybe no refugees want to go there so the locals can be brave.
I guess Lyon County has deep pockets? Good for them.
Hey, wait for me
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., called for her party to unify around her and claimed to be the best candidate to defeat President Trump in November, despite a disappointing night in New Hampshire.
“If we’re going to beat Donald Trump in November, we are going to need huge turnout within our party. And to get that turnout, we will need a nominee that the broadest coalition of our party feels like they can get behind,” Warren said, speaking in the state after the first in the nation primary. “We win when we come together.”
“Our campaign is best positioned to beat Donald Trump in November because we can unite our party,” she added, warning against a “bitter rehash of the same old divides in our party.”
Sorry, Liz, you’ve been shuffled to the back of the pack. Better start working on next semester’s syllabus.
we are going to need huge turnout within our party. And to get that turnout, we will need a nominee that the broadest coalition of our party feels like they can get behind,
And based off the empirical evidence of the last two primary elections, you are not the person to get people to turnout…
Andrew Yang always struck me as hopelessly misguided, rather than utterly evil. For that reason, he and Gabbard always stuck out from the rest of the Democratic pack. And whatever his faults, his candidacy was justified by the awkward pause that greeted his suggestion of thorium salt reactors in response to the rest of the field’s climate hysteria.
The awkwardness of those demanding massive public sacrifice to Gaia trying to evade a comparatively low-cost alternative was very entertaining.
The eco-nuts recently blew their chance in Australia. It boggles the mind that they think they can take over the US.
I agree – he is woefully naive. As I posted the other day, he strikes me as someone who was introduced to post-industrial philosophy in a class and decided to run with it.
Democrat politicians know that the point of government is rewarding your supporters. The climate con is just the latest way. The carbon tax is to set up a slush fund to keep more and more of their supporters in phony baloney jobs.
The Republicans do the same with military spending, but at least when you dumb a trillion bucks into hardware and personnel you get a massive death machine that, in addition to doing a lot of useless shit, guarantees the security of CONUS.
The climate con is a way to give all the True Believers coming out of college the no show jobs they deserve simply for being progs.
19,124 comments?!? I hated writing in school. Happy Gliberversary all!
Trying to stay awake for a second call (that I’m 70% certain will be cancelled/rescheduled) so I can then take a nap for a few hours.
Huh, seems my path here was clear cut since my first ever post.
Goy bored? (((influence))) confirmed.
Another oddly specific fetish.
DaFuq? It’s only 10:49 a.m. God’s Time and there are 556 comments? You expect me to wade through them ALL?!
Happy Gliberversarie Glibbies. Thanks to TPTB for putting this here and building the community. I do not know what I would do without you all.
Probably, like the rest of us, get work done…
Rufus, is that you in the leon suit?
Speaking of specific fetishes, @NotAdahn:
I don’t know if anything like this has been posted here, but… Is most of it just a fetish?
I once knew a young lady who dressed in my Army BDUs one evening. It made me feel some kinda way, so it’s probably best to just sublimate these thoughts with more cookies. 😉
It’s pretty well known that psychology (especially sexual psychology) is a pretty young science and we’re still just fumbling around in the dark at this point.
I think there are a lot of different things that could lead someone to believe that they are a different sex than they actually are. It could be autogynephilia, it could be just being gay without wanting to accept that, or a host of other things.
The biggest problem related to transsexualism is the possibility that minors are being put on hormone therapy and given irreversible surgeries when they might not be “born in the wrong body” but just confused. Unfortunately, a lot of pro-trans people want to blacklist anything other than gender reassignment surgery as “conversion therapy”.
I can’t back it up with links, but I have seen parents who would rather their kid be transsexual than gay. I do not know what the hell is their problem. Being gay is a statistical norm. Being trans can’t possibly be *puts on scientist/statistician hat*
And if the eugenicists have anything to say about it, homosexuality is going to be genetically selected right out of the human race. “Yeah, hi, can you give me a breakdown of my fetus’s genetic markers?” […] “GAY?! No! Abort! Abort!”
Not to mention that being gay is not an irreversible life decision. You can’t put your dick back on once it’s been sliced off.
Honestly, when you consider the suicide rate of people who have had gender reassignment surgery, it’s baffling why they do it at all. If there weren’t this political component to it, I don’t think it would be considered a viable option except in the most extreme cases that don’t respond to any other treatment.
And we have Tulpae!
Below Sea Level Hell Centro
The Sleeper
JW
Deaner
Fuck right off.
@Pine_Tree: Dude, you are not a Tulpa. Sit down. Bad Glib. No cookie.
JW has been in the book club…
Oops.
Democrat politicians know that the point of government is rewarding your supporters. The climate con is just the latest way. The carbon tax is to set up a slush fund to keep more and more of their supporters in phony baloney jobs.
The Green New Deal has virtually nothing to do with the environment. It’s a jobs and spoils program on a vast scale.
I’m going to play Hyperbole for a moment and point out that the TSA/DHS apparatus is Team Red’s version of this. A complete fucking jobs program and more members for the federal public sector unions, with all of the stench of FDR’s New Deal, as far as I’m concerned. Only in government could you fail 69/72 times – after spending billions on security – and then look at a camera and say, “I need more money.” A 96% failure rate but the stones to ask for billions more. Fuck that entire agency and a whole lot more.
I think TSA is more Dems, DHS maybe more of a mix.
The big Team Red thing is defense and veterans benefits. I know a couple “disabled veterans” who are collecting hundreds of dollars a month because they exaggerated every single ding and scratch and went for a PTSD diag when they seperated, and its a straight up cash cow for them. One has PTSD from boot camp. She got a med discharge before she’d done a year and gets a check every month. Considers herself to be a rock ribbed fiscal conservative, but somehow I get to pay her bills because one of her fellow boots copped a feel in formation 6 years ago and that gave her PTSD. But don’t call her a welfare parasite, she got PTSD serving her country.
The other one didn’t feel like finishing his time in the Navy, so he cried the blues about his anxiety and what not, and since his chief was tired of his whiny assholeitude, they wrote him out on a mental health med discharge. Hes working in the trades now, which is all well and good, and a good chunk of his rent is paid for by all us suckers who pay our taxes and didn’t spend three years “deployed” to Northern California and work the system to get a perpetual 600 dollar check.
Agreed on the so-called “disabled” veteran issue. I’ve known literally hundreds of goldbrickers who, ahem, hurt there back and kept filing until the government caved and gave them at-least partial disability.
Those vets who were legitimately wounded deserve the best possible care. Sadly, the VA system is a disaster and overcrowded with old vets who served a two-year stint without injury and pretenders.
VA pretender here, although I only went to the VA clinic to sign up for my get out of Obamacare free card. I’d like to think I’m not clogging up much just by being on the books.
Yeah if you did a carbon tax and spent the money on thorium salt reactors, you’re probably giving the money to a bunch of racist deplorables who can do calculus. Lotta white men in the engineering crowd. All you get out of that is cheap, carbon free energy.
But if you do the carbon tax and spend it on climate educators you employ the thousands of environmental science students, you can have a Climate Refugee program that brings in lots of new Democratic voters, you create Climate Scholarships to funnel more money into the education complex and brainwash more people.
Congratulations and thank you! Glibs is my go to everyday to get a somewhat saner view of all the news I read.
Saner? Damn it guys we need to up the crazy!
I’m going to play Hyperbole for a moment and point out that the TSA/DHS apparatus is Team Red’s version of this.
No argument here.
I’m correct even when I’m not me.
Happy Gliberversary!
Ditto.