Nice snowman on 17
Bryson DeChambeau completely collapsed on the Sunday back nine of a major and it was hilarious. Jon Rahm capitalized and took home the US Open. Which was great for him. Atlanta stunned Philly to move on in the NBA. Vegas knotted their series with Montreal in hockey. Italy and Wales have advanced in the Euros and the Swiss look pretty good as well. And at least four more teams will punch their ticket to the knockout rounds today. And that’s sports.
Look, he’s just like us!
The big birthdays today are: pitcher Matt Kilroy, philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, actress Judy Holliday, rocker Ray Davies, pitcher Rick Sutcliffe, cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, Indonesian leader Joko Widodo, actor Chris Pratt, potato-head royal Prince William, fabricator and actor Jussie Smollet, and hero (IMO) Edward Snowden.
That’s a small but solid list. Now on to…the links!
This…is CNN. But let’s be honest here: this passes for at least as newsworthy as most of the shit they publish.
Fucking weirdo
I’m not much of a petition-signer. But I’m jumping on this bandwagon. Because…why the hell not.
This calls for an alternate headline. How about: California mulls extending a violation of the legal rights of property owners.
“Eh, it’s cool. They’re only Jews.” Keep giving in to the mob and expect no negative consequences. That always works out.
Egomaniacal douchebag
Somebody put a muzzle on this assclown. Or, you know, get him under oath and ask him why he’s lying.
I’m sure this is because of racism. At least that’s what the mayor will blame.
I respect the bravery. But not the insanity. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck that.
Hopefully they got it right this time. You know, so they don’t drop out of the sky like crazy anymore.
Here’s a freaking great song. Yes, I know I’ve played it before. But that’s bound to happen. Be happy it happened with this one.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
“Somebody put a muzzle on this assclown. Or, you know, get him under oath and ask him why he’s lying.”
It’s science when people like him politicize and lie. It is not when people decide he needs to be held accountable for lying and politicizing science…
“That’s the way science works”
It’s wrong all the time.
Unlike religion and politics, science is supposed to understand when it gets something wrong. Fauci, the petty bureaucrat is a creature of politics, not science, and oh dear god how I would love to say that to his face.
The basic idea of science is that everything is wrong. Question and attempt to disprove everything you or someone else thinks. It’s constantly evolving. Maybe we shouldn’t wreck the whole economy and give up all our rights because of the opinions of just a few people who really ought to know that they are wrong.
He’s only lying for your good. That makes it the right thing to do.
And people that actually believe this are the ones that will get us real tyranny. They will always be the ones that will be totally surprised when the revolution has finished killing those that opposed its leaders, and starts the endless waves of killing people that get in the way of the new powerbrokers.
I think this guy gets it…
But he’s an obvious race traitor; or at least he’s a mere dupe, you know, an “Uncle Tom.”
And you hit it on the head for me Tonio: that so many people believe anyone that will not march lockstep with whatever fucking shit they want to be true (it doesn’t have to be, but they will pretend it is) can simply be labeled a traitor….
They want us to be insects, because marxism thrives only for hives where those on top get everything and all the others are expendable drones.
Technically, the caste system in beehives is one queen, chemically mind controlled zombie worker-slave daughters, and male drones who get pushed out of the hive to die after fertilizing the queen.
Mind controlled worker-slave zombies is the preferred state of affairs for those claiming we consented to them ruling us because reasons.
Yes. Never explain, never apologize. The goal of the woke is not a reasonable peace, it’s abasement. In perpetuity.
Book purchased.
Wow. That was fast.
Wow is right. What’s next? Rescinding his Nobel Peace Prize because he didn’t do anything for peace?
It speaks volumes about who’s controlling the narrative now. Pretty soon they’ll be air-brushing him out of photos.
I am actually struggling to imagine who is controlling the narrative right now. How did we get so far gone?
George Soros? As plausible as any other theories out there.
It’s the CCP – which basically owns and controls our political elite, our government bureaucracy, our media, our culture machine (Hollywood and such), and our academia – and the old remnants of the KGB indoctrination machine Yuri Bezmenov warned about back in 1984…
We are experiencing Mao’s cultural revolution, only they replaced class hatred with race hatred, because the whole class thing could not fly in the US, even if they had generations to indoctrinate…
The narrative isn’t controlled by any one person or group. It is the product of groupthink, so there are plenty who contribute to it and support it.
It does have the stink of “design by committee” about it.
Yup. The knowledge problem and other flaws of central planning would pretty much guarantee failure of a controlled approach.
But the shared culture approach, groupthink when taken to an extreme, is upstream from politics. We are reaping what has been sown for the last 125 years or so.
We are reaping what has been sown for the last 125 years or so.
I keep bouncing back and forth on the primary driver of this change. Yes, this country has been sliding towards socialism via increasing fascism for a century. However, the changes that have occurred since the early 60s have a distinctly international communist fingerprint on them.
Perhaps it’s both? The commies taking advantage of the natural inclination of the populace to demoralize the culture.
International communism is about as dead as dead gets. It took an icepick to the head in Mexico and has never revivified. Local infatuation with Marx doesn’t mean there is an Internationale to blame. There is far more life in Islamic extremism even if less international (and certainly no cosmopolitan) appeal.
All empires are bound to decay, and when this country embarked on empire, we set ourselves on an irreversible course.
I’m starting a new thread to continue this discussion. See my post below that starts with Rome vs Carthage.
Hah, what!? That is crazy.
Isn’t there an Iron Law about this?
Fauci said: ‘It is essential as a scientist that you evolve your opinion and your recommendations based on the data as it evolves…
‘And that’s the reason why I say people who then criticize me about that are actually criticizing science.
‘[T]he people who are giving the ad hominems are saying, “Ah, Fauci misled us. First he said no masks, then he said masks.”
‘Well, let me give you a flash. That’s the way science works. You work with the data you have at the time.’
Now do the models, and how egregiously wrong they were.
“Except, Mr Fauci, at the time you were telling the public one thing, you were saying the opposite in private. So you were clearly lying to somebody rather than following the data.”
Real science gets coopted/corrupted by people’s opinions…
What we basically had was people saying the opposite of whatever Trump did, regardless of how fucking evil/stupid/wrong it made them for doing so, because agreeing with him or admitting he was right, was a problem for their plans to fortify an election… That orange guy broke so many people by living rent free in their head…
“Also, Mr. Fascist (I’m keeping the autocorrect), just because something is your best guess using ‘science’ doesn’t mean it must be shouted from the rooftops. Some intellectual humility is required when you have a lot of unknowns.”
“And the only reason you said ‘no masks’ is because you wanted to save them for the ‘hero’ class.”
???
It is essential that you get enough data before you start spouting policy imperatives based on data you know is sketchy at best.
It’s worse than that. Nobody can convince me that we thought masks don’t work last year and then realized they do a month or two later. They’ve been studied to death for decades. We knew they weren’t helping the whole time. The decision was political. That’s the beauty of “science” you can say anything and find some form of evidence and then change your mind and do it again. That’s what they did.
It is essential that you don’t squelch the work of other scientists and urinate around your “territory” as if you are the gatekeeper of a particular branch of science.
There’s another petition for Bezos to buy the Mona Lisa and eat it on a livestream. Very Dada.
Considering the Mona Lisa is sure to have a lot of lead-based paint, I just might get behind this.
Spiritualism: The Return. I get wanting to get comfort and closure from those who are gone. But this stuff is just lying to yourself.
Nearly everyone that died was so old that they were probably ready to shuffle off this mortal coil. I think here in Canada, it was was in the neighborhood of 90% over the age of 75. People under 40 have a one in a million chance of dying from the yellow peril.
The average age of death has been reported as 80+
The pictures of the people with “Eat Up the Borders” looks ‘zactly like you’d expect.
Facist haircut + neck pubes + head tilt… I can’t even.
Probably all tatted up too. I dunno what it is about the food business that causes that.
Who do they think they are, professional athletes?
Would NOT.
“California ponders destroying its housing market even more quickly” also works.
There’s also “California to suckers who paid their rent for the last two years: Drop dead”.
They’re pretty much tying it to those getting unemployment. So I’m sure this creates no perverse incentives whatsoever.
Also, what landlord can wait more than a year to get back rents without suffering severe burdens? Because I’m sure the state isn’t forgiving property tax payments as well.
But those are the rich people. You can tell they’re rich because they own property that they can rent!
Well, you know how commies feel about landlords.
I think it is worse… From recent happenings in the home buying market, I am seeing a scary trend where federally owned/controlled massive entities are buying properties at massively overinflated above market prices (offerings of 20-100% over asking sight unseen) to gobble up houses in mostly urban and semi-suburban areas. I have heard some people claim government basically is planning to destroy the whole home ownership idea and make anyone not part of the upper classes permanent renters. In better mental health times I would have ignored this sort of crazy shit, but we don’t live in sane times anymore. Our government is run by the most inept and corrupt class of credentialed morons you could imagine, and they have no qualms pushing some of the most stupid and evil things possible while accusing anyone that calls them out of being terrorists.
Yep. Blackstone is buying up entire neighborhoods, townships even. 2008 Electric Boogaloo coming to a city near you.
Slap some Trump flags on those buildings and ring up Antifa.
Marxism 101: no property ownership, cause that’s what makes people refuse to comply/conform…
I think the house buying frenzy is being driven by the massive 33% inflation over the past year (inflation occurs the moment fiat money is created out of thin air, not when individuals realize their money was devalued and raise prices), the anticipation of more devaluation, and renters who were locked down frantically trying to get a bigger place to ride out the anticipated possible future repeat.
You don’t need a conspiracy when a listing of incentives explains events.
Correct – Blackstone et al. want an inflation hedge as much as anyone and they’re already in the real estate market.
I think the house buying frenzy is being driven by the massive 33% inflation over the past year
Housing market has been going gangbusters since well before the cash was printed. I sold last April for $70k over what i paid in Jan 2017. I sold the prior house in Jan 2017 for $70k over what I paid for it in November 2013.
As far as I can tell, it has been an increasingly hot seller’s market since early 2016.
This actually scares me.
My house value – based on recent similar house sales right next to me – has gone up roughly 70% in 5 years. That’s nuts.
People are buying up old, perfectly nice homes and are tearing them down to build McMansions. Homes that should be middle class entry-level homes.
Everything these days seems to be geared toward the “upscale” with manufacturers like Audi or Mercedes (and etc) making entry level vehicles; or companies like Ford making $30K as an entry-level for an offroad vehicles. Things are just weird price-level wise and I can’t wrap my head around it. Some of it is inflationary while others are just a pandering towards what I call the pseudo-rich (which I’m a probably a member of).
I’m pretty sure this shit qualifies as a “taking” which should require the government to compensate the owners for taking the use of their property.
They redefined “public use”. They can redefine “taking”.
Here’s what will happen.
A court will recognize this as a taking, however the cost to the state to remedy will be exceedingly high so they will punt on it under a strained interpretation of one of the weasel clauses like “necessary and proper” or “general welfare”.
Pious self-flagellation
One factor is the common ideology that underlies all of these practices: The government is bad and cannot be trusted with money.
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As time has passed, I have realized that the dynamics of wealth are similar to the dynamics of addiction. The more you have, the more you need. Whereas once a single beer was enough to achieve a feeling of calm, now you find that you can’t stop at six. Likewise, if you move up from coach to business to first class, you won’t want to go back to coach. And once you’ve flown private, wild horses will never drag you through a public airport terminal again.
And where have all those things which make commercial air travel so horrifically intolerable originated? I’ll give you a hint. It wasn’t the Wright Brothers.
Why don’t you care about the anguish and aggravation of the peons and smelly riffraff, Little Miss Bleeding Heart? Where is your champagne-soaked empathy for them?
Give all your money away to NGO parasites and grifters. Write a whopping check to “Gifts to the Treasury” (google it up). Hand out fistfuls of cash on a street corner from a trash bag.
Just shut the fuck up, you sanctimonious twat, and leave me the fuck alone.
Wake me up when she gives up indoor plumbing and/or moves into a ghetto.
Wake me up when she’s dead. Until then, I don’t care to hear another word from or about this self-righteous asshole.
She’s never going to die. She’ll be cryogenically stored next to her dad.
Oh, that cunte! Read the byline DNR.
Maybe she could buy some indulgences like the climate clerisy.
Are you fyuking kidding me? Did she really write that?
Imma go out on a limb here and say because it’s their fyuking money, not the “public’s” fyuking money.
For some reason, that line is one of the most shocking things I’ve ever read from a leftist, and I thought I wasn’t able to be shocked anymore.
“Precious” should be the theme song of our progressive salvationists.
Not me baby, I’m too precious.
Fuck off!
He was a brawny former Maine lobsterman with a booming baritone. She was a redhead with freckles from Wisconsin who worked in corporate recruiting. They talked about everything from sci-fi movies and her love for the rock group Bon Jovi to whether the Lord of the Rings film trilogy did justice to J.R.R. Tolkien’s books. He asked for permission to kiss her on their first date. She said yes.
I tapped out here.
‘Well, let me give you a flash. That’s the way science works. You work with the data you have at the time.’
Fauci, 80, initially told Americans not to worry about wearing face masks early in the COVID crisis in spring 2020. He later became a huge supporter of public masking, and claimed his early dismissal of face coverings had been to try and conserve then-tight supplies for medical staff.
He just can’t stop lying.
WOODRIDGE, Ill. — A confirmed tornado touched down in Woodridge late Sunday night as severe storms left significant damage and power outages in its path across the Southwest Suburbs.
Are there any Chicago area glibs affected?
When you were 3? /Sconnie
Right?
Some people are lightweights.
I’m pretty sure this shit qualifies as a “taking” which should require the government to compensate the owners for taking the use of their property.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
On that note, I may as well mention what a massive disappointment Trump’s “conservative” SCOTUS appointments have been. Mostly cowardly shits afraid to rock the boat.
Creatures of a system, any system, will not want to radically alter that system. It’s really almost unimaginable to them, after all, the system created them – how could it be wrong.
I have learned not to dismiss Glen Greenwald when he makes a claim that hurts the left, because as a principled leftist, his priority is not being a totalitarian, so when I saw his claim that the FBI might have had infiltrators encourage people on the Jan. 6th to do things that now allow the left to claim this was some sort of insurrection…
The way CNN, MSNBC, etc. have been shrieking hysterically about this being an “insane conspiracy theory” makes me think he’s probably over the target because he’s drawn so much flak.
Exactly.
CNN and MSNBC are effectively mouthpieces for the permanent state at this point. They’re on par with Pravda.
Yes – and the FBI is the enforcement arm of the permanent state, so of course they cover for each other.
Anything labeled an “insane conspiracy theory” I’m really disposed to believe, these days.
Wazzat? Nothing about it in Buzzfeed, Gawker or Huffpo, must be another of those trumptard conspiracy theories.
Good morning! Sometimes I have to wonder am I just old and out of touch or is the mainstream discourse just crazy and stupid. Both?
Both
Come and sit beside me, waffles. We’ll reminisce about the good old days and play a few hands of canasta.
I am strangely comforted.
Have there been any legal challenges by landlords to the eviction moratoria? If not, why not?
“The expectation for people to be up and at ’em and ready to pay rent on July 1 is wholeheartedly unfair,” said Kelli Lloyd, a 43-year-old single mother who says she has not worked consistently since the pandemic began in March 2020.
It’s not fair to ask me to pay the rent which I agreed to pay. And yes, I think there have been legal challenges and they have been challenged.
I used to money I got from government to get a new phone, go on staycay-vaycay, and in general live way above my means, and people now pretending I should have money to pay rent are being mean!
How impolite of them to call attention to your true and precarious* situation.
* on second thought, there’s probably nothing _less_ precarious than being on a government subsidy, these days. It seems like it’s guaranteed until everyone else runs out of money first.
My gal Jugsy, that works in HUD/Section 8, has a saying:
“They wont let you take back an entitlement”.
Possession is 9/10ths of the law.
So you need an exorcism along with an eviction?
There was one working through the courts here in Ohio.
They know that they are behind the eight ball, public relations-wise. Maybe they are praying for a bail-out of their own?
I haven’t seen any.
f not, why not?
Well, you know, the backlog of cases has really slowed down the courts.
Also, would they have standing since they’re not suffering a loss? Remember, the state is going to pay all that rent. So there are no actual damages to these landlords, therefore they have no standing. Therefore…fuck em.
At least that’s how I see it playing out.
Remember, the state is going to pay all that rent.
Are they, though?
The people not paying their rents sure seem to think so.
No, productive people are. And who knows how much of it actually makes its way to landlords before the pubsec workers and other elites get their cut.
There’s such a big moral hazard with this kind of stuff. Why pay student loans, rent, or any debt if you can just get bailed out?
[Insert oft-linked Chump Effect article here]
*quick google search* Wow, it turns out the chump effect has entered the zeitgeist.
See my reply above re: entitlement.
One day a couple years ago, Jugsy was managing a large Sec. 8 in lovely Hamilton, Oh. I was in the area for work stuff, and brought her lunch. When I walked into the office she was doing the paperwork for an 18 year-old that had 2 kids, that wanted a place of her own. Her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, all residents, were with her, coaching her through the HUD documents.
4 generations in that office. None of them had ever lived any place else. And its all free. Great-grandma had been there since the ribbon-cutting ceremony in the 1970’s.
I couldn’t live with myself if we were putting someone else in the poor house. What happened to peoples’ collective pride? Pay your own way and stand up straight! You may feel like a chump but at least you can glance in the mirror without shame.
…but at least you can glance in the mirror without shame.
If shame is removed from, or never added to, your character – you can gaze into that reflection with nothing but self-love!
Even that is spotty, lately.
Wipe it with, like, a cloth.
I’ve known some people who are ideologically committed to the idea that they are owed this, that, and the other by the government, and that taxes are mainly taken from evil rich people who don’t deserve that wealth anyway. So those people probably have no issue looking at themselves in the mirror.
“owed this…” – like every Social Security recipient that you know…
Yeah, I know. They’re convinced it’s “their” money that they’re getting back. It’s not and we all know that, but how ya gonna get them to admit that?
That’s the vexing task. All it takes is for Bernie Sanders, AOC, or Liz Warren to tell them “you deserve X” and they’ll settle right in with the idea that X is an inalienable right, and having to pay for it yourself is literally worse than the Holocaust.
Any time I argue against the latest entitlement, people look at me like I’m insane and ask, “How can you argue against your own interests like that??” If they’re stuck in a whats-in-it-for-me framework, they’ll never understand objective reality.
It’s *way* past time to start chipping away at the lies underlying such support for the SSA. They go back almost 90 years, but the 2 court cases in, I believe, the 1950s*, really put the reality out there. Yet every civics class, every paycheck, every media article or presentation states or supports the idea that “it’s your money.”
*If someone could link those or at least name them, I’d be very grateful
I haven’t had to evict a tenant for several years, and I certainly never want to have to do so. If I did at this point, I’d be pretty pissed if I couldn’t. Especially if the tenant were trashing my property or not paying rent, both of which were reasons for the last eviction I pursued.
IOW, maybe the state will pay the back rent, but will they cover the property damage? Last time I ended up spending about half a year’s rent on repairing the damage the tenant did to the property–and most of that was done *after* I started the eviction process. They knew they were getting kicked out, and used the state-mandated delay to do as much damage as they could while keeping the house in a liveable condition for themselves. Broken windows, doors, piss all over carpets in several rooms soaking into the floors…
Ugh. There’s a reason that I’m basically a shut in. Most people are terribly untrustworthy. Sorry to hear of your troubles.
Unless the Biden Admin. has changed it, the original CDC eviction moratorium allows landlords to evict tenants who violate any term of the lease other than failure to pay rent or any fees associated with that failure. So if a tenant is trashing your property in violation of the lease (and likely your state’s landlord/tenant law), you can proceed to evict.
Had a conversation with a liberal I know and interact with through a fiend this past weekend that was kind of striking about government. The lib was waxing about hoe government was trying to solve our problems while others were sabotaging it all. When I pointed out that he had to be insane to make that statement, let alone believe it he made the mistake of letting me make my point. I immediately remind him that our big government was basically run by the people that couldn’t survive in the private sector because of lack of real skills, and that for government to be able to work and help, these people would first have to correctly diagnose these big problems he wants us to hand over to government to solve – it’s REAL root causes and reasons for being, which tend to practically always be things government has done – as well as have people that are not motivated to not only keep the problem around for employment security, but grow it because that gives them more power & money to piss away, in charge. The lib accused me of being a terrorist and stopped talking to me.. I kid you not.
I’ve given up talking politics, healthcare or economics unless it’s with you fine folk. Good thing I wear dentures because my teeth would be worn to nubs by now.
/sends festus a jar of mixed nuts
/laughs
Poli-grip! Laughs back!
He stopped talking to you? Consider it a blessing.
That’s when xey go in for a back, sack and crack but demand to only be charged for a bikini wax because xey identify as a womyxn, right?
That person, if you remember, has been instructed by the government to label you and identify you as a terrorist.
As Biden and Friends said (paraphrasing) “We need a new see something, say something campaign for domestic terrorists”
You are a terrorist. You struck terror into him because of your logical challenge to his deeply held, and erroneous, beliefs.
You’re telling them their substitute parent is a bad person.
So lying to people for what you consider to be their own good is science. Who knew?
“Scientism”
It’s interesting to me that in the medical realm informed consent has basically gone out the freaking window. Bullshitting people and falsely manipulating their decision making process is unethical as hell.
Judi and I are now “Anti-vaxxers”, apparently.
Weren’t ethics listed under white traits that should be avoided.
Numerous Popes knew?
Do businesses really think sending me an email each day is going to get me to buy something. Once a month may get me to check out your latest offerings. Instead you get added to the spam filter.
Can’t you just unsubscribe?
You have to send a fax to their sattelite office with the correct form answering the question as to whether you’re sure you don’t want to not opt out of unsubscribing.
I get a lot of unsolicited spam from places that have shared my e-mail address with “partners,” supposedly. I suspect that many of the “unsubscribe” links are just harvesters looking for live e-mail addresses. It probably can’t take much to find an e-mail list posted on some cracking site and craft a pseudo-legitimate looking message with an “unsubscribe” link that just adds my address to a list of actively monitored addresses.
Nowadays I use an email set up with a regex catch-all so I can just make up a unique address anytime I need to provide one, and then I know how has shared my address in one way or another. If the spam to that address gets too overwhelming I can filter that so it never even hits a mailbox, just goes straight to /dev/null.
Yup. Never click unsubscribe; it just verifies the email is going to a live person. Just add the offender to spam and be on your merry way.
Not if I have to navigate to find how to unsubscribe. I can filter in a couple clicks. But I still can’t believe marketing people think annoying me will get more business.
They don’t care about individual responses. If 0.1% of the million messages sent provokes a sale, that’s a thousand sales, and it probably more than pays for the spam.
If a company sends me emails not related to an active order, I end up doing less business with them.
I’ve been fastidious about signing up for things, creating accounts, etc. using masked email addresses from Abine Blur. As a result, I have my own unsubscribe button.. I just turn off that email address.
Worked like a charm when buying a car. Just shut off all the losing dealerships with one button click.
Good morning, Sloopy!
So what is the Fauci retirement timeline? I think he’s out by August.
Great song, as usual. She is a badass.
I hope you all have a fantastic Monday!
You too, Friend! Mine will suck because Monday is a heavy day but we’re going to be in the 80’s American for at least a week. Solstice day is gonna be beautiful!
I went to HS with a girl who was the spitting image of Chrissie Hyndes. Not just the image, the voice too. If only I had a time machine….
I was such an idiot back then.
makes me think he’s probably over the target because he’s drawn so much flak.
Excellent.
Seems legit.
How the hell can women support this insanity?
Still too far up the slippery slope for enough women with votes to take notice?
Most women I know do not support this craziness. It’s mostly the radical left pushing this crap. I bet the women who worked all their lives to get to the Olympics are thrilled to have to compete against a man.
I live for the day Megan Rapinoe has to compete against a trans soccer team.
I bet she’ll be accepting as long as they hide any bulges under Victoria’s Secret merchandise 😉
Hasn’t the USWNT already lost to 15-year-old boys teams?
Yes. Every time they’ve played them.
In the old days, Mia Hamm and others were open about this sort of thing. When the women won the 1999 World Cup, people asked her whether she could play in the men’s league. She informed them that she’d have zero shot. That even if you gave her a year or two to adjust to the ridiculous speed at which the men’s game is played, the athletic discrepancies would be way too hard to overcome.
What mostly goes underreported when it comes to the dominance of the US Women’s soccer team is that the dominance is more or less predicated on their athletic superiority over their opponents. They aren’t more skilled (if at all) than many of the other top women’s teams. In particular they’ve always had massive advantages at the goalkeeper position athletically.
The women move even slower than snails?
My son has played club soccer for the last 6 years. It can be fast-moving — especially if you play midfield and have to run almost the entire match.
The Handicapper General has just the solution!
All the females should drop out in protest.
I’m guessing that female competitive weightlifters, in general, don’t earn enough at the sport to counteract the effects of being cancelled IRL.
Some are. Note the resting bitch faces and the last woman interviewed.
Those women expressing support look like the crew of the USS Pueblo making statements on behalf of North Korea.
They had their middle fingers extended?
Sadly, no. Just facial expressions and body language.
Who says we do? That article has multiple women condemning this.
Exactly. Most of the women I know are dead set against this insanity.
They can join the club of “Voices That Will Be Ignored By The Left“:
– Black people who don’t like welfare
– Legal immigrants who don’t like illegal immigration
– Gays who aren’t interested in pushing their lifestyle in everyone’s face
– Working class people who don’t expect handouts from the government
– Asian people who are skeptical of the “wave of hate crimes against Asians” and think that any violent attacks should be prosecuted the normal way and that hate crime legislation is unnecessary and counterproductive
Kulaks! Wreckers! Those of false consciousness!
The overwhelming majority of people given airtime on the issue support it. That’s who I’m asking the question of.
That’s why they received air time.
Yup. People with reasoned consensus views on most subjects get little to no airtime on most subjects.
Plus in this soundbite world you can’t put forth a reasoned argument. It’s bad enough doing so in 500 words or less that a typical editorial is.
Most experts I know on all manner of subjects have zero desire to either go on TV or talk to a reporter and have a single sentence quoted out of context.
“Unfortunately there’s nothing we can do because every time we voice [concerns] we get told to be quiet.”
But were they told to make me a sandwich? Because that would be outrageous.
Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, 43
But the benefits of developing as a male are long gone.
Mother Russia would be the winningest of the women’s sports.
Feral tantrum throwers- get ready for another big disappointment
It’s a harsh reality for progressives — both inside the Senate and outside — who had hoped their party might be provoked into nuking the filibuster and approving legislation with a simple majority.
The anti-filibuster drumbeat from liberal Democrats grows louder each time a bill with the support of a majority fails on the Senate floor due to the 60-vote rule. Filibuster critics said it should be eliminated after Republicans blocked a bill to create a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riot.
That appears likely to happen again this week with the Democratic voting bill, which has been rejected as a nonstarter by the GOP and reflects a lengthy wish list of liberal priorities.
NOT FAIR! ME WAAAAAANT!
It’s not fair we don’t have the votes to scrap the filibuster. It shouldn’t require a majority vote to get rid of it. It should only require a majority of the majority party to pass any legislation, at least until Democrats aren’t the majority.
It’s almost like passing legislation should be hard… and not trample over the minority. something something compromise.
I’m thankful since I was expecting the fucken worst when Biden was “elected”
It’s almost like you don’t recognize an 8 member advantage in Congress as a mandate.
The Democrats these days are unhinged. At one person majority is a mandate. Heck being in the minority is a mandate.
Because they know they can pass whatever insanity they want – hello, Obamacare – and expect the courts to protect it. Why wouldn’t you go for broke and take a few setbacks as you go?
You mean, expect the republicans to run against it and not actually do anything about it.
Yes – hello, Romney, McCain, etc. The Republicans suffer from much more disarray than the Dems.
One word: McCain.
/Blood begins to boil.
All the females should drop out in protest.
Give xer the old Tonya Harding Maneuver in the locker room.
The voting bill passed the House on a party-line basis and would undo restrictive voting laws in Republican-led states like Georgia and establish universal requirements, like 15 days of early voting in every state.
“Undo restrictive voting laws.” And the NBC reporter just blithely swishes past the issue of whether the federal government should usurp state legislatures’ legitimate powers in order to buttress the political fortunes of their preferred party. If the Republkkkins were attempting to federalize election law in order to kneecap the Democrats in perpetuity, the song would be a little different.
They aren’t cheating, they are fortifying, Bigot!
Wasn’t the recent “Jim Crow” Georgia bill also 15 days? And why the fuck do people need 15 days of early voting except to give the counters time to figure out what the trends are so they can fiddle with them?
Early voting isn’t enough. We need late voting at least as long as early.
And while Democrats say their voting bill is necessary to save democracy, conservatives counter that rewriting election rules on a party-line basis would only harm public confidence in elections.
“What we are talking about isn’t just Senate procedure, it’s a complete takeover of our elections, which will ultimately destroy the American people’s confidence in fair elections,” said Jessica Anderson, the executive director of Heritage Action for America.
Who said anything about fair elections? Fuck that, we might lose.
would only harm public confidence in elections
What public confidence? If they passed that godawful bill, it would do nothing built reinforce what I already believe. It simply codifies what the left has been doing and advocating for behind the scenes for 20 years.
Mammary Monday’s love for you is like a truck.
https://archive.li/qstk8
No face diapers. Good.
I found this for you Q –
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NSFW: vintage centerfold / magazine shoots
Watching Fauci’s self-destruction is giving me orgasmic levels of schadenfreude.
Being a tool of the Establishment must be like joining the Mafia… They give you a life of fame, fortune, and power, and they tell you that they’re one big family and they’ll always look out for you. Then one day, things change in such a way that you become more of an impediment than an asset, and before you know it they’re chopping you up and dumping you with the rest of the garbage.
Yes, I’m also enjoying Fauci’s eventful trip to the underside of the bus.
Call me when he’s out of office, preferably run out on a rail but I’ll take what I can get.
I assume that there are people within the CDC and FDA that are extremely ticked off at the state of things but are too pussified to put their careers on the line and speak up.
This is what aggravates the shit out of me. Our cultural moral compasses are broken.
There probably are, but they’re unhappy that Fauci and friends are compromising with the politicians, rather than pursuing a path of complete eradication with Chinese style lockdowns and 100% vaccination requirement.
I’m out. Have a great day, Glibbies! Sun will be up until 10 PM.
Bye Festus!
The folks behind the Great War Youtube channel are starting up a new project on the Franco-Prussian War. It will have a similar format: covering the war week-by-week. They’re raising seed money for the project through crowdfunding.
Introduction video
Indiegogo page.
You know who else participated in the Great War…
The Cheese Guilds?
Oh wait, that was the Grate War.
That is a cheesy pun.
Once again the Kurds are left with nothing.
No whey!
But did the Swiss start the hole conflict?
There’s no Gouda that can come out of this thread.
The Spanish Flu?
https://www.kmov.com/news/mark-mccloskey-shows-off-new-gun-after-giving-up-ones-used-during-2020-confrontation/article_20b9f6f2-d281-11eb-b502-47c82e1233f3.html
Heh.
Mark McCloskey pleaded guilty Thursday to misdemeanor fourth-degree assault and was fined $750.
Sad.
Because the charges were misdemeanors, the McCloskeys do not face the possibility of losing their law licenses and can continue to own firearms.
I wouldn’t be too sure about that. Maybe not automatically, but I’m sure there’s a generic morals and judgement clause that if parties within the state bar wished to fuck them over could do so. And the guilty plea will be used as an admission of guilt.
I bet the real next step will be to sue them civilly, using the criminal plea, and try to grab their assets or at least force them out of the house they renovated.
They should have never have caved, because, as you say, folks will keep coming after them.
A baker in CO agrees; it will be relentless how much their every step will be scrutinized by the State and Feds now.
McCloskey’s running for US Senate, hopefully to oust that poseur Roy Blunt (R). I’ll vote for him.
Fined $250. But I’m betting their legal bills were north of $25,000. The State can destroy one’s financial foundation just by prosecuting charges that are eventually dismissed or pleaded down to misdemenors.
Hopefully they also bought a couple of use-of-force classes. They were lucky as fuck last time, both legally and from a ‘not-getting-beaten-to-death’ standpoint.
There probably are, but they’re unhappy that Fauci and friends are compromising with the politicians, rather than pursuing a path of complete eradication with Chinese style lockdowns and 100% vaccination requirement.
Vision Zero.
We can whip this thing, if you all just do what you’re told!
OBEY
Best month so far for the Antique booth (and we’re only 2/3rds done).
I had someone come and buy every Calder small print I had – a nice $700 worth of sales on a slightly less than $200 investment. God I love capitalism.
Vinyl record sales continue to dominate – I’m looking forward to the upcoming record convention so I can make my 50-200% profit. It seems that people just can’t get enough of the Beatles. I’m not a huge fan of the Fab Four but hey, I’ll go with what the market wants.
I’ve literally never liked a single thing I’ve ever heard from them. Everything sounds like either a children’s song from a cartoon, some drugged-out hippie-dippie bullshit, or a combination of both.
This.
The Beatles singlehandedly ruined pop music.
I have a long term friend, back from junior high days, who is a major Beatles collector; owning multiple different versions of the same album (different country, masterings, etc). He’s been batty over them since he was about ten. He can wax on for hours about them. Sometimes it’s hard to hide my disinterest…
Yeah, both of my sisters-in-law and their husbands are huge Beatles fans–and their kids are indoctrinated as well. I don’t hate them, but I think they are entirely overrated. They have some catchy tunes, but they’re not as great as many seem to think.
IMO, being a Beatles fan, for many, is yet another way to signal how smart and hip they are, rather than motivated by pure enjoyment and understanding of the music.
I like them after the boy-band days and before the full-bore hippy days. So basically 1965 to 1967.
Can you find little bitty Calder mobiles to hang over babies’ cribs?
That would be adorable.
A little bitty Calder would be 6′ across
Well I never been to England
But I kinda like the Beatles
Well, I headed for Las Vegas
Only made it out to Needles
Can you feel it
It must be real it
Feels so good
Oh, feels so good
Are those the Calder lithographs that were published in book form back in the late 60s? I have one of those.
Yes – the French Derrière le Miroir magazine
Most of the magazines – over the years – have been separated. Values for the lithos are all over the map – as low as $25ea to $500 depending on what the buyer is willing to pay, the artist, the print, etc.
Continuing some of the discussion at (or near) the end of the lengthy chain of replies to comment #2.
I watched the video titled The Roman Holocaust about Rome’s destruction of Carthage and subsequent rewriting of history last night. I have mixed feelings about it, but one point made towards the end seems particularly relevant to us here and now. My initial thought was “are we Rome or Carthage? And if, as I suspect, Carthage, is China Rome?”
But the pointy end of the thought was the Roman’s use of civic engagement to subsume the far more “individualist”, I.e., not communitarian, Carthage, or it’s remnants. Watch the video and contemplate this section.
There seems to be a dynamic tension between individualism and collectivism in individuals and thus in society as well. Certainly even most of us here fall into various forms of collective thought/behavior. It’s even inherent in rationality — we do not reason about particulars, individuals, but about classes, aggregates, types, concepts, which subsume individuals into their scope. Team sports and team alliance is certainly one good example of this sort of civic collectivism that builds and strengthens communities of individuals. (Then we reify those collectives into individuals and it repeats…)
So to bring it (finally!) back into the comment 2 discussion — my view that we are reaping what has been sown for the last 125 years is based on the the growth of a certain sort of pernicious ‘collective identitarianism’ that grew out of the aftermaths of the Civil War and the eventual birth of progressivism. That has tilted, skewed even, the individual/collective dynamic tension…
I tend to think it is a historical accident that it is communism that is becoming ascendant in the working out of this dynamism. But it is unquestionably the case that Marxism/Leninism/Maoism are becoming culturally ascendant, and thus politically ascendant, as the balance has been pushed towards collectivism
Thoughts? “Other than OMG, a wall of text ;-(” LOL
I’ll queue the video up for later watching. Thanks!
It’s been a while since I’ve read anything in-depth (such as they exist) on Carthage, but I don’t remember thinking of Carthage as individualist, or even more so than Rome. Maybe there is something new that I haven’t read or my memory is failing me?
Carthage was ‘African’, thus more deserving of glory?
That’s probably my biggest gripe with the video — it’s inadequately sourced or referenced. The individualist aspect was probably at least a little bit of inference by the presenter. He based it on the substantial lack of “public spaces,” especially in contrast to Rome. ‘Individualist’ may be the wrong word, but I’m not sure English has a better one. “Non-communitarian” is clumsy at best and carries unhelpful baggage at worst.
But see what you think. For all its flaws, it’s a good video.
What exactly counts as a ‘public space’?
He counts the baths, temples, and theaters. He particularly notes that the baths were a great leveler — once out of your clothes, there were no indicators of wealth or status. A bit weak imnsho, but it’s an argument.
Temples were noted for aggregating the gods of the conquered, a process that went more or less smoothly until Rome encountered militant monotheists, the Jews and later Christians.
>>once out of your clothes, there were no indicators of wealth or status.
My giant gold cock ring disagrees
“It’s a Prince Albert, not a peasant Albert!”
Or any number of metals suited to the job.
There is Jewelry store here that has ads about rings made from Whiskey barrels and others from Meteors. That’s some manly shit.
Did you catch there was a link there?
No, where?
The Question, Mark.
Got it, thanks.
Single character links are hard on my aging eyes, sadly.
I think his point was about spaces for explicitly civic purposes, cutting across trades, social status, etc. cottons seem to fall outside that set of criteria, but there’s probably an argument to be made.
Ebbs and flows, like the changing tide. But because of AGW, the tides encroach more and more. It’s carbon dioxide what makes communism run.
The starting point of the problem with all historical examples is – (with rare exceptions) the victors write the histories.
This ties into the discussion about the trinity and the various heterodox beliefs in the early Christian church.
But to get to the meat of the point, I will disagree that Marxism/post-quasi-Marxist thought plays any significant part in the decay of [our] empire, since that phenomenon is well established throughout human history. The extent to which it is used is a figleaf as a critique by those who want power for the sake of power but of course can’t say that openly (nor even admit it to themselves). It certainly does not accurately assess the reasons behind our decadence.
But the new King will be a kind and benevolent king! He shall wipe away the misdeeds of the king before!
Oh, I agree. Marxism/post-quasi-Marxist thought is at most a historical accident in terms of post WW2 drivers or cultural influences. It’s there, but it’s surfing an already rising wave. If not that, it would have been something else.
The point that history is written by the victors is a core thread of the video’s arguments.
So it’s fair to doubt just how honest the Roman accounts are, and we are pretty sorely lacking in alternative views. Attempting to fabricate an alternate view in face of that is to risk even more fiction than the Romans indulged in.
BTW, big thanks to Yusuf for posting the link in yesterday’s Morning Links comments.
a certain sort of pernicious ‘collective identitarianism’ that grew out of the aftermaths of the Civil War and the eventual birth of progressivism
The seeds were there decades earlier with the spread of the social gospel.
I think the origins of the progressive Era are very closely matched to the forthcoming emergence of progressive Era 2: woke Boogaloo.
There’s an initial social movement (Social Gospel of the 1830s-1840s, postmodern revolution of the 1960s-1970s).
There’s an immersion period for around a generation (1850s-1860s, 1980s-1990s).
There’s an integration period for another generation or so (see, e.g., mainstreaming of the temperance movement in the late 19th century, the consolidation and growth of the grievance industries under the woke/inclusive banner throughout the 2000s-2010s).
Then there’s the governance period (Wilson through FDR and then with aftershocks through to the Reagan presidency, Biden through…. ongoing).
I’ve literally never liked a single thing I’ve ever heard from them. Everything sounds like either a children’s song from a cartoon, some drugged-out hippie-dippie bullshit, or a combination of both.
Early Beatles (Chuck Berry covers, Help!, Hard Day’s Night, that stuff) is okay.
Republicans
It was 86F yesterday.
Today? 68F !! – I blame climate change. 😉
WEATHER IS NOT CLIMATE! Except the days when the weather breaks records, then it is climate! Don’t you #science?
I blame Michigan. Weather here is pretty psycho and has been since I arrived in 69.
Well, when Hell is a town in your state.
The weather in the midwest, it’s a place you use both your AC and the heat both in the same day, often.
Forecasted low temp for tonight is 46 degrees.
But fuck turning on the heat in June.
Be thankful yesterday wasn’t 109.
This is going to turn out like the LA Speed Story. 109 was at 10am here in Vegas yesterday. I am sure the biggest baddest of them all from our AZ friends will chime in to shut us all up
When I lived in Vegas neither of my cars had AC. I remember when it was 111 and I turned on the heat in the car so that when I got out it would feel cool. Still felt better than 90 in Wisconsin.
When I worked there we had an intern who was driving his grandfather’s no-AC pickup with a black interior and he had to park in the sun. He had a routine before leaving that included changing clothes, donning insulated gloves, and spreading towels over the seats.
I never did any such thing, but that night I puked in the backseat of my own car and my friends told me they’d cleaned it up, except they didn’t, that was a bad next day.
I wasn’t around Friday afternoon when my first-ever post dropped (STEVE SMITH SAY ALWAYS REMEMBER FIRST TIME!), but it seemed like y’all enjoyed my Poe attempt at parody. Many thanks for the kind words.
This is the asshoe in question.
Awww 😉
That was really good.
We have to save the Tasmanian devils!
Oooops!
A species with such a shallow gene pool that face cancer is a communicable disease?
But that’s only because of colonialism, or something.
“Tens Of Thousands Sign Petition To Stop Jeff Bezos From Returning To Earth”
Why doesn’t anyone love the Smeagol?
Thing is, these people are most likely the same ones who order everything off Amazon Prime, and then complain that local mom and pop stores are dying.
Snap, snap, SNAP!
There is no NFL in June. Pansy joke writer is more pansy than those he’s making fun of.
What’s this NFL that he speaks of?
4. Take Dad fishing and then kick him in the groin. — He’ll never see it coming as he’s distracted trying to get his hook off a log.
Looks around for the hidden camera.
*shakes fist in the air* Alan Funt!
Jean Paul Sartre was an ass, in case there was ever any doubt.
One of professors remarked that his work amounted to one man elevating his neuroses to the status of a metaphysics.
I automatically think of this.
Oh yeah, we’re so doomed.