I’ve stepped back into a one-day a week slot here for SP for a while. Until I can Tom Sawyer someone else into taking it. I tell you, there’s nothing more fun than doing links. Why, I wouldn’t trade doing them for money. I’m now married to a bionic woman. Same lady. Mrs. L didn’t wise up and leave, but she does have a brand new hip. As soon as I finish this I have to call the hospital pathology lab and see about acquiring her old one from them. She’s grumpy as a wet cat. Getting your hip dislocated, having the top of your femur sawn off, and having a ceramic/metal implant hammered into your bone is pretty uncomfortable. Who knew? Doc said “run on it all you want when you get better, your natural joints will wear out before that bearing”.
Y’all best lube up, Congress has struck a bipartisan deal.
Certainly a risk to Apple’s financial security. I’ve been thinking about how to get out of the Apple ecosystem, but I don’t find any of their competitors better or freer.
You think The Moustache was gonna let some Chinese bug take it out? Trump was always too optimistic for his own good.
Yikes, that is some terrifyingly shoddy building.
“Biden: ‘We have a deal’ on infrastructure with bipartisan group of senators”
By bipartisan I’m sure that means the dems and that asshat Mittens.
And where’s that great firster at?
The article hints they might not have the 60 votes to overcome a filibuster.
I think they still have one more “reconciliation” bill they can pass with 50 + 1 votes in the Senate. Maybe they’ll use reconciliation for this steaming pile.
OMG, Trump wished illness on a man that everyone except Max Boot and Bill Kristol hates?
Now do Congresscritters and how many times they have wished death on the plebes that defy them.
Lol. So true. Somebody fetch the fainting couch.
Bi-partisan. Stupid and Evil.
‘The Trump administration had attempted to block the publication of Bolton’s book. A federal judge later shot the lawsuit down, though he wrote in his ruling that Bolton had “likely published classified materials” and “exposed his country to harm and himself to civil (and potentially criminal) liability.”‘
No good crime goes unrewarded when it hurts Trump.
civil (and potentially criminal) liability.
Not with Unka Joe and Heels-Up Harris in office.
So the links are 8AM and 4PM EST every single day!? Neat!
The Florida building collapse is quite intriguing to me. I read about a lawsuit filed when a high-rise building collapsed during construction in Miami in 1981. The same year this claptrap was built. The investigation found the slabs were made with insufficient depth among other obvious deficiencies. I doubt this practice was a one off, they just got caught. That building is garbage. It’s all going to be part of some kind of study someday. I look forward to it.
No no, they are at 5am and 1pm PST every single day.
PST is a meme.
No, they are at 3AM and 11AM daily in the One True Time Zone.
That’s not Zulu.
PS: Why does Alaska observe daylight saving time?
Because politicians are idiots, even here.
8AM, 12PM, 4PM, and 8pm EST….the 8PM slot can be spotty at times. Probably not enough articles lined up for that every day.
Every Monday at 8pm Baby!
“Yikes, that is some terrifyingly shoddy building.”
That must have been terrifying for the people who survived it. Looks like something you’d more expect to happen in China.
Sinkhole? I don’t know if Miami area has those, but they seem to be all over Florida.
And these are what the “new urbanists” want everyone living in while they make single family homes illegal.
Yeah, so that one robber baron oligarch, Bill Gates, can own all the private property in the USA. Equity!
Pitchforks, tar and feathers and heads on pikes.
I’ve been thinking about how to get out of the Apple ecosystem
Has anyone in here tinkered with graphene os?
Bi-partisan. Stupid and Evil.
Every time I hear “bipartisan compromise” my ass starts to hurt.
Plus I have an unpleasant taste in my mouth.
STEVE SMITH…HIM BIPARTISAN!
Sounds like the two of you ran into STEVE.
YOU NO RUN INTO STEVE. STEVE RUN INTO YOU.
Yeah, back to the good ol Clinton days, yeehaw!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rudy-giuliani-suspended-from-practicing-law-in-ny-over-false-2020-election-claims-163226222.html
Giuliani, suspended from practicing law in New York. Even if the claims of election fraud were baseless (baseless and/or unfounded being term of art in the news media I believe.) Doesn’t it set a bad precedent to punish the lawyer for arguing his client’s case in accordance with the client’s beliefs and directions.
It sets the precedent needed for political creatures to go after their enemies, just as intended.
Similar to the brushing aside of certain actors can leak classified information, blatantly violate attorney/client privileges, etc. Rather than whispers of a multi-tiered justice system, they have shown they can have it right out in the open for all to weep upon and barring an F-15 and nuclear warheads, you ain’t gonna do jack shit.
Cool drugs, bro!
I’ve been thinking about how to get out of the Apple ecosystem, but I don’t find any of their competitors better or freer.
What browser do you use with tin cans and string?
Did Giuliani make those claims under oath?
Hell, Schiff blatantly lied multiple times in the media about testimony that had just been given in closed session. He was undermining the duly elected president. Is he going to face consequences?
Even if he did, wouldn’t you have to prove that he knew they were lies?
I believe the standard of proof they are going for is that Giulani’s * political enemies * had to “know” they were “lies”.
“Jerry, it’s not a lie if you believe it.”
Everyone should read this and take them at their word. They’re telling us what they’re planning to do and it isn’t anything good. Remove the word violent since it doesn’t seem to really matter (Jan 6), and it is a justification for imprisoning political dissent.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/National-Strategy-for-Countering-Domestic-Terrorism.pdf
…or leave “violent” in. From Webster,
“Definition of violence
1a: the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy
b: an instance of violent treatment or procedure
2: injury by or as if by distortion, infringement, or profanation : OUTRAGE
3a: intense, turbulent, or furious and often destructive action or force
the violence of the storm
b: vehement feeling or expression : FERVOR
also : an instance of such action or feeling”
And silence is now violence in newspeak, so no matter what you do or say, even if that’s nothing, they’re gonna get ya.
So, antifa and blm fit those descriptions along side the incels.
Anybody who doesn’t go along with the system, enthusiastically.
Your fingers Kinnath, nimble they are.
Their omission from the “named” movements is telling. They list anarchists, but not Communists or Marxists (which is what BLM and Antifa are). And they don’t fit neatly into the catch-all, which refers to “single-issue” movements.
Put it this way – if I had a contract that was terminable if we hired anybody described there, and we hired BLM or antifa, I’d have a pretty good argument that wouldn’t trigger the termination clause. The “any other” clause is pretty effing vague.
Jesus Tap Dancing Christ, Nazis have actually taken over the entire government and they are gaslighting the fuck out of America.
From that document
Strategic Goal 3.1: Enable appropriate enhanced investigation and prosecution of domestic terrorism crimes.
Now where have I seen that term enhanced investigations (or similar, interrogations) before…
That document is a scary thing. They’re not joking.
They’re not joking.
They are going all in, that’s for sure. Wow. We are to be ruled by Chinese Nazis and their enablers.
I just want to live long enough to see some of sycophants be executed for crimes against the state after they have outlived their usefulness. “But I’m one of you!”
Does “enhanced investigation” involve “enhanced interrogation?”
Enhanced investigation, visualized
Perfect thing to end my day at work. I think I shall watch Super Troopers tonight because of it.
Progressives are Abusers.
I mean…sure those are all similar…that document is reading like a manifesto.
“unprecedented attack against a core institution of our democracy: the U.S. Congress.”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/history-violent-attacks-capitol-180976704/
One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn’t belong.
And fuck all the worse things that happened at congress. I mean, there are criminals in there every day.
Where is all of this domestic extremist violence that is apparently the greatest threat to this country? The closest we have are the ANTIFA larpers and while they are scum, I wouldn’t classify them as a threat to the country. They’re just threats to the shit hole cities they lurk in.
They’re greenlighting the FBI to go berzerk. The NY Post article about the poor schlub whose neighbor turned him in and they ruined his life is just the beginning.
We are East Germany.
Oh read in there…here are their highlights:
KKK, the El Paso shooting, Charlottesville, the garlic festival in Gilroy and some arson on a mosque. Additionally they bring up OKC, the Dallas cop shooting, a small reference to the nut that shot up the baseball game with congresscritters and the money shot? The money shot is Jan 6, 2021 where “Americans witnessed an unprecedented attack against a core institution of our democracy: the U.S. Congress.”
That not evidence enough for you? Terrorist!
I didn’t look, but guessing they don’t have their little thing in Garland, TX in there?
What thing? I’m not familiar?
Isn’t it fascinating how they always mention El Paso, but rarely Dayton?
and while they are scum
Do not associate me with those people.
“In some cases, individuals may develop their own idiosyncratic justifications for violence that defy ready categorization.”
So, “anyone we don’t like” is now a domestic terrorist?
So people who get pissed at and attack their neighbors, and wife beaters, are now domestic terrorists.
anarchist violent extremists, who violently oppose all forms of capitalism
Oh, The Squad ain’t going to like that.
involuntary celibate
This would be funny if the premise wasn’t so scary.
“This would be funny if the premise wasn’t so scary.”
Yes. It seems the response to the growing distrust in institutions is to administer beatings until morale improves.
And I think they’re serious.
In the proggies’ Brave New World, incels are bad…
“And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable?”
“Our world is not the same as Othello’s world. You can’t make flivvers without steel—and you can’t make tragedies without social instability. The world’s stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get.”
‘”Lenina shook her head. “Somehow,” she mused, “I hadn’t been feeling very keen on promiscuity lately. There are times when one doesn’t. Haven’t you found that too, Fanny?” … Fanny nodded her sympathy and understanding. “But one’s got to make the effort,” she said, sententiously, “one’s got to play the game. After all, every one belongs to every one else.”‘
Oh, The Squad ain’t going to like that.
The Squad are Marxists/Communists, not anarchists.
I’ve always believed this meme.
Seems pretty accurate now, doesn’t it.
Twitter banned it.
JFC.
Very telling.
Everyone should read this and take them at their word. They’re telling us what they’re planning to do and it isn’t anything good.
Now you tell me…
JFC.
*heads back to ammoseek.com*
They seem to really like the term “authority” and seem to apply it to circumstances and actions which it does not belong.
“Trump had tried to joke about the virus for months, sometimes even mocking people who had become ill. … At one meeting several months [before Trump got sick], NEC director Larry Kudlow had stifled a cough. The room had frozen. … Trump had waved his hands in front of his face, as if to jokingly ward off any flying virus particles, and then cracked a smile. ‘I was just kidding,’ he’d said. ‘Larry will never get COVID. He will defeat it with his optimism,'” an excerpt from the book obtained by the news outlet reads.
“‘John Bolton,’ he had said … ‘Hopefully COVID takes out John,'” Trump said, according to the book.
UNPRESIDENTIAL!
That fake plague couldn’t even kill the fat bastard Christie. What a gyp.
Now do LBJ
What?!?! How could you possible miss the funeral pyres blackening the sky? It looked like Kuwait after the Iraqis torched the oilfields.
‘I was just kidding,’ he’d said. ‘Larry will never get COVID. He will defeat it with his optimism,’
Wow that is cutting deep. How did Larry not break down crying at that point for that sick burn.
individuals may develop their own idiosyncratic justifications for violence that defy ready categorization.
“We’ll make something up when the time comes.”
They even include incels in the list.
It’s completely over the top.
Incels don’t even have enough motivation to try to get laid, much less try to overthrow a government.
The Tree of Liberty has to be refreshed by the blood of patriots and the spooge of incels.
Would love to have Ol’ Joe read that for us.
The SPLC once declared pickup artists as a misogynic hate group. It’s completely nuts.
Vaguely related, what evolutionary purpose does it serve for men to barely notice the signals that a woman gives that she likes him? Thinking over my life there have been a number of times I’ve missed the signals.
Maybe you subconsciously sensed Teh Krayzee and your id silently screamed “Run Awaaaaaaay!!!”
If it is good enough for the military, why isn’t Article 134 of the UCMJ good enough for the rest of us?
Basically the military has a rule that covers them in cases where they forgot to explicitly define it. Used as a way to fuck with enlisted guys who had pissed off the wrong people.
I thought we already have that in ‘disorderly conduct’
This account comes from “Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History,” written by Washington Post reporters Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta about Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, Axios reports.
I’m certain this will be very truthy.
to the Pandemic That Changed History<
True, but not in the way the author intended.
the Pandemic That Changed History
The Black Death Brings Beer to London
Carried over from a dedthred:
@CPRM, I don’t know if you’re willing to do an audiobook for someone, but if you are, please email me at esb10 at b10mediaworx dot com.
Of course, if anybody ELSE with a good voice is willing to take a crack at it, feel free to email me.
Well, I’m told my voice sounds like a troll who was punched in the stomach, so, better pass.
You sound just fine and also, you’re enough of a storyteller to do justice to an ebook.
I, on the other hand, sound like a 12yo redneck.
HAWT.
Mine is probably too
sexyMinnesodan.As impressive as the gains have been in storage technology, I’m not sure that they are enough to capture all the talking you do Tundra.
I’ve thought about doing librevox or whatever it is called to practice a dynamic reading voice, but that was for personal/professional improvement. My voice is way too nasal and monotonal to make a good audiobook. As the kids told me last constitution day, I sound like an NPR reporter.
Hey, I never heard of that. Maybe I’ll give it a try. I can’t stand my speaking voice, maybe it’s good practice….
Ahem.
I’ve got to bounce now, but I’ll email you later. Or you can contact me the usual way.
My client would be happy!
Message sent.
I dunno, I think CPRM can pull off a good old fashioned Foghorn Leghorn
Tonio has a face made for radio and a voice made for print.
My voice sounds like I’ve smoked a lot of cigars, drunk a lot of Scotch, and eaten a lot of chili.
For some reason.
I’m told I have a face for radio, and on the one time that I was on a Zoom and CPRM heard me, he seemed to think I could do voiceover work.
Lemme know.
Too Local News Lazy Edition, and last edition for this legislative session. NH Legislature passes budget bill and trailer
The Republican-controlled state Legislature adopted along party lines a controversial policy-laden budget trailer bill Thursday after voting — also sharply divided by party — to send a separate $13.5 billion two-year budget bill to the desk of Gov. Chris Sununu.
Sununu immediately hailed the votes adopting the package, which he is fully expected to sign into law.
“Historic tax cuts, property tax relief, and Paid Family Medical Leave delivered all in one sweeping action is a win for every citizen and family in this state,” he said.
Meeting simultaneously in separate sessions Thursday:
— The state Senate and the House of Representatives both passed the $13.5 billion spending bill that will take effect July 1, after the governor signs it into law, as expected. The Senate vote was 14-10; the House vote was 208-172.
— The House and Senate then passed House Bill 2, the trailer bill that includes a ban on abortions after 24 weeks of gestation, language banning some aspects of the teaching of critical race theory and limiting the authority of the governor during future states of emergencies. The Senate vote was 14-10.
The emergency powers law reform in the budget is not a very good reform. The legislature will have the power to terminate, at any time, via a majority vote of both chambers any of the governor’s emergency orders. That is the good part of the reform. The bad part is that the governor can continue to renew a state of emergency as long as he wants. The legislature is compelled to meet every 90 days to vote on terminating the state of emergency. If both chambers have a majority vote to terminate the state of emergency, the emergency ends.
The budget passed because of a deal between the House Majority Leader Jason Osbourne, a Free State Project member, and the governor that the governor will not oppose attempts to further reform the emergency powers law in the next session of the legislative term. What the Reopen NH and House Freedom Caucus (the latter dominated by Free State Project members) want is that the governor’s ability to renew a state of emergency is limited. The real power to renew a state of emergency is in the legislature’s hands. Folks I know have told me privately that the legislature actually has a little leverage to use on the governor to get him to keep his end of the deal, but I think that leverage is limited. We’ll see what happens in the Fall.
Note that stand-alone bills to rein in the governor’s emergency powers have so far failed. The Senate did the governor’s bidding to eviscerate a bill that overwhelming passed the House (HB 417). In the conference committee to resolve the Senate and House differences, the Senate members of the committee said they would support nothing the governor would veto, and the governor would veto anything except what the Senate passed. The House members of the committee walked out.
The budget includes some nice things. Spending cuts, across the board tax cuts (including a repeal of the state’s income tax, the Interest and Dividends tax), elimination of government positions. It includes some not-so-nice things, like Family Medical Leave Insurance (FMLI), which I expect will morph into a broad-based income tax.
Some folks I know tell me that Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) is gearing up to fight FMLI. I haven’t heard anything from the NH Liberty Alliance (NHLA), but as PorcFest is going on and the NHLA is dominated by Free State Project members, I think they’re all at PorcFest. After PorcFest ends, I expect to hear something about the NHLA folks about what they plan to do. They will probably join forces with YAL to fight FMLI.
A state of emergency should last no longer than 60 days.
30 days to convene the legislature, and 30 days for the legislature to pass (or not) a bill dealing with the emergency.
The governor should have the right to call one (1) state of emergency until the legislature gives him the right to call another.
15 and 15, git ‘er done. And I’m being generous. This ain’t the 1700s.
15 minutes and 15 minutes?
Agreed.
Ugh, ate a cucumber off the pickle vine instead of the slicing cuke vine. Good thing I have an hour until my next meeting.
*burrrrrrrppppp*
Apparently the unwoke dude is leaving Mumford and Sons after saying something positive after Andy Ngo. I expected him to issue a groveling apology and to promise to “do the work” to be better, so I’m pleasantly surprised. Not that this will change my listening habits either way.
When people gaslight and emotionally abuse you, cut them out of your life.
r/everything
And unless he was shadow fired, he said his reason was, he knew his bandmates would get cancelled if he stayed in the band. He’s passing up millions, because those dudes are a pretty big “middle-tier” band. So if it’s all true at its face value, which it isn’t (sorry so cynical, the world did it to me), but if it is, I admire that.
From that document
Strategic Goal 3.1: Enable appropriate enhanced investigation and prosecution of domestic terrorism crimes.
What will the application process to our home grown Stasi look like?
Make it a part of Vocational Training in Prisons?
So, if they need enable “enhanced” investigation, etc., what the fuck have they been doing up until now?
Great point. 6 months of turning the screws on anyone in and around the area of Jan 6 is what we see now…once they go full retard, I don’t want to even imagine
I wonder if I get a neat knife with an appropriated religious symbol if I join.
Maybe some kind of hat with a skull. Or two lightning bolt type Ss on the collar. Just a thought.
I know Hugo Boss makes some nifty suits.
NH drops move Covid fines
The state has decided not to seek payment of fines from three businesses the Attorney General’s Office said failed to follow state requirements for reopening restaurants — including having employees wear masks and spacing tables 6 feet apart.
Out of thousands of businesses in New Hampshire, only eight were fined for COVID-19 violations, according to the Attorney General’s Office. Five paid fines last year.
Three others — Simply Delicious Baking Co. of Bedford, Grumpy’s Bar and Grill of Plaistow and What A Bagel of Nashua — contested their fines, which ranged from $500 to $1,500. On Friday, all three were notified that their fines had been reversed.
The article, near the end, mentions the budget trailer bill and other businesses which received and paid fines. Since the budget trailer bill passed, those other businesses will have their fines refunded.
COVID victims are haunting us from beyond the grave!!!!!111eLeVEn! (TW: CNN. One of those “pocket” suggested links. Made me say, “RUFKM??” Sooper cereal jurnullizming!)
SCIENCE!!!
Bill to prohibit NH law enforcement from enforcing Federal gun laws has some problems
A bill intended to block state and local law enforcement of any Biden administration gun control measures faces a fight for survival today over Second Amendment advocates’ concerns it would create a gaping loophole.
“This would, for the first time, put into statute that NH law enforcement can enforce federal laws and we are asking reps and senators to just say no, because the time for amendments has just passed,” Alan Rice of Bedford with Gun Owners of America said.
The legislation emerged in April as one of the most popular reforms among those backing gun freedoms. The House of Representatives amended SB 154 to apply to all executive orders, rules and federal laws on guns adopted since President Joe Biden took office.
Former Seabrook, NH state representative charged with threatening Sen. Maggie Hassan
On Wednesday, News 9 learned of threats made to Sen. Maggie Hassan.
Court paperwork said a former New Hampshire state legislator used words including “assassination” when he heard Hassan would be visiting fishermen in Seabrook.
Hassan visited the Yankee Fishermen’s Cooperative in May as authorities closed in on a man they said threatened to kill her.
“The day of the visit, he called the store to say that he was on his way,” cooperative employee Brandy Wilson said.
According to court paperwork, police stopped Richard Morris, 66, in his vehicle on May 4, right after his call to the cooperative. They arrested him and charged him with criminal threatening and disorderly conduct.
Doc said “run on it all you want when you get better, your natural joints will wear out before that bearing”.
So Mrs L now has a load bearing hip? Hope she gets better quickly!
My dad went on a deer hunt with me 8 weeks after having his hip replaced. No problems at all until it was time to gut the deer he shot. Then his hip was acting up so I had to do it.
Hopefully that hip wasn’t engineered in Florida
So- ongoing adventures with my laptop:
It’s still flaky. Could the ongoing updates of firefox have outrun my antique linux os and caused some sort of conflict?
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1408134392510357507
It is Twitter I know…but what the actual fuck…that guy has lost it.
Doesn’t matter. He’s not in charge anyway.
For that matter, it’s an OLD laptop. Maybe firefox development has outrun the hardware.
It still works on the browser bundled with the os.
You anti-mask monsters are literally killing Minnesoda children!!!
common…typically….COVID!
I can’t imagine what the immune systems of these children are going to look like in fifty years. We’re preventing them from developing normally through exposure.
Remember when summer colds weren’t worthy of any discussion?
I do.
Another thing is…most parents pre-2020 would have told the kid to have some soup, sleep and get back to your day and not rush to the hospital like they most likely are now.
That is probably the ‘uptick’ of it all. Normally unreported, fairly harmless colds/infections suddenly being thrust into the system because all of society are not hypochondriacs.
Not explained:
Why a virus that previously showed in the winter when there were no COVID protocols, is showing up in the summer when COVID protocols are “easing up”. If I’m looking for the variable that has changed, I am looking at the imposition and partial continuation of COVID protocols.
Sort of the public health equivalent of not completing a course of antibiotics?
“Canadian First Nation group finds 751 bodies in unmarked graves at another ‘Indian residential’ school run by Catholics where children were ‘assimilated’ into society”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9720473/Hundreds-bodies-unmarked-graves-Native-American-school-Canada.html
yikes!
I’m awaiting the sensible reaction from English Canada, the most retarded population in history…
Considering they produced Winston….
I mean Canada is the first country in history to willingly call itself genocidal. And of course use this as an excuse to further control the population.
“Hunter Biden gets a pass…. AGAIN! Liberal media ignore claims president’s son used president dad’s money to accidentally pay escort $25,000”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9721871/Mainstream-media-ignores-claims-Joe-Biden-inadvertently-paid-Hunters-sex-prostitute.html
This is my shocked face.
So Hunter is the guy who’s ass the drugs fell out of.
Apparently not, since no one is reporting it.
Maybe it’s parmesan that fell out of his ass.
Uhhhh no. The power of language. Let me fix that.
Liberal media ignore claims president’s son accidentally used president dad’s money to pay escort $25,000
See, when you say it like they said it, it sounds like him paying the hooker was an accident. Subconsciously, it plants the seed “well maybe he didn’t mean to pay her. Maybe he had no reason to pay her”.
Written correctly, it says “this degenerate fuck up needed to pay his hooker25K but he had drained his ill-gotten bank account buying meth and crack, so before he got his teeth kicked in by a pimp, he grabbed his father’s (who happened to be VP of the USA at the time) card, and used that to pay the hooker”.
See how easy it is? Use the same words, change up the order, and the drooling llamas who actually read your garbage will propagate it through the populace.
This is why we’re doomed.
Kind of a dick thing to say (if true, who knows what’s true anymore) and I don’t wish death via Covid on anyone but fuck Bolton, he’s one of the worst people on the planet. He’s a warmonger, a douchebag, a kiss ass, and a turncoat POS and he deserves zero sympathy.
Kennedy frequently had him as a guest, IDKY.
He used to be on Gutfeld’s late night show a good bit and I will give him one thing: He’s funny, he really does have a good dense of dry humor but that doesn’t come near to making up for his faults although I could see how he would be, or at least how he could used to be, a decent guest.
Uffda. I don’t know how to respond to this 4-D chess thinking
What are these people thinking? Your business craters because of Covid and your response is to strike because you want more money (and hero pay?)?
The trains have been busier lately. Stabbings, robberies a shooting or two. This new urban revitalization is really something to behold.
Meanwhile, across the river.
Nothing screams efficiency like:
I will probably giggle when they finally announce the formula for reparations, but also let it be known that the 4,938 committees that were formed to study the problem used up the entire reparations budget.
Carter really should be getting more national recognition. He started off by eliminating all library fines, then he created a pilot of minimum basic income and now reparations?
He’s a super star!
Trump said he hoped COVID-19 ‘takes out’ Bolton
If it did the world would be a better place.
Good.
Among 46 countries worldwide, America’s trust in its media ranks dead last, with just 29 percent.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
The diversity of this “bipartisan coalition” pretty perfectly conveys which communities get centered and which get left behind when leaders prioritize bipartisan dealmaking over inclusive lawmaking (which prioritizes delivering the most impact possible for the most people)
I prefer exclusive lawmaking where the commies are excluded from said lawmaking.
The document above cannot be implemented fast enough to just get this all over with.
Does she think that gibberish makes her sound “intelligent”?
Probably.
Being skeptical of government is domestic-terrorism.
The White House on Tuesday announced President Joe Biden’s National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism, a first-of-its-kind, four-pillared approach to improve how domestic terrorism is defined, identified, and combated. The strategy’s main aim is to target those with racist or anti-government ideology, which the administration says is espoused by domestic terrorists.
The strategy says that experts and evidence have shown today’s domestic terrorists include those who espouse “racial or ethnic bigotry and hatred” as well as “anti-government or anti-authority sentiment.” However, anti-law enforcement ideologies such as those espoused by Antifa and Black Lives Matter were not mentioned.
“Racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists (principally those who promote the superiority of the white race) and militia violent extremists are assessed as presenting the most persistent and lethal threats,” the strategy says.
Hi-ho, hi-ho, it’s off to the camps we go.
Gives one a feeling that we are past the opening moves and are now in the middle-game of chess.
Tell it to this guy:
https://twitter.com/PrimaryALLRINO/status/1407354667395395593
Hey that was pretty righteous. I haven’t been able to find any additional information. Is this real? Who is that dude?
Oh nevermind, I see now, Guy is called Simon Campbell. Well I’m a fan.
>>“anti-government or anti-authority sentiment.”
so pretty much my feelings since I was 15yo punk rocker?
The CDC is anti-science and evil.
Should I Still Get Myself or My Child Vaccinated?
Yes. CDC continues to recommend COVID-19 vaccination for everyone 12 years of age and older, given the risk of COVID-19 illness and related, possibly severe complications, such as long-term health problems, hospitalization, and even death. If you or your child has already gotten the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine, it’s important to get the second dose unless a vaccination provider or your doctor tells you not to get it.
The known and potential benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh the known and potential risks, including the possible risk of myocarditis or pericarditis. Also, most patients with myocarditis and pericarditis who received care responded well to treatment and rest and quickly felt better.
Except for the potential complications and the fact that children do not need to take the risk of an experimental technology being injected into them.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/full-comment-with-anthony-furey-the-plot-to-overthrow-free-speech-merit-and-equality-in-post-liberal-canada/wcm/069fe51c-b953-4226-8aa7-40d8c27b0f7b/amp/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true
There is a revolution afoot in Canada. Long-held principles about what it means to be a liberal democracy — free expression, equality under the law — are getting pushed out. Amazingly, it’s a revolt not being led by the masses, but by governments and elites. Anthony talks to law professor Bruce Pardy about the shocking speed of the transformation, and how the federal Liberal government is pushing it further with C-10, the bill that will regulate the internet.
Gee I wonder if lockdowns, global warming and those dead Indians will be used to justify this…
Very interesting thread here:
https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1407827642808778753
https://www.aier.org/article/the-political-paternalists-take-aim-at-milton-friedman/
The cancel culture movement has caught wide attention with its insistence on “cleansing” the country of persons, statues, building names, or any other public monument accused of being in any way tainted by or identified with American slavery or racism, past or present. This has served as a “cover” to delegitimize virtually anyone not aligned with or acquiescent to the ideas of identity politics, critical race theory, and any number of other “politically correct” policy positions.
The modus operandi is to assert that to hold a particular political or economic policy view is, in itself, demonstration of an explicit or implicit justification for or defense of racism, sexism, unjust social or economic inequality, or authoritarianism and elitism in its various ideological forms. Any attempt to deny and respond to such charges through reason or evidence is met with contemptuous smirks and sneers, making it clear that all such replies, in themselves, show that person’s unwillingness to see their own prejudices; or is someone consciously trying to defend the indefensible “privileges” of the male, white, capitalist oppressors and exploiters who deny “real freedom” and racial and gender “equity” to so many others in society.
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The targets have been among some of the leading lights of free market, classical liberal thought in the 20th century, in particular Public Choice theorist James M. Buchanan, Austrian economists, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich A. Hayek, and, increasingly, Chicago School economist Milton Friedman
This was supposed to stop with the Confederate Battle Flag…
Also I can’t believe that people who have always openly hated Buchanan, Mises, Friedman and Hayek still openly hate them decades later now that they have more power…
I gotta say, Win-ston, you are the champ at bringing up shit that everyone already knows, like it’s all some startling new revelation.
He’s been using Glibs as a platform to argue with the Reason staff for some time now. Not sure why.
I’m gonna go to bat for Winston here. He posts libertarian relevant stuff, usually think pieces, and often uses very dry wit to take it to the woketarians. Yeah, I’m not a big fan of the walls of text sometimes, but out of all of the people with “schticks” on this site I think his gets the most abuse per unit annoying.
Oh, I don’t mind the walls of text. It’s the closeted nRX advocacy that really sets me off.
I don’t see what is neoreactionary about acknowledging that the libertarian moment is not happening, China is not becoming free, liberty lovers got way too complacent when the USSR fell and there is something seriously wrong with modern society as demonstrated by the events of the last year? Events that have been brewing for decades mind you?
I had heard the “neoreactionary” label in passing, but I guess I don’t know enough about that movement to recognize one when I see them. A quick DDG search showed a couple terms I’ve heard tossed around in the past, like Moldbug, and a short Wikipedia description that seemed to align with the deus vult crowd of a couple years back.
Is the objection that it’s veiled racism?
I WANT TO BELIEVE!
https://archive.is/CjSdI
At least we’re getting some good urban legends.
“John McAfee’s final Instagram post – a giant Q. The post went up around 1:15PST, meaning he was likely already dead. But he or someone on his team knew exactly what to do to achieve maximum shitposting effect.”
https://twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/1407806542053789698
I WANT TO BELIEVE!
#metoo
This stopped being the best timeline a while back. I’m not buying it.
Get the vax, or DIE!
Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have been and an indication that deaths per day — now down to under 300 — could be practically zero if everyone eligible got the vaccine.
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but it seems as if some piece of information might be absent.
You think?
The preventable deaths will continue, experts predict, with unvaccinated pockets of the nation experiencing outbreaks in the fall and winter. Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, said modeling suggests the nation will hit 1,000 deaths per day again next year.
If that’s what the model says, who are you to argue?
Models are never wrong. Just ask Q.
Never wrong.
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/new-york-coming-back-pj-clarkes-midtown/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
What did my local pub, my neighborhood, my city go through over that year? The physical desolation, the job losses, the apocalyptic grocery hoarding, the Black Lives riots, the mask and hand-sanitizer hysteria and insane safetyism, the fitful reopenings, the fake solidarity of ‘we’re all in this together’, the claustrophobia, the ruination of a generation of kids deprived of schooling and social interaction.
What made it all so much worse was the massive gaslighting operation conducted by the ‘experts’, mostly Democratic politicians, the corporate media and a neoliberal meritocratic class whose merits are never quite in evidence.
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Frankly, I can’t figure out why Americans aren’t marching en masse with pitchforks. Are we really prepared to forget the destructive lies and censorship? Will a backlash ever materialize? Or has the corporate-academic-media-tech overclass beaten the rest into submission with a year of lockdowns and state-backed BLM riots?
A Catholic integralist supports more actually then the former LP Prag caucus…
Sandhill cranes… the Florida Man version of hatebirds, the birds that hate.
Blackjack hardest hit?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/06/the-los-angeles-union-with-a-culture-of-racism-and-anti-israel-politics/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MJ_20210623&utm_term=Jolt-Smart
https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
TW: This is a satire site. My favorite one:
Since it is impossible for black people to be racist, any white person who is not being racist is committing behavioural blackface.
Therefore, all non-racist white people are racist.
That account is one of the few bright spots on Twitter.
“Pronouns: Variable” got a chuckle out of me. Short and sweet.
Jordan Peterson just had him on his podcast on Monday.
That’s how I found this.
“Joking about midgets is the very definition of punching down.”
*sustained applause*
Another stellar Biden nominee
I totally support her to stop consuming, breeding, and existing. This makes me even support late abortions. Like 60 years or so in certain cases.
Joe isn’t sending us his best.
What makes you think that these people aren’t his best?
Well, I mean his 2nd in charge is the cackling one with heels up and a reverse goiter, so…
Do the truly smart thing. Sterilize yourself if you are a commie/fascist tyrant.
A principled Malthusian would kill themselves, not wish to be one of the rulers over a poor, destitute, ever shrinking population…there are no principled Malthusians.
I wonder how she feels about gain-of-function research?
“FUNCTION HARDER!!!”
Should we be surprised by this? This is what a lot of environmentalists believe.
Do I look surprised? Am I tapping on my phone in a surprised way?
Well your eyebrows are somewhat arched.
Oh yeah, I just had them waxed and threaded. I think they came out pretty well.
Did McAfee kill himself?
No, he was just trying to uninstall the antivirus.
I’m seeing more and more reports of any American with even the smallest hint of a connection to Jan 6 being rounded up by the Feds. Indefinite incarceration with no laywer, no trial, no bail. Some have been beaten badly.
Looks like we’ve reached a new phase with that and the document Scruffy shared above. Are these abductions any different from what occurred in the early stages of the Gestapo or Stasi?
Not as flagrantly public?
Uhm…if we’re seeing it, they ain’t exactly hiding it.
The general public doesn’t, we do , therefore the list we are on,
Not really any different in my mind. The Feds aren’t going to wage war on the citizens. They’re going to divide us and make us paranoid that we’re being watched. That someone might inform on us.
Then they will swoop in and publicly arrest a nobody. They’ll ruin their life through process and release them months later. But the message will be sent, don’t trifle with us or you’ll be next.
KDW and Cooke’s “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” podcast ep today has an *Excellent* discussion on the NFA and how it’s probably unconstitutional. Highly recommended!
Link?
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/mad-dogs-englishmen/episode-317-wait-someone-believes-that/
I listen to them on itunes
Thank you.
I mean, I guess it’s not really down in the weeds…but hopefully enlightening – I haven’t read that much on it historically,
How Republicans Became the ‘Barstool’ Party
The Barstool-ification of the GOP could reconfigure its cultural politics for a generation.
Political writers are alwaaaays so short-sighted. The Libertarian “wing” of the Republican Party has always been there, at least since Goldwater. It’s part of the underpinnings of the party; “stuffy or not”; Reagan, for example, often mouthed libertarian points. And that forwardness helped him capture much of the working class wing.
So Biden will be Lincoln if he lived long enough to get dementia.
Let’s rock out before we get shipped to the camps.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9QX4bQPw-_w
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She seems nice.
Biowarfare begins tonight.
Gf will be releasing some of the 1,500 ladybugs she got to patrol our vegetable plants.
there’s always a bigger fish,
Fuck that, I hit them with DDT and if they’re still alive the next day, I pull out the agent orange.
Sean – soft on bugs.
I ordered a bottle of that Trifecta stuff too.
It’s good stuff. I just used it yesterday to try to save one of my wife’s mini-roses, which was getting ate up by spider mites.
Is Napalm an option?
something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k26hmRbDQFw
I’d rather have olive oil on my ‘maters.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WMlUhIi5N-g
Everything is better with Lemmy.
Wormwood. What took it so long?
Damnit. That reply was to BP. Just a little down there.
Apparently, it was ordered by an extra terrestrial government. Forms and such.
Okay.
Don’t worry about anything, folks: SMoD is coming to take all our troubles away.
Niburu coming, titties, show me them tiitties.
Random drunken apostasy!
Can we pool our airline miles to get it closer than Saturn?
Sadly, no.