In expectation of TPTB’s attempts at Friday afternoon links being an unmitigated dumpster fire, I hereby present my offering of links. Shoo away the flies, wipe off the mysterious goo because here are the links!
Stealing $13k a dollar at a time? It’s little better than dumpster diving.
Cop clearly never watched Dateline, because he shoved the body in the wall rather than a dumpster.
Prolly best to throw this chicken in the dumpster.
Cleaned out all the area dumpsters, then had a date with the dumpster in the sky.
Trashman hears odd noise from dumpster, finds surprise.
Not my cup of tea, but it fits the theme.
NOTE FROM TBTB: Riven had a extra early start to the day, and she was going to do these, but will get a little rest instead. Thx trsh.
Trashy da linkster! Good work, bro. I like the theme.
Don’t give us money to pay our back rent. We want it canceled.
We’re only happy if landlords take a loss.
Registration required to read article.
Forgot I set up a mailinator account. I see now at the top “Welcome, fuckyou“.
Commie shits want us to pay their rent.
You’re welcome.
“Instead, they’re asking their buildings’ large property managers — Mosser Living and Veritas Investment — to forgive their rent entirely.”
Tale as old as time. Let’s stick it to the big companies – who can absorb the loss. And in the process we destroy the smaller players.
“Dominion [local electric power utility] should refund excess profits to the customers.” -Some Local Free-Stuff Yob
The commie notion that profits are evil has irreversibly taken hold in our culture.
Only the excess profits, Trashy, the wretched excess. And it’s not like Dominion has any shareholders or anything who might expect a share of those profits, and if they do they are all fatcats, not retirement funds or the widows of utility linemen (and women).
*starts chant*
“Eat the rich! Eat the rich!”
Only if they are non-GMO organic
And gluten-free.
Only the rich have retirement funds.
/actual statement I’ve heard.
What the hell are “excess profits”? Is there some sort of threshold to the amount of profit that’s “acceptable”?
Mob vote.
The amount your average college professor makes that will allow him the freedom to install aged, barn wood floors in the townhouse that is walkable to a fresh food market and at least one trip to Europe per year.
+ 10%, but no more. That would just be greedy.
FUCK
YOU
PAY
ME
Damn, even the counties are doing the systemic racism thing now.
Dollar Tree is the classy dollar store…right?
Rough estimate: Dollar Tree > Dollar General > Family Dollar.
Guess which one is an easy walk from my house.
7-Eleven?
Believe it or not, we actually don’t have any of those around here. I think this farmer Mafia kept ’em out of the area.
$13,000 is a lot of Slim Jims and Arizona Tea.
That’s 1,200 pounds of Slim Jims, not including the weight of the packaging.
AKA 150lbs of meat.
Trashman hears odd noise from dumpster, finds surprise.
How about that, a story from my hometown of Petersburg that doesn’t have a horrible ending. Now I’ve seen everything.
We had a cat named Dumpster. In honor of where he was rescued from – the dumpster of a sandwich shop. A cop heard him yowling. He had a long and pretty cushy life.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/NirFYRGGpdyHwEbS9
A handsome lad he was. Better a cat named Dumpster than a girlfriend or wife.
My father found a kitten in an alley while on the job. Named him lucky. We kept him after paying the vet bill. Strange cat would steal vegetables off your plate.
Individual cats all seem to have their weird dietary likes.
I’ve had (different) cats that liked twizzlers, beer and bread.
Mine likes to steal french fries. He’s really good at hooking a fry with his claw before you know what’s happening.
My buddy’s wife had a cat named Roadkill.
Seems like tempting fate there.
I think that was his purpose.
I’m happy the bitch got rescued, but I can’t help worrying about what happened to her pups. 🙁
https://mobile.twitter.com/MaximeBernier/status/1413232703302946820
Canada is fucked…
Le choix de se faire vacciné ou non doit être un choix personnel. Un passeport vaccinal c’est de glisser lentement vers la dictature. Mais peut-être y sommes-nous déjà
Amen, mon frêre
Just a reminder all. I’m on my way out the door to eat and drink. I will not be around to kick off the video chat festivities tonight.
Friday GlibZoom Happy Hour / Video Chat / Snarkfest, with your guest host, Tonio:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8696035120
(FWIW, I will actually be going out tomorrow so will need someone else to kick it off. I’ll try to make an appearance once I get home to show you me as you’ve never seen me.)
That is ominous.
I’m skeert.
It’s called a teaser.
Thanks Tonio. I may be able to join when I get home, but I have one more day of people pounding wood in my house tomorrow that will require an early start.
people pounding wood in my house
Talk about low hanging fruit . . . .
Phrasing?
Oh, Tonio… yoo hoo!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/07/05/terrifying-truth-millions-do-not-want-lockdown-ever-end/
Freedom won the Cold War, of course, and for decades libertarians – myself included – have assumed that freedom was almost a basic instinct, a natural and universal desire, happily glossing over the basic conundrum that tortured Berlin. That was until Covid struck.
…
But a depressing truth looms over Britain: many people do not seem to want restrictions to end. Millions have become attached to the gilded trappings of lockdown, from furlough to flexi-home working. With our every movement micromanaged by one metre signage and one-way arrows, our instincts for independent self-direction have shrivelled. And after nearly 18 months of relentless – and irresponsible – anti-Covid messaging, terror of the virus is still everywhere.
…..
We are starting to see now that commitment to the value of individual freedom, far from being robust as a coil spring, is fragile as glass. [Isaiah]Berlin, who always suspected this was the case, warned more than 60 years ago that “principles are not less sacred because their duration cannot be guaranteed”. In other words, Freedom Day is just the beginning of the battle to remake the case for personal liberty and responsibility. Although many of us will shudder at the thought of another culture war, some things are worth fighting for.
Freedom is a social norm and since social norms change…
have assumed that freedom was almost a basic instinct
Security is a basic instinct. Sure, people like personal freedom, but are willing to sacrifice the freedom of others for security.
Not a surprising development for a culture that prides itself on being able to queue correctly.
Public health nanny wants more budget, power, employees.
What next, Soviet style institutionalization of the unwoke?
Soviet style institutionalization of the unwoke?
Yep…
https://richmond.com/news/local/richmond-city-council-committee-forwards-resolution-to-declare-racism-public-health-crisis-in-city/article_226856e8-f0d3-594f-a0d4-909084e710ae.html ?
I’m sure racism is at fault for the weekend’s murders.
Premier Minister of Quebec
Today, @cdube_sante unveiled the terms of use of the vaccination passport. We must do everything in our power to avoid reintroducing lockdowns this fall. It is now more true than ever: vaccination is our passport to freedom.
I thought it was work that made you free, not slavery.
The first question is rather obvious. What about those who have had the disease and are immune?
That’s ignoring the civil liberties aspect, of course.
EVERYONE GETS EXPERIMENTED ON.
What part of that do you not get?
Oh, look at Mr. Funnyman there with his ‘civil liberties.’
That’s not funny stuff…that’s White Supremacy talk. He probably has an American flag…
vaccination is our passport to freedom.
Cosmotarians actually believed that…
Also what we are going to get is vaccine passports AND lockdowns.
That does seem like the likely outcome.
Its a package deal. Passports have no function unless there are lockdowns.
Canada is just closing it’s eyes and thinking of England, isn’t it. I’m still sticking by my prediction that the US won’t have another lockdown. The political blowback is real and if you read between the lines of a lot of recent MSM articles (or Dem prop articles if we are honest) there is panic brewing about 2022 and 2024. But in all the places where the politicians aren’t held to account, lockdowns and “papers please” will continue unabated.
vaccination is our passport to freedom
Papieren macht frei.
“‘He is an artist’: Jen Psaki says Hunter Biden has ‘the right’ to pursue new career and denies anonymous painting buyers will have improper influence after White House carved deal to keep $500K sales secret”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9773819/Jen-Psaki-defends-White-House-plan-help-Hunter-Bidens-art-buyers-secret.html
Yeah, sure.
That guy is so impressive. He can switch careers and make millions at whatever he puts his mind to. Must be some kind of super genius.
Is he as tall as a duck?
Yeah, a scam artist.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think he’s ever had even a single career? Is “Criminal Grifter” a career now? Or “Drug-Addled Whore Pumper”? Man, I need to check the USDoL “Occupational Handbook”; seems like things have changed since I was in High School.
“‘I had to take off my $800 sneakers and cut my own grass’: Mass labor shortage in the exclusive Hamptons leaves the rich to cut their own lawns, do their own laundry and even paint their own nails”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9772839/Mass-labor-shortage-exclusive-Hamptons-leaving-rich-cut-lawns.html
OFFS!!
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7332588/covid-police-operation-for-sthwest-sydney/
Police will be asking people who are outside their homes what their reasonable excuse is, and will be cracking down on activities like unnecessary shopping.
Once a Prison colony, always a prison colony…
“You don’t need that pair of shoes today,” said local commander Assistant Commissioner Tony Cooke.
Is Bernie Sanders going to move there?
Strong men bring good times… Good times bring…
Australia is nothing but a simp farm now? Damn.
Today, in underboob news:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9757935/The-risque-trend-set-summer-Daring-wrap-tops.html
I’ll look into that. (H/T Benny Hill)
They lost me (even with underboob, they lost me) when they referred to someone with the moronic term “influencer.” Even with nice tits, that girl isn’t “influencing” anyone with enough brains to pound sand.
…I just answered my own observation, there, didn’t I?
Mostly scary looking, but EmRat could make a garbage bag look good.
(too bad about her stupid politics, but that’s not unexpected)
Just a reminder:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1413481775465213954
The entire thread is good:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1413165168956088321.html
’bout sums it it up.
I was gonna post that.
Its kind of interesting that the person seems to accept the premise of the “deep state” and that it was actively breaking the law to undermine and hurt Trump, but doesn’t seem able to look at all the abnormalities on election day in light of the active law breaking the “Regime” had demonstrated before and come to the conclusion that maybe something was wrong with the election.
Also “These are Tea Party people. The types who give their kids a pocket Constitution for their birthday and have Founding Fathers memes in their bios. The intel community spying on a presidential campaign using fake evidence (incl forged documents) is a big deal to them”
There are people that isn’t a big deal to? Other than partisan hacks that is.
But overall, yes good summery
There are people that isn’t a big deal to?
The apathetic, the deconstructionists, and the authoritarians.
Goes w/o saying, but: If the NY Times had Don Jr’s laptop, full of pics of him smoking crack and engaging in group sex, lots of lurid family drama, emails describing direct corruption and backed up by the CEO of the company they were using, the NYT wouldn’t have been banned.
Could you imagine the outrage if Trump Jr. had done that and Trump managed to get NYT banned? It would have been outright anarchy on the streets.
They’re basically telling the right that their only option is to step up their mob violence game.
Not so much telling them, rather backing them into that corner.
Yup, and they know it, which explains the attempts to transform the military into domestic enforcers.
Both sides want the other to crack, so they can claim moral legitimatecy to smash the other party with state violence. Only one side has a legitimate chance at it (the left), since the beuracracy will not move against the left (see 2020 summer of love vs Jan 6 response by joint chiefs of staff).
^^^^^
So, pretty much like things have been anyway in most of our major cities?
Greenwald’s detractors are simultaneously the most persistent, self-important, and stupid of the Twitter universe.
“Today the New York Supreme Court dismissed the “toddlers meme” lawsuit for “misappropriation” against our client Carpe Donktum”
https://twitter.com/RonColeman/status/1413556985144954891
True patriots, smashing the patriarchy…or something.
The pushback is gonna be bloody.
The mom is an asshole.
Chesschick is Q approved
Dinner!
I ordered some korean food delivered, because I wanted variety in flavor from what I had at home.
Salt?
I have plenty of salt, and contrary to popular slander, I do use it.
Spicy!
Two immersion circulators? Well la-tee-dah! (jelly)
Found ’em on clearance for $45 each. Figured I’d probably be happier running 2 $45 circulators until they crap out than 1 $90 circulator for twice as long.
I don’t recognize the brand – I assume they work well enough?
I cut a slot for the circulator in the lid of my bin (in the corner) – the lids are cheap enough, although I don’t use my bin for anything else.
Also, I mostly skip the FoodSaver and just use Glad freezer bags & the water displacement method. Works just fine for 90% of the things I cook.
Way cheaper.
They seem to work pretty well. A little bit underpowered, but they can get up to 195, so that’s all I can ask.
I think I prefer the ziploc water displacement method for same day cooking. I got the vacuum sealer yesterday ($28 Amazon brand), so I wanted to try it out. Here on out, I’ll save the vacuum bags for when we do Sam’s club meat buys.
The vacuum sealers are like razors and blades – the sealer itself is pretty inexpensive but the bags really add up.
I’d use the sealer every time if I weren’t so cheap 🙂
ESPN Anchor Fired After Being Caught On Mic Actually Talking About Sports
ESPN has been rattled by internal strife after anchor Sage Steele was caught last weekend on a hot mic talking openly about sports.
. . .
“I am so sorry for talking about sports,” said a glassy-eyed Ms. Steele. “We here at ESPN are committed to preaching the gospel of Disney, and occasionally explaining why sports are evil. Nothing we do should have any entertainment value whatsoever, and I deeply apologize for my behavior.”
That’s barely even satire unfortunately.
The Bee is spending a lot of time tottering on the line there.
$883 million for Richmond sewer repairs
I thought there was a public health crisis of racism there…?! Priorities, people.
Sewer spills are caused by racism.
Welp, it’s official… No spectators for the Olympics. Embarrassing, to say the least.
To go with the likely “no viewers”?
So Tokyo gets all the cost and none of the benefits. Hopefully this will convince other cities to not put out so much money to attract the Olympics. A man can dream, right?
Grifters gotta grift.
That will also apply in my house. I can remember when the Olympics were the proverbial “must-see” TV. Not any more.
You don’t care to watch stories about the travails of athletes occasionally broken up by a few minutes of sports?
Where’s my shocked face.
Looks like someone’s been reading Ozy’s book.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1413584826909839361
Tucker was talking about this last night. I was waiting for Ozy to get a name drop but it didn’t happen.
Off to the very belated birthday party of a 10-year-old (stepson’s daughter) and a 13-year-old girl (10-year-old’s half-sister.) A backyard (above-ground) pool party. Their birthdays were over the winter, but, you know, COVID…
I wouldn’t normally ask this, but please keep me in your thoughts and prayers. The greatest saving grace is that the hostess (the other grandma) makes her own wine and is very generous with it.
Seriously do. Those are the worst.
True story.
My three year old just ran up to me in the local toy store. “Papa, this capitalist institution is full of Insurrection Planning Tools!”
“Shhhh it will be alright”, I told they as I adjusted them’s masks and dialed the FBI, followed by my ace attorney, Michael Avennati (to start the class action lawsuit against Legos). “Fweedom!”, them cried after my calls were complete. Then everybody in the store clapped.
My three year old just ran up to me in the local toy store. “Papa, . . . .
I think them needs a trip to the re-education camps, too, after assuming they’s inseminating person’s gender like that.
LOLOLOL
*golf clap*
*looks around*
Has anybody found the secret extra link?
I thought everybody just ignored the links.
Yes, but they love alt text, so I wasn’t sure which impulse would win out.
Hate to break it to you,. but I’m not seeing any alt text.
Me neither.
To put in alt text, you don’t use the alt text box. Don’t ask me why it’s set up that way. Anyhoo, you use the Image Title Attribute.
I fixed it.
Gracias! I can see the alt text when I click the images, for some reason.
*shrug*
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/georgia-man-arrested-murder-charges-golf-pro-two-men-found-dead-golf-course/
Oh, they got someone in custody.
It could even be the guilty party.
Erasing history, one oppressor at a time
The statue of Robert E. Lee that sparked the deadly Unite the Right rally four years ago in Charlottesville, Va., will be removed Saturday, the city council announced Friday.
Along with it, another statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson that sits nearby will also be removed, though the stone bases of both statues will remain for now. Fencing around both monuments was set up Friday afternoon.
What will happen to the statues after they are removed, though, is still unknown.
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The debate over what to do with the Confederate statues in Charlottesville started in 2016 and led to neo-Nazis gathering in the city for what turned into a deadly rally. Protester Heather Heyer was killed and dozens of other people were injured.
Since then, the city announced its intent to remove the statues pending a lawsuit. In April, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled in favor of the city. Earlier this week, the city council allocated $1 million to remove, cover and store the Lee and Jackson statues as well as a statue depicting Sacagawea, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
Only neo-Nazis could object to the wholesale rewriting of history and primitive phobic totemism which imbues inanimate objects with the power to control men’s minds.
Future camps?
Nah. They just want to make sure the statutes don’t escape before their ritual public humiliation.
When its a BLM rally salted with violent antifa that leads to dozens injured and widespread looting and arson, its a “mostly peaceful” protest and antifa isn’t mentioned.
When its a conservative rally with a few neo-Nazis that leads to scuffles and a car accident, its a violent neo-Nazi rally.
TMITE.
TMITE?
The Media Is The Enemy
Removing public monuments is not “erasing history.” New Yorkers pulled down King George III’s statue. Plenty of Stalin statues came down several decades ago. Neither man has been erased from history. Sometimes, though, a statue is deliberately left up to recall a particular evil: for example, the “Russian Rapists” statue in Berlin that supposedly honors Soviet troops who took Berlin and all its women in 1945.
Yeah, yeah, they aren’t going after the Founders…oh wait
The Russian Rapist statue in Poland was taken down almost immediately. Its pretty graphic, though.
I will admit, I am quite fond of Destructive Creation’s work.
New Yorkers pulled down King George III’s statue. Plenty of Stalin statues came down several decades ago.
But neither of those men were “native sons” of the areas that brought down their statues. There’s a different animating force behind tearing down the statues of outsiders seen as oppressive and tearing down the statues that represent the history of your own people. If Virginians are ashamed of their own history or now view the statues as symbolic of a force that is currently or recently oppressing them (which raises its own questions), then it makes sense to remove these statues, but I don’t think this current spate of iconoclasm is representative of anything good.
Those statues were keeping minorities poor and oppressed, this is known.
That said, I don’t care much about public status. The public put them up, the public can take them down.
I do care about postmodern history and judging the past by the norms of the present.
The public put them up, the public can take them down.
If a government as the actual owner of the statute wants to take it down, fine. If the “public” in the form of a mob wants to take it down, not fine.
Of course, we are now looking at governments that have been captured, or cowed, by the mob.
Many of these statues were not erected by the government, but were given over to it by a charitable society in trust. It’s arguable whether anyone can be bound by a perpetual covenant, but I don’t agree the government should get to dissolve the bonds of such trust so lightly.
The intel community spying on a presidential campaign using fake evidence (incl forged documents) is a big deal to them
I’s the intel community’s job to make sure the President is on board with the big picture.
It’s necessary for “our democracy”.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=acb-js00c40
Classy ?
There were people smoking!
Classy
And how!
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-you-e5f
But as Wes Yang notes, Biden has also aided and abetted and justified this radicalism. He has instituted a huge program of overt government race and sex discrimination throughout every policy and area of government; he backs decimating due process for sexual accusations on campus; he favors abolishing religious freedom as a defense of anti-gay discrimination; he believes that gender identity should replace sex as a legal category, and gender identity should rest entirely on self-disclosure; he favors expediting and maximizing mass immigration, not stemming it. In Yang’s rather brutal assessment, for the hard left, “what they saw is that with Joe Biden, who’s this throwback figure, the activists could all rush to him and get most of what they wanted from him anyway.”
Poor Sully did you read Biden’s actual platform? Amazing how much of the anti-Trump sentiment is literally “TOP MEN save us!”
Joe’s not in charge, hes just the vessel to hold the office while the activists run the executive branch.
He’s kind of like old man Weyland in Prometheus. He thinks he’s going to be friends with the pilot guy but when they wake the pilot guy up he just peacefully protests old man Weyland to a swift death and then goes on his merry way with his own agenda.
“Thanks for waking me up and giving me the means to go about my business, old man, now fuck you, die.”
This
Note too that Sully explicitly attacks the elites. Hmm I thought the populist attacks on the elites were bad. Turns out the elites really are shit. Whoops.
“he backs decimating due process for sexual accusations on campus”
He was behind the VAWA.
Dammit Biden must be a good guy because Trump sucks!
Sully still slobbers over Obama. Do we have any evidence that Obama rejects the policies of his former veep?
Who are these Moderate Democrats who are supposed to save us? The Clintons, Kerry, Biden, Schumer and Pelosi sure aren’t.
He fell in love with Obama after being race-guilted into forgetting about Ron Paul. I wonder if his “selected writings 1989-2021” will include his multi-year obsession with Sarah Palin?
https://unherd.com/2021/07/the-wests-cultural-revolution-is-over/
The past 50 years or so have seen a cultural revolution in western society comparable in scope to the Reformation. Most of us have known only that period of transition, when morality and norms were up for debate, but perhaps it is now over. Perhaps we have returned to the sort of world we lived in when England last reached a final, in 1966 – a world of strictly enforced social mores.
Certainly doesn’t feel over.
Its not over. Cultural Revolutions like the one now being attempted in the US never end of their own accord – they are subject to the purity spiral.
Not to mention, this one shows no sign of ending yet. But when it does end, it will be when it is shut down extraneously.
A) it’s not just the US but much of the West
B) this one is immune to any kind of “have you no sense of decency?” moment, because it’s seemingly already had several of those and it’s just ploughed on through them like the boat at the end of Speed 2.
C) your fly is unzipped
Yes. There will be a reactionary movement. Of that I am certain.
I’ve been hearing about this reactionary right for years but yet to see them in action.
You think it’s going to show up in politics?
No, it will show up very late and involve a fair amount of blood and tears. I think after economic collapse is the most likely time.
There is clearly already a large and growing reactionary right in both the philosophical and political spheres, but it doesn’t (and may never) have dominance, so it has accomplished very little thus far. Although in the US it could be argued that the gains of the anti-abortion and pro-gun factions in the last decades have been the reactionary right in action, and it could be argued as well that Trump was a reaction against a whole bunch of things.
I think there are a lot on the “reactionary right” who have been happy to sit on the sidelines, live their lives, and bitch and moan about what they see slathered on the daily propaganda feeds. Unless the horrors you hear about are happening to you, why bother getting worked up?
CRT, DEI, Election fraud, cancel culture, and the pending economic crash are all tossing that on its head. The left is doing too much too fast, and the people who are only tangentially plugged into politics are starting to perk up.
I fucking hate politics, but I’ve become involved as of late.
Just hoping I can slow the roll.
The news from Afghanistan today spoke of local militias rising to combat the Taliban.
Not a word of private militias here to combat antifa et al, the Fauci gang lords and the criminals in the cities where murder is unincorporated, free lanced by anyone that can pull a trigger.
Just wait.
When the reins come off, it will be swift and probably merciless.
Once people don’t have much to lose, vigilantes will emerge and Antifa will start disappearing, permanently. There are a lot of guns in this country. If people actually feel inclined to use them, I expect it will be a snowball effect.
Yeah.
Someone (I don’t remember who) observed recently that the Left sees political violence as a dial – they can turn it up or down at will. But for most on the Right, it’s a switch. One setting is “live peacefully, settle differences amicably” and the other setting is “kill fucking everybody.”
And the Right – and us libertarians, who in such an event may well cast our lots with the Right – well, we’re the ones with all the guns.
Yes, and I don’t like the outlines of what is taking shape there either. So we aren’t just going to snap back to where we were at some previous ‘good’ point.
Oh, absolutely. I don’t see a liberty oriented way out of this.
It’s looking quite unpleasant.
Weimar America.
Germany in 1932 the alternative to Nazis were Communists. Oh and people like to forget that the Weimar constitution had been pretty uch shredded already with the Reichstag rendered useless and the Chancellor ruling by decree.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_M%C3%BCller_(politician)
This is how Democracy in Germany collapsed
After the onset of the Great Depression, the unemployment insurance required an injection of taxpayer money by the Reich, but the parties could not agree on how to raise the funds. Müller was willing to accept a compromise offer by Heinrich Brüning (Zentrum), but he was overruled by the SPD parliamentary group which refused to make any further concessions. On the suggestion of his advisors, Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg refused to provide Müller’s government with the emergency powers of Article 48, forcing Müller to resign on 27 March 1930.[3]
The U.S. does not have the same problems as Weimar Germany. For one thing, our democracy ended ages ago. FDR and the New Dealers were the last group of politicians to actually be ushered in through democracy, and of course they turned around and plugged that loophole as soon as they could. The entire edifice of the Cathedral existed pretty much as we know it today by the time FDR croaked. Victorious in the war, with a captive population, they have never faced any serious challenge since.
The only weakness in this system is the legislature’s apparent control of the government’s revenue, but while that appears superficially similar to the problems of the Reichstag, it is in actuality just a bit of theater that will be done away with as soon as it ceases to be useful.
Nope. One of the reasons we’re in rural Alaska. I’m hoping the country will last my lifetime. I’m afraid my grandchildren are going to live in hard times.
Fuck, what a mess we’re leaving the next couple of generations.
I have an article dropping in a few days that posits we’re gonna see a substantial and permanent shrinking of social circles as the last of our cultural institutional trust erodes away. When you don’t know if the stranger you’re interacting with is somebody who shares commonalities with you or is a shrieking leftist harpy, you tend to draw into yourself. That leads to tribalism. Fear of other is only going to increase from here.
I think you’re likely right. We’ve already shrunk our social circle considerably just by moving away from a major city to a small rural area. More folks will be doing this one way or another.
Looking forward to the article, Trashy.
Yep. Those who decided to make the political personal may live to regret it.
I would argue the opposite, but I’ll wait for the article. Sample of two (SP and me), but our social circle is larger than it’s ever been. It’s just the way that we meet strangers and make friends is different now. And, I think, better.
It’s just the way that we meet strangers and make friends is different now. And, I think, better.
Interesting point. Yeah, the conversation is gonna be much better than the article.
They’re sore winners, that’s for damn sure. One fucking spray-tanned dude from New York wins an office that was already mostly irrelevant, and they freak out like their hundred-plus years of carefully built cultural, intellectual, economic, and political dominance is about to end.
Perhaps they know how precarious their hold on power is, and react accordingly.
I am reminded also of Napoleon, emperor of France with all the regalia of the beheaded king, who nevertheless had to give the necessary platitudes to the virtues of the revolution. These new mores come with their own built-in hypocrisies, harkening back to a set of values which have largely been discarded but still carry some cachet. Tolerance/inclusivity, diversity/multiculturalism, equity/equality; no one believes these things, but all must talk of them and pretend to believe them, if only to keep the masses agreeable.
Hey looky here it’s a meme about OMWC: https://www.instagram.com/p/CRHCladjeV4
True, true.
You have no idea.
*jumps in fright*
Get out of my living room!
It’s like Candyman, but pervier
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/07/pa-man-seriously-hurt-will-be-charged-after-trying-to-launch-firework-from-his-groin-police.html
That sounds unwise.
Sometimes the crime is the punishment.
Joe spoke today about the need for more competition because the big guys were running the show. Obviously the answer is bigger government insuring competition is done right.
No mention of eliminating CAFE standards or seat belts or handouts to businesses like Tesla ad infinitum.
This time, asking the question about drugs in his ass is actually appropriate.
“BREAKING: Kash Patel confirms the Trump Admin was trying to deploy the National Guard for Jan 6 but were blocked”
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1413100548295962624
I don’t think there’s any doubt that the congressional leaders wanted a fiasco to hang Trump with.
If Jan 6 didn’t happen, they would have invented it anyway.
I wonder if DeSantis will be as brutal of a dictator as Trump was? He’ll probably put a fence around DC and install armed troops there to protect his dictatorship.
https://www.aier.org/article/what-will-americas-250th-birthday-look-like/
It will be a travesty if this nation falls into another civil war because its leaders again fail to distinguish truth from lies and count paternalistic unfreedom as a blessing, instead of the bane, of liberty.
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Today, America’s putative leaders cower behind sovereign immunity, razor wire, and nuclear weapons (really Joe?!) to protect themselves and the government, not the country or its people. They care nothing about liberty and want to preserve America only to the extent necessary to extract rents from it. That has to change, and soon, or July 2026 will be no time to celebrate much of anything.
Biden’s administration just canceled $55.6 million in student debt for people who went to 3 for-profit colleges
President Joe Biden’s Education Department on Friday made progress in its promise to reform the student-debt system by canceling student debt for three more groups of defrauded borrowers.
The Education Department announced on Friday that it had approved borrower defense claims from 1,800 borrowers who attended the for-profits Westwood College, Marinello Schools of Beauty, and the Court Reporting Institute, resulting in approximately $55.6 million in relief.
Hush, little baby, don’t say a word. Mama’s gonna buy you a mockingbird.
What difference is there between these scary “for-profit” colleges and the run-of-the-mill variety? How are the claims made here any different from the indoctrination given from K-16 about the importance of going to college and the benefits of having a degree?
They are upity and profane the holy house of academia with filthy lucre.
In terms of prestige and the huge donations they have from the wealthy, there is a huge difference.
In terms of education, I’d say that is some, many cases, it’s in your best interest to go to a community college.
For the really upper echelons of real degrees in real science, of course that’s where you go. For the dummies getting gender study degrees it’s a huge waste of money. But for those, it’s not their money anyway. It was all government money to start with. So basically what I think they are doing is stealing tax payer money to subsidize degrees for dummies to further indoctrinate them, and then stealing more money from tax payers so that they never have to pay any of it back.
Community colleges are “non-profit” and generally organized under some kind of state legislation with state oversight. The colleges at issue here were not state-chartered and were explicitly operating as private business entities for profit.
I think you’re right in the main but in these particular cases, it wasn’t really indoctrination. And perhaps that’s why they’re a target: whatever else they did, indoctrinating people wasn’t part of the picture.
Ah, I see. Yeah, I guess I should have read the story. Those schools I’d agree are not likely to be indoctrination centers. And probably why they were targeted.
As far as private schools go, especially the elite ones, they are spending crazy amounts of their huge budgets on indoctrination. It’s like they can’t invent totally useless make work woke positions fast enough.
“Beauty School Drop-out”
https://twitter.com/RiotGrlErin/status/1413564903194087427
Very impressive, but holy shit, go outside.
Not thicc or impressive. And I’m sort of a fan of the lily white skin on some women.
In Brazil in some of the more uppity places, having really light skin is considered a mark of beauty. I know women there who will intentionally not go outside in the sun because of that.
“holy shit, go outside” means it must have taken her along time to make all those.
I heard she’s a slave. Do those have a right to go outside? Only if she works in the fields, I think.
So, I got tab today, Pfizer. I had severe side effects. Still going on. As soon as I got home, I had this insane craving to drink mass quantities of beer and it’s still going on.
Anyway, I just wanted y’all to be able to sleep tonight because of that news.
I chose Pfizer because I figure they’ll make at least a trillion from this. And I hate losers who can’t make at least a trillion from genetically modified viruses intentionally set loose on the planet.
https://youtu.be/62ASvupr8Zg
“What if we covered the Sahara with solar panels”
I watch this and am astounded by how inefficient solar panels are space wise. Why not just put thorium reactors out there instead?
When you account for interconnection and transmission line losses, it looks even worse.
There would be a shortage of sand?
No, it would just settle atop the panels.
We have to put the solar panels on the blades of the wind turbines.
The blithe attitudes educated liberals show with regard to other people’s land and countries never ceases to amaze me.
Their assumption of stable raw material cost when there’s suddenly a demand for billions of panels made with expensive, often rare, materials and complex and specialized capital equipment is… economically questionable. So the 50 trillion or whatever is really going to be an order of magnitude too low.
The Sahara doesn’t belong to you, asswipe.
What if we covered you with several hundred kilos of cement?
Well, they own the Amazon, so why not the Sahara? I mean it’s not like they’re just going to take it like the Colonialists did. It’s our shared property and you need to stay off because we have to protect it from you, you of the unwashed masses.
Kelo. Tough shit, Abdul.
Banned from Zoom because I pointed out the nefariousness of the worthless Chinese government too often. I pointed out how often they enforced oppression on their poor, individual people. Hitlerite Zoom doesn’t like you doing that. If you only obey….
Suck a dick, Zoom!
Fuck you, Zoom.
Damn, not funny?