Omnipresent
At first I was going to do some links on “spin” – especially how some media sources are leaping to place Biden in front of the Cuba Freedom Parade, all while parroting the Cuban government’s position that this all the fault of the Yanqui embargo. A bit of encouraging effort was seen, and some did better.
But then I ran into TEH DUMB. Like this one. It hurts to read something that stupid as just a straight news piece. But even straight reporting just shifts TEH DUMB over to the fools spewing it. Like here. So I decided to go with “Our Stupid World” or such.
Oh wait, looks like I already used up my links… well, here is a music link.
Comments away!
whaddup doh
Sprechen Sie Englisch?
nyet
Thanks for the shoutout in “Things to Come.” Yes, absolutely I will.
Warum nicht?
Dah, I trust you switzy
The antithesis of your music selection.
(not Teddin’ ya here)
Kannitverstan?
“The lawsuit filed on the behalf of two girls, who were 5 and 6 years old at the time of the photos, alleges that they suffered humiliation and mental anguish from the separate episodes at the theme park in Orlando, news station WKMG reported.”
So would they know?
““He put his hand on her as if he was just doing it regularly, and as I was looking at the camera, he started to put the universal white supremacist hate sign on her shoulder,” her mother, Tiffiney Zinger, previously told USA Today.”
Oh, because their mother is an idiot.
““We never want our guests to experience what this family did,” a spokesman told USA Today. “This is not acceptable and we are sorry — and we are taking steps to make sure nothing like this happens again.
“We can’t discuss specifics about this incident, but we can confirm that the actor no longer works here.””
CWAA
They are going to settle this out of court, the family will make some money, and a lawyer will get a yacht upgrade.
So that gesture is no longer OK?
[golf clap]
“he started to put the universal white supremacist hate sign”
As a melanin-impaired person thats lived quite a few years, why haven’t I been told of this sign ?
You aren’t getting the newsletter?!
You need more 4-chan in your life.
Because it doesn’t exist
^This^
It doesnt exist any more than Qanon. Somewhere thousands of pimple faced 4 chan guys are snickering their asses off.
the universal white supremacist hate sign
Wait, the theme park has its own? What’s the Disney hate sign?
Oh, because their mother is an idiot.
Idiot or grifter. Also, in before “why not the both?” LOL
“universal white supremacist hate sign”
4Chan laughs.
I don’t know if it was a 4chan thing or not, but the pearl-clutching NPC reaction when “it’s okay to be white” and “Islam is right about women” were posted around a campus (IIRC) was hilarious. So many confused proggies.
Signs with those phrases were posted.
“Posted” works whether it’s signs, stickers, spraypaint, etc.
I suppose. *kicks pebble*
I did not think that it would have the legs it does.
Disney hate sign?
Mouse ears, its what they wear at Mouswitz.
The train rides are to die for.
“the universal white supremacist hate sign on her shoulder”
What the fuck are they talking about? It never was and isn’t. This bullshit was fabricated out of thin air and has no basis in reality whatsoever.
Huh, timer just went off, time for the pizza to come out of the oven.
Go back and look at all the photographs from Nazi Germany. It was everywhere.
You skipped over a very important part of the article (for people who don’t read the links – not that that applies to anyone here):
The biggest asshole in this whole line-up of assholes is whatever school employee did this. That’s who they should be suing, if anyone.
Why did the kid bring the screenshot to school?
MOM.
Good catch, Gadfly. Absolutely correct.
But yeah, in a just world that employee would be sued by both the parent and Universal, and have to defend him/herself with their own resources.
What amazes me most is the NY Post gets their college-aged stringers to report this crap on the front page as straight “news” as Swissy mentioned while their opinion writers know goddamn well it’s complete horseshit.
Thought you might have gone this way musically.
I would have guessed this.
I may be in jeopardy of overusing this song…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx-nBxg7L_Y
Not this song?
No,
This one
When I was a senior in high school, a nearby amusement park hosted an all-night event for the graduating classes in the region. Rides, bands, lots of youngsters unable to handle their smuggled-in alcohol, etc. I saw the Greg Kihn Band play this song in an amphitheater to maybe 11 people, at least 3 of whom were passed out drunk. I walked across the amusement park and there was a cover band playing the same song to a huge crowd.
A reply to Ted S. Threading seems weird.
Grad Night at Disney World?
My year had NKOTB, Taylor Dane, and Paula Abdul. Some rides are better for drunken 16 year olds than others.
Nah. I grew up in a backwater, so ours was at a passable park in upstate NY.
Today in the amphitheater
PUPPET SHOW!!
spinal tap
My first thought, too.
The lawsuit filed on the behalf of two girls, who were 5 and 6 years old at the time of the photos, alleges that they suffered humiliation and mental anguish
Yes, yes, of course they did.
Well, they wouldn’t have if their mother hadn’t publicized the hell out of a non-incident. But you can’t get around that, can you?
So that gesture is no longer OK?
It still means “third down” though, right?
Right?
You are correct, sir. Perhaps the Washington Football Team, being at the forefront of NFL wokeness, will lead the drive to change this.
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/referee-matt-loeffler-indicating-a-third-down-during-a-regular-season-picture-id1026020532?s=594×594
You are on fire this afternoon, gramps.
Thanks, sonny. Now get off my lawn!
Say, aren’t they supposed to have a new name by now?
I will buy season tickets if they bring back Redskins with a logo of a potato.
I heard they had decided to just keep it as “Football Team”?
Hard to ever be controversial with that, but I’m sure someone will find a way to call it racist.
In the NBA, it totes is for White Power!!!!
Isn’t that the guy whose very surname appropriates South Asian culture? I hear he is out of favor these days.
What are the chances the Cuban commies fall?
100%
They have lasted longer than I thought they would, but commie regimes always collapse. How they have found that much other people’s money is a mystery to me.
Sugar, cigars, Canadian and European tourism…
But you can be damn sure that if it does collapse on their watch that the Harris(Biden) administration will try to take credit for it.
That was a quick turnabout. Didnt Obumbles try to prop them up?
At least with China you know they’re getting their money from us.
Well, they wouldn’t have if their mother hadn’t publicized the hell out of a non-incident. But you can’t get around that, can you?
Who doesn’t feel a little humiliation and mental anguish when they see their mother throwing a tantrum worthy of a three year old?
“David Bowie’s longtime NYC apartment boasting four bedrooms, a library and three terraces in a converted chocolate factory sells for $16.8 million”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9780833/David-Bowies-downtown-Manhattan-apartment-sells-16-8-million-27-days-market.html
Was he still using it?
Lou Reed was house sitting for him.
Well played.
The suit said the child later brought a printed screenshot from a video of the encounter to school for a project — but she was humiliated when she was told that she could not show it in class because of the hand gesture in the image.
Something something only dogs can hear it.
But remember we live in a racist, white supremacist country. Whiteness is so supreme that white people have to use cleverly concealed gestures and phrases to hide their racism.
“Biden administration has ‘run out of ideas’ in their vaccination drive and is considering a plan to ‘manage’ the US with just 68% of Americans with shots and smaller outbreaks across the country”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9780781/Biden-administration-run-ideas-people-vaccinated.html
Isn’t heard immunity around 70%?
Depends on who is listening.
Twat? I kunt hear you, I got an ear infucktion!
Your claim is going to fall on deaf ears around here, bub.
That’s what I herd.
Do they even know? I thought heard immunity varies (wildly) based on the properties of the disease in question. But the idea that 68% vaccinated is the total number of people protected from the disease ignores all the people with naturally aquired immunity (which could be anywhere from 10 to 40% of the population).
Right you would add those two together. A simplified way of calculating herd immunity is to take the reciprocal of the number of people each infected person infects, then subtract it from one. So if R=5, 1 – 1/5 is 80%.
They don’t know. The educated guess is somewhere around 70%. We have even less idea what percentage of the population acquired immunity. No doubt some people with acquired immunity have also been vaccinated. The President’s fretting is silly. I blame Fauci.
‘ear now, don’t listen to these clowns.
[narrows eustachian tube]
Y’all keep discussing this as if it is a real thing. It has all been theater. This cootie bug has been no worse than the flu that comes around every year since forever. Wholesale house arrest and the smashing of the economy was pointless. Mask BS was pointless. But hey, we are closer to full blown communism than ever before.
You’re not going to go too far in a career in government with that kind of attitude, Young Man
Oh no, Suthen. It wasn’t pointless. Your last sentence was exactly the point of the first two sentences.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/10/dont-just-accept-authoritarianism-demand/
I have learned some hard truths about my country these past 15 months. I used to imagine that we would reflexively favour liberty. Sure, we would be open to persuasion, ready to accept proportionate restrictions if they were justified by the evidence. But our default assumption would be that, as freeborn Brits, we should be able to go where we pleased without needing to explain ourselves to anyone.
What evidence was there that Brits “reflexively favour liberty”?
Also what him so certain that changes to British society (“persuasion”, “proportionate restrictions”) would not cause Brits to stop “reflexively favour[ing] liberty”?
“freeborn Brits”.
An oxymoron for our times.
Unfortunately. It is sad to see the nation that birthed the concept of liberalism fall the way it has.
Someone was just unfrozen from the 19th century?
Yes. Vodka out of the nose is painful.
“You were born free, you got fucked out of half of it and you wave a flag celebrating it.”
-Doug Stanhope, comedian
The money shot of that essay, as far as I’m concerned.
Isn’t heard immunity around 70%?
I don’t know. I stopped listening to them.
“Texas Democrats fled their state on private jets Monday in order to prevent a series of new, restrictive voting laws from making their way through the state legislature.
‘Today, Texas House Democrats stand united in our decision to break quorum and refuse to let the Republican-led legislature force through dangerous legislation that would trample on Texans’ freedom to vote,’ the Texas state house Democratic caucus said in a statement.
At least 58 Democratic lawmakers left Austin to fly to Washington D.C. on two private jets chartered for the occasion and will use the time in the nation’s Capitol to rally support for federal voting legislation.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9781313/Texas-Democrats-flee-STATE-prevent-Republicans-passing-voting-bills.html
That doesn’t seem like a good system.
The quorum requirement is OK. You have to have one, and I think 2/3s is a good quorum for a legislature.
The problem is they don’t have a good way to get legislators to show up and do their jobs. I think a system where any legislator who doesn’t show up is deemed to have resigned would solve the problem nicely.
“on private jets”
PEOPLE OF THE PEOPLE.
You can’t fuck children on commercial.
Well, that escalated quickly.
It’s a step up from limousine liberal.
“Private Jet Progressive”
To be honest I recall the repubs doing it once or twice in the past few years too – maybe in Oregon or somewhere else…..not a brand new tactic and pot calling the kettle black.
Better to have a state legislature filibuster option – but up to the states.
Let me see if I can do this like a local:
OFFS!
I went to the grocery store a little while ago. I saw more masks (still only a few) than I have in a while.
i blame tourism.
Maybe the rising prices for food is leading to more armed robberies?
Those people weren’t masked for the Rona, they were masked for traditional stickups.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9781535/Demi-Rose-leaves-little-imagination-racy-sheer-thong-bodysuit.html
Nope. Nice trainers.
Trainers? I’m oldish. Help me understand.
Also, when you say nope, what does that mean? She is not thicc? If not, then what?
/confused and married to a former thicc
I’m just checking the Daily mail reporting to see if they describe her as thicc. So far the answer has always been nope.
At least the nypost article had something useful in the sidebar:
The best Lululemon sports bras, according to fitness experts
Of course #2 is for me, despite being what I consider petite. I do like her potential for “bingo wings”.
Verily, there is an ass for every seat.
#3 appears to be for members of the Itty Bitty Titty Committee.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Sflecce/status/1414307462639935500
Intario’s Education Minister posted this. Why would the WEF be praising him for woke math and the longest school closures in North Anerica?
If there is anyone worth listening to on economic literacy and real life math it is definitely the WEF.
“Gay men will be crushed to death by pushing a WALL onto them as part of nationwide return to Sharia law in Afghanistan under the Taliban, one of the Islamist group’s judges reveals”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9780437/Taliban-judge-says-gays-killed-toppling-wall-group-takes-Afghanistan.html
As horribly awful that is, it still shouldn’t be America’s problem.
We were there for nearly an entire generation.
I hate to say it, but I think Afghanistan is what it is because a lot of Afghanis want it that way.
^This.
Yep.
Far worse than anything Viktor Orban stands accused of doing.
Yep. Let ’em stew in their own Bronze Age juice. Not our pig, not our farm.
Good article. The only one I lost in boating accident is the Model 60.
That didn’t take long.
Obviously the wall builders union is giving kickbacks to that judge.
Judge’s BiL – he can’t even build a wall that stands so they ginned up a government contract for him.
Third world shitholes gonna shithole.
Some whinger on my social media was saying last month that other countries’ treatment of gays was why we needed Gay Pride Month here. I neglected to ask him how floats with drag queens helped gays in Belarus, Iran, the ‘Stans, etc.
Fortunately the reign of terror will be short lived, as Afghanistan only has two or three walls left standing.
And those walls are pretty shaky because of all the glory holes that have been drilled into them.
Toppling a wall onto someone seems to be a very inefficient means of execution. I know that shouldn’t be my primary take-away from this article, but Afghanistan is known to be primitive/savage so the harsh penalties don’t surprise me, but the means of enacting those penalties do.
The process is always the punishment. Crushing was used as a method of execution in England until 1742, and once in Massachusetts Colony in 1692.
Sufficiently gruesome
True, but even crushing is more efficient than toppling a wall onto someone. This punishment implies they have to find a wall no one is using, or build a wall specifically to be toppled onto someone. Even setting aside all regards to the condemned, I’d think the wall method would be incredibly inconvenient to the executioner.
Can I pick my own wall?
Nice one! But, something seems to be wrong with the sound…
Insult to injury?
https://youtu.be/2QYTxozuVaY
Well, the sacred texts say a wall, so a wall it is. The pomp surrounding the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch was inefficient too. Although “wall” may have gone through the same translation difficulties as the whole 72 virgins/figs thing.
Perhaps Afghan gay guys are stereotypically high earners like in the Western world and can provide their own walls.
To them the inefficiency is a feature not a bug.
It rings of something taken out of scripture or something.
Maybe they’re Roger Waters fans.
To be fair Roger Waters hates the Jews, too.
Not sure if Tundra or any of the other Minnesoda Glibs commented on this story yet, but man is it a heaping pile of hypocrisy!
You really need a scorecard to keep track of all the craziness, but let me try to sum up.
Minnesoda has a local activist/politician who is crazier/more corrupt than Omar (IMHO). John Thompson got in a little bit of trouble before the last election for bringing a mob out to the suburban home of the Mpls Police Union head and threatening to burn the neighborhood down. This intemperance did not cause him to lose the legislative race he was in (the DFL didn’t ask him to drop from the ticket).
As a legislator his signature policies have been police reform. Big BLM guy. Demanding new laws to force cops to release more body cam footage in a faster manner. Called King Walz a sissy for not backing his reforms.
At 1 am this July 4th, Thompson was pulled over because his car didn’t have a front license plate. During the stop they discovered that he had a Wisconsin drivers license and that his Minnesoda driving privileges had been revoked because he didn’t pay child support. The next day Thompson gets on social media claiming he was racially profiled and was ticketed for driving while black. St. Paul cops didn’t like that and publicly called on Thompson to allow them to release the bodycam footage of the stop. Thompson refused.
Also turns out that Thompson filed to run for office using only a PO box. He also checked a box saying his address should be private because of stalkers. He renewed his Wisconsin driver’s license in 2020. So who the hell knows where he is living?
Really watch the video in the linked article. It covers it all in a bit more depth, but it is insane just how many ways Thompson has stepped on his dick in this latest maneuver.
A few Minnesoda pols have tsk-tsk’ed him for these shenanigans, but no one has lost their mind and suggested that the legislature needs to investigate any further.
“St. Paul cops didn’t like that and publicly called on Thompson to allow them to release the bodycam footage of the stop. Thompson refused.”
Do they need his permission?
Yes. In Minnesoda, you can block the public release of bodycam footage of you being arrested if you want (with some exceptions).
Which is actually not a bad thing. Consider, for example, how the police and media use booking photos as a form of public humiliation.
Since politicians are not people, those kind of rules should not apply to them.
^This guy gets it^
Guy sounds like a peach. I smell re-election!
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-they-groomed-us-for-the-lockdown-state/
The third enabler of lockdown culture has been the coming of health and safety to institutions, workplaces, businesses and society. This has coincided with the rise of human resources departments and corporatist ideology in large organisations. Some call this ‘safetyism’. That fear of a virus has become the default position of a sizeable majority of the population is a testament to the success of the push, from the 1960s on. We have been thoroughly prepped for the current fear-athon by decades of this rubbish.
Interesting post…
Risk aversion definitely drives a large portion of what we’re experiencing. People want guarantees and they think others can give them.
Fear is the mind killer.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1414667200007327748
Social credit scores here we come…
Bring back the YellowJackets.
Relevant
RE: the EU’s tax levy and the proposed global minimum tax, FTA:
I wonder what the game-plan is here. The global minimum tax will require 2/3 of the US Senate to pass, plus the consent of all EU states (including tax havens), so how are they planning on bringing everyone on board? Either they are proceeding blithely with unearned confidence, or the planned horse trading/corruption/threats is going to be epic.
I want to know where the articles of impeachment are for Biden pulling this shit.
Reconciliation. No need for the treaty to get approved (if this ever even turns into a treaty), when 50 + 1 of the Senate can pass it under reconciliation.
That would be a real Constitutional crisis. Reconciliation, which is only (supposedly) used for budget items, is to get around the filibuster, which is not a constitutionally enshrined procedure. But the Constitution explicitly requires all treaties be affirmed by 2/3rds of the Senate. I know that the Paris Climate Accords haven’t been treated this way, but the reason for that is that it is both subsidiary to a treaty that has been ratified by the Senate and is argued that it does nothing new and so is not really a modification of said treaty (and this is strictly true, as the Paris Accords strictly do nothing). Now of course the Senate could use reconciliation to comply with the treaty without actually enacting the treaty, but doing so would mean that it could be flaunted just as easily (although, I think treaties can be flaunted just as easily anyway, so it’s not like this creates a practical distinction). Of course, for all practical purposes this discussion is moot on the US side, as the proposed international minimum corporate tax rate is 15% while the US already has a corporate tax rate of 21% (which the Ds already want to raise).
I swear this story is not a stealth Babylon Bee story. It is real and it is beyond parody. But you should read it because $900K of your tax money went to this restaurant before they closed because of progressive infighting.
The laid off staff seem just as cluelessly progressive as Singleton.
“It’s kind of like a prairie fire. When a farmer wants to regenerate the soil, you burn everything down … then you can plant seeds and the seeds will flourish because the soil is so fertile,”
Who is this Tracy, so wise in the ways of agriculture? And why give up the idyllic life of a farmer for the drudgery of running a hipster restaurant?
To be fair, her workers are just as wise in the ways of global ecology.
The Prairie Fire bit is just setting up the story for the insurance fraud when she burns down the restaurant.
Sigh. Slash and burn agriculture is probably one of the most inefficient methods. Crop rotation, fertilization, and planning are simple and have been around a long time.
And I think the same method would work well for actually achieving many of the ostensible goals of these people. Well, not the grifting part.
When a farmer wants to regenerate the soil, you burn everything down
I grew up in farm country, and I don’t recall a single farmer burning his fields.
The author probably read an article on slash and burn agriculture back in the day and only half remembers it, but thinks they know how all farmers operate.
*author of the statement. I’ve lost track of who said it.
It depends on the crop. They will burn around here now and then depending on what they grew that year.
They do that here sometimes.
Same here. The practise is common enough that permanent signs exist along Highway 16 (The Yellowhead) west of Edmonton all the way to at least Edson (several hours of driving) warning of periods of low visibility due to stubble burning.
They do that every year here. Especially the hay fields because well, you get better hay. Also ditch burning is a yearly thing but that is to clear the ditches.
“The event required closing a portion of the street at the restaurant, but Birchwood didn’t reach out to the city until the week of the event — too late for a permit to do so. Instead, the restaurant planned to use parked cars to block off the event in the street.”
WTF?
“”I make this decision with as much love and compassion as I have, from having been where all of you are before embarking on my own anti-racism path; please show up tomorrow, do whatever is required of you to be done to get the food and beverages set up … and then punch out at 2 p.m. and go home for the day,” she wrote.”
“In social media posts, Singleton announced that most staff “walked out because they felt unsafe to be at our Juneteenth celebration,” and that after the party unfolded without issue, she returned to the cafe the following morning with a sense that “so much negative and dark energy is no longer here” because “the white supremacists have left the building.””
She sounds completely insane. I wonder how she ever managed to run a restaurant.
The staff doesn’t sound much better….
Emphasis added.
Have you ever worked in a restaurant? Pratchett’s description of opera applies all too well.
Yes.
“Jametta Raspberry, founder of House of Gristle, a catering business that shares space with Birchwood, said it was unfortunate the staff controversy boiled out of the cafe’s Juneteenth celebration, which had ultimately been a beautiful gathering with music, poetry and a food justice panel. It was a disservice to the community to have an ugly social media fight overshadow what could be a successful annual block party, she said.”
A food justice panel?
I missed that. House of Gristle??? What is the target demographic for overpriced cartilage?
You don’t fuck around with Jametta!
That’s why claiming you’re not racist is counterproductive.
The appropriate response is to get in their face and insult them, not beg forgiveness or approval.
I am going to start asking if I am racist like Ibrahim Kendi, or like Hilary Clinton?
You call it a beautiful gathering, I call it a bunch of screeching Harpies finding a place to roost…
Singleton said Friday night that she has been meeting with labor organizers in hopes of holding a restorative justice circle with her former staff.
I hope it’s not a finger and thumb circle because… you know.
More like a circle jerk.
I’d agree we need a cleansing fire.
Somehow, this seemed appropriate here.
Funny you should mention – ‘Prairie Fire’ is also an old US military brevity code meaning (IIRC) ‘I am in imminent danger of being overrun.’
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w6GdgcPZo18
Obligatory.
I was thinking more this.
Normally, I’d say, lunatics want to waste their money, that’s none of my business. But, then there’s this
Birchwood, which received about $900,000 through the paycheck protection program, has eight staff left. There’s no definite reopening date.
“The owner could not be be immediately reached at her shore-side cabin in the Caribbean.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1414626525576499200
In case it’s not obvious, they’re trying to rope you into a global dictatorship characterized by an endless cycle of human rights restrictions from which you can be released only by waiting for and accepting their latest vaccine, thus ratifying the restrictions. Don’t be fooled.
This. And they are winning…
Quebec: vaccination is a passport to freedom.
Bob: Freedom is a Passport away from Mandatory Vaccinations
I thought for a split second about bragging about my second passport. But then I recalled this:
Yeah, it really does come down to might makes right in terms of human social behavior. The collective will ultimately win, this is why anarchy never catches on. This republic has been an experiment to see if we had evolved past that; we haven’t.
https://mobile.twitter.com/aginnt/status/1414639949198991365
Over a hundred positive cases and a massive clampdown in civil liberties. Is this the rational social change of modern society?
If The Man decides that antifa has outlived its usefulness and starts locking them up, will there be enough of them to create their own prison gangs? Or will they have to join the Aryan Nation for protection?
Would the Aryan Nation take them?
Prison Bitches United? Shuttlecock as the logo?
I’ll just say I’m sure they’ll find their place in the prison ecosystem.
Most of them have been there already, so yeah, they will fit right in.
Being passed around for smokes?
That would make a pretty good sitcom.
Hogan’s Zeros?
I spent some time in proximity of those guys as a yute. Antifa should be encouraged to try and join. I just want video of the initial encounter.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TIME/status/1414230497396469760
“The troubled history of air-conditioning suggests not that we chuck it entirely but that we focus on public cooling, on public comfort, rather than individual cooling, on individual comfort,” writes
@ericdeanwilson
But what about social distancing?
Yes. And also it’s not good that I individually sustain myself. We need public sustenance of leon’s lifestyle.
You may feel free to focus on whatever your soft little brain requires. I will continue to set my thermostat to 69.
Are you some sort of talking polar bear?
Yeah, that’s a little chilly even for me, and I hate the heat.
He likes hard nipples.
Yes.
Yes.
Euphemism?
Yes, yes, and yes.
^^^woman
Good grief what a steaming pile of shit that account is.
Has he (yes, I’ll assume his gender) demanded that Time stop airconditioning its offices? Has he turned off the airco in his apartment?
OFFS
How does one even achieve “public cooling, public comfort”? Is the point that only public spaces should be climate controlled, or that people should be herded into public housing? Either way, I’m opting out.
Don’t waste your time on gibberish.
Good point.
I was hungry, so I fixed myself a roast beast sammich. now I’m falling asleep.
Did you at least wrap the sammich up and put it in the fridge?
The thing I don’t get about the Tucker/NSA spy thing is why did someone think that leaking that Tucker was trying to get an interview with Putin is worth breaking the law/risking their job, etc.. Was there something more it it that I’m missing, what’s so shocking about a journalist (even a performative one like Carlson) trying to get an interview with a world leader, that happens all the time no?
Arrogance
They believe they’re above the law, and they may be right.
Mussolini thought he was above the law also.
No, he was within it. Nothing was outside it, or even against it.
Okay but why leak this, it’s such an absolute nothing, regardless whether they thought that they were risking anything or not. What’s damning about “Tucker Carlson tried to get an interview with Putin”, how does that damage Carlson in any way?
Maybe its not so much what they leaked about Carlson, as it is reminding everyone that they can, and will, monitor your email and leak it whenever they damn well please.
That makes as much sense as anything I guess. I’d think they would want to wait until they caught someone doing something at least a little nefarious and use that as both a warning to others and a ‘gotcha’ to an enemy.
They certainly have tried to twist it into “well he was talking to Putin, he deserved it”.
For people capable of critical thought it means nothing. For people still full on with the “Trump (and anyone I disagree with) is a Russian puppet” shtick, its further proof that Fox is an arm of the Russian misinformation campaign.
Also, with confirmation that Tucker was being spied on, they needed something to justify it and that was all they had. Let the normal crowd sell the snake oil, they just needed to supply it.
We really don’t know what they tried to leak though, do we? We know what Carlson, Axios and their sources have told us. It could well be that they’d tried to get friendly reporters to publish stories that, while not illegal or a matter of public record, could be discrediting or embarrassing. The story could well have broken before the smear stories broke. The story now would be overshadowed by the government leak angle.
If you’re truly committed to the woke ideology, the only way you stack up chips is attacking the enemy, by any means necessary.
The intelligence agencies are not sending us their best?
Nobody was risking their jobs. Spying on US citizens by the intelligence community is routine. The IC is above the law. They do what they please.
Well..there was that one time…
Reality Winner was just recently let out of prison.
I’m convinced she was honey-potted. Nice inept chick to serve as a warning to others.
Because RUSSIA!
*wipes foam from mouth*
They were just spying on him in general hoping to scoop some damaging political information.
Was he being spied on or did he just get unmasked and leaked based upon their spying on the Russians?
That’s essentially their excuse. They needed to monitor the Russians. It might just so happen that they got some damaging info on a political enemy that they could then leak, but that’s only an ‘’accident”.
Of course. Spying on the Russians by definition includes anyone they were communicating with.
Just that. My sense is they probably did start spying for legitimate reasons. But, someone with an ax to grind figured they could smear him.
I guess its a pedantic point, but I think saying “they were spying on me” implies you were the intended target of the spying, If I happen to call my drug dealer buddy who the narcs are spying on and they record our conversation that doesn’t mean they were spying on me (by my understanding of the terms.)
The “rule” is, they are not supposed to “unmask” the “American citizen” caught up” in all the the spying the fuck knuckles are doing. As Edward Snowden pointed out the fuck knuckles do it all the time and hence why he now lives in Russia.
I get that, and I’m not arguing that it’s all hunky dory just that that doesn’t change the definition of “spying on me” Maybe we need a new term for when someone else is being spied on and you happen to get in the middle of it. “Tuckered” maybe?
Imma say. They were spying. The guy whose words were intercepted by the spies was spied upon. Perfectly sensible.
But that is the thing, it went from spying on the filthy fucking Russians to spying on Tucker. It is but an excuse and a weak way to claim he “wasn’t the target” but then they go ahead and collect his emails even though there is nothing in them that pertains to whatever they are supposed to be doing legally. Fuck them. They spy on all of us and is now why I shave my taint using my webcam. H/T Jesse
Is there any evidence they “collected” his emails, I can’t even find any leaked emails, best I get its that someone knew the content of some of his emails with the commies (regarding getting an interview with Putin), which would be perfectly aligned with them spying on commies and ‘Tuckering’ Tucker. Which is bad enough I’m not defending that, it just doesn’t rise to “spying on Carlson” at this point.
The only evidence I know of is Tuckers claim that his informant read his emails back to him so to me that is they had them and did not delete them. I am with blackjack. They have his emails. He was spied on. You can use whatever semantics you want but ya. Spying occurred and he was one of those spied on.
What I read was Tucker claimed he was told the content of his emails, granted it’s a small nit to pick, but I can’t find him saying they read him his emails, that’s what a lot of people are implying but what he said could just as well apply to someone calling him and saying “hey I heard you were talking to the commies” no need for having his emails at all.
This is true. We have third to fourth-hand information. Details are supposedly that specific information that he only sent to one person were read back verbatim by someone who should not have that information.
I guess that is where it lies.
Y’all are talking about this as if we don’t all know damned well the NSA is spying on all of us without impunity. Of course they are spying on their political enemies. They are a bunch of banana republic monkey and this is probably the least of their sins.
So, if i have a listening device and I point it at your next door nieghbor’s house, then i hear you say something incriminating and report you, you weren’t spied upon. I generally like a lot of your input, but this is horse shit. Intercepting info that somebody sends, however they send it, privately and then using it in ways that harm them is fucking spying. S.P.Y.I.N.G. There ain’t no half measure to it. He got spied upon.
So, if i have a listening device and I point it at your next door nieghbor’s house, then i hear you say something incriminating and report you, you weren’t spied upon.
Exactly, it is as I said a small nit to pick, and apparently a distinction that only I grok, while you may say in that case that I was spied upon in that instant, the idea that I was ‘being spied on’ as an ongoing endeavor, which claiming that “they” were “spying” on me means, is silly. I’m about to take my trash to the curb, one of my neighbors might look out this window and see me, he may even say to his wife, “That asshole from across the street just took out his trash.” could I claim that my neighbor was spying on me?
Better example, suppose you are spying on your neighbor Bob, He’s a Beach Boys fan or something and you figure you should keep your eye on him, you set up some cameras and microphones and you start monitoring his comings and goings. Then one day while watching Bob you see the other next door neighbor Fred chase down his wife on the sidewalk and brutally murder her. When you report this to the police would you say “I was spying on Fred when I saw him brain Hortense with a garden gnome”? or you would say “I was spying on Bob when I happened to see Fred murder his wife by pummeling her with a garden gnome, one of the larger ones, with the droopy hat, that sometimes is leading a donkey, not the pointy red hatted one like in the travel commercials.”
It shouldn’t need mentioning, the difference between being seen doing mundane things in public and conducting information in ways you expect to be private.
Well…I would say it is inline with the recent comments that “Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages.”
Show that they can and will read your emails/texts at will, nothing happens when it comes to light, new policies put in place because the push back was next to nothing about it.
I’ll also note that often a conspiracy that was caught half through, looks very dumb. It only looks smart if they cover their tracks. It could be that they really didn’t expect someone to snitch on them.
In support of my theory that this was about sending a message, not targeting Carlson, I note that the NSA leaked his emails after he said they were monitoring them and would leak them. If they cared about somebody snitching on them, all they had to do was . . . nothing. That would discredit Carlson, but instead they validated his story. Why would they do that, unless the point all along was to let everybody know they were being watched, and their email traffic could be made public at any time?
I see
Tim Pool’s take on it was that if Carlson didn’t find out about it and get ahead of the story then the narrative would have been that Tucker was talking to the evil Russians and all that entails and the fact that he was merely trying to get an interview would have been omitted or downplayed. Likely Tucker would have been on his back foot throughout in that scenario trying to defend himself as just trying to get an interview. Since he got ahead of it from the leaked intel the story is more or less about NSA spying.
Correct.
They were spying on him and potentially prepping a coordinated Media smear campaign. I suspect the Deep State/Media Complex does not like the fact that (a) he’s among the most popular shows on TV, and (b) makes a point of crushing Fauci, Dems, and the entire vaccine mandate.
Fortunately, he got wind of it and was able to get out in front of it, likely disrupting the timing and ability of the Dems/Media to set the whole smear up. So they leaked it anyway with the “talking with Putin” as the excuse.
All they need is a fig leaf for their drones. Look at the justification for Hillary’s multiple email felonies. “No reasonable prosecutor…” and then a cacaphony of Media support blaring that and smearing anyone who dared to stand up to it. And she still almost became POTUS while openly selling US foreign policy through the Clinton Foundation. The American public (broadly) deserves everything it gets, if we’re being honest.
So I didn’t realize till today that there was a difference between the Capitol police and the DC city police department.
So I see now why Congress is trying to turn them into a mini FBI/NSA
Especially when Congress is arming them with technology such as Gorgon Stare and Persistent Surveillance Systems Ground – Medium (PSSG-M) units.
OMG, yes. You used to could get arrested every day of the week, and twice on Sunday, in the District without being arrested twice by any single LE organization. Metropolitan Police Department (DC city police), National Capitol Police (US Capitol and related office buildings), Smithsonian Police (obv), US Park Police (federal monuments such as Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and the National Mall), Metro Transit Police (DC area subway, Justice Thomas is a big fan), and the various federal agencies each used to have their own police forces though some of those may have been consolidate into DHS. There was a state dept diplomatic security service to protect diplomats from other countries, aka embassy row police.
So which government organization is not spying on us?
I feel pretty safe from the Department of Weights and Measures, but maybe I’m just being naive.
I hope your kitchen scale has been recently calibrated.
I calibrated her yesterday.
*snickers*
Lockdowns today, lockdowns tomorrow, lockdowns forever.
Dozens of towns in Spain’s Valencia to reimpose curfews to curb COVID-19
OFFS.
Yeah, they’re “creating an atmosphere” of something, all right.
Notice what Texas Democrats are NOT wearing on their faces why they flee by privates jets to DC.
I’m telling you. No one has worn masks in Texas all year. Not even Democrats. Even our Democrats are more right wing than unusual.
In the more blue areas of Texas masks are still a common sight. It was only recently in my area (DFW) that stores stopped requiring them, and I still see some people with them on. There were even some people wearing masks at the Rangers game I went to last month. Granted, the mask wearers are in the minority now, but I feel that red Texas has been calling BS on masks far longer than blue Texas.
I don’t know. I just read an article about that and the photo looked like the teacher’s union are fleeing TX. I’m having a hard time believing anyone on that plane is more right wing than even Marx or Lenin.
Karens and cucks confirmed.
Yes, the demographics there is exactly what I expected.
Down with universal suffrage. We really need to reverse that.
So no masks and unnecessary travel flying in private jets. They’re killing grandma and mother nature.
I have tickets to tomorrow’s MLB allstar game. The catch is that the tickets must be on a smart phone (no, MLB, I don’t want your stupid app). That seems prejudicial, since it is well known that minorities can’t even figure out how to acquire an ID, and rural people can’t figure out how to make photocopies. After all, the game was moved from Atlanta to Denver because of Georgia’s new racist/Jim Crow voting law.
“The catch is that the tickets must be on a smart phone”
I hate those things.
Do you need a guinea-pig passport, too? I just assume all sporting events are requiring it now.
sporting events
I remember when I gave a shit about those. Seems like just yesterday.
I tuned back into MLB this year but it didn’t take long for something to come along and stick in my craw enough for me to completely tune out again.
“universal white supremacist hate sign”
Still failing to understand and/or refusing to acknowledge that this was a troll prank set up by 4Chan.
Everything the left says is some kind of fabrication or deception to the point of absurdity. Why anyone listens to anything they have to say is a mystery to me. I think I tis mostly willful stupidity so they can keep pretending the world is what they wish it was.
People like to be scared.
Dear Lord I hope so.
https://archive.li/iGa0W
Spoiler alert: no tits
And I did the whole capcha thing and everything. FAIL.
Would be great, almost has to happen, but I’m afraid it will not. I’ve seen no sign of that at all. In fact, that’s the first article I’ve even seen mention it.
“”Restricting internet access has become a tried-and-true method of stifling dissent by authoritarian regimes around the world, alongside government-supported disinformation campaigns and propaganda…””
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1414709948580302854
LOLOLOL
“disinformation campaigns and propaganda”
Well, if anyone would know…
Self-awareness rating: Zero.
I guess Humpty Dumpty would know.
Comedy gold
I gotta believe that the Bee paid him to do that. Just have to believe that.
“the Cuba Freedom Parade”
America’s message to the Cubans:
Come here, don’t worry, we’re doing real communism this time and we still have huge piles of other people’s money to spend!
I’m sure the democrats are working on the new word to make Cubans feel more welcome in the USA. CubanX? CubX?
Since they will be the ones rejecting communism, the Dems will call them haters and racists.
Or they will just drown out their real message and The Narrative will tell everyone how much the Cubxn community wants the whole woke progressive package deal.
I think the Cuban community in the US is deeply hated by the democrats.
And vice versa.
Can you blame them? That is a shitty place to live.
We have a place in the central valley, about half way up the 5, called Los Banos. It reeks of cow shit. I have no idea who named it, but i can guess why.
“about half way up the 5”
You talk like a Californian. “You get on the 5 and take it up until you smell the cow shit, then you’re in Los Banos.”
Chaa! As if…
I live a few miles from a dairy and if the wind is right? Oh yaaaaaa. Luckily the prevailing is 99% from not that direction.
I lived in IN and the wind was always blowing in that direction.
“A London library has apologised for holding an event to encourage children to read during which an actor dressed in a bare-bottomed monkey costume with a fake penis.”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/london-library-redbridge-monkey-costume-children-event-b945272.html
https://twitter.com/godblesstofu/status/1414312983371653123
Wingnut prudes.
???
Fake dicked m9nkeys are only fun in barrels. Duh!
Was the event message: “learn to read or you’ll end up like this guy”?
Yeah, I was trying to figure that out myself. What to monkey dicks have to do with children reading? The message seems to be “urgily burgley, we are a bunch of fucking fruitcakes, bleedibly doobly. ”
This is what I was reading in the second grade: https://www.amazon.com/Weakfoot-Linda-Cline/dp/0688416977
No monkey dicks involved.
If you think Covid was bad, you need to know about this. Be MOAR AFRAID.
If you think Covid was bad, be MOAR AFRAID!
Yes, because now, a new and MOAR SCARIER drug is sweeping the nation!
It’s the Frankenstein version of the devil’s weed. And it’s coming to playgrounds near you, it’s coming for your children!
SUPER DEBIL WEED!
Or, this stuff is totally safe, but only if it can be ‘regulated’ so only we can make and sell it.
“…popping up in gas stations, convenience stores, tobacco shops, and cannabis dispensaries throughout the US and beyond—often with no age restrictions.”
I don’t think I buy that.
delta-8-THC produces euphoric effects that are similar to but milder than those of delta-9-THC
Meh. Do better, scaremongers.
ITS DELTA THOUGH! Couldn’t resist.
The OK symbol is not a white power symbol. That is some of the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard.
Sure… I bet you used it at the insurrection.
“That is some of the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard.”
You need to get out more.
Yeah, that line became way harder to find a use for in the last few years.
Long but worth reading article:
https://outsidevoices.substack.com/p/author-of-the-mega-viral-thread-on
Trump: “We are going to make America great again. My goal is to see to it that you and your family enjoy prosperity.”
Biden: “Damned right I am going to take your guns and your taxes will increase a lot.”
I wonder why no one believes the election was on the up and up. It’s a mystery.
Obama: “I’m gonna make gas cost $6 a gallon”
American voters: “Yay!!”
It is in line with the desire to be part of the international community.
And yet in the end both of them will have spent, borrowed, and printed unprecedented amounts of fake money, dropped thousands of real bombs on women and children in ass backward countries, and passed stupid laws that do nothing to increase freedom. But at least one of them spewed the correct bullshit.
See that is how you introduce bullshit into a conversation so we don’t discuss the messaging that is coming from a particular administration and how the voting public digests it. Instead, now we discuss how they all spend like undead sailors.
I’m sitting in an Italian restaurant on my way home from work waiting for a to-go order of lasagna and chicken sorrentino. Don’t feel like cooking (more accurately, don’t feel like shopping for groceries) and the spousal unit doesn’t feel like going out.
So I’m having a glass of wine while I wait for my meal.
There is a painted sign that says “Now and then it is good to pause in the pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
I’ll take that line of thinking while I listen to Sinatra and other Rat Packers croon over the speakers.
That is going to be us tonight. Im ordering in. Im tired, wife is tired. I could make the t-bone steaks, but those can be done tomorrow.
East coast wop food, for us. I’m having sausage and peppers. Not exactly a slam dunk, but i’m hopeful.
Aaand that sucked. I hope Bruno is not an Italian. He used canned peppers and overcooked super fat spaghetti. Even the meat sucked. No wonder they kicked him out of NYC.
Ah that sucks. We still are not sure what to get. Probably some generic ‘Chinese food.
Pizza here. I loaded it up with three meats, three cheeses, three different peppers, a bit of onion and sprinkled finely chopped black olive between layers of cheese.
Yum.
Mammary Monday, like Lazarus, cannot die.
https://archive.li/NPxx7
I have been selected so far for Jury Duty and been pick for jury selection for a trial. I might get dismissed, cause my stepfather died from cancer from asbestos. It is an asbestos case. Seems interesting. I at least get a bus pass for each day I go down town, they don’t pay for parking.
Take a big purse and snag lots of lunches. Don’t they feed lunches at those outings?
I was selected last year. Thank goodness I was able to beg out. It was a trial for some movie villain level creep that had built a torture dungeon in his house and was kidnapping women for rape and torture. Jeebus….who does that shit? I am glad I didnt have to learn the details. My wife had broken her foot so she was already being tortured…my job was to stay home and wait on her hand and…foot.
I have federal court jury duty in august. I look forward to it because i get paid full pop and i get the chance to help justice along a bit, maybe.
Just make sure you present yourself as the biggest idiot, otherwise you will be dismissed. Don’t need no ebumacated folks thinking things through with rationale and critical processes.
“…help justice along…”
Check this guy out.
Last time, me and one other holdout stopped a guy from getting a bogus conviction. I saw first hand how deep the throating is among the cop fellating jury pool. If not for us two, that dude was gonna have a recors for life. He was obvously not guilty.
There sure is a lot of gnashing of teeth about the Taliban these days. A bunch of illiterate goat fuckers whose only possessions are the shirts on their backs and a junky AK-47. What have we gotten out of 20 years there, a trillion dollars and how many Americans killed or wounded? How exactly are these people any threat to us?