THIS GOOD MOVIE!
SLOOPY HOOMAN CALL STEVE SMITH AND ASK HELP. STEVE SMITH SAY “YES, HIM HALP!” SO FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN HOOMANS GET GOODEST STEVE SMITH LINKS THIS MORNING! HIM GIVE LINKS ON CASCADIA, BECAUSE STEVE SMITH LOVE CASCADIA, WANT IT BE FREE.
TELL ALL FRIENDS ABOUT STEVE SMITH LINKS!
- STEVE SMITH NOT THINK THIS WORK. WHYCOME POLITICAL HOOMAN, HIRE OLD POLITICAL HOOMAN FIX SAD CITY? STEVE SMITH NO LIKE GO NEAR CITY – TOO MANY NEEDLE AND POOP STEP IN. TOURIST KEEP COME UP AND SAY “Look honey! A man in a Sasquatch costume! Let’s get a picture!” STEVE SMITH NOT POSE FOR PICTURE!
- WHEN ALL SEATTLE BUSINESSESES MOVE, STEVE SMITH INVITE THEM COME STAY IN HIM CAVE. HIM GIVE WARM WELCOME. BY WARM WELCOME, MEAN RAPE.
- STEVE SMITH NO LIKE WILDFIRE! HIM HOPE CANADAIAN HOOMANS CAN PUT OUT. HIM HOPE FUNNY GLIBERTARIANS ALL SAFE.
- MUSIC LINK!
FREE CASCADIA!
How much terror can I take? We’re going to find out!
Good morning!
HI WAFFLE PERSON.
Terror on the high trees. Can squatch climb trees?
Why not?
“How much ya got?”
“But he was upbeat about the future of Portland and encouraged people to go downtown to see for themselves”
I am gonna take a pass on that.
Until the PNW gets rid of their commie shitbird infestation things will only get worse.
What, you don’t want to visit a place where you can be targeted for your political beliefs and then thrown in prison if you defend yourself?
They seem to not get that people not already screwed and forced to be there in that shithole have a choice….
In the article did you see whose name is on the flyer and what color the flyer is?
I didn’t go there.. What did I miss? On a computer that isn’t mine and want to not go to crazy places…
Sam Adams, Portland’s point man on revitalization…
Sam Adams, the cause of, and solution to, all life’s problems.
YOUR COUSIN FROM BOSTON
Unprecedented
The first waves of arrests in the deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol focused on the easy targets. Dozens in the pro-Trump mob openly bragged about their actions on Jan. 6 on social media and were captured in shocking footage broadcast live by national news outlets.
But six months after the insurrection, the Justice Department is still hunting for scores of rioters, even as the first of more than 500 people already arrested have pleaded guilty. The struggle reflects the massive scale of the investigation and the grueling work still ahead for authorities in the face of an increasing effort by some Republican lawmakers to rewrite what happened that day.
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Part of the problem is that authorities made very few arrests on Jan. 6. They were focused instead on clearing the building of members of the massive mob that attacked police, damaged historic property and combed the halls for lawmakers they threatened to kill. Federal investigators are forced to go back and hunt down participants.
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Forrest Rogers, a business consultant who helped form a group of sedition hunters called “Deep State Dogs,” said the group has reported the possible identities of about 100 suspects to the FBI based on evidence it collected.
Sometimes, a distinctive article of clothing helps the group make a match. In one case, a woman carrying a unique iPhone case on Jan. 6 had been photographed with the same case at an earlier protest, Rogers said.
“It’s seeking justice,” he said. “This is something that’s unprecedented in the history of our country.” Rogers asked, “Where else have you had several thousands of people who commit a crime and then immediately disperse all over the United States?”
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“The more of these people you identify — potentially through search warrants and social media communications — you’re going to be able to identify others,” said Tom O’Connor, who focused on counterterrorism as a special agent before leaving the bureau in 2019. “Those people who have been arrested will then be given the opportunity to cooperate and identify other persons involved.”
Leave no stone unturned. The people who sinned against Almighty Government and desecrated its holy temple must be found and punished.
If you’re not with us, you’re our enemy.
It was not an insurrection, “insurrection” has an actual definition and what happened January 6 wasn’t it.
…damaged historic property and combed the halls for lawmakers they threatened to kill
It seems there was actually very little damage. And I would like to see evidence of a mob making threats to kill lawmakers.
If it was an insurrection it wouldn’t be ambiguous in the least but, just remember, it’s not about the truth of the matter, it’s the narrative.
Does chanting “Hang Mike Pence” count?
Only if you set it to a catchy drinking song.
That was unfortunate hyperbole, Hyperbole.
“It’s seeking justice,” he said. “This is something that’s unprecedented in the history of our country.” Rogers asked, “Where else have you had several thousands of people who commit a crime and then immediately disperse all over the United States?”
Portland raises hand.
Portland? Fuck that. Any large concert, unless he’s not considering drug use a crime.
When the exact same thing happened at Wisconsin capitol?
“commit a crime and then immediately disperse all over the United States”
Um, they ‘dispersed’ back to where they came from; presumably a great number of the protesters were from out of town. Which fact will also cause leftist pearl clutching. But many people travel to DC for political protests of all sorts, it’s not just MD and VA residents.
“They were focused instead on clearing the building of members of the massive mob that attacked police, damaged historic property and combed the halls for lawmakers they threatened to kill. ”
Yeah, sure.
After they opened the doors to them of course.
How many statues did they tear down?
[golf clap]
Terror level ~15%
Tits calm, testicles swinging in the breeze.
Ventilated pants?
Shirt? Pants?
I have a suspicion that this hunt will never end with more and more deplorable being added to the list. In 2024 whomever the republicans put up will be deemed ‘insurrectionist’, along with all of their campaign workers and eventually voting ‘not commie’ will be an act of insurrection.
I’m just waiting for the “sympathies for the seditionists is tantamount to sedition” line to be trotted out. It’s coming.
OFFS. With what, staplers and snowglobes?
The Hyperbole knows they were searching the halls for lawmakers that they fully intended to hang. He KNOWS!
He’s just doin his thang. Hype is hilarious!
I never said that, you asked for video of a mob threatening to kill lawmakers, I posted one. I even allowed that one could claim it was just bluster and not an actual threat, but I think that’s a bit of a cop out.
And again I have repeatedly stated that Jan 6th was little more than a unruly mob of larpers. Calling it an insurrection is ridiculous, but so is claiming ‘they dinnae do nottin'”
WAS HIM “LAWMAKER”? STEVE SMITH THINK EXECUTIVE NO “LAWMAKER” THAT CONGRESSHOOMANS.
He breaks ties in the senate, so I say he counts.
While the VP is indeed President of the Senate, he cannot introduce legislation. So more of an executive gatekeeper, ie an occasional power to veto.
I never said they “dinnae do nottin”, and as far as the hanging thing I would have thought with your handle you’d actually understand hyperbole. But I guess your urge to go knee-jerk contrarian devil’s advocate trumps all.
I allowed for that, as I said I think it’s a cop out, this wasn’t people mouthing off on Twitter from their basements.
Also, I apologize for lumping you in with those that make the “they dinnae do nottin” claim, contrary to my “big board” schtick I don’t actually keep lists of which of you weirdoes is which kind of conspiracy nut, so I often assume all of you are all of them, I’ll try not to do that.
Jan 6th was little more than a unruly mob of larpers. Calling it an insurrection is ridiculous, but so is claiming ‘they dinnae do nottin’”
An accurate summation, I believe.
As time goes along, a part of me would be okay if they had festooned the streetlights of K Street with hanged lawmakers.
I’d have a lot more respect for them if they actually were what the lefties accuse them of. They claim to truly believe that the election was stolen, the country is in imminent peril. and Pelosi, Pence, et al are traitors. So what do they do – beat up some cops, break a few windows, ransack an office or two and then go home. Larpers, chicken shit larpers. I’m glad they didn’t have the courage of their convictions because I don’t think we are at that point yet where bloodshed is necessary.
For me, it is still a flight of fancy but yes, given all the noises that the current administration is making about ‘Right-Wing Extremism.’ I hate to think what it would be like if there had been more violence.
Me too.
Oh, we are at that point. It’s not imminent, but it is overdue. The commies burned looted and killed people all last year. A response should have been delivered. Instead, we’re going after, ” the biggest threat to democracy” by locking up anyone who traveled to DC on Jan 6th.
“Forrest Rogers, a business consultant who helped form a group of sedition hunters called “Deep State Dogs,””
Hooray for self-important asshole snitches, they’ll save us all.
The self-given name is telling.
I bet they have an awesome pamphlet or newsletter.
It’s probably named The Trident. Anti-Racist Anti-Capitalist Anti-Social.
I am sure they mean it as some sort of ironic own, but they aren’t self-aware enough to see that they are tipping their hand.
The left can’t meme for shit.
I guess “The Deep State’s Bitches” was already taken.
Or too on the nose.
“Grueling work”. Seriously TMITE?
“Where else have you had several thousands of people who commit a crime and then immediately disperse all over the United States?””
Congress does it every year.
LOL
As Congress has less then a thousand people, we rate this blatantly untrue.
/fact checker
If you include the lickspittle aides and the like, you can get to a thousand, easy.
“Forrest Rogers, a business consultant who helped form a group of sedition hunters called “Deep State Dogs,” said the group has reported the possible identities of about 100 suspects to the FBI based on evidence it collected.”
East Germany had nothing on the USA for organized snitching and ratting-out.
The Associated Press is going really hard on this insurrection thing. I’ve seen 3 or 4 similarly breathless articles in the past week or so from the AP on it. I guess they decided to incinerate all of the respect earned over the years as a somewhat reasonably reliable news outlet.
They are trying to get over the hump of people rolling their eyes at the whole thing.
Justice Department officials say arresting everyone involved in the insurrection remains a top priority. Authorities recently arrested the 100th person accused of assaulting law enforcement as well as the first person accused of assaulting a member of the press — a man prosecutors say tackled a cameraman.
“They will find them,” said Robert Anderson Jr., former executive assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch. “I don’t care how long it takes. If they are looking for them, they will find them.”
We cannot allow the peasants to think they can spit in our faces and get away with it.
Better to be a serial rapist and murderer than a right wing anti-government radical.
Meanwhile hundreds of BLM and Antifa rioters have been released without charges in the riots that really were deadly and destructive.
Serially released.
FTFY
Better to be a serial rapist than FBI at this point. It’s more honorable.
STEVE SMITH NOT CEREAL!
“I don’t care how long it takes. If they are looking for them, they will find them.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Ann_Duke
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_Bishop
Among many others.
That Lytton, BC thing was wild. Even though they live in one of the hottest and driest places in Canada, they have a giant river running right alongside. At least two deaths. I hear the waterbombers every day going North, East and West. Nothing within a couple hundred miles, yet.
STEVE SMITH GLAD FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN HOOMAN FESTUS OK.
HARD RAPE BRISKET!
IT EASY! HOLD WITH BOTH HAND.
“ Mayor Ted Wheeler hired former Mayor Sam Adams at the beginning of the year to be the point man to lead the charge in getting the Rose City blooming again.”
That would seem to be an admission that you suck at your job.
I was thinking the same thing.
And he put the rehabilitated ex-mayor Adams in charge of it. Adams is an admitted statutory rapist but that doesn’t matter because he’s gay and the smoke has blown over. Same with the charge by an ex-staffer that he was a sexual harasser.
In happier news – Ding dong the mask mandate is dead! Unless you work Government adjacent. Sad trombone for this guy. I barely wear mine at all and haven’t had a single complaint. Yet… So cool to walk into a store and see smiling or even scowling faces. Lady I work with said that everyone has to start brushing their teeth again.
Wow, that’s a really disgusting thing to admit to. I seriously wonder if so many women enjoyed face masks because they normally felt the need to cake their faces with makeup to face the world. The mask was the savior of their dog-ugly face.
‘Twas merely a joke! She’s not a stinky person. I actually replied that us guys will have to start shaving everyday once more.
I know of some women that stopped buying make-up during the face diapering insanity.
They seem happy that they are buying make-up again.
Everyone is still wearing here. And every business except one that I often frequent seems to be requiring it still. It’s infuriating.
IT GOOD DISGUISE. NO TELL IT STEVE SMITH!
Mandates are over here, apart from medical offices and the subway. Masking is still 60% – 80% at the supermarkets and I still see people walking solo outside while masked, people masking at the beach, people driving solo while masked, etc.
Voluntary masking in my area is below 10%. I’m sure it would freak out visitors from cities.
That’s where we’ve been since probably early May.
Masking at the beach is hysterical. Do they think water makes masks more effective?
They should be wearing waterproof masks.
More effective at getting people to admit things, yes. I’m old enough to remember when waterboarding was the outrage du jour.
That’s what my work is masked. Waterboard the janitor.
I wish someone would tell businessowners because the vast majority of them do not seem to have gotten the message.
I see very few people wearing masks in these parts – I did notice one mid 20’s dude driving a convertible with the top down wearing a mask. He was alone in the car, too. I laughed.
Good that the mandate is gone. Sorry you still have to wear a face diaper at work.
Sucks that y’all had to wear masks for so long. Georgia just didnt have lockdowns or mask mandates like other states and business is booming. There were a couple businesses that wanted you to wear masks but most didnt. People wore masks voluntarily but even at the height of Kungflu hysteria, there was me and quite a others not wearing masks.
I look forward to blasting people who said they didnt wear masks but did and are now ashamed they caved to tyranny and anti-science Commie lies.
@ Hyperbole WRT to greens and “how do you rednecks do it?”
You have a pile of mustards. In my opinion they’re only suited alone for a starving man, or cattle. Mix those 50/50 with either spinach or collards (fresh-not canned).
To clean your greens, take a knife and separate the stem (rib) from the leaf and set aside. Once Ive done that, I take the leafy portion, roll it like a cigar (or torte) and cut it into 1-2″ ribbons.
Cut the ribs similarly- 0.5″ or so.
Take diced & sliced leafy vegetable matter, combine, add to a stock pot with a couple cups of chicken broth. Add diced onion (maybe 1/4 cup- YMMV) some minced garlic, and a tablespoon or so of bacon grease ( you DO keep your grease, right? Briar.) Now the most important part- smoked ham cottage butt. Add 1/8-1/4 pound with all the fat you can find, sliced, diced, cubed, however your palate agrees with it. Toss it all in the stock pot and low-simmer for 4-6 hours. Add salt, pepper, or Tony C’s as you see fit.
I do something like that but in a pressure cooker and it takes around 20 minutes.
I disagree with your evaluation of mustards as people food but holy hell yes, that sounds good.
A couple tablespoons of butter for finishin’ sometimes just to ice that cardiac cake.
Sounds good to me. Mustard and spinach are good. Turnip…not so much. I will pass on those. I am not a big fan of cabbage but I can tolerate it.
Not everyone survives on over processed, over sugared garbage Hyp.
I tend to use all collards (which are a branch (ha!) of the cabbage family). But if Im at the market and not paying attention or blindingly hungover, Ive grabbed mustards or turnips before. Which I dont mind if I can mix them in.
Akshually, my favorite is Swiss Chard wilted in bacon grease w/onion and bacon
Yeah, collards, in my taste are on par with cabbage.
Mustard and turnips are also in the genus brassica, along with kale, brussel sprouts, etc.
I found out I like kale. And I don’t care who knows it.
I LIKE KALE!
I enjoy all greens so long as they are slathered in salt and butter. Thems good eatin’
Thanks, I might give that a try, although I tossed my pressure cooker years ago and I get very little grease from my turkey bacon.
Some days you make it hard to like you. ?
He isn’t like us.
He eats carbs.
Turkey… bacon.
I thought I knew you man.
Turkey bacon is truly an oxymoron.
Now I know that you are a closeted individual of indeterminate gender.
If you have to give up real bacon for health reasons, I can understand. It’s a little harder to grasp why you would substitute something that is not bacon and call it bacon.
To be fair, “congealed turkey paste” isn’t nearly as appetizing of a name.
So you don’t cook the stems?
They all get mixed together. See Item (A)(1)(4)(b):
“Take diced & sliced leafy vegetable matter, combine,…”
Oh, OK.
I roll them up with the stems,.
I find they cook better separated, and maybe leaves a better presentation when the leafs are not attached to stems?
But its the same end game. If it tastes good, who cares ?
I was actually going to post something similar but Tres nails it. I would respectfully suggest that Suthen, being in a place where he can get it, should use Tasso ham as the meaty adjunct. Boy, oh boy do I miss Tasso, and boudin, and merliton, and fresh Gulf seafood.
I have a few pounds of Tasso in the freezer as I type this. I also use it in field peas with snaps, black beans…well all beans really.
I love tasso.
#metoo
Now I want black bean soup with Tasso, raw red onion, and a dollop of sour cream, served with a nice crusty (but heavily buttered) Leidenheimer French bread.
Mine is similar:
1. Wash and chop greens.
2. BLANCH THE GREENS AND DISCARD BLANCHING WATER
3. Put in pot with oil and flavorful meat of some type. Maybe a little bit of stock to get started, but they should liberate their own liquor.
4. Cook slow and covered.
Turkey bacon!?
Now you’re just trolling.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9758801/Demi-Rose-poses-NAKED-wearing-pair-pink-trainers-slew-racy-snaps.html
That poor thing needs a treadmill.
neah she needs to walk the streets
They always claim “naked” but she never is. Lucky for us, I suppose. If her cootch is as big as her ass it would create a gravity well and we’d all be sucked into our screens.
Will it at least be a satisfying experience with a great climax at the end?
“Walk? Hell no! Help me find my keys, and we’ll drive my jeep out.”
The US women’s soccer team continues to maintain their public image.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1412158519135006721
I remember when it was the USSR that was the embarrassment at sporting events.
I saw South American players kneeling in a circle the other day.
*sigh* This shit is never going to go away.
Who knows what they are even protesting.
The right of greedy bitches to retroactively change a contract so they can get more money without having to incur any extra risk is a sacred right enshrined in our Constitution, good sir!
Breet is correct.
A 98 year old black WW2 veteran in this case.
Great optics
The greatest and freest nation in the history of mankind is the only one that hates itself so much. At least among western nations. I’m sure there’s many others where the price is too high to admit you hate them.
https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/a-dallas-fc-under-15-boys-squad-beat-the-u-s-womens-national-team-in-a-scrimmage/
just wait until the USWNT is all trans
Since the USWNT are a bunch of wokesters, I would find that hilarious.
It can’t happen soon enough.
Yeah, right now it’s confined to sports nobody gives a shit about like running and weightlifting.
There isn’t enough popcorn in the world to assist me when they start infiltrating more popular sports.
I’m okay with this. I don’t think a nation steeped in liberty (yours may vary) should demand fealty from anyone.
2 + 2 = red
Over the weekend, the National Education Association (NEA) held its annual Representative Assembly, with delegates from across the United States voting on priorities and allocating funding for the upcoming school year, with the ideology of critical race theory — a form of race-based Marxism — taking center stage.
The union, which represents 3 million public school employees, approved funding for three separate items related to this issue: “increasing the implementation” of “critical race theory” in K-12 curricula, promoting critical race theory in local school districts, and attacking opponents of critical race theory, including parent organizations and conservative research centers.
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In the resolution, the union agreed to publicly “convey its support” for critical race theory, oppose restrictions in state legislatures, and use schools for political activism. The delegates pledged to “join with Black Lives Matter at School and the Zinn Education Project” to hold a “national day of action” on George Floyd’s birthday, recruiting teachers to hold political demonstrations and “teach lessons about structural racism and oppression.”
The resolution also promised to develop a study to critique “empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, [and] anthropocentrism” — that is, adopting the most fashionable and intellectually bankrupt ideas from the universities and bringing them into grade-school classrooms.
Yes, of course. Fill their little skulls with the catechism of your faith. Teach them to deny the existence of objective reality in favor of wishful thinking.
Yep…the straw man of capitalism is of course on the list.
What they really mean when they use that word is ‘the free market and individual liberty in general’.
Marxism’s big beef is ALWAYS with freedom and individual rights…
That cult’s dogma requires people to be drones – like bees and ants – in order to better serve the bosses.
I never got The Fountainhead. Atlas Shrugged made sense to me. But I get it now.
I was thinking similarly. Whatever exaggerated villainy there was, it no longer is an exaggeration at all.
Remember, the Founders knew what tyranny looked like and knew Americans could fall for it just like some Colonists did in those days.
Some Founders even thought adding the Bill of Rights would not be needed since government could do nothing without an enumerated power to do so.
i.e. the government has no power to ban products or services, so that should protect right to bare Arms.
At least they’re finally being honest about it.
Parents – the ball is in your court. Do you accept this?
No. Daughter is going to charter school with a private school backup plan.
The NEA is actively promoting charter schools with this shit.
ex-wife is former pubic school teacher, that went to a private Catholic School once her daughter was school-aged
They (the NEA) know that threat is there, and Im sure they’re doing what they can to get their people placed in private schools.
Wonder if that’s why I’ve been starting to see stories about teachers getting fired from Catholic schools for violations of the morality rules (such as getting pregnant out of wedlock).
The agenda is to turn the next generations into snitches and morons, cause that will make it far easier for the masters to be informed on whom is going to be problematic in their efforts to better control the cattle…
ex-Wife got an exemption, Papal Decree, or so shit….she had her kid before she took catechism so they let her in
*dat baby dont look like me
All babies look like you, Tres!
My wife used to work in finance at the Christian Academy in BG. They had trouble hiring because of their strict no cohabitation policy.
That and refusing to hire the woman who wore the low cut top and short skirt to the interview.
Here, there was massive influx of kids into the 2 Parrish schools as the Church kept their schools open throughout 2020, while the public schools went to all zoomy all the time.
Government workers running opposition research against citizens of their own country. This seems somehow familiar…
the Zinn Education Project
Yep, that’s exactly what it sounds like. My AP US History used that garbage as the sole text.
My 11th grade American History teacher was primarily a coach who had been thrust into the position by a sudden departure. We spent the bulk of the year watching video tapes of Tour of Duty (so as to learn about French Indo-China), and doing as we pleased as long as we were quiet enough to not disturb Mr. Bennet while he read his various sports magazines. The only exception was the week he was observed by the department chair. We had to bring our book every day and outlined chapters and we memorized the State capitols.
From this post
https://www.samizdata.net/2021/07/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-1471/
This comment was interesting
“So… what’s exactly wrong with a fascist state?
Singapore has been one for ages now, and nobody can say we’re doing poorly.
One of our bedrock institutions is the Tripartite Alliance.
https://www.tal.sg/#
Sounds dreadfully familiar, doesn’t it? But it works in providing a high quality of life.
If the objectives are sound and the factors that can make it work are present, what’s wrong with fascism if exemplified by Singapore?”
that is certainly a take
How does it scale?
*looks at historical examples*
Oh. I think I’ll pass.
“Tripartite Alliance Limited (TAL) is a Company Limited by Guarantee (CLG) that is jointly set up by the tripartite partners:
Ministry of Manpower (MOM), National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF).”
That seems sound.
What’s wrong? Built into any flavor of socialist system is coercion? How about that? That is the worst possible flaw any system can have.
Yeah but every govt is the exercise of coercion, the only question is the degree.
Not every government. But most. If taxes are needed for things residents want and the resident pay taxes voluntarily, its not coercion.
Fascism is exemplified by an organization that aims to create “fair and progressive employment practices”? And that’s not just some dialect difference between American and Singaporean English, their annual report talks about discrimination, inclusivity, and diversity. Is the global Overton window so narrow that this is what passes for fascism these days?
But, fundamentally, it is fascist. The entire organization is premised on the idea of a partnership of the state, business, and organized labor to best manage society. That’s what fascism ultimately is. If it’s some sort of “enlightened fascism” doesn’t fundamentally change its nature. The problem is fascism has become sort of a catch-all for brutal, thuggish authoritarianism. But, that’s not definitionally what it is. I still don’t like the idea. But, that doesn’t mean it has to be just brutality and thuggishness.
THAT’S NOT FASCISM, YOU LYING CAPITALIST PIG!
Fascism is resisting the things marxists want…..
This is a useful reference and analysis.
Fascism came into existence when a large group of marxists realized communism was a doomed system, and got their proof less than a decade after the Soviet experiment went into play, and came up with a hybrid system that solved the biggest issue with marxism: that the most important quality of the people government was their loyalty to the movement and people in power, and not ability to actually do what their function was, which meant inept people would be in charge of critical systems. It was obvious to them that the marxists would always fail at running things, and the people would then blame them and rebel again. The marxists thought the solution was to just send all the malcontents to the gulags. While that worked for a while, eventually the ineptitude would implode any and all maxist economies.
The fascist decided that was not gonna work either, and then thought that they had solved this issue by allowing the illusion of private businesses – thus having more qualified people running these complex entities – and using the power of government to pick winners & losers, always favoring monopolistic big entities, and keeping the blame on the private sector when failures occurred. They even created special classes for the masses to lay blame for failures and perceived evils at. They kept the brutal camps around, but later incarnations of that realized they didn’t need the camps if they could simply destroy any individual’s ability to earn a living…
Fascism is above all else built around a nation. Indeed, Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew could be called functionally at least somewhat fascist, though different in character from the fascism of Mussolini, Hitler, or Franco. But to adopt the internationalist agenda of DEI is explicitly anti-national and thus can’t conceivably be called fascist. So the basic form may remain but, gutted of its core ethos, it is just an empty vessel through which any agenda can be pursued, fascist, communist, or otherwise.
That’s because marxism was peddled as an international socialist movement. The fascists saw the problem with the whole identity being limited to just class thing in a more complex world, and adjusted for it.
“Welcome back to work – here’s a novel length RFP response to evaluate in time for the 11am meeting where we’ll be discussing it. Oh, and you’ll have to make your meetings in between too.”
No wonder my doctor was betting I might have an ulcer too.
You’ll get my tech eval when I have time to conduct a tech eval, and not any sooner. So if you want to make your nakedly political decision without that fig leaf, go right ahead.
That Lytton, BC thing was wild. Even though they live in one of the hottest and driest places in Canada
The way they talk about that place on the news, you’d think until just a few weeks ago it was covered in permafrost.
That is literally a desert. Sagebrush and pine trees and not much else. If not for the river it would be California.
“He’s aiming for the stars! Modest musk lives out of tiny 375-square-foot prefab trailer he rents from SpaceX at the Boca Chica Starbase – worth just $50,000 – after offloading most of his real estate”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9759869/Elon-Musks-main-home-tiny-375-square-foot-prefabricated-rented-house-worth-just-50-000.html
That actually seems pretty nice.
“Family of boy, 15, who was thrown from a Ford Explorer and died when Tesla Model 3 traveling at 60mph on autopilot crashed into the car sues the electric car giant”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9758873/Family-boy-15-killed-Tesla-autopilot-crash-sues-electric-car-giant.html
I don’t think I could ever trust auto-pilot. I don’t even like cruise control.
Seat belt? I am guessing no.
I’d imagine that multi-billionaires have access to plenty of storage for their toys. Living space? If all he wants to do is fap about his grand schemes, a shower stall would do.
Offloading real property seems like kind of a strange move to make right now…
If it’s being used to acquire assets that are more difficult for the USG to seize…
“IRS in chaos: Nearly 35 million tax returns are STILL unprocessed and just 3% of phone calls are being answered as Americans try for months to get through to a human on the other end”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9758901/RS-chaos-Nearly-35-million-tax-returns-unprocessed.html
Maybe they should simplify the code?
It makes me feel unbad that I filed foran extension and still haven’t done them yet.
Or they could make them come back into the office to get productivity up instead of “working” from home.
Huh, my payment was processed in hours. Imagine that.
So was mine.
Pshaw
Bill Gates: Stop Telling Africans What Kind of Agriculture Africans Need
Among other things, we might simply not agree
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bill-gates-stop-telling-africans-what-kind-of-agriculture-africans-need/?previewid=0144FCCA-AADD-4DA3-A978B39874AD14D2
On the one hand gmo/irrigation/fertilizer etc need some care. On the other hand, doing traditional subsistence agriculture is not really a way to prosperity in the modern sens of the word.
Traditional agriculture leads to war and famine.
I figured it was Gates versus the European organic movement that has polluted so much of the debate. Guesses on what percentage of the 200M farmers have actually even heard of AFSA?
percentage of the 200M farmers have actually even heard of AFSA – it is on a need to know basis and they don’t need to know.
In contrast,the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), which represents more than 200 million farmers, fishers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, women, consumers and others across all but five African countries, holds that agroecology is what our continent needs.
1) How dare that honky tell us what our people need. We will do that!
2) If you’ve got that many farmers, fishers and pastoralists – I think I see what the problem might be.
3) Will assume that “and others” is the major constituent part of AFSA.
Bond Villain in a Volcano Lair vs. Useful Idiot Meddlers and Grifters
Can’t they both lose?
That article also links to another one about how the green revolution failed in India because small farmers do not get guaranteed high prices from government for what they produce. I mean you can claim it failed in that it does not produce food. But if you want low food prices you cannot pay small farmers above market rates. I have difficulty seeing how you can get prosperity with millions of small low productivity farms.
I mean get prosperity by developing the country and then you will have some demand for small, organic, family owned artisanal carrots or whatever. But when you have a billion hungry…
But what am I saying anything is possible with the magic of government. Any restrictions are just a right wing plot against the poor.
Eh, Gates needs to keep his nose out ofotherpeople’s business. Who appointed hm King Agro of Africa?
See below “white savior narratives”.
Talk to your doctor to see if Titty Tuesday is right for you!
https://archive.is/I9UkT
Today is spiritually Monday
I’m calling a lid on Tuesday! It’s Wednesday, Fat! Strawberry will back me up on this! Come on, man…
More hysterical screeching about “Teh Insarrechshun!”
It has been described as America’s darkest day since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. But whereas 9/11 is solemnly memorialised in stone, a concerted effort is under way to airbrush the US Capitol insurrection from history.
Six months on from the mayhem on 6 January, when a mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the heart of American democracy to disrupt the confirmation of Joe Biden’s election victory, Republicans and rightwing media have variously attempted to downplay the attack or blame it on leftwing infiltrators and the FBI.
Interviews with diehard Trump fans suggest that the riot denialism is working. Many refuse to condemn the insurrectionists who beat police officers, smashed windows and called for then Vice-President Mike Pence to be hanged. The swirl of conspiracy theories, combined with Trump’s deluded claims of a stole election, raise fears of a replay that could be even more violent.
“Rightwing media and some Republicans, including Republicans in the Senate and the House, are trying to make it seem as though what was a siege on the Capitol was not actually a siege on the Capitol,” said Monika McDermott, a political science professor at Fordham University in New York.
“We all saw it. We saw them breaking down doors. We saw our members of Congress running for cover and trying to get away. We saw Mike Pence being shuttled out of the chamber. All of these frightening things that we saw happen are now being denied or being or being laid at the feet of Antifa or the FBI or some other source, which just seems at this point ludicrous.”
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Senator Ron Johnson told Fox News: “We’ve seen plenty of video of people in the Capitol, and they weren’t rioting. It doesn’t look like an armed insurrection when you have people that breach the Capitol – and I don’t condone it – but they’re staying within the rope lines in the rotunda. That’s not what armed insurrection would look like.”
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Kurt Bardella, a former Republican congressional aide who is now a Democrat, said: “I’m old enough to remember when the Republican party was willing to launch this country into a global war, fought on multiple fronts over the course of many years, because of what happened on September 11. And yet here we are just six months removed from something that happened on our own soil and on our own Capitol and Republicans are actively trying to rewrite history to make it out to be something that it wasn’t.”
Bardella, a contributor to the Los Angeles Times and USA Today newspapers, added: “If those who would deny the gravity of what happened on January 6 achieved a position of power, it is almost a guarantee that this will happen again, only it will be even more violent and more deadly.
Let’s use the celebration of our fight for independence to profess our love for government and our eternal unquestioning obeisance to it.
If the Republicans manage to regain control of the government through the normal electoral process, they will violently destroy the government. Got it.
Or is he saying the leftists will rise up in protest, and they won’t fuck around? Antifa will burn the Capitol to the ground. They are currently in training for that glorious day.
Joey B’s on the case!
https://nypost.com/2021/07/04/biden-struggles-to-answer-russia-question-at-michigan-pie-shop/
Elderly abuse.. That’s all this looks like to me.
I used to feel some pity toward him about this. No more.
I saw a photo this weekend of him sitting in a chair at the White House and he just looked effing haggard. White hair all straggly, collar messed up, eyes sunken…. He looked exhausted.
Hope it was worth selling what was left of your soul to cheat your way into an office you never could been legitimately elected to, Joey boy…. Hell of a way to live out your last few remaining years.
I’ve got no pity for that corrupt old fucker.
He deserves to disintegrate in front of the world.
The question was planted and he still couldn’t handle it.
How many times is TMITE going to claim there are “concerns” about letting this doddering old fool out into public?
“Drivers face paying MORE at the pumps as OPEC talks collapse: Biden urges oil cartel members Saudi Arabia and the UAE to ‘compromise’ to increase production and stop gas prices spiking even further”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9758521/Drivers-face-paying-pumps-OPEC-talks-collapse.html
So close pipelines and reduce domestic production because climate change, then ask other countries to produce more oil?
In public the new order pretends they care about the plebes… What you don’t see is that the new order worked hand in hand with the system to increase the price, because a whole lot of them make money and garner power from high energy prices that seriously hurt the less well off, in so many ways…
the correct price of gas at the pump is minimum 20$ per gallon to account for externalities. Should get to that as soon as possible.
I see a plan here… $15 minimum wage, but $20 for gas… Stay put peasant!
only the right people should drive, most should keep to public transport
It’s one way to avoid the need for numerous border crossing stations and people inspecting papers…
I should not wonder more than a mile from your pod anyway
Now you are getting it and properly complying citizen!
Your chocolate ration this week will be raised from 20mg to 15mg! Enjoy your bonus.
Hope this time the chocolate is not made from bugs
Sounds like you are asking for a few months at the reeducation camp citizen…
They don’t want us to have freedom of movement. Simple as that.
When have OPEC talks collapsing ever resulted in reduced supplies?
Edinburgh school cancels To Kill a Mockingbird as book ‘promotes white saviour narrative’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/edinburgh-school-to-kill-a-mockingbird-b1878806.html
I mean you can just remove a book from the curriculum without some bullshit signaling statement
I mean you can just…
No they quite literally cannot just do that.
That is one of the most powerful anti-racist novels or movies that came out of the latter half of the 20th Century. Taught to at least three or four generations of children. They do want to tear it all down and it’s an ugly, evil thing to do.
Of Mice and Men was also banned. Eh American Literature has no place in modern England [sic]
Well obviously To Kill A Mocking Bird is toxic masculinity, it is a huwite male sticking by his principles in the face of insurmountable opposition. Can’t have that.
Plus he’s a rape denier.
#BelieveWhiteWomen
Tip of the iceberg.
https://katu.com/news/local/lpga-pulls-longest-running-non-major-tournament-from-portland-cites-safety-concerns
Moneyshot:
“Their reason for departure center around the City of Portland’s response to safety and security around the city. With LPGA players, Media, Sponsors, and thousands of spectators coming into town this fall, the tournament organizers had concerns about the safety of the city and opted to find a venue out of the city limits.” AKA: We needed to get out of the Commies’ jurisdiction.
: sotto vocce : It’s a tough green, Byron! The side-slope is severe, it’s down hill and there is an obstruction about six feet from the hole. Rory has asked for an official ruling… Apparently the turd is in play! He must play his putt where it lays…
Its only 0915 but Im going to drunkenly cut the grass anyhow, before it gets too hot. I gotta work tonight.
Tall Cans™ !
It’s super hot and humid, good luck. Remember any beer below 5% ABV is probably hydrating.
“So… what’s exactly wrong with a fascist state?
I don’t support it at all, but I’d be shocked if you described fascism without the label and got less than 50% support for it. If you told people that you supported a system in which government, labor and business formed a partnership to organize society for its betterment, with an active ability to punish the recalcitrant, you’d have huge amounts of support. The only problem is the name, which has become sort of a catch-all for mean, nasty dictatorships.
What the progs (and a lot of others) are arguing for is explicitly fascist per Mussolini’s definitions. Only the ones arguing for a total end to non-State actors are communist.
Of course, if you applied the label to it, they would shriek and protest.
Only hit dogs yelp…
Hate to say it, but wdalasio, you’re probably right. How many government-business “partnerships” have taken place?
I’d say the big tech companies and their partnerships are verging on explicitly fascist.
Think about how many government pension funds own large chunks of equity in publicly-traded companies and you realize fascism has been in place in the US for over 30 years.
The only thing left to discuss is why the existing fascism is making things worse.
Good morning, Steve!
Thanks for – ahem – filling in.
Democrats are working to understand 6 January and ensure it takes it rightful place in the history books. On Wednesday the House passed a resolution to form a select committee to investigate the carnage, with Pelosi appointing eight members and McCarthy appointing five. Many believe that such a reckoning is necessary for a national catharsis and healing – the struggle of memory against forgetting.
McDermott, the political scientist at Fordham, commented: “This was an unprecedented historic event and it is not one that should be wiped off of the history books or hidden away as though it didn’t happen or be minimised in any way. What happened was very real.
“It’s something that the country has to come to terms with, which I don’t see happening right now. We’re in very real danger of forgetting that there is a part of our society that is willing to use violence to get what they want out of the government. And I’ve done polling on this myself and those people are out there. They do think violence is a legitimate way to go and, by giving them cover, this is a very dangerous precedent we’re setting.”
“I’m rubber. You’re glue. Bounces off me. Sticks to you.”
Democrats are pure of heart. They fight the Good Fight. Not like those icky right wingers who want to enslave the poor and rape the children.
Gaslighting 101
“Democrats are pure of heart. They fight the Good Fight.”
The fucking moron lemmings sure as shit have been conditioned to believe this is true. That’s why they never want to discuss facts or use logic. Anyone that questions them MUST be evil, so you can safely ignore what they say, even if it makes sense and hurts.
Want to really see a proggie lose it? Remind them that old adage saying that “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” exists precisely because evil people will pretend to do things because they mean to do well, but instead will only create more evil, and then blame that on their opposition.
O sometimes believe the difference between these proggies and other people is that proggies think what counts is your intentions, not the results of what you do. No wonder they want to destroy any form of meritocratic systems, because these actually reward success, not intentions.
proggies think what counts is your intentions
Respectfully disagree. There are some useful idiots who have ended up there, but any proggie of any level of “thought” would have to abandon that one pretty damn quickly. Can’t have backwards ideas like “good” and “evil” getting in the way of the accumulation of power. The idea that they conform to a single set of principles or that they are beholden to any particular ideal misses the point. They’re hedonic nihilists who crave power. Nothing matters to them, nothing is sacred beyond sating their power lust.
Don’t confuse what the evil fuckers capitalizing on the stupidity of the proggie masses believe (or don’t) with what they convince the masses to believe. Take a look at government programs that have horribly backfired. They are still around, and defended – vigorously – by these people, because the intent was good. That it actually produced the exact opposite result is completely ignored, and anyone pointing it out would end up demonized as being evil for calling out the failure when the intent is what counts.
They are still around, and defended – vigorously – by these people, because the intent was good.
IMO, that’s a facade. They may sell it to the rubes as the intent being good, but the reason those programs are still propped up is because it gets them votes and allows them to confiscate wealth (and therefore power) from the masses.
If public sentiment turned against Social Security, for example, they’d drop the program tomorrow and spin up some other way of disempowering the average American the next day.
I don’t doubt many have deluded themselves into thinking that they’ve tested their positions against their personal moral code somehow. Of course, that’s meaningless when one’s personal moral code can be summed up as a vengefully jealous power lust.
“IMO, that’s a facade. They may sell it to the rubes as the intent being good, but the reason those programs are still propped up is because it gets them votes and allows them to confiscate wealth (and therefore power) from the masses.”
If we are discussing the evil fuckers peddling this evil shit, you are correct. But when it comes to the idiots they peddle this bullshit to, most of them actually believe this shit is not just coming from good intentions, but actually works as promised (except for when the bad guys undermine it, of course). Keep that distinction in mind. The followers are mostly lemmings that want to show how good/smart they are because they believe in the right shit. The people in charge of controlling what beliefs this mob should hold however, are utterly evil and do what they do because it gives them a hold on power and a way to increase it.
“,If public sentiment turned against Social Security, for example, they’d drop the program tomorrow and spin up some other way of disempowering the average American the next day.”
I disagree. SS is already massively unpopular, primarily because even the dumbest understand that it is a Ponzi scheme that would get anyone private pulling this shit jailed in seconds and going broke because of government/bureaucratic ineptitude, but every time someone brings up a fix, the fucking liars use scare tactics to keep the thing alive and broken. We could have fixed this back in the 80s for a few billion. The price today is in the trillions. But the people that get power from it will not let it happen. They would rather sink the country than lose the advantage this racket gives them. And this is the same with practically every government vote buying racket: no matter how broke, inefficient, ineffective, or damaging it is, it has a bunch of people that gain power/wealth from it and they will keep it in play.
“Of course, that’s meaningless when one’s personal moral code can be summed up as a vengefully jealous power lust.”
This incongruity is one of the most glaring examples of these people not being logical or caring about facts. Their moral code, ever mutating, and practically always in ways that should give people whiplash, is infallible. That it mutates art the whim of those using it to keep & seek more power never sinks in with the true believers. It’s a fucking cult,, because the ideology on which it is predicated – marxism – in and of itself is an illogical quasi religion penned by disaffected rich loser kids with an axe to grind.
You overlook the importance of these programs as job programs. Once you’ve created a massive bureaucracy, no one is going to be able to dismantle the program the bureau exists to perform. No matter how minimally or badly or counter-productively it is performed.
Yes, intentions are irrelevant. In fact there used to be a meme among the SJW types “intentions aren’t fucking magic!” The point was the “harm” “experienced” by the “oppressed.” If someone higher on the progressive stack declared that you were oppressing them, that was it. Their “lived experience” is all that matters. That and the pecking order, obvs.
Democrats are working to understand 6 January and ensure it takes it rightful place in the history books. – it was a LARP and little more. There explained it to you.
…unprecedented…
*Looks back at Weather Underground bombings of the capital and deranged feminists storming the Kavanaugh hearings.*
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
A new law in Norway is coming into force that will mean social media influencers can’t post modified photos without declaring what they’ve done.
The rules will affect any paid posts across all social media platforms, as part of an effort to “reduce body pressure” among young people.
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-57721080
Does this apply to the government as well?
government are not paid they take what is theirs
If you have a drinking problem, don’t go to bars. If you have a gambling problem, don’t go to casinos. If you have low self-esteem, don’t go to Instagram.
but what about teh childrun
The chiiluns shouldn’t be on social media in the first place. I can think of no better way to ensure that your kids develop serious personality disorders, then to let them on the SMs…
High School is bad enough if they can even attend, anymore. It was bad when I was a pup, can’t imagine how hellish it is now.
I was one of the “popular” kids. Imagine being one of the invisible or bullied ones.
Tinder uggos hardest hit.
The rules will affect any paid posts across all social media platforms, as part of an effort to “reduce body pressure” among young people.
No more bubblebutts!
2) If you’ve got that many farmers, fishers and pastoralists – I think I see what the problem might be.
Something something why not them dig with spoons?
Why not HAVE them dig with spoons?
Today in unsurprising fuckery:
A Review of COVID-19 Deaths in Two California Counties Drops the Total by Nearly 25%
It’s probably still wildly high. Also, it’s important to remember that people were denied Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine early on. Instead, the medical experts waited to treat until the disease was advanced and they could use their $3,000/dose Remdesivir.
They killed a shit ton of people. For money.
In Romania the last few weeks the kept announcing more covid death from last year that were not properly registered
“It is possible the analysis in the two counties was still too generous. A review of COVID-19 deaths in Minnesota found nearly 40% of deaths recorded were not attributable to COVID-19. “
Couldn’t possibly have had anything to do with reimbursement rates. Nope, not a chance.
They certainly don’t see it that way.
It’s an “interesting” conundrum. In order to reconcile this complete clusterfuck, a lot of people are going to have to admit to themselves that they completely fucked up at a minimum or murdered through gross negligence at worst.
I’ll be surprised if there’s ever any progress on that front.
I think the worst reality for some of them is that they’re closet sociopaths who got off on having several socially acceptable means of committing mass murder.
Chinese propaganda for U.S. gun control:
https://twitter.com/XHNews/status/1412249632848048138
that is shit propaganda
Seriously, the guy with the guns is clearly having the most fun. As is typical.
Four-day week ‘an overwhelming success’ in Iceland
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57724779
Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an “overwhelming success” and led to many workers moving to shorter hours, researchers have said.
The trials, in which workers were paid the same amount for shorter hours, took place between 2015 and 2019.
Productivity remained the same or improved in the majority of workplaces, researchers said.
A range of workplaces took part, including preschools, offices, social service providers, and hospitals.
Given in most European countries if not all there are not enough doctors and most do long hours anyway I cannot see hoe this can extend to all hospitals
Heard that a few times this week from various folks who still work – they believe their employer got just as much work done by those who stayed at home, even with supervising kids doing virtual school, dogs that needed walking, etc. etc. My take is that work expands or contracts to fill whatever time is available. Also, working at the office gives plenty of time to slack off too. Many of us probably could have done our jobs in only three days (at same pay) if pressed to.
I definitely do not work non stop… neither at the office. I dick around here. But I am not an ER doctor
Yeah. Most of my work is reactionary in nature. No tickets coming in, then not much for me to do. Kind of hard to cut back the available hours for that.
I’ve seen most people fall into one of two buckets. One is the “I’m not used to being around my hellion kids, please let me go back to the office” bucket. The other is “I’m really digging this no commute thing, oh and Glenda stopped coming over to my desk asking me for a bunch of random bullshit, so I can actually focus on my work.”
Of course, the setup of the office and of your home office significantly impacts your response. The folks working at their dining room tables are antsy to get back to the office.
I actually can’t do a lot of the stuff I need to get done effectively at home. Mostly because the VPN throttles all connections to the work servers.
A 5 minute job goes to 30 minutes and a lot of longer stuff will time out or just lock up.
Yeah, no shit.
I have a lonnnnnng list of things to do when I have “time” (I don’t). I can’t imagine having nothing to do.
But I’ve been there in previous iterations of this job. Not any more.
So when the lockdown started, my business went semi-crazy. All those people who were going to write/publish a book whenever they had time to “get around to it” got around to it.
I can’t imagine having nothing to do.
Agreed. Since I was 19, I’ve always had jobs where the work was never-ending. Wife had a scheduled job (do things when scheduled, sit on hands when nothing is scheduled) when we first met, and she liked to IM all day long. It took a while before she realized that I was noncommunicative because I was working, not because I didn’t want to talk to her.
Frankly, I come on here to force myself to take breaks from the grind between tasks, otherwise I’d dive in at 8:30 and come back to the surface at 6 without taking a breath.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
I need to take a break between projects and decompress, re-set my mind so I can go dip my toes in the new project. Then, once I’m acclimated to what needs to be done, I dive in and don’t come up for air until it is done.
That said, it does take a toll on my family life.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Fair point. If I enjoyed the actual work, it probably wouldn’t be. However, I have found that managing my emotional energy on a daily/weekly basis is paramount to not spiraling into apathetic depression like clockwork every 3 months.
If they came to me and told me that they were trying out a scheme where I’d get paid the same for less hours if it worked, I’d make danm sure they thought it worked. At least until it was a permanent policy.
Questions:
1) If wages are fixed, how is the experiment valid? Many people would be willing to work one fewer day for lower wages. Others would then fill their gap in days with other jobs. Wages would absolutely decline for 4 day jobs.
2) How could a nurse be as overall productive in 4 days as 5? it makes no sense. it’s like a fast food cashier. someone needs to be there to do certain things at all times.
3) We have relatively free economies. why has no company on earth figured out this superior way of managing labor?
How could a nurse be as overall productive in 4 days as 5
Most bedside nursing schedules are 4 days anyway.
And they work like 12-hour shifts
Hope everyone had a nice long weekend. Mine was as usual too busy. But I did get to swim and see a few fireworks.
I did not have a long weekend. I feel ehm… othered if you will
Speaking of wishful thinking
Climate activists and their Democratic allies in Congress are pressing with renewed urgency for huge investments to slow global warming, after a bipartisan infrastructure plan cut out some of President Joe Biden’s key climate initiatives.
Supporters say a larger, Democratic-only package now being developed in Congress must meet Biden’s promise to move the country toward carbon-free electricity, make America a global leader in electric vehicles and create millions of jobs in solar, wind and other clean- energy industries.
But passage of a larger, multitrillion-dollar bill faces significant hurdles, even if Democrats use a procedural method that requires only a simple majority. It’s far from certain, in an evenly divided Senate, that moderate Democrats will agree to an expansive measure that could swell to as high as $6 trillion.
On the other hand, a less costly bill that does not fully address climate change risks losing support from large numbers of liberal Democrats who have pledged action on an issue that Biden has called “the existential crisis of our times.”
Elimination of climate measures in the bipartisan plan comes as the effects of climate change, like worsening disasters such as hurricanes, wildfires and drought, are increasing. Scientists urge immediate action to slash greenhouse emissions to avoid the worst consequences of global warming.
“The bipartisan infrastructure deal is not a climate bill,” said Jamal Raad, executive director of Evergreen Action, an advocacy group that has pushed for urgent action on climate change. “And we know that fossil fuel lobbyists in Washington are already hard at work to eliminate key climate provisions from the (Democrat-only) package.
“To meet this moment, Democrats must stand firm and pass a package that makes historic investments in climate, jobs and justice,″ he said.
And then the Climate-Change-Canceller-in-Chief waved his magic wand and healed the planet by decreeing free universal preschool to be a sacred right.
I can sell the US some pixie dust to help the green transition. Spray it over a coal plant and it turns into 100000 windmills. Only 1 billion dollar per dose.
Now you are really working your inner marxist…
I say this while thinking of the people like Michael Moore, Patrice Cullors, or a slew of other marxism peddlers that grew rich selling idiots pro-marxist propaganda and pipe dreams…
$10000/windmill would be an awesome bargain.
They’re about 6 inches tall, made of cardboard and produce 0 watts of electricity.
“… and produce 0 watts of electricity.”
So… windmills.
Nominating Obama wasn’t enough to heal the planet?
You had to buy the poster to make it work.
ZUBY:
@ZubyMusic
20 Things I’ve Learned (Or Had Confirmed) About Humanity During The ‘Pandemic’ (THREAD):
https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1412012537986568193
1/ Most people would rather be in the majority, than be right.
2/ At least 20% of the population has strong authoritarian tendencies, which will emerge under the right conditions.
3/ Fear of death is only rivalled by the fear of social disapproval. The latter could be stronger
etc
“1/ Most people would rather be in the majority, than be right.”
In the animal world, the animals that tend to be prey want to be part of the herd, because safety is in numbers…
“Most people would rather be in the majority, than be right.” Particularly if that majority is willing to throw the minority thinkers/doers into jail, camps, or graves.
Social disapproval is real. Death isn’t.
Death is a social construct?
That was sarcasm, brah. Damnit, I’m Sheldon…
Ain’t that the truth.
I like this guy.
https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1412355590144339971
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called the bipartisan deal inadequate when his state and others in the West face a record heat wave and destructive wildfires. “It will not include comprehensive clean energy policy, and I am not willing to support throwing climate change overboard,” Wyden said. “The two bills have to be directly connected.”
The $973 billion bipartisan deal includes money to build a national network of electric vehicle charging stations, purchase thousands of electric buses and upgrade the electrical grid. It also would spend $55 billion to improve drinking water and wastewater systems and $47 billion in resiliency efforts to tackle climate change.
But many climate-related proposals were cut out, including plans promoted by Biden to make electricity carbon-free by 2035 and spend hundreds of billions in tax incentives for clean energy such as wind and solar power and technologies that capture and store carbon emissions.
Magic Hat Economics.
It’s a pity- Wyden is excellent on domestic spying and foreign intervention. But he’s so shitty on economic freedom that it ruins the package.
Wyden is a piece of shit, and always has been. His mouthing on spying is a stopped clock.
He also needs to fill out a change of address form for his NY home and run for Senate from there if he wants to stay. Unfortunately the replacement will be even worse, like the empty headed mouth breather Merkeley.
Environmental groups say that is not enough.
“This is a historic, narrow opportunity to combat the climate crisis, and we can’t afford to kick the can down the road any further,” said Lauren Maunus, advocacy director for the Sunrise Movement, another environmental group. “When Democrats agree to water it down more, they’re condemning Americans to untold devastation.”
Yup.
Take your meds, hon.
Thailand leaked memo raises concerns over Sinovac vaccine’s efficacy
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/05/asia/thailand-sinovac-vaccine-efficacy-intl-hnk/index.html
Amused, I am.
heh
See this? This is how you sell cars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78sB1fz58-E
1. that is very old
2. stop male gazing our women
1. So?
2. No!
Yeah, she’s hot and all… But it takes The American Dream to sell custom vans.
Sorry man, Dusty Rhode’s bionic elbow trembles before her hotness.
She’s in the “so hot it hurts to look at her” category.
You ain’t lyin’ She would be welcome to ride in my truck.
…and then it says “Fiat”.
It could say Yugo, doesn’t matter.
*looks down at girly bits*
I don’t have the equipment necessary to get past “Fiat”.
I’m working on my obligatory bald spot for Corvette ownership.
Tonsure?
As a bald middle aged man who seriously likes the new Corvette I can relate.
My friend says just embrace the stereotype. Of course he owns a TL Ultralight TL-96 Star.
But would you buy Kraft dressing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhvfAAdK3Dw
Hell, I might buy Kraft dressing after watching that.
No.
*sees difference in price between Kraft and house brand*
Hell no.
Here’s how you sell used cars.
Meh. Neck tatt.
Sharp knees too…
And this is how you sell guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPHZy2ShV7w
Not as old as this, Pie.
Crap WTF beat me to it.
OK, the Abarth tattoo would drive me to crime.
Dead sexy.
Celebrity academia
Pultizer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones has announced that she declined the University of North Carolina’s offer of tenure and a teaching position with the school and has instead accepted a faculty role at Howard University.
She made the announcement on “CBS This Morning” with Gayle King on Tuesday.
Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates will take on faculty roles at Howard University, the school announced, while also founding a brand new Center for Journalism and Democracy.
The move is a significant one for Hannah-Jones, given the recent controversy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where her tenure was initially denied by the UNC system’s board of trustees. On June 30 — after protest from alumni, faculty and students — that decision was flipped.
With the additions, Coates, a Howard alum, will become a faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences, the school said in a news release. Meanwhile, Hannah-Jones will become a tenured member of Howard’s school of communications, filling the newly created position as Knight Chair in Race and Journalism. She will also found the Center for Journalism and Democracy, which will focus on training students in investigative journalism, the school said.
They’ll be cranking out high quality investigative journalismers in no time. Digging deep to uncover the racism and oppression which makes this nation an insufferable shithole.
She’s nothing more than a propagandist.
Congratulations! You have yet again managed to leverage white guilt in order to invade and devour an institution’s little remaining credibility.
” Digging deep to uncover the racism and oppression which makes this nation an insufferable shithole.”
Let’s salute those brave immigrants who ignoring the fact the US is a land of economic and racist oppression take up the brown man’s burden and come to this country to save us from our racism and economic oppressions.
Fernando Alberto Atelier | Resort 2020 | Full Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYjhhDkTjmY
In a recent interview with KATU’s Deb Knapp, Adams, who serves as the city’s director of strategic innovations, acknowledged there is still a lot of work to do.
At least he didn’t sugar coat it.
Alright, I’m out. Getting mean again and we can’t have that! UCS, get that checked out. That stuff nearly killed me. Goodnight to all and to all, a good night!
g’night
“We are at a critical juncture in our democracy, and yet our press does not reflect the nation it serves and too often struggles to grasp the danger for our country as we see growing attacks on free speech and the fundamental right to vote,” Hannah-Jones said in a statement. “In the storied tradition of the Black press, the Center for Journalism and Democracy will help produce journalists capable of accurately and urgently covering the challenges of our democracy with a clarity, skepticism, rigor and historical dexterity that is too often missing from today’s journalism.”
“Historical dexterity”? Is that what they call “sending it down the memory hole” now?
“we see growing attacks on free speech”
True statement, although probably not the way she thinks it is.
To her = being disagreed with?
Hannah-Jones is a renowned journalist focusing on racism in the US. Her most well-known piece of work is the “1619 Project,” a deeply researched piece of journalism that recontextualizes the history of the US around August 1619, when the first slave ship arrived. Her work has won her numerous accolades, including the coveted MacArthur Fellowship Genius Grant.
An intellectual giant, she is.
But she is super oppressed. Just ask her.
But my family arrived about century before that (fleeing Old World religious persecution, natch.). This Hannah-Jones person can kiss my enriched white ass.
Someone should ask these morons about the root of the word slave and where it comes from. Then ask them to provide the word for slave in ancient languages like Greek, Latin, Chines, Egyptian, Sumerian, and so forth… Ask them what the Moors of old used to call slaves…
Maybe then these idiots will realize they are full of shit? Heh, I know they know they are full of shit. It is part of the fucking marxist racket.
They’re impervious to logic, better off hittin’ your head against a wall, you’ll get farther.
Feels so good when you stop?
I.e. “makes shit up”.
Good job on the links STEVE. One of the better music links as well, never knew you were so talented.
Twenty years of straight up subsidizing and encouraging vagrancy in Portland, after years of letting it slide before that, is not going to be reversed at all and certainly not in a matter of days. The homeless activists have got their talons into the government slush funds aren’t going to give up power and the general public has been demoralized to the point of believing the nonsense that just more effort and money can end homelessness and to do otherwise is uncaring. And thanks to the city of Boise and their weak kneed defense, the courts have solidified the insanity.
What it will take
1) overturn Boise
2) defund all homeless programs and fire those government employees
3) seize the stolen property of the bums
4) use wooden shampoos on the bums until the they get message that they’re not welcome
5) hang the homeless activists from lampposts
Since none of that will even closely happen, it will continue as before. Except with moar hand wringing.
You forgot the most important part: more government ‘funding’
Two long-term things also will need to be done to clean up this shit.
1. End ranked-choice voting.
2. Add intellectual diversity at universities.
A huge part of the problem is giving away intellectual and moral spaces, and allowing them to be completely free of competing ideas. That would nip a lot of this in the bud.
LOL we just got it in NYC. It ain’t going away. I will be grabbing the popcorn when it puts that socialist that Manhattan white people like into the mayor’s office over the wishes of the rest of the city.
We have it here in the Great Land now too, put in by ballot in the 2020 election. 2022 will be our first voting year here, so I guess we’ll see what happens.
Jungle primaries are what you need to get rid of extremists – derp.
I don’t think shoving this particular group of amoral intellectuals out the door and replacing them with another group of amoral intellectuals in the same climate and context is going to accomplish anything. Strikes me as akin to wiping the mold off a slice of bread and putting it back in the bag with the rest of the loaf.
Wait for it…
I thought the dog was going to “salute” the Thots on Parade.
An interesting Twatter thread that was pointed out to me this AM, about how SF is loosing so many people and who is starting to talk about how shitty it is getting.
Worth a bit of reading time.
A huge part of the problem is giving away intellectual and moral spaces, and allowing them to be completely free of competing ideas. That would nip a lot of this in the bud.
I think this goes back to the issue of intentions trumping actual results. Doe-eyed compassion (feigned or not) gives the appearance of empathy, even as the facilitation of self destructive behavior makes things worse for everybody.
Oh, you are right about intentions vs. results. But if universities added a professor who would buck the prevailing trend and teach consequences, it would go a long way to ending some of this shit.
But if universities added a professor who would buck the prevailing trend and teach consequences, it would go a long way to ending some of this shit.
Absolutely. Bring in teachers who will tell their students to think about and look for the “unseen” effects of policy.
Well, the dean of faculty would doubtlessly be informed of their cis-white-heteronormative oppression and the professor would be removed within a week. He or she would not get another position in academia.
A huge part of the problem is giving away intellectual and moral spaces, and allowing them to be completely free of competing ideas. That would nip a lot of this in the bud.
Maybe it would. But, you should bear in mind, the intellectual and moral spaces weren’t given away. They were taken. In large part the leftists didn’t win the battle of ideas. They politicked so that only their ideas would be allowed on the stage. Try getting tenure if you’re a conservative or libertarian professor. Try getting books that don’t toe the lion published. And a lot of time it really is just plain out politicking. Of the worst sort of junior high school variety. I’m increasingly convinced that, to get back to a genuine marketplace of ideas, we’re going to need to see a whole set of parallel institutions created or the collapse of our existing intellectual and moral institutions.
I’m increasingly convinced that, to get back to a genuine marketplace of ideas, we’re going to need to see a whole set of parallel institutions created or the collapse of our existing intellectual and moral institutions.
I think both – the existing institutions will need to collapse to clear the canopy so new institutions can grow.
???
There’s no way out of this that doesn’t involve the near total collapse of the higher ed market.