Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a beautiful day it always is!
5 Takeaways From The Newly Filed Motions In The Special Counsel’s Sussmann Case
Texas to send illegal migrants to Washington, DC on charter buses
Kenosha County ravaged by BLM riots flips red after decades of Dem leadership
First acquittal given to Jan. 6 defendant
Surging interest rates push mortgage demand down more than 40% from a year ago
Joe Biden’s Released Tax Returns Don’t Explain Millions In Income. Where Did It Come From?
ABC, NBC, CBS ignore mass exodus of Kamala Harris staffers
NRSC announces record fundraising and plans to spend it on outreach to Latino voters
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song that has been stuck in my head for two days now, leaving me unable to think of any other song to post.
Joe Biden’s Released Tax Returns Don’t Explain Millions In Income. Where Did It Come From?
“Ten percent for the Big Guy!”
The other 90% was a lot of money.
I’m sure some of those criminal enterprises involved %ages much more favorable for the Big Guy.
Most likely.
“Hello? Is this on? Hello?”
Awfully quiet this morning. Squirrels running rampant for most folks or did they finally come for the lot of you?
Or maybe a portal opened to Glib-topia and I’m not one of the Chosen for the Glib-rapture. Sigh.
We are the Left Behind, as we were not worthy to be transported in the Glibening.
Thanks for the shoutout. I really intend to finish that one day.
Tribulation Taints.
On a serious note; I’ve noticed the declining amount of comments as well. I think after six years(at the very least) of gaslighting, open corruption, consolidation of power and money amongst the powerful and the implied threat of legal retribution for hyperbolic internet comments, many of us are just so goddamn jaded at this point that expressing rage or frustration while knowing nothing will ever be done about seems pointless.
None of it means a damn thing.
Yes I think people are tired of the rage-grind, but I know a couple people have left over personality clashes and suchlike.
Some of us work.
True — but there’s normally more chatter at this time of the morning from our regulars.
Glibertopia North is still recruiting.
If only, Mr Animal, if only.
I’d like to be your neighbor but alas…
IT IS 11:15 THURS PM HERE AND I AM HERE!
The only reason I don’t comment more is because I am (I think assuredly) the farthest away time-zone wise. You guys comment at strange hours for me to actively comment all the time. But I am always lurking even when I can’t comment. I spend about 4 hours a day reading y’all.
Soon though Evan, it’ll be over and you can wake up to the Early Bird Special here in the Glib World
I certainly hope so. Juggling confusion on all fronts. Still no plane ticket! Should be leaving within 8 days…
That Miss Bristol story…
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Is there a photo of the THOT?
Nope. The judge is decent looking though.
Yep. Would enjoy some judicial mistrangement orders from her.
Morning, Banjos!
Re: the mortgage interest rates… what I’m wondering / worried about… all those stories about Blackrock and whatnot getting free access to the WHIRRRing Federal Reserve presses, seems like they won’t care about interest rates (they’re paying Monopoly money cash anyway after all). So — another step towards “You will own nothing and be happy?”
On the song and a bit of a movie review front — not a huge Beatles fan (I like them well enough, just not a huge fan) — did watch this a month of so back and found it entertaining. For what a lurker’s opinion is worth and all.
After all these posts we’re going to have to take your L card away. Welcome to the club, tulpa.
Regarding interest rates in general… My car is most likely FUBAR and we’ll have to buy a new used car soon. I know rates need to go up to ameliorate the coming currency disaster, but hopefully I can secure a car loan before rates are 40%
In my opinion, raising the rates is like treating a high temperature of a cold.
Sure, you’re freaking with a symptom, but you’re not actually getting better. The real problems causing inflation are shortages of good and labor and excessive federal spending. Until you take on the underlying issues your not going to get any better. We’re in for an end to inflation perhaps, but only because people won’t be able to buy anything, not because we increased the supply of goods and services to their normal levels.
“Joe Biden’s Released Tax Returns Don’t Explain Millions In Income.”
And I’m scared to death that not reporting the birthday dinner my grand daughter gave me might cause me IRS problems…
Yet another sign post that we’re way way too far down the “Rule of Men, not Rule of Law” path.
With a Repub running Kenosha the Gander Mountain store should do a booming business
Because what’s good for the Goose Mountain…. ?
I have a feeling that the only J6 exonerations will come from bench trials, not DC juries.
I’m surprised we’re even getting any from those, but yeah. That they’ve been going along with so much and screeching the “You rebel scum!” rhetoric hasn’t elevated my opinion of that sector of the judiciary.
Well, they aren’t getting off without punishment. It is just reduced to time served.
Nothing that 900 busloads of newly arrived immigrants won’t cure in DC. It should get the attention of the present administration that the Truckers for America didn’t get.
Every border state should do that. Drop them all off at the Capitol steps.
If you can find the Orson Welles movie “Compulsion”, based on the Leopold and Loeb story, Welles plays the lawyer and tells his clients to go for a bench trial for just that reason.
Another in the “That’s rain on your leg… no, really” category….
She’s getting more and more blatant. They just don’t give a shit that we know they are lying.
“To help local officials whose communities are being overwhelmed by hordes of illegal immigrants who are being dropped off by the Biden administration,” Gov. Abbott said, “Texas is providing charter buses to send these illegal immigrants … to Washington, DC.”
“We are sending them to the United States’ capital where the Biden administration will be able to more immediately address the needs of the people that they are allowing to come across our border.”
I’m sorry to hear of Gov. Abbots’ impending arrest for human trafficking.
He lets them ride across State lines on his lap.
If it wasn’t for the “Rule of Men” state noted above — pointing out all the hush hush flights by the Feds to distribute these same types of folks around the country would come to mind. (And that’s exactly what I expect to happen to Texas if they do this — the Biden admin will just throw them on a plane and distribute them back around Texas, probably starting with whatever non-Austin properties the governor owns out of spite…)
“That vaz ze Joke!”
When they get to DC, they can ask Joe…
Heh.
So, the principle of voting with our feet is ok if one, say, wants to leave New York to live in Florida, but not to leave a shithole country to live in the US? Why is there not the same criticism of the fleeing New Yorker? Serious question.
Because NY and FL are just administrative districts of FedGov?
Sort of like how “Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes”?
I think there is some criticism of new yorkers and others for that reason.
I can only say the main difference is the existence of different cultures and national borders. Whether that is justified probably boils down to your conception of the purpose of the state, or lack thereof.
I do hear criticism of fleeing New Yorkers, but only along the lines of “don’t New York my Florida,” which I agree with. But to imply that immigrants don’t add value to our country… not the same thing.
These aren’t electrical engineers and programmers flowing across the border by the millions – they are unskilled peasants.
In fact, an engineer or an experienced South African farmer looking to relocate and start a business in the U.S. would have to wait years to get in.
This country was built on unskilled immigration. The difference is, they came for opportunity and I don’t know that that is as true anymore. Perhaps for some, but I’m equally willing to believe, that much of the wave of illegals is coming to plunder welfare (because we have a political class that sustains itself based on dependency).
This country was built on unskilled immigration.
I think a fair number of the immigrants back in the Ellis Island heyay, were not, in fact unskilled peasants, but leaving that aside, the country could absorb and needed a lot more unskilled workers back in the day. That is not the case today, not at volume.
The sole objective of immigrantion policy should not be the wellbeing of over 6 billion non-Americans. Its should be the long-term self-interest of American citizens. Which is not an easy or obvious thing to define, much less implement, but it appears to be nowhere on the list of current immigration policy priorities.
Yes, I think most people able to come here were from the middle class. I know that was the case of Ireland during the famine- the poor don’t have the money to get sent overseas. It would help explain why then, like now, legal immigrants end up doing fairly well.
Concrete conditions (barriers to employment and housing, the welfare state, etc) have an effect such that other concrete policy decisions do not align with professed abstract beliefs (open borders). This is no more hypocrisy than a pro-life woman terminating a pregnancy that will kill her.
Well, it may just be my little world here in Nashville, but my plant would be struggling without the immigrants from south and central America. They are not “peasants.” I’ve got former engineers, teachers, technicians, administrators, etc. doing excellent work here. Most are from the middle class of their former homes and have a work ethic that far surpasses the native locals, so much so that I’ve made being bilingual a requirement of all entry-level leaders to make the plant environment more attractive to immigrants. They openly love America and appreciate its opportunities.
I don’t doubt that, just saying that the virtually unlimited immigration waves in the past were also coupled with virtually unlimited housing and employment opportunities; those latter two have now been criminalized.
@NA, I hear ya. I just get upset at the recent stereotyping (not by you) and at Abbott’s shipping people around like it’s some game (I know Biden does it, too). They’re people who want a better life and the negative rhetoric saddens me. We should focus our criticisms on our gubmint’s policies that incentivize immigrants to come here for the wrong reasons, not on the immigrants themselves.
Plisade, a-fucking-men. I love the people that come here for the right reason, more than I do most of the people that were born here and think everything is owed to them because of that.
Indeed. I’m likely one of the more ‘open borders’ types here because I believe that both capital and labor should be able to flow freely to wherever it pleases. To see people who have uprooted their lives, often being taken advantage of by predatory actors all the way to the US border, be used as pawns or playthings to score political is anti-human and disgusting regardless of the ideology of the user. My grandparents and mother were living a Homestead AFB at the time and sponsored/housed several of these kids; that has always stuck with me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Peter_Pan
@JI & Lobot, thanks. Good to know others feel the same.
Abbott’s shipping people around like it’s some game
They are going to be shipped by somebody to some community. Why not by him, to DC?
Back in the Trump administration, my proposal was to ship all the illegals allowed in by the Hawaiian trial judge to Hawaii.
To see people who have uprooted their lives, often being taken advantage of by predatory actors all the way to the US border, be used as pawns or playthings to score political is anti-human and disgusting regardless of the ideology of the user.
I agree, but the NGO networks and state actors who are behind the mass waves of immigration (and I don’t believe for a moment these are entirely spontaneous), and their domestic wing in the US, have made this political from the get-go. There is no disentangling politics and culture from mass immigration, much as we might wish it so.
“Why not by him, to DC?”
Fair enough, but he’s doing it to send a political message, a la your second point, and that’s what I have a problem with, too. From personal experience, if the immigrants have a relative somewhere here they are sent to that relative. If they don’t, I don’t know what they process is for determining where they go, but I would think it should be more considerate of where they’re most likely to be needed and succeed.
Perhaps because the US simply can’t accommodate all the people who live in shithole countries and want to vote with their feet and move here.
We’ve been promised food shortages. Sane / non-evil leaders wouldn’t be purposefully adding millions of mouths to feed to the country in that situation.
A preview of things to come:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-60993768
Of course it’s all Putin’s fault.
The crowds our insane/evil leaders let in are accustomed to food shortages and living under corrupt and dictatorial governments. They are the ideal population for the future Our Rulers intend for us. Hence, the welcome mat that used to be the southern border.
Send them all to California.
Mornin’ Banjos! Don’t fret about that song overmuch. Many of us are creeping up to that age and can’t believe that we have got so far.
I knew I would get old. I just didn’t expect it to happen so fast.
You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet
Well, I’m 3 1/2 score (+1), so I’ve seen a bit ;-\
You did your best little fella and made us proud.
Rabies-positive fox euthanized after biting 9 people on Capitol Hill
The martyr we need. I’ll pray for her, saint capitol Hill Fox.
Well, we know Drake isn’t a biologist — good Supreme Court candidate, apparently.
Obvious crack is obvious — “Federal Government gets a pain in THEIR ass for a change, thanks to red haired vixen”
Such misogyny I can’t even.
Wow. Ami Bera is working for Politico at the same time she is a sitting Congresswoman? Seems like a conflict of interest, but what do I know.
I guess if Psaki isn’t violating nineteen ethics rules by negotiating for a new job with the media companies while still the PR flack who decides on who to call, nothing is out of bounds.
So you can catch rabbies if you bite a politician?
Be happy if that’s all you catch.
*morale patch manufacturers dust off fox iconography*
Fjallraven is now banned on Capitol Hill.
The crossover between morale patch manufacturers and furry artists needs to be investigated…
LOL. They’re trying to not get the animal rights nutjobs up in arms. The kits will have to be euthanized as well. The only way to positively test for rabies is to take brain samples from the animal. That’s kind of hard to do without killing them.
I would think that you’d quarantine the kits. Then give them up for adoption to a local DIY club.
You can quarantine them for a few weeks and look for symptoms. You only need brain tissue in order to do a determination quickly.
Dicks out for Capitol Fox. And Harambe.
From last thread:
“A 55 Gallon drum of Pine-Sol and a “personal massager”?”
Nice answer festus. The pine sol in particular is on point.
Thanks for that! I am a “Cat-Dad” I know whereof I speak.
My brother married into a seriously cat crazy household.
Like 30+ cats. Not sure anyone knew the exact number. The floors could no longer be made to smell clean and had to be removed. They divorced eventually, which was sad especially for the kids. Not a healthy environment for children though. Sad to see a woman who cared more for animals than her own offspring.
I blame the toxoplasmosis.
Cats are cute and ignorable when you’re not in the mood to deal with them.
Depends on the cat. I’ve had cats that would demand attention at times and then engage in destructive behavior when they didn’t get it.
You’ve met Oscar.
U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden on Wednesday acquitted New Mexico engineer Matthew Martin on four misdemeanor charges after the defendant testified he thought police allowed him into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Politico reported.
McFadden said Martin’s assertion was “plausible” based on videos from that day. The judge, a Trump appointee, said prosecutors did not prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.
“People were streaming by, and the officers made no attempt to stop the people,” McFadden said, Politico reported.
Soft. On. Insurrection.
A Trump appointee. Nice little manouver right in the middle of the article right there.
Joe Biden’s Released Tax Returns Don’t Explain Millions In Income. Where Did It Come From?
Chicoms. Ukrainian energy firms. Russian mayors.
I remember when politicians made real efforts to hide their corruption. Now they just tell the media not to report it.
Blue tarantula.
I normally don’t do spider posts…
Are those spreading with that Jolo spider?
>a href=”https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tarantulas_(BW)”>Tarantulas — Terrorize!
Dangnabbit. Fixed. Hopefully. Not going to be funny out of the moment…. Maybe Elon can buy WordPress and push for an edit button here too.
Pass.
Even the animal kingdom is supporting Ukraine.
Nope, noooooope, no way….
I hope that’s real. She’s stunning.
ABC, NBC, CBS ignore mass exodus of Kamala Harris staffers
Staffing changes are an unprecedented sign of rats leaping from a sinking ship. Sometimes.
Better than being flayed by the barnacles or getting sucked under by the down-wash. They’ll be fine. Plenty of other grifting NGO’s out there to hover about.
Footage from the courtroom shows Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer asking whether anyone has any concerns about the requirements asked of them.
Circuit Judge Only Fans can debrief me any day.
To be fair, “…and get away with it” was not in the title.
https://wgntv.com/news/how-to-murder-your-husband-author-on-trial-for-husbands-death/
I bet they did nazi that coming.
Almost 800 police officers in 11 of Germany’s 16 federal states took part in raids on far-right extremist groups on Wednesday, German media reported.
Authorities said they searched the residences of 50 suspected right-wing extremists. Some 11 other locations were also searched.
The raids began in the early morning and the neo-Nazi groups “Atomwaffen Division” (AWD), “Combat 18” (C18) and “Knockout 51” (K51) were the main focus.
A spokesperson for the state prosecutor’s office said four suspects were arrested, German magazine Der Spiegel reported. The suspects are believed to be leaders of K51, one of whom is also being investigated in connection with AWD.
Some of the suspects face charges of being members of terrorist groups, others of being part of a criminal organization, according to Der Spiegel.
I thought Atomwaffen was a US group murdering hundreds of non-whites every week, and stopping them is a much bigger priority than antifa.
So Michael Sussman was behind pushing the fake Steele dossier to the FBI… now why does that name sound familiar…
Keep your friends close…
Yep. I never bought into the Crowdstrike bullshit. They didn’t turn that server over to the FBI for a reason.
And the guy who likely actually released the emails getting killed in a robbery where nothing was stolen is just a coincidence.
At this point I just assume the DNC hires known spies for Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran and anyone else who will pay them for the information.
That was the Wasserman-Shulz approach for her own Congressional office.
Jesus Christ, I’m in a state. I really need to make some changes, post-haste. I can go on like this but I don’t want to. I need a break. I need something to look forward to. Impending unemployment and health problems are not helping. Just tiny bits of good tidings, ya know? My travails are nothing compared to most but they still vex me to no end.
I know the feeling Festus.
At least I’m supposed to be on vacation next week.
My fervent wishes for good weather and safe passages IYKWIM.
Appreciate it. As the predictions currently stand, I’ll be leaving highs in the 50’s/lows in the upper 30’s to be arriving with highs in the 70’s/lows in the mid 50’s.
Other issues are outside of my direct control other then going to the nuclear option.
LOL @ eco-friendly.
I’ll log a note about what is not good for modern armor.
They really should add more protection to the trunk as well.
They should branch out to other vehicle types as well.
Wood
The Russian ruble is HIGHER NOW against the dollar than it was before the invasion! | Mark Steyn
At least we still get back up plan for trading oil by table length. – Russia
We are getting the shit kicked out of us in the economic war that the Biden Administration has launched.
So glad the adults are back in charge.
What a gay interview.
Comedian Kate McKinnon said a listener asked, “What are your thoughts on the state of attack we find on the LGBTQ+ community with Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill passing 22-to-17 and Texas anti-trans agenda. I can’t help but wonder how this plays into the midterm elections?”
Clinton said, “Oh my gosh, well, first off, it is profoundly outrageous and deeply sad that people in positions of power in our country who are more interested in undermining and opposing the rights of individuals than they are in bringing people together. I think people have to stand up to it. The idea ‘don’t say gay,’ I think people should go around saying gay all the time. Anything we can do to puncture the hypocrisy and the cruelty that lies behind this, we need to be doing.”
She added, “He mentioned the midterms. Let me just say, please, please turn out and vote. The hypocrites and the hate-mongers win when people don’t vote.”
I’m old enough to ‘member when Her Shrillness was against gay marriage.
“If I have to have a philandering beard, the rest of you lesbians should too!”
She’s so loathsome that I haven’t the words. SugarFree, that’s your cue!
“deeply sad that people in positions of power in our country who are more interested in undermining and opposing the rights of individuals, except for kids and parents“
undermining and opposing the rights of individuals
I’ve been told individuals don’t have rights.
The “Don’t say gay” has apparently met with complete approval by the journolist. Two recent articles in local rags with the exact same headline:
New Ohio House bill combines parts of Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ with prohibition against teaching so-called ‘divisive concepts’ about race
Ok, groomers.
I have no intention of letting go of that retort for quite a while. Let those who have been spewing accusations of “Nazi” suck on being tarred with accusations of pedophilia. They’ve earned it.
Indeed!
Don’t ever stop. The whole thing has gone from tolerating what other adults do, to “celebrating” it, or else. Now they want you to tolerate them grooming and fucking your kids.
Every time a rightist throws around the word “groomer” or “pedo”, another terrible person comes out of relative obscurity to demonstrate just how bad things really are.
And, like clockwork, the usual suspects (“centrists”, “moderate Republicans”, etc.) are decrying this as unfair and lacking nuance. They hate it when ordinary people stumble onto effective tactics.
Lol. Here’s some nuance.
I’m glad people are hammering on this. There is more than one way to separate kids from their families, beyond the old school reeducation camps.
Don’t like that guy for being anti-anonymity but he’s not wrong here.
Bill Kristol is such a worthless weasel.
Anti-anonymity? Not really. He suggested blue checks automatically for anyone willing to be verified and the ability to filter those who aren’t.
His opinion and, as a daily Twitter consumer, I think it has some merit.
Verification is de-anonymization. It places knowledge of your identity in the hands of random Twitter employees, who have not exactly proven to be entirely trustworthy.
What he proposes, if taken at face value, will just further ghettoize anon Twitter, and he’ll likely get verified and thus move outside the ghetto, which will make his opinions more moderate and palatable to normies (a direction he seems to be heading anyway). No benefit to anyone besides him for that.
My favorite part is how they think anti-grooming means anti-gay.
“Don’t have secret talks about sex with my kids.”
“WHY DO YOU HATE GAY PEOPLE?”
“Wait, what?”
Many such cases.
Grew up gay in normal suburban America. None of my teachers talked about gayness until well into high school, and even then only rarely. Did not cause me to kill myself. Did not make me any less gay.
Lots of people deserve the rope but are only getting slaps on the wrist, and still they whine.
Clearly the same thing. I don’t want anyone talking to my kid about sex, thanks.
It’s just more conspiracy theories they explained… Looks like Kristol already picked up the talking point. David French will be along shortly to make the conservative case for grooming children.
https://theweek.com/talking-points/1012257/what-conservatives-really-mean-when-they-say-groomer
“So-called” divisive concepts on race, but not “so-called” don’t say gay.
When I first heard about the Florida bill some weeks back, the bubble-headed bleach blonde on TV said, a bill dubbed the “don’t say gay” bill. At that point I wanted to stop her, shake her by the neck, and ask her “dubbed by whom?”
We used to say gay all the time as kids growing up, but they told us to stop!
We never said the word as kids because we didn’t know such a thing existed. I was into my 20s (in the late ’50s) before I realized that some had different directions.
I really was a bumpkin from the sticks and still am. My, my, how times have changed.
Of course. It’s called “flu season”.
DAVID WESTIN: Does the fall look like the last couple of falls? I didn’t even hear about falls and pandemics until COVID came along, and then I learned you have to be careful because we all go back indoors and the transmissibility goes up. Should we expect that again this year? Should we be bracing for October time?
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI: I think it is likely we will see a surge in the fall. Again, when we talk about these things, these are uncharted waters for us for this virus. If one talks about the flu or other infections in which you have decades and decades of experience, you can predict with some degree of accuracy what you might see. I would think we’re going to expect that we’ll see some increase in cases as you get to the colder weather in the fall.
The only question that Fauci should have to respond to: “Do you plead guilty or not guilty?”
If anyone else doesn’t see this as a massive Government sponsored kick-back to the Pharm companies then I have nothing left to say. Fauchi should be rotting in the boats.
The pharma companies have the regulators by the short and curlies now. Any attempts by the regulators to rectify the damage they’ve done will be met by threats of being exposed, ruined, or even killed. The monetary sums and careers involved are massive.
Carl Sagan’s “Billions and billions” used to be a comedic trope.
It took a pandemic for you to learn that, David? And we’re supposed to trust you to inform us.
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I see that good old Noam Chomsky is pratteling on about doom and gloom. Seems that all of the World’s problems can be sourced back to Donald J. Trump. Glad that the old commie cleared that up for me. Now I can rest my head knowing that cutting the head off the hydra is such a simple task. He also resembles a crazy homeless person yelling at passersby on the thoroughfare so at least he’s got that going for him.
Chomsky had brief moments of lucidity and excellent observations, but he never was able to apply them to his own cognitive biases.
As of late he’s just turned into a raving lunatic that is destroying whatever credibility he ever had.
His hatred of Israel turned me off, right quick.
It’s his M.O. – he makes an iron-clad case that the political system is run by one corrupt faction after another, but then he out of the blue says “yeah, but it would be different if the guys I like were in charge”. No Noam, that isn’t consistent with your analysis at all.
Amen. That’s basically the problem every leftist ought to face, but refuses to do so, because it would be admitting that they’re equally or more capable of evil as the people they openly despise.
The truth communists won’t own up to is that the “right” people were in charge. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot, Hoxha, Ceaușescu; these people were all sincere communists. They took communism exactly where it is wont to go. The experiment does not need to be repeated yet another time with a different group of people to reach the same result. “But Nepal!” “But Kerala!” Those are insincere communists. They’re probably better people (time will tell) in terms of non-communistic outcomes (like not dying in a famine or getting shot for counterrevolutionary thoughts) but they’re not communisming better because of the right people, they’re not really doing a communism at all (all the better for everyone anyway).
Many of the problems in our society do trace back to having the wrong people in power. You could argue that is actually a critical failing of “liberal democracy”: an inability to police its leaders effectively. However, this does not mean “real liberal democracy” has never been tried. Indeed, we are living it quite sincerely now. Yet, just like the communists, many still argue we haven’t liberal democracied hard enough yet. Our problems may be down to people, but that’s not because the people aren’t pure enough; if anything, it’s because they’re too pure(ly retarded).
Can you elaborate on Kerala? I have Indian in-laws who occasionally bring it up.
I’d imagine they could tell the story better than I can, but essentially Kerala scores surprisingly high on HDI and low on the Gini coefficient while having a comparable cost of living to the rest of India and thus much lower than Western Europe or the U.S./Canada/Australia/NZ. Their dominant state-level political party/bloc is the Communist Party of India (well, one of them anyway). The situation is sometimes called “democratic communism” because the CPI doesn’t always hold power, at times swapping out with the mainstream left-wing party Indian National Congress (which was the majority party of all India for a long time until recently being supplanted by Modi’s BJP). There isn’t really any sort of right wing in Kerala, the two factions are far-left and near-left. Some have likened it to a first-world European social-welfare state but with third-world cost of living. Somehow I doubt the veracity of this comparison.
However, the far left in Kerala is still operating under the political umbrella of the liberal-democratic nation of India, there are structural limits to how far they can take communism without rebelling, and the (somewhat) competitive political environment forces them to moderate their positions. Kerala’s economy is also heavily supported by people working outside Kerala (often outside India) and sending money back, even moreso than the rest of the country. It’s in a fairly unique position and its “success” has proven difficult to replicate elsewhere. No doubt also like the European welfare states, there is the confounding variable of local culture, thriftiness, etc. at play.
So, what you’re saying is, they’re spending other people’s money.
That’s implied with them being commies.
Good morning to the lovely and talented Banjos. Thanks for the string of good news.
“Hans, are we the Baddies?”
Did Hans shoot first?
Don’t give me no lines and keep your Hans to yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdpAop7gp0w
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C’mon man, don’t be giving the mssus any ideas.
*giggles*
I’m imagining Mrs. Fourscore telling you “Hey baby, there is some pussy in the bedroom waiting for you, it will make you dance with joy” and you bursting through the door ala Kool-Aid man only to find a stray kitten.
If she “finds” a puppy I’ll be very concerned
Worldle was easy today.
Done in one.
Sorry truckers, Ontario will not tolerate your uppitiness any more
Section 2 sets out the main prohibitions in the Act. Subsection 2 (1) prohibits persons from impeding access to or egress from, or the ordinary use of, protected transportation infrastructure, or from directly or indirectly causing such access, egress or ordinary use to be impeded, if the impediment has or is reasonably expected to have the effect of disrupting ordinary economic activity or interfering with the safety, health or well-being of members of the public. Subsection 2 (4) prohibits persons from knowingly aiding a person in doing something prohibited under subsection (1). Subsections 2 (3) and (5) set out exceptions and circumstances in which the prohibitions do not apply.
Most of the rest of the Act addresses enforcement.
Sections 3 to 9 set out powers and procedures to deal with circumstances in which there are reasonable grounds to believe that there is or has been a contravention of a prohibition under section 2.
1. Section 3 empowers police officers to direct persons to cease contravening section 2, including to disperse, or to remove objects being used in a contravention of section 2. “Object” is defined in section 1 as including vehicles. In specified circumstances, police officers may remove an object.
2. Section 4 empowers police officers to direct owners or operators of vehicles being used in a contravention of section 2 to remove the vehicles. If they are not removed, they may be removed by police officers.
3. Section 5 provides that police officers may maintain possession of and store objects that have been removed under section 3 or 4, for up to 30 days. Subsection 5 (3) makes costs and charges arising from the removal or storage of an object a debt due by the owner of the object and other specified persons.
4. Section 6 provides for police officers to be assisted in the removal or storage of objects.
5. Section 7 empowers police officers to direct persons who use a vehicle in contravening section 2 to surrender their driver’s licence. At the same time, the driver’s licence is suspended for 14 days. Section 7 applies with respect to driver’s licences issued outside of Ontario, with specified modifications.
6. Section 8 empowers police officers to seize the number plates displayed on vehicles used in contravening section 2. At the same time, the plate portion of the permit for the vehicle is suspended for 14 days. Section 8 applies with respect to number plates and vehicle permits issued outside of Ontario, with specified modifications.
7. Section 9 empowers the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to make orders, without a hearing, suspending or cancelling the plate portion of a permit for a commercial motor vehicle or trailer or a CVOR certificate, if the holder of the permit or certificate has contravened section 2 or is the owner or operator of a commercial motor vehicle or trailer that has been used in a contravention under that section. If such an order has been made, the number plates displayed on the commercial motor vehicle or trailer may be seized. A request may be made for the order to be modified or rescinded, and the Registrar is required to review and consider the request. Section 9 applies with respect to commercial motor vehicles and trailers with vehicle permits issued outside of Ontario, with specified modifications.
According to news sources of a partisan nature, this also link up with previous legislation allowing CanGov to seize any other property as “compensation.”
So you are saying that it is up to us to denazify Canada.
Sweet sweet tyranny, for the good of the people.
I say we build a wall on the northern border too.
All your truckses are belong to us
So just as a thought exercise, go apply all that at the Edmund Pettis Bridge and see how you like the optics.
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Twitter’s next Board meeting is gonna be lit
This was amusing.
Talk about stolen base.
Free trade is when you hobble domestic markets with environmental, labor, and other regulatory burdens but then open them up to competition from much less regulated foreign markets.
Talk about missing the point.
They still don’t get it.
But, hot damn, the comments were shockingly good. Admittedly, I haven’t been to TOS in a long, long time but the last few times I peeked the comments were a dumpster fire of TDS and feces flinging.
Someone at TOS whining about intellectual purity and dumping professed beliefs? Well I never.
Wut
Set aside the Foxconn business, which is probably down to COVID, what “ruinous effects” of the tariffs were there? What am I “witnessing” except a bald-faced assertion by the author?
Also, LOL at the choice of Yoram Hazony and Dave Rubin as the voices of “national conservatism”. Clout-chasers and mainstreamers not be cucks and sellouts challenge (difficulty: impossible).
which is probably down to COVID
No, It was dead before that.
The tariffs had many unintended consequences (at least if you credit Trump’s intentions). JFC, his trade advisor – Navarro? Total goddamn crackpot.
More on the tariffs.
There’s more from Forbes and Brookings if you’d prefer.
That reads like a long list of the tariffs never actually happening. Pathetic.
“Pathetic” is directed at the lack of follow-through on the Trump admin, not at you.
Navarro was one of Trump’s worst failures. He was an economic Fauci. He kept hanging on and on…
This seems like the exact sort of problem one could use tariffs to fix…
What benefit is there in subsidizing one thing at the expense of another. You certainly won’t be able to export them and you’ve devoted production to that rather than something you could.
Calhoun actually had a decent argument against the tariffs (back in the day). Even though he was a despicable human being. It is using political power to benefit one section of the country at the expense of another.
Trade operates on division of labor (we’re good at this, they’re good at that, so we exchange for mutual benefit). What divides labor between the U.S. and China? Primarily, it’s down to different regulatory environments. The U.S. regulators have run amok and can’t be bought; the Chinese regulators have a sense of national interest limiting them, and when that isn’t enough, at least are bribable. So the division of labor between the U.S. and China operates along a legal gradient rather than an economic one. This benefits the Chinese and their flexible/nationalist system at the expense of the U.S. and its rigid/internationalist system.
The lumpenbourgeoisie in the U.S. benefits from this arrangement, but they have no deep loyalty to this country, so why must I care about their interests more than they care about mine and others’?. The concept of knock-on effects and supply-side economics can cause benefits to accrue to the rest of us (a rising tide lifts all boats, in theory), but if those benefits are not actually accruing, then what? Wages at the low end have not kept pace with inflation; productivity and CPI diverged from average wage in the early 1970s. There are multiple reasons for this, and one of the key factors is indeed the welfare state, but it’s also down to loose money, loose credit, and yes, loosened trade rules.
If an American company cannot profitably mine for rare-earths in the U.S. but a Chinese company can profitably mine for rare-earths in the PRC (or Africa), and the difference is almost entirely due to U.S. versus Chinese laws, why would we not apply any pressure upon either ourselves or the PRC to change their respective laws? Either ours are too strict or theirs are too loose (or both, whatever, there’s a great disparity). “The environment matters” is not a geographic slogan. The U.S. is a culturally and at times militarily imperialistic country, why can’t be economically imperialistic (to our citizens’ benefit) as well? Why have the big stick if you can only use for stupid reasons?
Tariffs are one way to deal with this problem. I’m willing to entertain others but I will not discount a (potentially) effective tool just because it makes the professional-managerial class (of which I’m a disillusioned part) and their masters unhappy. This capitalist does not find labor power any more offensive than email power.
Our supply chain manager just passed on this note from our main steel supplier. Let’s go, Brandon!
That reminds me. It’s a good time to scrap some metal.
Yep. Steel scrap is starting at $0.11/lb
Consequences, how do they work? Too bad, lack of steel imports requires more people to drive their rust mobiles longer, thereby shorting the scrap inventory.
People like me are of little help
/Looks out the window at the ’04 wonder truck
And the taconite mill up the Shore is shutting down…
https://www.fox21online.com/2022/02/11/cleveland-cliffs-to-temporarily-idle-northshore-mining/
Isn’t taco nite traditionally on Tuesday?
Paging Lach…
I’m sure Biden and his crack squad of economic advisors would have a solution to this, something like “make more things”, “work longer hours”, or “lower your prices.”
There’s a time to make more steel, and the best time for it to be time, is now.
Yep. We’ve been getting spanked on everything. Strut, galvaneal, and fittings.
Oddly, our plastic stuff – while lead times are insane – have held price fairly well.
Yeah, this is just the latest hiccup. Inventories were starting to level out some and prices were just starting to come down, then Putin got all handsy.
Good morning, Banjos!
Wow, there are some actual rays of sunshine in those lynx!
I’ll leave you with a song that has been stuck in my head for two days now, leaving me unable to think of any other song to post.
Weird. This one has been stuck in my head.
Have a great day, people!
I was looking at steel arch buildings and suppliers yesterday. Prices are significantly higher than they were a year ago, if you can even find them. Everybody wants you to call or e-mail them, presumably because prices are so volatile.
He should have just surrendered to the attackers.
“According to the initial investigation, the farmer fired twice with a large caliber rifle at a group of four burglars, killing one of them. The self-defense shooting took place last Friday, between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m., and the man was alone with his 3-year-old daughter at the time,” reports Remix News.
However, Macron responded to the story by asserting that the 35-year-old farmer had no right to defend himself or his daughter in such a manner.
“Everyone must be safe, and the public authorities have to ensure it,” Macron told Europe 1.
“But I am opposed to self-defense. It’s very clear and undisputable because otherwise the country becomes the Wild West. And I don’t want a country where weapons proliferate and where we consider that it’s up to the citizens to defend themselves,” said Macron. …
“I’m not going to judge this news. I convey the rules,” said Macron, whose weak record on security and crime is under scrutiny. …
After being charged with murder, the farmer was released but will remain under judicial supervision.
This story made the rounds yesterday. Macron did not have to beclown himself so much here; this unforced error might work to Zemmour’s advantage.
Macron assumes the burglars are only interested in burgling and with a cheery “Au Revoir” will shake the homeowner’s hand as they leave.
Even so, “you should feel glad to have been stolen from” is not an idea that shows the West is a strong and capable culture.
Statistically, “hot” burglaries which occur when people are at home, are pretty rare in the US, since there is a good possibility of getting shot while trying it.
I remember reading that burglars in Europe (England I think), prefer to rob houses when people are home because there will be wallets and purses with cash in them.
Blood guilt
The U.S. has announced additional sanctions against Russia, following alleged atrocities committed by Russian troops in Ukraine. Among those on the latest list of sanctions are two adult daughters of President Vladimir Putin.
“We believe that many of Putin’s assets are hidden with family members and that’s why we’re targeting them,” a senior Biden administration official said in a call with reporters on Wednesday.
Putin has refused to publicly acknowledge the names of his children, but the Treasury Department identified the daughters being sanctioned as Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova and Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova. One is a pediatric endocrinologist, the other a former competitive dancer turned tech executive.
Putin is intensely private when it comes to his family, and many details about his children have been scarce and shrouded in secrecy.
I wonder if the Secret Service has confiscated Hunter’s passport.
Bills of attainder, cool.
Against citizens of a country we are not at war with. Where exactly does the President get the constitutional authority to take such action?
I know, I know, FYTW.
“We believe that many of Putin’s assets are hidden with family members…”
Biden should know.
Hey-oh!
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“Mother is released from jury trial of mass shooter Cruz, because she is too busy with husband and sugar daddy”
The judge in the case is a fox. Punish me, your honor. ?
In a 2017 televised Q&A reported by Russian news agency TASS, Putin said he had recently welcomed a second grandchild, and explained why he shields his family from scrutiny.
“You see, I do not want them to be brought up as ‘blue bloods.’ I want them to grow up as normal people,” he said.
“As soon as I state their ages, names, they would be identified immediately, and any enormous interest would damage the kids’ development,” Putin said. “So, everything is fine, and I am asking you to understand me correctly and to respect this position.”
*gazes deeply into reporter’s eyes*
Say what you will about him otherwise, that is a father’s job.
When a reporter asked Putin about his relationship with Kabaeva, Newsweek reports that Putin responded: “I am, of course, aware of the cliché that politicians live in glass houses, but even in these cases, there must be some limits … I always disliked people who go around with their erotic fantasies, sticking their snot-ridden noses into another person’s life.”
Awesome.
Why does it matter that the Jan6 guy didn’t yell inside the capital?
He did not disrupt the proceedings, otherwise he may have been guilty just for that.
If it’s Beatles you want…
Have something from deep in the mists of time.
Ha! Love it. Ringo is such a stud.
I like the more psychedelic period better, though.
Why does it matter that the Jan6 guy didn’t yell inside the capital?
Muh Sacred Tempul ob Dumokrassy!!
duh
Daily Ray of Sunshine
The bad guy got his ass whomped and deservedly so.
Skimming up the page, this caught my eye:
“On the right, it was a given that the wave of popular support that had swept Donald Trump into the White House was explained by concern about the loss of manufacturing jobs and attendant disgust at free markets and free trade.”
“disgust at free markets and free trade” you say? I didn’t RTFA, because… just because.
I’ll bet you that little nugget of wisdom is based on Trump’s harpooning of Obama’s Pacific trade deal.
If you think TPP(?) had anything to do with “free” trade, there is a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to rent to you.
The Big Bad Wolf is at the door
News of Tesla (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Elon Musk taking a board seat at Twitter (TWTR.N) has some Twitter employees panicking over the future of the social media firm’s ability to moderate content, company insiders told Reuters.
Within hours of the surprise disclosure this week that Musk, a self-described “free speech absolutist,” acquired enough shares to become the top Twitter shareholder, political conservatives began flooding social media with calls for the return of Donald Trump. The former U.S. president was banned from Facebook and Twitter after the Jan 6. Capitol riot over concerns around incitement of violence.
“Now that @ElonMusk is Twitter’s largest shareholder, it’s time to lift the political censorship. Oh… and BRING BACK TRUMP!,” tweeted Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert on Monday.
Despite Twitter’s reiteration this week that the board does not make policy decisions, four Twitter employees who spoke with Reuters said they were concerned about Musk’s ability to influence the company’s policies on abusive users and harmful content.
With Musk on the board, the employees said his views on moderation could weaken years-long efforts to make Twitter a place of healthy discourse, and might allow trolling and mob attacks to flourish.
What really sucks about mob attacks is when the wrong mob attacks the Right People.
“Healthy discourse” my smelly foot.
“Twitter’s reiteration this week that the board does not make policy decisions…”
Yet.
IIRC, he would have to apply to the SEC to buy that many shares to become a major stockholder. Twitter didn’t know this was coming?
FinGlibs can confirm, but you have to report after you cross X threshold, not before you intend to do so
Otherwise everyone would pile and and attempt to buy up shares in advance of his big buy
Ah. I thought it was a statement of intention to buy that had to be approved by the SEC.
Schedule 13D must be filed within 10 days of crossing the 5% ownership threshold.
I remember reading that burglars in Europe (England I think), prefer to rob houses when people are home because there will be wallets and purses with cash in them.
And a bit of the old ultraviolence.
😉
Just like clockwork.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer person
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tests positive for Covid, is not experiencing symptoms
Too bad that Nanci isn’t experiencing symptoms like the regular people
I was going to say that it’s too bad she got the omnicron strain and not the alpha, but that would be tacky.
“The Speaker is fully vaccinated and boosted, and is thankful for the robust protection the vaccine has provided,” Hammill wrote on Twitter. “The Speaker will quarantine consistent with CDC guidance, and encourages everyone to get vaccinated, boosted and test regularly.”
Because that makes sense.
At least its lying straight to our faces rather than behind our backs I guess.
No you wear masks cause your overlords demand it. Now go lick some more boot.
I didn’t know that lizards could catch Covid.
Im going with fake covid cause China said stay out of Taiwan, in which she was rumored to go this weekend.
“Twitter is committed to impartiality in the development and enforcement of its policies and rules,” the spokesperson said.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
Plinker,
It looks like the guy who is coming by is going to be very late. We’ll have to postpone our lunch until another time.
So you are saying that we need more jabs.
A fourth shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine increased protection against viral infection for only four to seven weeks, according to a massive study published Tuesday.
The study included 1.25 million people age 60 and over in Israel who received their fourth dose between January and March. Israel uses only the Pfizer vaccine.
People who got the fourth dose were half as likely to test positive for COVID-19 four weeks later when compared to people who only had three doses, according to the study.
But by the eighth week, the groups were almost equally likely to catch COVID-19, researchers found.
Success!
/Pfizer shareholders