“I always wanted to be a wartime president,” Joe said, standing at the fake window in the tv studio Oval Office set, looking out wistfully.
He turned, a little shuffling circle and said, “Hello America. I’m your Joe Biden.”
“I know how concerned you are about Putin’s inflation and the Republican recession and the horrible price of gas. Gas. Gas. It’s a weird word when you think about it, isn’t it? Anyway, I just want you to know that my Administration had nothing to do with any of this. I got the jab, you should get the jab too.”
“Who are you talking to, Grandpa?” Finnegan asked as she walked onto the set.
“Can you hear the audience clapping?” Joe asked her. “They love you.”
“There is no audience, Grandpa.”
“They just love you. How many more years until you can run for President?”
“I don’t think I’ll ever be President,” Finnegan said. She tore open a little white square and smoothed a fresh nicotine patch over Joe’s carotid artery.
“Did you just put a condom on my neck?” he asked.
“It’s to help you out, give you energy,” she said.
“You-you-you could be the first woman President,” Joe said.
“I’d hope there would be a woman President before then,” Finnegan said.
“First white woman President?” Joe asked, shuffling around to the window again.
“You have a spinal fluid replacement this afternoon and an axion bombardment in the morning,” Finnegan said.
“I don’t know why I bother,” Joe said, fingering the patch on his neck.
“It’s to keep you healthy,” Finnegan said. “Your country needs you.”
“Does it? I just get so angry sometimes. Putin! That damn Putin!”
“You need to calm down,” Finnegan said.
“I get blamed for everything!” Joe shouted.
Finnegan tried to peel off the nicotine patch but Joe pulled away.
“And-and-and the press! They’re just so mean to me!”
“Grandpa, just let me take the patch off,” Finnegan said.
“Get away from me!” Joe screamed.
Finnegan tapped her watch. “Grey Lady Down, Grey Lady Down.”
She danced away from Joe until she heard the medical team approach.
I swear that is just a straight quote. A mild entry today but still quality. Thanks SF
I just get so angry sometimes. Putin! That damn Putin!”
Indeed. Slowmo Joe spends a lot of time yelling these days when giving addresses.
He should send another couple billion $ to Ukraine. Maybe that would calm him down.
Won’t be long before we’re running out of french fries and burrito coverings.
“You have a spinal fluid replacement this afternoon and an axion bombardment in the morning”
All too real.
What does the NYT have to do with anything?
I don’t mean in the story – just in general.
His SS codename is cobra…
Supposedly because of a penchant to reveal his member at inappropriate times.
“Cobra is out!”
ROFL
Should have used “Asp.”
Finnegan tapped her watch. “Grey Lady Down, Grey Lady Down.”
That’s perfect!
Something about him doing that seems realistic and disturbing.
Joe said, standing at the fake window in the tv studio Oval Office set, looking out wistfully.
“Helluva place for a urinal.”
“Bread goes in, and toast comes out, but…where does the bread go?“
Leave
BritneyBiden alone!That article needs to be posted on an erotica site.
Or a psychiatric site.
crazies need to get off too
Twinkie Defence.
The Joe Biden who ran in 2020 appeared wiser, sadder, somewhat deflated, and seemed to be taking on the presidency as a public service and a burden. Time and tragedy had tempered Biden, and I liked him even more than I did in his flashier, Jason Sudeikis–like youth. These days, I think he’s done a pretty good job, especially given the fact that he’s dealing with a pandemic, revelations about an attempted American coup d’état, and an economic slowdown over which he had no control.
That’s some mighty fine, sanctimonious hackery there.
But enough about the Clinton campaign and four years of the deep state undermining the sitting president.
No control over the recession that’s coming, despite constantly taking credit when things were still doing good.
Ah Tom Nichols, although he’s no Robert Reich or even Paul Krugman he never fails to be hacktastic.
You’re right about that. From what I hear, Nichols’s shaft work is pretty good, but his ball handling just isn’t there. Reich and Krugman really understand that you have to handle the total package to be the total package.
That poor man needs a 40 gallon drum of Chap-Stick, stat!
He says he’s not a partisan Democrat the proceeds to write the most partisan Democrat thing ever.
You can’t predicate an article that is stated to ‘examine’ when you have already concluded everyone is a poopy head towards your daddy.
Where have I read that?
Testing
123
Testies, testies. 1, 2 . . . and 3.
Testies….testies…1…2…3?
I was expecting that one
FOUR!!!!!
Man… what a day for this site to be having issues. My work has broken my access to our ticketing system, I’ve had to fight to get access fixed to the client environment, and it looks like I’m going to be on the hook for day two of attempting after hours changes (since my access wasn’t working last night). After the last call I was on, there may be another day or two of after hours work added.
Cool link, bro.
Have I mentioned that this has been a shitty work week yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8ccGjar4Es
Malarkey! Its…its…its the THING man!
CPRM – The Eagle Flies to The Eyrie on July 2nd…approximately 11AM. Check your email…if any of the ones you have given us are real!
OT, and don’t know if someone’s already mentioned it:
Get ready for significant truck shipping cutbacks due to a shortage of Diesel Exhaust Fluid.
Yeah, we’re probably boned.
The Green Revolution strikes again!
Question for anyone who knows; can modern diesels run without DEF? I don’t know how that system works. Can you just run with an empty DEF tank? If not, can you just “flip a switch” on the ECM to allow it?
The answer appears to be “yes, if you hack the system,” but then you would run afoul of various EPA regs, IIUC. Otherwise, your truck tops out at a maximum of 8km/h (5 mph), and you have to park it.
Yeah…I should have read the damn article. OK, so then my question is, can they run with out physically harming the engine if you override the “empty DEF tank” lock? If so, all the FEDGOV would have to do (if the DEF shortage actually happens) is temporarily waive the DEF requirement.
Ha! Temporarily waive requirements?
Why do you hate Gaia?
Yes
BTW, just returned from a two-week driving trip into the interior of B.C., and fuel prices everywhere were bonkers. However, I did see pallets of DEF being sold at most places we stopped for fuel.
Yeah, I live in farm country and have friends who farm and truck and this is the first I’ve heard of a possible DEF shortage. Urea being a key ingredient doesn’t bode well, that’s for sure.
Buy beer, piss in the DEF tank?
I see a good business opportunity…
You know that urine contains urea?
Time to start saving your piss in milk jugs like Ol’ Ray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0u6Lb6RCz4
Also for gunpowder:
https://timeline.com/civil-war-gunpowder-pee-79f8d21327f0
There was a DEF shortage in South Korea last autumn, with the blame put on a spat between Australia and Red China.
Reading BEAM’s article, I see it goes into unhinged conspiracy theories about Vanguard and Black Rock. [rolls eyes]
*peaks outside – looking for black helicopters*
UP asked a lot of people to reduce shipments, 50% seems like a big drop. Cynically, less trucking means more rail.
DEF is injected into the exhaust stream where it acts as a catalyst to reduce NOx (ozone), which is a byproduct of lean burn conditions. It is totally unnecessary for the combustion process, and only affects the truck because of the software.
DEF is 2/3rd water and 1/3 urea.
I have no idea what replacing with distilled water would do to the computer settings.
It’s always hard to tell which factors are gonna balloon up and which factors are going to ease back down, but there are a lot of indicators that seem to point to this being significantly worse than a garden variety recession. I hope I’m wrong.
Another snipped line in the spider web. At some point, catastrophic failure occurs.
Trshy, left you a forum message re: Eyepiece
Thanks for the heads up!
Evidently I already had backed the refresh rate to 2 minutes to reduce the toll on the server, but it hasn’t pushed out to everybody yet.
Here’s the link to update to latest Eyepiece: https://gitlab.com/glibertarians/forumProject/-/raw/Eyepiece/monocle.user.js
It’s merely a quick remediation until I get time to figure out why Eyepiece is triple hitting the server.
Bueno – updated.
I think I have wifi on the flight so I may attempt a PR with a pre-check to the REST API to decide if there are new comments & use that as a guard function before the main fetch.
If you figure it out, feel free to commit to the gitlab repo. I may not get to it until this weekend.
Still at 45 seconds, btw – I think the timer on line 871 was missed.
FWIW, you _are_ calling .load() 3 times – lines 789, 794 & 804.
load() behavior changed at some point:
Note: Prior to jQuery 3.0, the event handling suite also had a method named .load(). Older versions of jQuery determined which method to fire based on the set of arguments passed to it.
https://api.jquery.com/load/
But this is allegedly using jQuery 1.x, so I dunno.
Either it’s always called it 3 times or it’s picking up the newer load() behavior (assuming you were using it as an event handler before?)
Ah, I think I changed to 3 loads as a crutch to deal with some DOM parsing difficulties and didn’t merge it back into a single load once I resolved them.
Probably explains some of the performance issues I’ve seen.
I don’t use the auto-refresh feature – is that what you’re talking about? I assume it’s disable when I turn that option off?
I usually have it on, but I turned it off for now. I felt like I must DO SOMETHING™ to help.
I wonder if this falls under Joe Bidens definition of “…improving peoples lives.”?
Let’s go, Brandon.
None of that makes any sense; I say that as a guy who worked on engines before and after SCR and who also worked for a major DEF supplier to Flying J, so I didn’t truly RTFA because why would I.
First, I don’t know what the rail connection has to do with anything. DEF is super easy to make; urea is easy to make: the primary method (from NG which is pretty much the answer for all HC synthesis) is not difficult, rare, tricky, or expensive….any fucking clown can do it. So I’m unaware of any way to landlock the market.
This stuff is regional in any regard. DEF, like your soda, water, twinkies, whathaveyou, is made regionally. There are very few products that are so special and exclusive that one plant in Hershey, PA makes it all and trucks it all; even precious Coors has been brewed locally without their holy fucking mountain spring water. DEF is sold in 5 gallon jugs at truck stops who get it by the pallet….by truck! Urea is sold by the rail car, but you could get it by the tank wagon for a few cents more per gallon (this applies pretty much to all liquids from acetone to milk to xylene).
DEF is easy to fill: it’s water soluable, and it would require hardly any water or air permits to start up. I know at least three environmental firms who could get me temporary permits immediately in MS or AR or some other giveashit state that just wants the taxes and we could be running in a few weeks.
Maybe I’ll RTFA later, but I just don’t believe that the perfect storm exists to much more than partly and temporarily dent the DEF supply market.
Meanwhile in a New Zealand atoll…
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/new-zealand-indigenous-family-under-house-arrest-for-11-months-for-not-taking-covid-jab/
That’s effed up.
next comes this
It wasn’t that long ago that new Zealand was at the top of a lot of libertarian’s freedom lists.
What happened? Did people just under estimate the potential for medical tyranny, new laws? Or just ignorance?
Any part of the world strongly connected to the US economically and culturally, especially but not exclusively the Anglosphere, seems to have experienced a rapid progressive transformation and homogenization from the 1990s to the 2010s. The key aspects seem to be:
– Do what American leftists want before they’re able to do it here (e.g.: gun control)
– Redefine patriotism around those leftist things your country “accomplished” but American leftists still whine about (e.g.: NHS)
– Elevate the Civil Rights movement and its tenets above local history and ideas, working a twisted version of the latter in only as local flavor after the fact (e.g.: Maori = black)
– Consume American media, buy its favored brands over local ones, and import the same things it imports (many examples)
– Outsource competence to “international” and “multilateral” organizations all run by American-educated leftists (e.g.: WHO)
Calling this all “American” is actually a bit of a misnomer, but it mostly works as it relates to other countries. A similar effect occurred in many U.S. states, whereby e.g. Washington with its once very permissive gun laws suddenly enacted one of the more stringent gun control regimes.
Basically, foreign countries that fall under America’s spell are not really sovereign anymore, they’re just colonies/provinces with more pretense, and like many immigrants living here, they rush to adopt what America’s elites consider to be the most prestigious policies and cultural positions. In denial of this utter colonization, they consider themselves doing what the American Academy tells them to, but which it can’t fully convince the American population of, to be a sign of independence and unique local identity, even as they all rush to imitate one another.
Of course, the above is a gross overgeneralization in many ways, as there are in these foreign places many people who, like the Americans who impede “progress” here, don’t like what’s happening. However, for various reasons, they get trampled more easily than the knuckle-draggers back here in the core province (i.e., the 50 states we normally think of as the U.S.).
STOP MAKING ME BEAT YOU
Finnegan tried to peel off the nicotine patch but Joe pulled away.
“And-and-and the press! They’re just so mean to me!”
“Grandpa, just let me take the patch off,” Finnegan said.
“Get away from me!” Joe screamed.
So, is it really a nicotine patch?
The patch over his sex change operation. Hence “grey lady.”
Whoa… the avatars…
Once upon a time I had a coworker that was trying to quit who applied three nicotine patches simultaneously to curb the cravings.
It was like trying to work with a meth tweaker.
It’s official 75 bps!
We all know why the Dems genius policies are not going well with the voters.
Fox Confirms 3 WH officials will be heading to the hill on Thursday to discuss “messaging on the economy” with the full House Dem Caucus. The meeting is focused on “message strategy on the economy, fighting inflation and reducing costs for the American people”, per
@kellyfphares
Those dang Rethuglicans and their total lock on media disinformation against Biden and co.
I think reality is going to outrun any messaging.
It’s a bold strategy Cotton, let’s if it pays off for them.
https://rumble.com/v18ie08-attorney-robert-barnes-who-represents-brook-jacksons-case-against-pfizer.html
Depending on who the judge is, that could be a winning strategy.
Apparently the judge said “yeah… No” and that by putting it in the affidavit, they opened themselves to discovery along that line of inquiry.
Good, I doubt much will come of it, too many important people involved, but a little sunshine would be nice.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/vcsm8t/aleksandra_miros%C5%82aw_n%C3%A9e_rudzi%C5%84ska_current_speed/
That’s crazy.
Damn. She’s so fast that it looks like the video is being fast forwarded.
Pfffttttt… I can beat that.
In a helicopter?
Going the other direction.
They invented reverse playback for a reason.
Guys jumping backward up walls on Samurai Sunday Cinema?
Holy shit!
I’d like to make some snarky Polak joke, but that’s impressive.
Is that real? Looks like they’re pulling her up and she’s just touching rocks on the way.
Right? But there is clearly some slack on the rope.
BTS Hiatus News Sends HYBE Stock Plummeting
The Korean music company lost $1.7 billion of market value in the first hour of trading Wednesday.
https://www.billboard.com/pro/hybe-stocks-news-bts-break-hiatus/
Thanks for the link to the Apollo transponder videos. I tortured my family with them last night while I oohed and aahed and paused while explaining how frequency mixing works.
Glad you enjoyed them!
Marc does some amazing reverse engineering.
Don’t let that get in the way of a good story Joe.
“There are basic biographical problems with Biden’s claim that he was appointed in 1965 — most significantly, the fact that Biden graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965 before attending law school at Syracuse University. The academy doesn’t grant graduate degrees.”
https://nypost.com/2022/06/14/no-record-of-biden-naval-academy-appointment-he-boasted-about/
He’s been lying like that his entire career and all the press ever does is say “Aw shucks it’s just good ol’ Joe bein’ Joe!”
Do you mean Biden or Neil Kinnock?
Poor Finnegan, she just wants to help her pop-pop. The only one who seems to have some sort of good intentions, aside from her re-animating a walking corpse.
Wow looks like some of the avatar greatest hits are back.
I figure Dr. Jill forced her to.
You can’t question her she’s a doctor.
So I spent a whole lot of money on makeup to look nice for my zoom meeting and nobody had their cameras on. I coulda been a full schlub instead of a schlub from the chest down.
But the interview went well. They seemed to like what I had to say. I wish I could be that confident when shilling my books.
I’ll wear makeup on 7/30 if you will, too.
But probably not foundation. Much too likely to be gawdawfully hot! ?
I may not be there. Depends on finances, since I’m taking an unexpected trip to South Dakota in 2 weeks.
Oh, I do hope you can make it! I so wanna meet you IRL! ?
I’ll try!
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Dear sweet Mojo… This was all that you needed – https://youtu.be/gId2HsHvSgs
Karma!
Dr. Anthony Fauci tests positive for Covid, is having mild symptoms
Yes! Double-masking, dumb fuck still gets the bug.
Im surprised they let the fact he caught it leak out.
Unless its to say “see? He’s barely sick due to the effectiveness of the vax!”
Mild symptoms proves that karma isn’t real.
My thoughts as well.
Doesn’t mean we can’t stick him on a ventilator anyway.
Remdesivir and a ventilator stat!
I-am-thankful-for-the-Jab-and-the-Booster-amen
I wish him well. Here’s hoping he has mild symptoms and then retires.
No way…
“But some Biden administration officials are now privately expressing concern that rather than dissuading the Kremlin as intended, the penalties are instead exacerbating inflation, worsening food insecurity and punishing ordinary Russians more than Putin or his allies.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-14/corporate-self-sanctioning-of-russia-has-us-fearing-economic-blowback
If true, they are some seriously dumb motherfuckers. Anybody with two brain cells to rub together could have seen this coming.
No shit
Oh, no, sanctions don’t work? WHEN DID THAT START HAPPENING??!!!!
Sanctions hurt the little guys? Who ever heard of such a thing?
Lets Brew Wednesday:
http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2022/06/lets-brew-wednesday-1902-boddington-ta.html