Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose.
A conversation the other day among some friends and WebDom led to the question, “When the Old Man is ready to start dating again, what kind of girl would be appropriate?” Her immediate answer was, “Daddy issues, loose morals, and visual impairment.”
Birthdays represent a change, though, and today’s include a guy I’d wager that you’ve heard of; an actor who was an actual racist (but his films are brilliant); Baltimore’s gift to England; one of the three greatest comic actors in cinema history; a guy who got by with one gig per year; someone who was no Cal Ripken; one of my personal heroes and inspiration; someone who demonstrated what you had to do to actually get kicked off the Supreme Court; a corrupt piece of shit that California sent to the senate (but that’s redundant); the world’s best salesman; a woman who could even out-evil Tony Soprano; a guy who would have made a pretty decent president here; a chick who smoothly transitioned from a good guy to a bad guy; a rather boring novelist who pissed off the right people; someone who volunteered for the Cosby Cock; someone I went to school with but sadly never gave me the time of day; and a guy who is very much a prostitute.
Let’s get to the Links while it’s still safe.
Everybody’s got something to hide.
Still living rent-free in their heads.
Tales from the great socialized medical system of Canada.
“Six feet apart.” Clearly not fans of Peter North.
Old Guy Music is a delightful cover of a very underrated Dylan song. And as usual, much better than the original.
“Do better.”
No doubt, with the exception of DeSantis and the lesser exception of Noem that’s a herd of shitbags.
Noem is a drug warrior. She can go DIAF.
Ah, is she? I’m not that familiar to be honest.
I do recall her being on point with Covid but maybe that was a fortunate exception to her MO.
She vetoed either a direct referendum or legislation (I forget) to legalize weed. I believe I heard somewhere that she has business ties to something that would have to compete with legal weed, but I forget what
Hm, well that does knock her down a bit. But nobody on that list is going to decriminalize anything anyway.
She also vetoed a law keeping men from competing in women’s sports.
Hm. for me the only hard ‘no’s on that list are Pompeo and Cruz. Haley and Pence are ‘meh’, I’m more favorable towards Scott and Noem, and DeSantis would be an easy yes vote.
Was surprised Rand Paul wasn’t on that list. He never makes as big a splash as Cruz does, but I can’t imagine they would include Pence but not Paul in a list of serious candidates.
If Pence hadn’t been Trump’s VP he wouldn’t be on the list.
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody yo
Sunday Morning Derivative Links
These links are integral to the functioning of Glibertarians.
Don’t go off on a tangent!
Puns are a slippery slope to verbal hedonism.
It’s a sine of the times.
It’s not a tangent; it’s a polar opposite, coordinated to produce a gaze.
I cosine this comment.
I’m indifferenterial to this.
Trig to stick with the original theme of differential calculus, please.
Queers for Palestine? Wow, that can’t end well.
Any queer themed gathering in that area of the world excepting Israel ironically enough would end in beatings, imprisonment, and death. Not a good idea at all.
I encourage them to try.
Useful idiots, writ large.
I got exhausted reading (some of) that, trying to keep all the various intersectionalities straight (so to speak).
I will only note once again that “queer” really just means something like “leftist gay”. Sneaky of them to get their letter into the acronym by pretending to be another brand of whatever it is that qualifies you to get into the club.
“Queer” usually means “obnoxious asshole”
That too.
Elizabeth Levy hardest hit. This book was a childhood favorite.
Good luck finding a copy of The Five Chinese Brothers.
Oo I liked that one.
Yeah, now I’m on a “favorite childhood picture books” kick. Another I liked even better: Long before there was Waldo, there was Wallace!
OMG! I loved that book. Also, the one that told the story of why the Chinese have short names. IIRC, the oldest son was named Rikki Tiki Tembo Notok Wemobo Chari Bari Ruchi Pip Peri Pembo. He fell down a well and his younger brother Chang took so long telling his mother what happened that the eldest son drowned. Ever since, the Chinese used short names for all the children.
I remember Rikki-Tikki-Tavi differently….
I first heard something with that theme as a song sung by one of my grade school music teachers (who later taught my favorite class of my entire over-educated life – HS Humanities) about Anakootchakatchakamatosameratosanovasamakamawackie Brown. Which of course I can’t find on the internet because I’m not sure of the exact spelling. 😆
(I remember Rikki Tiki Tembo [etc.] too. Totally different from Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, another good one I remember from an animated [and, IIRC, musical] dramatization.)
Amazing what one remembers, ain’t it?
I also never understood the hatred of Little Sambo. There is not a single black or African anywhere in the story. It took place in India.
Little Sambo’s was also a restaurant chain in Texas. I remember they had great kid’s stuff like puzzles, etc. so my parents always took me there.
They were all over the Florida of my youth as well. Their pancakes were served with Tiger Butter. A weekend treat for this wee lad.
My understanding is that the popularity of the original led to lotsa rip-offs, and being that the title is “Little Black Sambo” many of those rip-offs depicted Sambo as an un-flattering caricatures of a black kid.
Pence is a cuck. Like Jeb!, only worse.
Fun fact: Peter North’s real name is Alden Brown.
Huh. Speaking of Alton Brown, there’s a new season of Iron Chef on Netflix.
For some reason I found myself googling Peter North a few years ago (I find his stage name hilarious). Apparently he did a bunch of gay porn too.
The gay stuff was done under the name Matt Ramsey.
Yes, but his version of “good eats” has some items usually not found on most menus.
Note to Team Red: Do better.
That article should be titled “a beltway leftist’s guide to the 2024 GOP primary”.
Pence? Lol
Tim Scott? Right….
Nikki Haley? No
Mike Pompeo? 🙄🙄
It’s going to be Trump v. DeSantis. Maybe Noem sneaks into the conversation on sex appeal.
Pompeo is the obligatory neocon MIC permanent war candidate.
He’s the most extreme, but are any of them not?
“[Haley] is just an attractive political figure,” said Matt Mackowiak, the chairman of the Travis County Republican Party in Texas.
Very slyly put. But he’s right on many levels. If Harris is the Dem candidate, Haley becomes the perfect GOP candidate to counter her. Checks off the same diversity boxes. Actually likeable.
Ugh
War boner. Or whatever the female equivalent is. That would even make me vote for the fabulously unlikeable Dr. Jo.
Or whatever the female equivalent is.
The clothes dryer ride of war?
They’re making sammiches for the troops.
war boner
I could vote in the Republican primary if I thought it could make a practical difference. And when I think of practical, it has unhappily included neocons in the past: when I think their philosophical base and intellectual/managerial ability put someone well ahead on balance of a known risk (lesser or two evils argument). So maybe Nicky is an answer to the current populist Team Red nonsense.
It’s a shame about Ted Cruz on every level: the towering, brutal intellectual consistency which I found both correct and adorable forsaken for a slurp of Trump semen. I have voted for Ted, and now I am ashamed of him.
Of course, TN is redder than TX, so I’ll be free to vote for show and principle in the end.
6 feet apart…how far we’ve fallen…
https://www.the-sun.com/news/1182416/canadian-cdc-glory-holes-to-practice-safe-sex/
I made a joke about glory holes being the next public health initiative just yesterday. Had no idea I was already right.
I suspect Trudeau is behind this, IYKWIM.
“We’re the queens behind the scenes!” -Bruce Vilanch
Well played!
Jeez Tonio. How do you miss such a perfect link opportunity?
https://youtu.be/diYS8jyOcFc
Hole in a sheet?
He’s one of (((them))) ?
Hutterites are Jews?
Another victim of monkey pocks.
The pet monkey of a drug gang member – dressed up in a bulletproof vest and camouflaged jacket
Relevant
I was expecting this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnlIWpZSPXU
We cannot allow an armored monkey gap.
“ In addition, authorities will investigate the likelihood that the spider monkey – a protected species – was illicitly trafficked by the drug gang.”
We’ve got lots of bullet-riddled dead bodies, but let’s focus on the important stuff.
Somebody brought a gun to a monkey knife fight?
“ Drivers whose call for help results in a suspended licence often face sweeping consequences. Some lose their livelihoods overnight because they suddenly can’t drive. Others lose trust in the health-care system, becoming fearful of reaching out for any further help. And those already struggling with serious mental health challenges can fall deeper into despair with isolation and stress.”
The medical establishment is shaping up to be yet another enemy.
Have been for a while. First their complicity in pandemic theater. Then the questions about guns in the household.
Exactly right.
*Points to covid jabs/masks*
We need separation of hospital and state!
I am the solo-adult with (and making sure of) the youngest nephew for the next couple of hours. Hes about 18 months.
He’s very chill and we get along well and easily. I absolutely get why people both want/love kids and folk like me have no desire to have any. I don’t thinkbits a coincidence both my long-term (ish) relationships were w girls who were and are FIRMLY in the Never Babies camp.
This little guy is great. I like the Uncle version of fatherhood. Yesterday was my first day of walking without a crutch, let alone using both.
Still have a limp, am slow, and stairs are still a no-go, but it’s a nice literal step forward. Uncle duties got in thebwaybof a private airbnb/hotel for the weekend. I am supposed to get in Get a Job Gear tomorrow, but I think I need that unwind period on my own. It was discussed and readily agreed to by my Team.
Infant time!
Babies and dogs for me. I like other people’s instances of those things but don’t want one of my own.
I love babies. Teach him to say “ FREE CASCADIA!” and throw his arms in the air.
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Not a good day when your first success is on the fifth guess.
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How could I have missed that?! 🤪 I’ll get it added to The Spreadsheet.
Did you miss db also, can I trust your work to base the tourney scores on or not?
Is there a persistent linky the Spreadsheet of Chumpdom?
There’s a new Spreadsheet each week (The Quordle week begins on Sat) I usually leave a link to the final numbers in the ‘This Week in Quordle’ portion of Friday’s DQR, Mike S doesn’t do that because he’s not as cool as I am. Here’s last weeks again.
I am every bit as trustworthy as you.
Which is why I went back and double-checked. No, I did not miss db.
I am every bit as trustworthy as you.
That’s what I’m concerned about.
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“You know the green letters are required to be in the solution, right?”
“…. oh yeah”
Yesterday for me it was “you know the white letters aren’t in the solution, right?” I didn’t know, more than once.
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Needed the third seed word today. Good enough to tie Tundra.
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Speaking of The Old Man, the FX series has started very promisingly.
The Florida governor has a multilayered appeal. Conservatives loved his pushback against mask and vaccine mandates during the pandemic. He has embraced the culture wars with vigor, including his advocacy of legislation that liberal critics dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
The mere fact that DeSantis sparks such ire from left-leaning voters is almost certainly an asset in a GOP primary.
Right. He has no positive aspects, no program or plan which appeals to Republican and “conservative” voters. He’s just a thumb in the eye to the beltway goodthinkers.
IT’S ALL ABOUT ME
positive aspects
It’s hard to tell. I suspect deSantis is very, very capable and the rest is just for show; I don’t love the show, but I don’t blame him, and that’s where the fight is (identity politics). I want deSantis to prove he’s the right guy: that would save me a lot of trouble. But, especially in a first term, would he be beholden to the hillbilly mob he’s inherited, and would that lead to serious missteps in the White House because he has to tote water instead of do what he knows is right.
This is the problem with the populist, low accountability regime: while we could never know someone would try to keep his promises before, now we barely know what we’ll be getting at all.
The mob wants to see what it wants to see in virtual blank slate candidates; this was true with Bush in 2000 and Obama in 2008. The populist shit was on both sides of the aisle in ’16 (Bernie and Trump sounded a lot of the same themes).
Politicians with principles doesn’t sell to the mob.
At a minimum, he’s proven that he’s willing to fight the federal administrative state and that is enough for me right now.
There is no redeeming DC, but perhaps it can slowed down or hindered.
DeSantis is constantly putting forward stuff I like here in Florida, but someone just posted a thing that showed he hasn’t been great on guns (I’ll see if I can find it) and also he’s super pro-Israel, which doesn’t mean much if he is governor but as a president he will potentially be on board with sending huge sums of money as well as troops that way.
Here it is. Red flag laws were passed in Florida in 2018.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/01/politics/florida-red-flag-law/index.html
So before DeSantis was governor?
Yeah but he’s had a couple years to repeal.
Seriously? You expect that of him?
So now you favor executive orders?
I don’t have any particular expectations but I believe I’m allowed to notice that he hasn’t.
Yeah, seems like that would be on the legislature to repeal it.
Yep, a Republican legislature and a Republican governor.
Repealing anything is going to be low priority.
For guns: that red flag bill passed in 2018, DeSantis was not governor until 2019. Recently he stated he wanted to revisit taking guns vs. mental illness treatment. He mentioned something about if a person can’t be trusted with the gun, why is that person on the street- don’t quote me on that, it was a radio blurb I heard while driving.
If he’s speaking out against it, I’ll take that as a good sign. Also he could replace the judges that are using it to take peoples’ guns away. Or call for the legislature to send him a bill to repeal. But if he’s doing nothing, I have no use for him (and yes he was the least bad during Covid but don’t give the gun grabbers an inch).
Anybody better out there?
Israel has never ever asked for nor wanted American troops. If they’re ever sent there, it will be by Team Blue to “defend” Palestinians.
They’re going to try and paint him as Trump Redux.
Pompeo’s time as secretary of State and, prior to that, as CIA director, gives him plenty of experience to highlight if the political conversation turns to foreign affairs or national security.
To skeptics, Pompeo lacks charisma. They also note he has never run for statewide elected office. Prior to his appointment as CIA director in 2017, he had served three terms in the House representing a Kansas district.
Just what we need. Another George H W Bush. He can heal the nation by adopting the Democratic platform wholesale.
He’s a warmongering asshole. The RINOs will love him.
I can see it now, Liz Cheney for VP.
After Wyoming voters kick her out of Congress – that would be perfect.
Hey, I’m trying to eat!
RINO? Who are you kidding, the non-interventionist branch of Republicanism was sawed off the trunk after Taft. If anyone is a RINO, in that regard, these days it is Sen. Paul.
Policy affirming surgery?
The school police chief didn’t have a radio? I’m a damn volunteer first responder, and I have one. That of course is a small detail compared to – we didn’t even try to open the door let alone force it.
She famously supported the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally going ahead in her state the summer of 2020. The event drew massive crowds but was linked to COVID-19 outbreaks far beyond South Dakota.
You
fucking
slanderous
asshole.
Show your work, liar.
I saw the work. They attributed the spike in every county that had people go to Sturgis to Sturgis, then assumed that all cases would result in hospitalizations. The headline was like “Sturgis costs 46 billion in COVID treatments.”
Science!
Yeah. The Sturgis Super Spreader Event stories were amazing in the amount of bullshit backing up the claim. I think even a lot of people that wanted to believe saw through it. So it died out kind of quick, apparently now to be revived since the bald-faced lies aren’t fresh in people’s minds anymore. But Trump was the Great Gaslighter. Fuckers.
And yet, the media didn’t refer to the BLM riots as super spreader events.
Enjoy a little red meat. We’re not there yet, but it’s coming.
“‘Honorary white’ supremacists!”/prog
Yeah, but that kinda detracts from selling them on being People of Color who are oppressed.
“They’re so cunning they can be either! (Depending upon which characterization works in our favor at the moment.)”/also prog
Inscrutable even.
Summer Sweetness! – Mulberry Pudding Delight – Historical Boiled Pudding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOaz6EQZgg0
Fuck mulberry trees all they fucking do is make a mess. try parking your car under one.
Don’t even get me started on the monkeys and weasels they attract!
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Pro tip: no matter how good it makes them smell, do NOT hang your sheets on an outdoor clothesline if there’s a mulberry tree – and birds – within a one-mile radius./childhood lesson learned
Mulberries are delicious. If they’re too sweet for you, eat the red ones.
I don’t care for the taste…
Bucharest is full of them from when Old Nicky C decided Romania to be self sufficient in silk production.
Oh, well that’s why you don’t like them — you got the shitty Soviet mulberry trees.
Politicians with principles doesn’t sell to the mob.
The less you say, the less there is to use against you.
“Politicians with principles” LOL
Oddly enough KY has two creatures, or at least there closest facsimile. Then again KY also sends the deadly turtle to the Senate.
blah /there/their
Enjoy a little red meat.
I would, but that site overwhelmed my computing capability.
Hahaha, FIFA shocked to find shit in sewer.
Simple solution – get the fuck off of social media.
It was also ironic how all the sports media and coach Southgate were trying to cram the team’s diversity down fan’s throats, and in the end it was the “diverse” players who missed their PKs against Italy.
You expect fans *not* to notice that?
They’re still kneeling to BLM before EPL games. I think even MLS stopped doing that shit.
“abused online”
OFFS 🙄
obligatory
OH. noooooooo! They done commercialized Juneteenth, the greedy bastards.
Watermelon flavored ice cream, anyone?
The day’s harvest
https://photos.app.goo.gl/unkLbmYHitpnpoaF6
the apricots are just how I like them: just starting to ripen . I ahve never understood why some people like fully ripe apricots or peach, too sweet to soft as texture and the juice gets all over you chin.
Very nice.
Speaking of DeSantis and his crimes against humanity
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is escalating his feud with the White House over the COVID-19 response as he positions himself for a possible presidential campaign in 2024.
DeSantis has been taking heat for his decision not to preorder from the federal government COVID-19 vaccines for infants and young kids.
The White House initially made 10 million vaccines for young children available for states to preorder in anticipation that the shots will get the green light from federal regulators.
Having a small stockpile of doses on hand will mean shots can start being administered shortly after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorses their use.
But Florida was the only state that decided not to place an order.
During a press conference on Thursday, DeSantis said kids have “practically zero risk” of getting seriously ill from COVID-19 and that the state will not be devoting any resources to getting them vaccinated.
He’s killing all the little children with his luddite anti-SCIENCE! ignorance, just to feed his personal hatred of Joe Biden.
Is this a man who deserves to lead us?
Wow, that’s ballsy. I’m impressed.
Isn’t this a perfect reason to leave him right where he is? The last couple years really showed the power of governors. If anything, working to elect better state level peeps makes more sense than spending a second on the top retard.
If I were in Florida, maybe yes.
I think you’re right.
DeSantis said kids have “practically zero risk” of getting seriously ill from
COVID-19most diseases that the State of Florida requires vaccinations for and that the state will not be devoting any resources to getting them vaccinated“They’re so cunning they can be either! (Depending upon which characterization works in our favor at the moment.)”/also prog
They aren’t called “Wily Chinamen” for no reason.
‘Hi Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Stalin’
Filmed central London today.
https://twitter.com/prwhittle/status/1538148649154355200
These sickly-looking commies don’t look like they’ll pose a serious threat to anybody, thank goodness.
White House officials accused DeSantis of denying parents the right to choose whether to get their kids vaccinated.
Right. Now let’s ask the people who were forced out of their military and civilian jobs about the Biden administration’s devotion to freedom of choice, you slimy mendacious scum.
Here’s a thought… maybe make parents pay for their own fucking poison to jabs their little ones with.
DeSantis has spent much of the pandemic attacking the Biden administration’s COVID-19 mitigation efforts.
The Sunshine State’s governor has made it a point of pride to question and challenge a range of federal guidance, repeatedly promoting the “freedom” of a state without policies such as mask or vaccine mandates.
The Florida Department of Health is led by Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, a DeSantis appointee who has openly questioned the safety and benefit of the COVID-19 vaccines.
I’d say the boys and girls at The Hill are absolutely terrified of the possibility of a DeSantis Presidency. They’re certainly wasting no opportunity to smear him.
Gotta love the scare quotes around freedom.
“I’d say the boys and girls at The Hill are absolutely terrified of the possibility of a DeSantis Presidency.”
There’s no need for them to worry. The government apparatchiks and Republican establishment would hobble DeSantis as thoroughly as they hobbled Trump.
Man and woman arrested for allegedly hosting 120-member sex party in central Japan
https://twitter.com/themainichi/status/1538426606368264192
so there was at leas one woman at the party
Exceeded the occupancy limit?
Went to the CMH gun show yesterday. Pretty good size crowd, and not just whities either.
Saw a Taurus PT99-AF for $600. In the before times, that was a $350 gun.
Noticed a couple Swedes, both marked at north of $1000 (!)
Saw a Nemo “Omen” (300 Win Mag on a custom scaled up AR pattern) with Leupold Optic for $6500.
Primers were available… at $20/100. Powder was $45-$50/lb.
Came home empty handed, but enjoyed the trip anyway.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10931723/Drag-queen-accuses-candidate-hypocrisy-revealing-performed-daughter.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10930895/Astonishing-moment-little-girl-sitting-adults-knee-tips-topless-drag-queen-Michigan-gay-bar.html
This explosion of drag queen stuff everywhere seems a more than a bit weird.
Yes. Someone is astroturfing this. Team blue are sheep but this explosion has to be pushed from somewhere.
They’re trying to clumsily tie it to LGBT, which doesn’t make much sense. But neither does transexuals being a part of LGB.
Gender/sexual identity isn’t on the same axis as sexual attraction. Same for cross dressing.
Funnily enough, some of the most anti-trans vitriol I’ve ever heard has come from drag queens. They point out that getting a burly man dressed up to look even slightly convincing as a woman is not the same as a female to male tranny dressing like a woman
I don’t get it either, but they have been quietly pushing stuff like “drag queen story hour” for years.
It’s a start
Police in Louisville, Kentucky, are searching for a suspect they believe punched the city’s mayor at a popular downtown event complex Saturday.
“Earlier this evening, while at Fourth Street Live, Mayor (Greg) Fischer was punched by an individual,” the Louisville Metro Police Department said in a Facebook post. “The Mayor is doing fine.”
Authorities released several screengrabs from surveillance video showing a man they believe is the suspect in the attack on the mayor. Police didn’t say what Fischer was doing when he was hit.
Far be it from me to advocate political violence, but seriously; who HASN’T felt the urge to deck a local politician?
“Pro-abortion activists in blood-soaked outfits brandish toy DOLLS outside Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Virginia home and say ending Roe v. Wade will trigger spike in forced births”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10931125/Pro-choice-protesters-brandish-toy-DOLLS-outside-Supreme-Court-Justice-Amy-Coney-Barretts-home.html
Isn’t that illegal?
Not a priority for Garland and the DoJ – they’re still obsessing over Jan. 6th.
Yes and no.
It’s a violation of a federal statute, so yes.
It’s a violation committed by leftists, who are privileged to promote their causes without regard for such statutes, so no.
Lovely – and confusing – optics. Keep it up, the left.
Yeah, whole different meaning to waving the bloody shirt.
Oh, and I forgot.
Happy Juneteenth and Fathers Day!!
Something something petitioning for redress of grievances
Carlson criticized Schiff for illegally giving CBS producers access to the Capitol complex, implying hypocrisy because Schiff “has spent the last year and a half telling you that unauthorized violations of capitol space are a coup.”
“Adam Schiff illegally gave producers from CBS access to the Capitol and then the crew, which includes the show’s senior producer, director, comedian and writer, remained in the House, Longworth House office building after hours and the point of them being there was for them to harass sitting members of congress,” Carlson said.
The crew approached Reps. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) while in the office building, with Carlson claiming they went there to “harass” the two right-wing congresswomen.
The Capitol Police told Fox News that “responding officers observed seven individuals unescorted and without congressional ID in a six floor hallway.”
The producers were arrested for unlawful entry into the Capitol complex, although Carlson said hey should spend a year and a half in solitary confinement before going to court because of the “precedent” set by the trials of Jan. 6 insurrectionists
This is completely different. Those people are legitimate journalists, not ignorant hillbilly anarchists.
legitimate
journalistsentertainersFTFY
He was joking, morans.
Good morning and happy father’s day where appropriate
Note to Team Red: Do better.
They can’t. This is quite literally the cream of the crop. Speed the collapse!
Can’t we get that Tulsi Gabbard chick to run??? She’d win bigly if her domestic spending ideas got curtailed by reality.
And then what? She ends the wars, brings the troops home, dissolves NATO and stops printing money?
I wish.
I think she will pop back up after the democratic shellacking.
Disclosure I contributed $10 her campaign last time, she had the most non-interventionist foreign policy amongst any of them.
I am so tired of foreign wars.
You unpatriotic hick!
Know she’s a standard issue Team Blue gungrabber, right?
Typical Officer.
“Two Reelers”
https://youtu.be/LJl7hVLcDpU
Happy bday Moe.
https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1538013603701280775
Sometimes he’s right.
This is pretty hilarious.
“‘I literally lost organs:’ Why detransitioned teens regret changing genders
In recent years, the number of children experiencing gender dysphoria in the West has skyrocketed. Exact figures are difficult to come by, but, between 2009 and 2019, children being referred for transitioning treatment in the United Kingdom increased 1,000% among biological males and 4,400% among biological females. Meanwhile, the number of young people identifying as transgender in the US has almost doubled since 2017, according to a new Centers for Disease Control & Prevention report.
Historically, transitioning from male to female was vastly more common, with this cohort typically experiencing persistent gender dysphoria from a very young age. Recently, however, the status quo has reversed, and female-to-male transitions have become the overwhelming majority.”
https://nypost.com/2022/06/18/detransitioned-teens-explain-why-they-regret-changing-genders/
It’s just amazing to me that this is an example of one of the hills the left is willing to die on. Not sure how far off but I suspect this craze will be looked at like lobotomies in the future.
And you can’t argue with the left about this because they think this is kids finally being “free to be their true selves” or some shit. Like every other topic, they are on another planet.
It’s also somewhat surprising feminists aren’t out there protesting this to protect girls.
No, it’s not. Kulturkrieg uber alles, remember.
Yup, woke culture has moved on and you must celebrate this thing today and it doesn’t have to be logically consistent with that thing you were obligated to support yesterday.
Afraid of being branded “TERFs,” a fate worse than death. The girls are on their own.
But TERF’s are only against MTF, and don’t seem to care about FTM. Or to put it another way, radical feminists are against males, not for females.
Actual TERFs are proud of the fact.
LibFems are philosophically incoherent.
Seriously? Not true at all. Very concerned that girls who don’t fit into a girly stereotype are being pushed to call themselves trans. But, hey, you stick to YOUR stereotypes.
There are feminists protesting this. For example, Kara Dansky, JK Rowling, Kathleen Stock, to name just three. They are attacked and find it hard to get published, but they are out there doing the work.
Actually… there are feminists protesting this. They just aren’t getting traction because their nominal allies have shut them down.
Let CNN pluck on your heartstrings like a jazz bull fiddle
A 5-year-old had just finished his first day of kindergarten when he watched his young mother collapse and take her final breaths. A 13-year-old has suffered panic attacks since her dad’s death. A 17-year-old must face adulthood without his idol.
More than 202,000 US children have lost one or both parents to Covid-19, according estimates from Imperial College London. And the number of children robbed of their parents keeps growing.
While life in the US might seem more like it did before Covid-19, the disease is still claiming hundreds of lives every day – including young parents who likely never imagined leaving their children to grow up without them.
Here’s what some children and families who have lost young parents to the pandemic want everyone else to know.
Serious journalisming, for serious people.
It’s very sad and I’m sure there are legit examples but emotionalism doesn’t make for good decision making or good policy or good journalism.
I wish critics would use “tabloid” more. That’s all cnn, etc, are now, and it would stop letting these people get unearned culture points of being a journalist.
Children of what age? And “estimates”? Is that like a “model”?
“Children of what age?”
That’s a good question.
The estimates shown are minimums for the numbers of children (aged under 18) affected by COVID-19 and excess deaths during the pandemic
From the link in the article.
I don’t read CNN.
Thanks though.
I guess not too unrealistic. Just because parents aren’t old doesn’t mean they were in good health.
And what is the baseline?
I wouldn’t put it past them to include grandparents, either.
Can’t we get that Tulsi Gabbard chick to run??? She’d win bigly if her domestic spending ideas got curtailed by reality.
Bring her in as an advisor. She definitely has ideas worth listening to.
Secretary of State, or Defense.
I’d say she’s work a look.
*worth
I wish critics would use “tabloid” more.
Bring back the term “yellow journalism”. It’s pretty much all we have, in practice.
Modern yellow journalism piss on you!
Nah, “yellow journalism” had reporters out there looking for sensational stories. Now, no one leaves their laptop.
Daddy issues
In the third decade of my first marriage I was still paying for things her dad did while I was in kindergarten.
This time around the girl is doing things with and for me, not to get back at someone else.
Meanwhile…
This made me smile.
“Ermagerd! No helmet! One hand! SO irresponsible!”/the usual suspects
Older than Biden and I’d take him in the WH over Biden in a heartbeat.
The estimates shown are minimums for the numbers of children (aged under 18) affected by COVID-19 and excess deaths during the pandemic
“Estimates” plugged into a “model”.
How many of those plague deaths were heart attacks just waiting for the right flight of stairs? Or chronic diabetics one Snickers bar away from a coma?
The enraging thing is we’ll never know because They don’t want us to.
Another issue I’ve heard about is that until the shots are considered totally effective (many weeks), deaths are attributed to COVID, not the shots.
Died with COVID or from COVID? That’s the real question.
That music link was extraordinary. Thanks for that OMWC. I’ve listened to it at least 10 times since I got home a couple hours ago. This is one of your best. So good on so many levels.