¡Martes por la tarde, enlaces mexicanos!

by | Jul 5, 2022 | Daily Links | 210 comments

I’m going to be sitting around waiting for the next workday anyways.  May as well rent out a VRBO while I’m at it.  It wasn’t all bad, I made some ribs.

They weren’t bad.  Now for some links:

 

About damn time.  It makes about as little sense to follow it there than it does here.

This is an amusing take from a Latin American version of Jacobin.

I am not sure what is going on here.

If I were Argentina’s Economic Minister, I too would quit randomly.   In other news, El País would be stunned to learn they replaced him with another leftist.

I’m surprised the trailer had any ventilation at all let alone an actual HVAC unit.

I have a two liter bottle of Shasta, and my all Rush mix tape.

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210 Comments

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Good morning UCS

  1. Don escaped Texas

    HVAC

    Maybe the journo is talking about a refrigeration unit. I can’t find pictures of the trailer, but last year’s San Antonio disaster was indeed a reefer

    adding to my recent list: I love the technical team at ThermoKing

    • R.J.

      “Love.”
      I do not think that word means what you think it means.

  2. Swiss Servator

    “I am not sure what is going on here.”

    *Paging Heroic Mulatto, HM to the red courtesy phone please*

    • mexican sharpshooter

      We need more politicians to turn up randomly on OnlyFans.

      • R C Dean

        *peruses current crop of politicians*

        No, we do not.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I dunno, if more politicians were on OnlyFans, the average senator’s age would drop by 60 years and we probably wouldn’t be living under the heels of extra-wide diabetic shoes payable by Medicare, like we do now.

      • The Other Kevin

        I’m guessing people on OnlyFans have a fondness for capitalism.

      • R C Dean

        They have a fondness for money. That doesn’t mean they like *spit* capitalism.

      • Tundra

        That new chick from Texas is pretty hot.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Nothing would be anywhere near as good as the Hunter stuff that we already got for free.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Spoiler: None of that shit was free. We all paid for it and still are.

  3. Stinky Wizzleteats

    I find a decent cameltoe to be a plus for a politician.

    • Compelled Speechless

      Depends on the politician. Pelosi = gross. Hawley = hot.

      • Rat on a train

        Prepare for horror … Rachel Levine.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Y’all are about to get nuked and muted out of my view with all this bullshit. I’m gonna have nightmares for weeks! 😉😂😂

      • Bobarian LMD

        There is a Hillary meme about this that I won’t go looking for.

  4. Rat on a train

    Shasta, my preferred target when I was young.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Paul Harrell, is that you?

  5. Lackadaisical

    ‘The greater commitment to democracy in this new wave of the left can help contain the advance of authoritarianism’

    Stop, you’re too funny.

    • rhywun

      All I’m getting from that article is “Get ready for millions more migrants, United States.”

      • hayeksplosives

        I dunno; only if we can claw our economy back from where the proggies have dragged it with TEH COVID response and the shutdown of cheap fuel.

  6. Penguin

    Argentina has a new Economic Minister? Did they reincarnate Sisyphus?

    • Bobarian LMD

      Rock and Roll!!!!

  7. Certified Public Asshat

    *checks to confirm*

    Good, Mexico is choosing the correct time standard.

    • Rat on a train

      UTC?

    • Zwak, who swallowed your pain, and is asking for more.

      Pacifico?

  8. Yusef drives a Kia

    Rush!
    Not my favorite, Alex’ guitar sounds like Geddy’s voice,
    Tall Cans!

    • MikeS

      I played my first round (9) of disc golf this weekend. Only 20 over par!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        It takes a lot of practice. I watched the Womens pro championship last weekend, very instructive

    • Tundra

      Really? I love that song.

      When I was in like 7th grade, one of my best friends learned Spirit of the Radio. We were in awe!

      • rhywun

        Probably my favorite Rush song.

      • robc

        Freewill or Vital Signs.

      • juris imprudent

        I’m really weird – Roll the Bones.

      • Chafed

        You are weird.

      • rhywun

        Freewill

        Close #2

  9. Shpip

    As we wait to see what will happen at the end of the year in Brazil, where Lula da Silva may return to power, the other five strongest economies in the region —Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Peru— are governed, or will be from August 7, with the inauguration of Gustavo Petro, by presidents who like to think of themselves as being on the left.

    Sounds like some countries are in for a spell of “bad luck.” Plus ça change…

    • Penguin

      No, they just won’t implement leftist economic systems correctly.

    • Fatty Bolger

      It’s gonna work this time, they have the right people in charge now.

  10. Certified Public Asshat

    Despite no evidence of crimes, Puerto Rico regulators closed my bank anyway for net capital issues, rather than allow a sale to a highly qualified buyer promising to inject capital far in excess of regulatory minimums. As a result accounts are frozen and customers may lose money.— Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) July 3, 2022

    Guy who hates bitcoin uncovers use case.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I’m sure he’s getting plenty of phone calls from pissed off investors.

      “wHycoMe gOld nO Up!?”

      • R C Dean

        I gotta admit, I have wondered that.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        That would explain it, but that’s not going into circulation overnight.

      • Tonio

        However, the fact that more gold can always be mined, whether in Uganda, other countries or Aerial exploration, raises up the question if Gold is really the store-of-value asset which most people deem it to be.

        If by “aerial” they mean the asteroid Psyche, it’s going to take a lot of time and investment to recover that.

      • R C Dean

        If they try to maneuver it into some kind of Earth orbit, we could finally get our SMOD.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Me too. As a commodity that supposedly acts as a store of value in the minds of many, the price of gold appears to be immune to mere forces of supply and demand. Can it be possible that its price is manipulated that effectively behind the scenes?

      • R C Dean

        I believe the gold market is the most manipulated on the planet. Every central bank has a finger in that pie.

        The road from exploration to export is a long and rocky one for gold. Especially, I would imagine, in central Africa.

      • juris imprudent

        market is the most manipulated on the planet

        $US does a spit-take

      • R C Dean

        Interesting. Gold is manipulated because of its second order effect on currencies. I’m willing to entertain the idea that gold is manipulated as part of a larger currency market manipulation strategy.

      • Lackadaisical

        Up 480% over 20 years, seems okay to me.

        I think the biggest draw is that it will always hold some value.

      • R C Dean

        Honestly, I hadn’t checked in so long, I was kind of surprised to see its up to $1800+. I’m still kind of surprised to see its basically plateaued there for the last couple of years.

      • UnCivilServant

        Discovered in 1852, it was once known as the “golden asteroid” as scientists believed it was mostly composed of the precious metal.

        Subsequent observations, however, hint that Psyche is most likely made up of a mix of rock, iron and nickel.

        So, the scientists want to keep all the gold for themselves? Or is that a major ‘Psyke!’ by Psyche?

      • Plisade

        I’ll go with bureaucratic greed, any day.

        This reminds me of a book in the Star Wars EU in which some Sith crash land on a planet populated by humanoids. The population never really advances cuz their planet has so few metals on it.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I’ve always thought that a sci-fi series set in a civilization that developed only a few billion years after the re-ionization of the early Universe would be interesting, because there’d be so few metals heavier than iron around (the Universe wouldn’t have had time to go through waves and waves of novas and supernovas to create metals heavier than iron).

        How would such a civilization develop some of the things we take for granted?

      • Plisade

        It was a very interesting story, spanning many generations of the crashed Sith as they rise to power through their use of the dark side alone, being unable to utilize technology or repair their ship.

        The book is, Lost Tribe of the Sith, The Collected Stories, by John Jackson Miller.

      • Timeloose

        The Moat in Gods Eye kind of deals with a species like that. In this case they have no heavy metals and needed to go to Fusion before fission and high tech ceramic instead of metal. This is due to a plot element that would be a spoiler.

      • Plisade

        Yeah, I really liked that different technology in The Mote.

    • Chafed

      Anyone know the story behind this?

  11. Sensei

    Tesla is incinerating cash at an exponential rate. However, it looks like they are doing long, long model runs with continuous improvement. The way the new Y is structured suggests their variable cost per unit is going to approach something amazing. Reminds of the Model T.

    Tesla Model Y 4680 Structural Pack OUT!!!

    This is also the largest cylindrical battery in industry usage with a good trade off of cost and energy density. However, long term reliability is an open question.

    Musk plays big. Consequence for failure here are severe. Success helps insure industry leading costs. I’m ver much reminded of Ford when it first started. Seemingly with similar labor issues…

    • hayeksplosives

      I sold a whole buncha TSLA stock last year to buy my Nevada house and pay all other debt off, some of which had been hanging over my head for years. I was very fortunate (all luck, no skill) that I had purchased in 2018 at $260 (BEFORE the 5 way stock split, so really more like $52) and sold at $1200.

      But I have been buying again here and there since I think it’s undervalued at $650. There is a new split coming soon so that will lower the barrier to entry for new investors.

      People forget that it’s more than a car company. On the other hand, the Left now hates Musk, so I fear they will try to trip TSLA up through underhanded means.

  12. Sensei

    I am not sure what is going on here.

    In Nihongo no less.

  13. Tonio

    Shout out to Juris Imprudent. I didn’t comment on your piece when it went up, but enjoyed it. Thanks.

    • Sensei

      +1

    • juris imprudent

      Glad everyone enjoyed it. Lots of good comments.

  14. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Watching a large 5th wheel try to park. It’s not going well.

    • R C Dean

      Looking forward to the hilarious video.

      Right?

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        It would be 45 minutes long

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        If you sped it up into a two-minute video, it would be a total laff riot.

      • kinnath

        yackety sax as the sound track

      • Animal

        GMTA.

      • Animal

        Especially if you set it to the Benny Hill theme.

      • R C Dean

        And once again, I’m too slow.

      • Tonio

        But you write purty. Catching up on articles I missed and I like your constitution piece. Thanks.

      • juris imprudent

        I feel like half of my brain is residing in RC’s head.

      • R C Dean

        Well, there’s plenty of room.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Busy parking your 5th wheel?

  15. Lackadaisical

    Just what Argentina needs to control inflation, a Greek ministry of finance.

  16. Tundra

    That story about the semi still pisses me off.

    Both suspects face the death penalty if found guilty of smuggling and conspiracy charges.

    I’m good with that. But I’d sure like to see the pols that enable this shit face some retribution, too.

    And while I’m dreaming, I’ll take one of these, too.

    • Don escaped Texas

      clean Montana title

      did I just learn where the rocket docket for cars is ?

      • Sensei

        No sales / use tax. There is whole industry around registering your exotic there.

      • Don escaped Texas

        I figured something like that

        Marshall TX was the federal courthouse for quickest patent cases for years

      • R.J.

        Haha. Yes it was.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        However, SCOTUS slammed the door on forum shopping a couple years back, so it’s much easier for a defendant to get off of Albright’s docket today than it was to get off of Gilstrap’s docket back then.

    • Plinker762

      Good thing you didn’t read the whole story!

      • Tundra

        I did. But this is on us.

  17. Winston

    https://www.aier.org/article/review-the-great-experiment-by-yasha-mounck/

    But a highly ethnically heterogeneous democracy with true equality has never yet existed. However a number of countries, from the U.S. to Britain to Sweden to India, are at various stages in trying to manage this new political entity. That is the great experiment, and Mounck sees three possible outcomes: non-democratic dominance by the most politically powerful group (not necessarily the majority), political fragmentation, or a successful shared democracy.

    Interesting how he admits that this is something that has never happened before. And blithely ignores the serious problems of the first outcomes occurring. Not to mention I see plenty of evidence of the first two outcomes…

    Also wouldn’t this highly ethnically heterogeneous democracy require a large amount of nationalism and conservatism?

    • Sensei

      South Korea and Japan spring to mind. And skimming the article WTF is equality?

      Certainly both the above don’t have gender equity as we define it here.

    • R C Dean

      Culturally homogenous (on the big stuff) I think is a requirement to avoid the first two outcomes. The degree to which you can be “ethnically” (whatever that means) heterogenous and culturally homogenous on what matters is, I think, the difficult question.

      I find it interesting that the successful outcome is a “shared” democracy. Sounds like ethnic collectivism is baked into Mounck’s pie, since I don’t know what “shared” could refer to other than the various ethnic groups. Plain old “color-blind” democracy is just democracy, not “shared” democracy.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        The degree to which you can be “ethnically” (whatever that means) heterogenous and culturally homogenous on what matters is, I think, the difficult question.

        Today I’ve been tossing around the idea of playing off the tone of your Constitution article and doing a critique of multiculturalism. “Multiculturalism: the god that failed” may be a good second installment in that series.

      • R.J.

        “Multiculturalism: I am legion.”

      • Tonio

        Yes, please!

      • Winston

        Good idea. Problems with multiculturalism include how they caused liberartarians to dismiss all social and cultural issues as reactionary bigotry. And how classical liberals were pretty xenophobic and parochial. How many old English classical liberals didn’t complain about how bad France and Catholics are and disliked the use of French and Latin?

      • JasonAZ

        “caused liberartarians to dismiss all social and cultural issues as reactionary bigotry”

        Again, maybe Reason editor style Libertarianism. Which isn’t really Libertarianism at all. There are some Ls that care about one or two Libertarian issues; but are otherwise raging far left progressives. IE, they don’t actually support smaller government, free markets or personal liberty.

        This is precisely why the Mises takeover of the LP removed language related to “anti-racism” and abortion from the party platform.

      • hayeksplosives

        Is it Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations” book that tries to take on this subject, or am I thinking of something else?

        What I recall was one thesis that the US is pursuing internal multiculturalism while somehow assuming the rest of the world wants to be just line us, thus projecting uniformity internationally.

        And the point is that it’s not logically consistent and also not working.

  18. Winston

    https://fee.org/resources/individualism-a-deeply-american-philosophy/amp

    After all, individualism is baked into American culture.

    We value independence, creativity, and self-expression, for example. We admire those who stand out from the crowd for their unique personalities and distinctive talents. We reward high achievers and celebrate heroes.

    And rightly so. Whether they be artists, philosophers, explorers, or entrepreneurs, non-conformists can be revitalizing agents of change in a world gone stagnant.

    Isn’t the notion of American individualism rather nationalistic though? There is a distinct geographic area and a distinct people that have a certain character. And again awfully conservative since this is an ancient value that they don’t want to be seriously undermined.

    Also I’m not sure the current authoritarian wave can be described as stagnant…

  19. Winston

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XpoYEbzyS4k

    Interesting that Jordan Peterson and Rex Murphy until very recently were pretty conventional Liberals. Murphy was on the CBC and was an anti-Smallwood student activist and even ran for the provincial Liberals…

  20. Winston

    Turdeau Jr. Legalized weed and banned gay conversion therapy and supports immigration and abortion yet he is taking away my guns, my single-use plastics and imposes Vax and masks on me. How do libertarians explain that?

    • Animal

      Why the hell should we have to explain that?

      • Winston

        Because libertarians believe that gay rights and pot legalization are supposed to lead to social tolerance and less government control of people’s lives?

      • Tundra

        Ah, the libertarian monolith.

      • Animal

        Really? So we’re all marching in lockstep?

      • Winston

        Are there libertarians that don’t support those things or think they will lead to intolerance and more government control?

      • Tundra

        Pretty weak troll. 2/10

        I know you can do better.

      • Animal

        Should I go around and ask everyone in the world who describes themselves as a libertarian, and compile their answers?

        Look, I get that this is kind of your thing – drop in some random factlet or story and say “how do libertarians explain this?” Now I can take that one of two ways, since the written word is without a lot of the cues we get from speaking. You could be going, “Hey, guys, I ran across this, and was wondering what you think?” Or, you could be going “Hey, you libertarians, explain this zinger! Gotcha!”

        From your phrasing and your responses, I’m guessing the latter, but I’m open to being proven wrong.

        Now you’ve been doing this for some time. Sometimes the stuff you post actually provokes some interesting discussion, but usually it doesn’t. So what I’m curious about is, at the end of the day, what are you really trying to accomplish here?

        Because it seems to me it’s about time for you to ascend to the summit of Mount What’s-Your-Fucking-Point.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I still haven’t ruled out that he’s the FBI agent assigned to this site and occasionally he just interjects out of boredom.

      • Animal

        I can’t accept that our witty repartee would be found anything but scintillating, even by a Fed.

      • Compelled Speechless

        It would be if they understood it. Let’s just say the FBI isn’t sending us their best.

      • juris imprudent

        You know, I’ve always thought Libertarians were a weird breed, but they got nothing on the ones that live in Winston’s head.

      • JasonAZ

        Ugh, maybe Reason editors believe this but that doesn’t make Canada a Libertarian paradise.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I believe you have cause and effect exactly backwards there Winnie.

      • Winston

        So a society that is tolerant toward weed and not towards guns is…?

      • Compelled Speechless

        To answer your original question, Trudeau is an authoritarian. Any “rights” he gives you he thinks he may take away just as easily. In this phase of progressivism, rights are an illusion. To my point, weed and butt-sex are not giving you limited government or real social tolerance. The latter must come first.

        Social tolerance and limited government lead to gay right, guns, weed and anything else your libertine brain might dream up. Not the other way around (except guns, those actually may have a correlation with limiting government.) Whether or not that’s a good thing is another discussion. The definition of tolerance has changed too much. Like “fairness” and “equality”, the left has decided that “tolerance” and “acceptance” are interchangeable out of mere convenience mutilating .

      • Not Adahn

        a Brave New World?

      • Tundra

        Europe?

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Canada?

      • Winston

        Well the idea was that once we like Gays and weed we would stop judging people for being different and want the government to leave everybody alone.

      • juris imprudent

        See, there’s your problem. Who said we’d stop judging people? Just because the govt isn’t persecuting some minority doesn’t mean we can’t individually judge the shit out of them. At least some, and others who won’t. Where do you get this ABSOLUTIST homogeneity? I don’t even think Marxists are as rigid as you are.

      • Winston

        Actually I’m critiquing the idea of social tolerance. There are always people who are going to be disliked. Being intolerant to those who you don’t like instead of those people you like or are indifferent to us different from the intolerant society how?

      • Winston

        What’s actually happening is that we are still judging people for being different but we no longer think being gay or smoking weed is one of those things which should cause social shaming. And we still want the government to interfere in people lives but being gay and smoking is no longer one of those bad behaviors that should be stopped.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        What’s your point on this Winston? I still fail to see any connection between pot on demand, firearms on demand, ass sex on demand, and abortion on demand. Except possibly that ass sex on demand negates the need for the abortion one.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Forget it dude. He may as well be asking why the libertarian support for the creation of legalized gambling in Nevada didn’t end Jim Crow laws in the Deep South.

      • Trigger Hippie

        ‘What’s actually happening is that we are still judging people for being different but we no longer think being gay or smoking weed is one of those things which should cause social shaming.’

        It almost seems like humans are imperfect creatures…

      • Tonio

        No, those are the result of social tolerance. Also, depends on which gay rights you mean. Getting the government out of your bedroom is a win for straight people, too. ENDA creates accredited victim groups, quotas, and climates of fear. Marriage? Good from an equal protection standpoint, but also perpetuates government involvement in something it has no business in; registering domestic partnerships being a different thing.

      • Tonio

        Also, what Animal said above.

    • Bobarian LMD

      He’s a tyrant who likes weed?

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I dunno about explaining it, but GTFO while you still can.

      • Winston

        Where to go though? The problem with globalist authoritarianism is that they want to make everywhere a shithole.

      • Compelled Speechless

        That’s simply not true. This is another one of those handy cases where redefining a word on the fly can solve the problem. Change shithole to mean “any place not under complete control of the globalists” and voila! There isn’t a single shithole under the care of our better’s watchful eye.

    • R C Dean

      He’s an unprincipled dickhead who does what’s currently fashionable?

      • Winston

        He is a member of The Liberal Party of Canada so that goes without saying? That’s been there MO since the 1920s I would say…

      • Winston

        The last Liberal who did something unfashionable was Laurier opposing the draft in WWI however that was due to Quebec plus he was in opposition at the time and the Anglo Liberals supported it.

  21. Winston

    Fun fact: Women couldn’t vote in France until 1944 but they could vote in Nazi Germany and in the USSR. And Women could vote in Maoist China before they could in Switzerland. How would J. S. Mill explain that?

  22. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    If your job is to create documents for the US government, you should probably KNOW HOW TO USE GODDAMN WORD AND GODDAMN ACROBAT. GODDAMN IT.

    It’s like a plumber not knowing how to use a goddam wrench.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      First interview question: what are tags vis a vis Microsoft Word? Can’t answer? No job.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        To be fair, I have no clue what tags are in word. I’ve never heard of such a thing.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Headings, paragraphs, etc.?

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        As related to section 508/accessibility they’re called tags.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I don’t think anyone outside of the swamp could answer that question.

        Perhaps change your question to: what are tags vis a vis section 508/accessibility?

      • Tundra

        Same.

      • R C Dean

        #metoo

        Is that what shows up when you hit the little paragraph button?

        *withdraws application for fedgov document jockey position*

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        withdraws application for fedgov document jockey position

        Good, because I can’t take any more people who don’t know how to do the job for which they are hired.

      • R C Dean

        I’m pretty sure I could get a job description for “Document Jockey” through at my office. How hard would it be for you to do that for Our Masters?

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        I would LOVE to write honest job descriptions for a living. I could pour a lot of hostility into them!

      • Mustang

        Most of the job advertisements I’ve been looking at are extremely difficult to understand. Maybe that means I don’t have the requisite skillset, but a lot of them are almost gibberish, so I just apply if it sounds vaguely relevant.

        I had no idea how messed up the hiring process had become. First I’ve got to beat the resume screening bots and then the HR person who may not even know what I’m applying for. This has been quite the lesson.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I had no idea how messed up the hiring process had become. First I’ve got to beat the resume screening bots and then the HR person who may not even know what I’m applying for. This has been quite the lesson.

        There’s two workarounds that can help. The first is a unique cover letter that makes you stand out. Some hiring managers won’t read them, but I read every cover letter and gave an interview and subsequent job offer to a candidate based on their cover letter who wouldn’t have gotten an initial interview based on their resume alone.

        The second is reaching out to employee already on the team of the position you are interested in before you apply (has to be before). Check out LinkedIn for this information. That employee can put in a word to the hiring manager, and there’s often an hiring incentive for the employee to do so. If it seems like a good match, I tell HR to be on the lookout for the candidate’s resume and that automatically passes the candidate through the screening bots and HR screener. It’s like a fast track pass where you go to the head of the line.

      • hayeksplosives

        I am currently tasked with riding herd on dozens of physicists and engineers who need to be writing test plans and test procedures for our big desert project. Across 4 different government labs.

        The “template” they provided is nothing of the sort; styles are a mess, no automatic fields etc.

        This is gonna be painful.

        Also, so many of these guys have wallowed in academia for so long that they write in ridiculously unnecessary flowery language to try to sound “smart”. I wield the Handbook of Technical Writing and the Chicago Manual of Style like cudgels with these knotheads.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      I could probably make decent scratch hiring myself as a 508 compliance expert. Then I can continue to rant about how bureaucrats don’t even know the LAWS THEY’RE REQUIRED TO FOLLOW.

      There are people who make a living suing government agencies for ADA violations.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      There is no reason a web developer should know more about this than a “communications specialist”

      Rant over.

    • hayeksplosives

      I miss Adobe FrameMaker and PageMaker. 🥲

      They made technical writing and editing ENJOYABLE.

    • Compelled Speechless

      “The reconstruction of Ukraine is not a local project, is not a project of one nation, but a common task of the entire democratic world — all countries, all countries who can say they are civilized”

      That’s a real nice Western Civilization you got there. Be a real shame if something happened to it, like say information about all your politicians using a certain war torn nation as their personal money laundry mats. All that can go away for a cool 3/4 trillion.

      • Mustang

        Is it possible to believe he’s blackmailing people while also condemning the Russians?

        I don’t have a lot to say on this subject because 1. I don’t know much of a damn thing about it and 2. Every conversation I read about it turns into accusations of being an apologist/sympathizer for one side or another.

        What a mess.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Not only is it possible, it seems to me to be the Occam’s Razor. How is handing over goddamn near a trillion dollars to a known corruptocracy that is likely about to be conquered within ten thousand miles of the interest of any western nation and especially the taxpayers of said nations? It took Afghanistan nearly a decade to run up that kind of nation building bill and they had some of the most egregious embezzlement and laundering schemes ever devised. (Look into the “ghost army”.)

        If the bills to fund any of that actually start to look like they’re going to pass, there needs to be someone with some balls to give some push back and ask some serious questions. Unfortunately there’s only one Massie.

      • Drake

        Rand tried to attach an audit amendment to the last big giveaway bill and got shot down.

        I assume Zelensky will wake up dead one day soon. The Ruskies will blame us, we’ll blame them.

      • hayeksplosives

        “I took the liberty of slipping a little polonium in your tea.”

    • R C Dean

      Jokes on Russia. They had to pound it flat to conquer it.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I’m pretty sure there’s a sex joke in here, but I’m having a real hard time putting my finger in it. Sorry “on it.”

    • juris imprudent

      That’s 5 years of Ukrainian GDP. That’s some funny shit; nice to know he’s still got his comic chops.

  23. Winston

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/fee.org/articles/what-francis-fukuyama-gets-wrong-about-neoliberalism/amp

    Personal autonomy taken as license to disregard and even to eliminate social norms can destroy a culture or a nation.

    I find it bizarre to read that statement. Until very recently libertarians seemed to assume that is impossible to “destroy a culture or a nation” or thought that this things occurring was an unalloyed good.

    And until very recently that notion of Hollywood killing morality would have been considered church lady nonsense:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l6EI2fWOFN8

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “Liberalism is a way of regulating violence and allowing diverse populations to live peacefully with one another.”
      “Liberalism protects basic human dignity, and in particular human autonomy – the ability of each individual to make choices.”
      “Liberalism promotes economic growth and all the good things that come from growth by protecting property rights and freedom to transact.”

      Fukuyama doesn’t actually believe in any of that. He believes in “muscular liberalism” or the unceasing and impenetrable belief that he knows best for everyone, everywhere, no matter how many people have to die to save them.

  24. Chafed

    “I have a two liter bottle of Shasta, and my all Rush mix tape.” MikeS quietly sobs.

  25. Tundra

    Want to see Tres really conflicted?

    Behold!

    • Chafed

      She is really just one of the people.

      • Compelled Speechless

        You’re going to need to sit down for what I’m about to tell you.

        Ready……All the god-kings are really just people. The only difference between them and the most tragically average among us is their willingness to gaslight and flat out lie without caveats or limits in order to get what they want. Their capacity for dishonesty is truly extraordinary.

      • Tundra

        I just never realized she had big tits.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        LOL

      • Compelled Speechless

        They’re fake. They’re actually just a hollowed out place on her body where she can stuff the giant rolls of cash she gets from lobbyists.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        So JFK banged her too?

      • Sensei

        That’s my thinking….

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Isn’t the hubby out on bail? Is he allowed to leave the country? Or more specifically, would one of us be allowed to leave the country?

  26. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Fifteen year old girls are a pain in the ass.

    Somebody please tell me it gets better.

    • Tundra

      Define “better”.

      If you mean a reduced desire for a really late term abortion, definitely.

    • JasonAZ

      My oldest is 29. She was a PITA between 14-17. She got better around 18.

      My current 15yo daughter can sometimes be a PITA. Unfortunately, most of the problem is parenting/grand-parenting fails. Too much giving her almost everything with almost no requirement on her end. She’s smart. Straight As. But lazy. I came into the equation around 7yo and been fighting add more disciple to the equation.

      Listen, kids need love and encouragement but if it’s all that and no discipline, you end up with lazy, entitled brats. Or, your average Millennial and whatever we call this current bunch of soft, lazy brats.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Greeeaaaaaattttt…. More fun to look forward to

      LOL, my 5 year old, during our evening walk, declared “I’m the boss of the family now” and started barking orders.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Five wasn’t bad at all, other than the birthday parties.

        My twelve year old is a little moody, but otherwise a reasonable kid.

        Teenagers are emotionally draining.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        My 11yo is an ADHD riddled mess much if the time.

        That one is exhausting. Beyond exhausting. My 15yo is also exhausting, but he’s also generally a good kid.

        I am not looking forward to the 11yo once he gets to puberty.

  27. Not Adahn

    About damn time. It makes about as little sense to follow it there than it does here.

    Wouldn’t they have even less reason than us since they’re closer to the equator?

  28. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Sitting out the first real thunderstorm in the new home. So far so good.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Looks like we’re at the tail end of a derecho.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Sorry we weren’t how that way 🙁

  29. Not Adahn

    I’m only linking this because it’s hilarious that Chicago’s CBS station blurred out the HP’s shooter’s mom’s cleavage.

    https://youtu.be/qhy4LlJAPBE?t=31

  30. robc

    Daily Quordle 162
    4️⃣3️⃣
    8️⃣7️⃣

    Good start, went downhill.

    • LCDR_Fish

      Ok Matt “gourmeltz” Strickland just got his acct set up too. @mattforva

  31. Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

    OT, but the Dutch farmers appear to have bought themselves an actual no-shit tank to use to block distribution centres in The Netherlands.

    Our truckers and farmers should be taking notes right now.

    • Tundra

      Damn. Link?

    • JasonAZ

      How is the Dutch population handling this issue? I don’t watch the news here in the US. Curious if the general public is supporting them or if their media are a bunch of government boot lickers like the MSM.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        No idea.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        They’re as bad or worse than our media.

        Pretty sure most of them don’t believe it either.

  32. Winston

    https://fee.org/articles/free-trade-and-human-rights-in-china/

    The best way to promote human rights around the world is to promote free trade. Trade liberalization improves ties among nations, increases their wealth, and advances civil society.

    The liberalization and decentralization of economic life in China has widened the scope for civil society. Princeton University professor Minxin Pei believes that the gradual development of China’s legal system toward affording greater protection for persons and property, the growing independence and educational levels of members of the National People’s Congress, and the recent experiments with self-government at the grassroots level will help move China toward a more open and democratic society. He points to the upward mobility of ordinary people, occasioned by the deepening of economic reform, and to the positive impact of trade liberalization on political norms. In his view public opinion and knowledge of Western liberal traditions, such as the rule of law, have set implicit limits on the state’s use of power and have promoted the democratization of the legal system. There has been a sharp rise in the number of civil lawsuits against the state, and individuals are winning about one-fifth of their cases, according to Pei.[5]

    Aged like fine wine…

    Commerce brings people together, not only to trade goods but also to exchange information. Trade liberalization helps to depoliticize economic life, widen human experience, and reduce the threat of war. Peace and free enterprise tend to reinforce each other. When countries restrict foreign trade, they reduce wealth, diminish freedom, and increase the likelihood of conflict. They also block the natural formation of civil society, which is fostered by the growth of commerce. Traders find it in their own self-interest to treat their customers with respect. Good manners and good business go hand in hand; commercial society and civil society are inseparable. Trade also fosters the rule of law as people find it useful to accept common rules, respect one another’s rights, and be generally tolerant.

    So why is there is freedom receding and at the hands of the globalists at that?

    The full range of human rights will come to China only when property rights are treated as fundamental civil rights and when civil rights are protected by the rule of law.

    And the Chicoms will let this happen how?

  33. Winston

    As far I can tell the “freedom trade will liberate the world” argument is almost entirely based on what happened in mid-Victorian England. The English Liberals benefitted enormously from it despite the Repeal of the Corn Laws being done by a Conservative and the Liberals immediately gained power and held it almost continously for almost 30 years.

    They certainly aren’t talking about the US which had high Tariffs when the Republicans where in power. Or Germany where Bismarck imposed tariffs after Unification. Or France where Napoleon III signed the free trade treaty and the Third Republic imposed tariffs.

    • Tundra

      Cheap energy will free the world.

      First things first.

      • hayeksplosives

        But then we can’t control the population! If we can reduce them back to an agrarian society or better yet, a day-to-day subsistence society, they might get IDEAS.