Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another lovely day and the links!
FBI Official Accused of Shutting Down Hunter Biden Probe Resigns
Justice Department releases photo of top secret docs found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Biden’s Approval Is Underwater by Double Digits in WI, PA Ahead of Campaign Stops
Fetterman pulls out of debate in Pa. Senate race, cites Oz campaign’s ‘mockery’ of his stroke
Federal judge grants temporary restraining order against Colorado county gun ordinance
House conservatives prep plans to impeach Biden
US Military Running Low On Ammo After Arming Ukraine
Energy Crisis Will Hit Pubs Harder Than Lockdowns, Say Industry Bosses
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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That look when you down your body weight in beer.
I’m pretty sure I haven’t grown a tail the times I’ve done that. And I’m not that furry.
“FBI Official Accused of Shutting Down Hunter Biden Probe Resigns”
These stories keep changing….
The FBI can’t be saved. Break it up.
“It was just a couple of bad apples, everything’s fine now!”
I think that was the plan at first. Except they now realize that will not play with the people that know better. So they are regrouping to throw shit at the wall and see if a different strategy will produce a better result…
The FBI, if they don’t take the narrative over, is in a real bad place. There is now a serious argument to be made that the US government – directly – interfered in an election by getting social media to censor real and damaging information for them so they could oust a sitting president they had been at war with since he managed to win the election they tried to rig for an unelectable candidate they wanted put in the POTUS office to finish the banana republicifacation of the US republic. And for the idiots that claim there is some parallel between Comey going on TeeVee to try and convince Americans that while it was obvious that Hillary broke laws that would have had anyone else put in jail, they had determined since she was not doing it out of malicious intent, they were giving her a pass and telling the DOJ not to investigate – all in the hope it would not affect her in the 2016 election cycle and torpedo here already negative ratings with anyone but idiots – all to really protect Barack Obama and the mountain of lies about how scandal free that corrupt administration that weaponized the US bureaucracy, and especially the FBI itself, to be used against their political enemies, and this Trump thing was: fuck off, you are stupid.
People are of course stupid, and blindly partisan. Half the country is actually cheering this shit on because “ORANGEMANBAD” and “REPUBLICANZ R NAZIS”. There will be no serious consequences for any of this shit, especially after they get done rigging the next set of elections.
I knew we finally got some truth when that asshat so many people claim is some sort of intellectual, Sam Harris or whatever the fuck his name is, admitted during a podcast that nothing, not even evidence that Hunter Biden’s basement was full of raped & killed children, was as bad as the orange guy and his university thing that for some reason to leftists is bad when the entire college circuit in the US is an evil, hyper expensive, indoctrination racket.
I have repeatedly pointed out to these scumbags that if they really believed that these people were evil Nazis, I would expect them to do anything and everything, especially criminal and evil shit, because that is their nature after all.
Don’t worry — the current Biden puppeteers have put out those talking points. By November, they’ll have firmly convinced their brainwashed masses the rest of the country *are* Nazis and then they can really go to town.
And I wish I were joking.
No. No. There was just one bad apple – now the agency is totally clean and unbiased.
Former AOAC Forensic Chemist here.
The FBI crime lab and most other crime labs are (or at least were) absolute garbage. Because they could be, since they had funding/equipment beyond the access of defendants. This might be changing with analytical testing pricing coming down. But they were also garbage because they were incentivized to be, and that I don’t see diminishing.
My lab was running CoA confirmations of animal feeds and fertilizers for the TX dept of Ag for use in fining ag chem producers. Rich defendants with more money and better lab equipment than we had. Our techniques and data were bulletproof (sometimes literally).
Bullshit.
Abbey runs the evidence through her mass spec and can determine with 99 percent certainty that the soil on the shoes only comes from a 3 block area near the perp’s house. Meanwhile, they have computers that can take low res imagery and enhance and refine the image to get a clear shot at the license plate covered in mud from 200 yards away – in the dark.
You guys have anything like that?
True story: I was as Panalytical when they were rebuilding an XRD for use on CSI. They were replacing the goniometer motors so they’d move fast enoough to look busy on camera.
I also had the same model GC-MS used on Breaking Bad in the scene where they’re testing the purity of the sky blue meth. The “purity” display was actually the temperature display. I thought it was clever.
Sounds like we’ll be able to acquire all the F-15s we want then.
Also, how many F-15s did the Taliban have?
Before or after we left?
Good point.
Same question re: Vietcong.
Or pretty much any low intensity conflict since WW2.
This is Martin Van Creveld’s hobby horse. Superpowers cannot win in far-off lands unless they’re willing to pulverize the country into dust. Since they’re generally not willing or able to do that, it’s a stupid idea to get involved in them. It’s a losing proposition from the beginning.
Related
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/persian-tomcats-how-iran-keeps-its-1970s-f-14-fleet-viable-and-competitive-through-domestic-modernisation
I have repeatedly asked which military bases are being asked to give up their ammo and weapons, because if the list is all red state ones, this confirms the left has plans that need these states not to be able to have hardware on hand for whatever they have coming the way of the American serfs that will not bend the knee…
Like it hasn’t been done in history before. Slave state symps in positions of authority in Washington and in federal military installations made sure that, prior to 1861, huge amounts of federal military supplies were repositioned where the seceding states could seize them.
This will be used to justify cutting off Lake City from civilian production.
Defense
ProductionNationalization ActMaybe they could borrow some from the IRS? Or the FDA? Or any of the other agencies who have no police power but have with ammo stockpiles (for some reason)?
Bom dia,
Electrical safety training all day today. Which is worthless for me but whatever. Where would we be without useless training?
“Where would we be without useless training?”
Productive?
Don’t get carried away.
Do not use a 12V car battery to try to power your vibrator cause that’s gonna burn?
You must be a urologist.
Will it be the lineman video showing graphic accident and immediate post recovery photos?
I do find it funny that second hand Fluke meters found in every pawn shop across the US hold their value the same way second hand Rolex watches do.
I gave up trying to find one on the cheap to replace my ancient Fluke with something newer and reluctantly bought another brand. I don’t use it daily or really risk my life on it.
https://www.fluke.com/en-us/support/repair
Other good repair shops as well, particularly if it just needs to be recalibrated (not for certification purposes, but just for baseline accuracy of an old set).
Prices are through the roof for new units. List price is easily doubled or more for the 117 I bought a couple years ago. It’s Fluke, but it’s also made in China. There’s cheaper brands of good quality made in Taiwan or Japan. Would really like a clamp meter for home use.
Pick up a Fluke T5-600 for general use. A horseshoe is just as good as a clamp-on for all but the most minute work.
Resistance is useless !
No doubt the training will include how to mask up to prevent the Ohmicron variant.
Personally, I get a charge out of electrical safety training.
Watt are you talking about, it worked the last time?
““Plaintiff’s motion to appoint a special master, enjoin further review of seized materials, and require the return of seized items fails for multiple, independent reasons. As an initial matter, the former President lacks standing to seek judicial relief or oversight as to Presidential records because those records do not belong to him,” prosecutors argued in the late Tuesday evening filing.
“The Presidential Records Act makes clear that ‘the United States’ has ‘complete ownership, possession, and control’ of them. Furthermore, this Court lacks jurisdiction to adjudicate Plaintiff’s Fourth Amendment challenges to the validity of the search warrant and his arguments for returning or suppressing the materials seized.””
IANAL, but that sounds like bullshit.
” “The location of the passports is relevant evidence in an investigation of unauthorized retention and mishandling of national defense information; nonetheless, the government decided to return those passports in its discretion,” the Justice Department said.”
What?
Yeah, passports are top sekret.
It is bullshit. The ruling may as well have said “because fuck you, that’s why”.
It’s not a ruling. It’s the FBI/DOJ protesting the possibility of having an independent investigator getting into their coverup.
Looks like Trump s going to win the ruling. DOJ will definitely appeal and in about ten years, SCOTUS will weigh in.
In the mean time they will regale the American public with a slew of false and easily disproven stories, with all sorts of high level experts running to TeeVee cameras to state so, but hide the details that they are the criminals, using the “national security” label…. But Shiff, and people like him, will SWAER they saw evidence that the Russians were behind it all…
Such as having working nuclear codes?
Right! That one was just laughable. The security and rotation of those codes suddenly stopped happening? Some code Trump had 2 years ago is still active? I think we have a bigger problem than Trump having those codes – but not the nuclear football – if that’s the case….
They could use the old ones to derive the new ones! You see, people kept forgetting the codes, so they just made it [secret code] plus [today’s date].
Like Milley saying he’s in charge of using the nukes?
Fun fact, for decades, the launch code for US nukes was 00000000
I am not kidding. It wasn’t until either the 80s or 90s that the codes were first changed.
Actual footage of Soviet Putler getting the launch codes from Trump
“My recovery may be a joke to Dr. Oz and his team, but it’s real for me,” Mr. Fetterman, the state’s lieutenant governor, said in a statement.
“I will not be participating in a debate the first week of September, but look forward to having a productive discussion about how we can move forward and have a real conversation on this once Dr. Oz and his team are ready to take this seriously,” he added.
That’s one of those “conversations” where the Democrat talks and the Republicans do what he says, right?
“Here’s my lame excuse for chickening out of a debate where I might have to actually defend my lunatic policy positions.”
FTFY.
If he’s recovering, why the fuck is he still running? Like Buttglug and his paternity leave.
Hiding in the basement not only worked well for Biden, but has now become a viable tactic considering how many people that vote are simply idiots.
Why study for the test when you already have the answers? This seems like a clear indication that the rigging and “fortification” are firmly in place.
I would vote for the Basement Party if they promised that their candidates would never emerge from their basements ever.
Vote for us! We’ll just stay in the basement and never show up to pass any laws or regulations!
“I won’t debate you because you’re a meanie” will sadly probably not penalize him in the race. Fuck Dr. Oz though.
No, you are confusing that with National Conversation on ___________.
whaddup doh’
Where would we be without useless training?
At the bar?
The latest Blaire White Project with Dr. Debra Soh is very informative. Although not as entertaining as drunk Alex Jones.
We already looked through it so it’s no longer privileged attorney client information!
Because that’s how privilege works. You give anything arguably privileged to the other side, they go through it, and after inspecting it, they tell the judge whether they should be allowed to, err, see it.
It’s the reverse fruit of the poisoned tree, if they see it, it’s clearly no longer privileged.
And just think – this is how they are acting in a case with the highest level of magnitude and attention imaginable. They are literally arguing that they basically said fuck the courts, we are just going to go ahead and do what we want, anyway, before they can rule.
Better to have to ask for forgiveness than permission. Especially when you never have to ask for forgiveness.
It’s been their stated position for most of the DoJ/FDA litigation, including after they were enjoined.
They’ve told three separate judges that it’s basically none of the judge’s business if the DOD is wantonly violating people’s rights under RFRA – “judicial deference to agency decisions” (Chevron) + “judges are not given the task of running the Army” (Orloff v. Willoughby) = FYTW.
It’s amazing to me watch the DoJ argue that it’s totally A-OK and legal for the DoD to engage in open, widespread religious discrimination.
I can’t believe no one has yet asked why this is okay, but if it were race it wouldn’t be.
We’re living through a lawless regime and no major elements of our culture have yet publicly identified or acknowledged it.
The level of 155mm combat rounds, fired by the howitzer weapons system, in U.S. stockpiles has become “uncomfortably low,” a Pentagon official told the WSJ. The U.S. has sent 806,000 rounds of the 100-pound explosives to Ukraine as of Aug. 24.
“It is not at the level we would like to go into combat,” the defense official told the WSJ.
Well luckily our nation has this giant moat on both sides of it and we don’t have to stay up at night worrying about imminent invasion.
Our enemies are already in the country.
But then how are we supposed to go sticking our dick into every flashpoint in the world?!
So when they lost the Afghanistan money pit, the crooks that were getting rich ripping off the US tax payer shifted to Ukraine to make up that loss? Now they will tell us we need to piss away trillions making ammo to give to other people to fight a war that doesn’t need to be?
We gave them 81 megapounds of boom-booms? Some teamsters must be taking treasure baths now.
Jeez, the Russkies are firing 50K to 60K per day supposedly.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/news/russian-shelling-eastern-ukraine.html?ios=1&safari=1
Sounds like we definitely need to stock up, especially considering we’re antagonizing China too.
A double dose of asses on your Ass Wednesday, choose your favorite set!
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REEFER MADNESS!
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-weed-became-new-oxycontin-marijuana-psychosis-addiction
Never done drugs by choice. Never felt the need to do drugs. Will go to my grave feeling that way. My one experience with drugs was morphine while at Bethesda while recovering, and I never again would allow anyone to give me morphine. But this shit about how everybody will become a fucking maniac if they smoke ganja, it is just fucking annoyingly dumb shit.
When the Pat Robertson crowd and the anti-GMO people team up…
Certainly it effects the rare person like that but so what? It’s still way less damaging than alcohol.
FFS. This article is straight up bullshit from start to finish.
I know someone who got 302’d from cannabis psychosis. It was pretty ugly.
I got a call awhile back from a local friend wanting me to come pick her up from an emergency room in another state. She’d decided her dad was a serial killer and she was back in her hometown looking for clues as to where he might have buried the bodies. Went into a total breakdown. Turns out she’d been hitting the Delta 8 pretty hard and went nuts for a few months. Appears to be ok now.
Well, was her father a serial killer or not?
Not.
“Delta 8”
I thought that stuff was weak.
It’s as strong as weed, only difference is it’s legal in TN. A daily-smoking relative came to visit, had to fly in so didn’t bring his stash. We were pre-gaming a visit to my mom’s at a bar and I gave him some D8 edibles. He ended up passing out at my mom’s later cuz he didn’t believe it’d be the same as weed and ate a wee bit too much despite my warnings.
It’s only one delta less than Delta 9.
“A federal judge has approved a temporary restraining order that bars Boulder County from enforcing part of an ordinance that bans the sale of assault weapons and large capacity magazines.”
So you could just buy them in the next county?
Don’t tell me – the county next to Boulder is Indiana?
Boulder borders 6 counties and surpisingly to me, one of them isn’t Denver County.
I wonder about the historical reason for Broomfield County. Denver County’s shape makes sense, but Broomfield existing at all is just weird.
Fun fact (to me): Boulder, Greeley, and Fort Collins have their own MSAs, but the first two are part of the Denver CMSA but FtC isn’t. We are just far enough away to be “independent”.
Fun (not really) fact: In TX, county names are completely uncorrelated with the cities that are inside them.
When I was setting up county-level real estate listing searches for Texas it was maddening. Even little one-horse farming towns often span multiple counties. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. <a href="https://countymap.org/texasHere’s a map.
I wonder about the historical reason for Broomfield County. Denver County’s shape makes sense, but Broomfield existing at all is just weird.
https://youtu.be/GXE_n2q08Yw
Trumpism will literally kill you!
Woolf says the greater drop in life expectancy for white Americans could reflect attitudes in some parts of the country to vaccines and pandemic control measures. The U.S. health care system is fragmented he points out — public health is determined by the states, which means there were 50 different pandemic response plans. The states which were more relaxed about COVID restrictions and have lower vaccination rates saw higher excess deaths during the delta and omicron surges than states which had more aggressive vaccination campaigns, masking and other mitigation requirements.
Death rates from COVID-19 in counties that went heavily for Donald Trump saw higher death rates than counties that favored President Biden, according to an NPR analysis.
If only they had worn the sacred talisman of warding-off and partaken of the holy sacrament, millions of people would still be alive today.
Trump is not the cause of anything. He is the the result of the horrible and corrupt leadership that has been selling out the American people, to our enemies of all things for big money, we have had for decades. But they either know and are gaslighting you, or they are so desperate that they simply can’t see why anyone would not just want to be bend over a barrel and be abused by them.
Trump’s base is supposed to be comprised of nothing but old boomers, so wouldn’t that kind of make sense?
Huh, hasn’t NPR also reported studies showing that minorities were harder hit by COVID, and lagged in COVID vaccinations?
https://i.imgflip.com/6rr4s7.jpg
Cause the Kung Flu was racialist, right?
Isn’t everything?
You beat me to it. States that did not panic and shit themselves have more old people.
I’m curious how the whole “health equity” thing, where POCs can’t get health care or vaccines and die as a result, can be squared with Trump’s lily-white supporters dying at a higher rate?
You need to conduct a super scientific survey
Yeah, when you are measuring state responses to a pandemic, don’t worry about the kids’ health. Just how much money Mom and Dad have.
Not enough pedophiles involved to make it good for the children….
/leftards
Biden’s campaign tour is an endless source of crazy quotes and gaffes.
President Joe Biden indicated Tuesday that “right-wing” Americans who support the Second Amendment are shooting at law enforcement.
Joe – you’re jumping ahead. You have to train up your 87k IRS Agents and start the civil war first – then the shooting starts.
Justice Department releases photo of top secret docs found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Tease. You only show cover pages.
Top Seekrit!
Oh no, they’ve got him now.
I thought he’d been dead for quite some time. At least Lou Reed’s still OK.
And we have Bowie.
All the usual idiots are coming out to pay homage to this dude, pretending that it was his choice to dismantle the evil USSR and ending 75 years of murder & misery inflicted on people that thought getting rid of the evil czars would bring them some peace. Gorbachev’s great accomplishment was that he didn’t decide to doom the entire world to nuclear death when he realized the evil empire was going to go down in flame. The USSR collapsed despite people like Gorbachev’s efforts to keep that cancer on humanity going, because Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Lech Walesa, and Pope John Paul II stopped pretending we needed to coexist with that fucking evil ideology.
When F***infg BlackRock isn’t woke enough.
UN Women Group Ends Partnership With BlackRock After Criticism
Speaking of Western weaponry being sent to Ukraine: Ukrainian media publish a list of serious malfunctions with Western weapons
I wonder how much of that is due to lack of/bad training or maintenance.
Honestly, who hasn’t had issues with German obturation rings?
Karl Hungus ?
Are we sending over old equipment that we planned to replace?
Europe definitely is. As I understand it, the Ukrainians were given a bunch of Cold War era stuff.
The Poles have been handing over their Cold War Warsaw Pact shit and rearming with modern stuff….clever.
So you’re saying Ukraine is now in possession of submarines with screen doors?
Why do you think they haven’t been able to liberate the Black Sea?
How do you stop a Polish cavalry charge? Turn off the carousel.
Lol
If he’s recovering, why the fuck is he still running?
Exactly. Too incapacitated to run means too incapacitated to do the job.
If Oz was t an idiot, he’d be running ads doing just that. Fetterman thinks Penn voters are stupid enough to vote for a brain damaged stroke victim because he’s a Democrat and such. Problem is, Fetterman is probably right.
🤦♂️ Jesus. “Authorized” but not ordered. “Monthly”. How about making it simple for general lard ass. Green, yellow, and red levels of stock and as soon as one changes color, how about same day notification in a daily status report of how ready the US is to go to war right then? Dept of Defense needs to go away and return to Dept of War. And I was the asshole at the top with stars to think about what else needs to be done every single waking moment of his day. A fucking private has better sense of continuous improvement, hip pocket training, and being ready with ammo/water/supplies status.
To be fair, those monthly reviews Milley had was with the ChiCom generals. So he really wasn’t in a position to order them around. He was just there to keep them in the loop on how much ammo we had and reassure them it was enough to blow Mar A Lago to bits.
The plan looks to hire 100,000 police officers, calling on Congress to appropriate $10.77 billion in funding over five years for the COPS Hiring Program.
Why is Congress paying for local police? I know FYTW.
A) this isn’t 1979, so even if you could piece one together from the scraps of the retired fleet, it’d still be pretty worthless B) you just got done losing a war in which the world’s most expensive military got its ass kicked by a bunch of goat fuckers with half century old Soviet rifles and roadside bombs made out of scrap metal and gasoline C) admitting you plan to bomb civilian population centers on your own soil is a good look, stick with that.
“the world’s most expensive military got its ass kicked by a bunch of goat fuckers with half century old Soviet rifles and roadside bombs made out of scrap metal and gasoline”
Really? Can you point out those battles in which asses were kicked? I hear this a lot – but nobody can ever point to all this defeat and being driven from the field.
More like “you gave up and walked away from something you couldn’t finish – trying to make a functional nation-state out of a collection of warlords, thieves and opportunists”
That was one of the biggest thing about The Man in the High Castle that I couldn’t believe. That an area/population the size of the US could be pacified by smaller countries like Germany and (especially) Japan. At least that show was sensible enough to make the Rockies a no-mans-land.
I never watched the show, but in the book it’s not so outlandish due to the loss of life during the war and the partitioning of the country between the dominant superpowers.
But Japan? Especially with them also occupying China? I mean, I guess the Western US wasn’t as populated then as it is now, but…
With all the weebery in Silicon Valley, I’m not so sure Japan didn’t win the hearts and minds war even in this timeline.
Honestly, I’d probably welcome overlords if they provided catgirls.
If you go back but a century ago, you will find that a much smaller than the population detachment of the British army regularly pacified areas of their empire by using overwhelming brutal force. Shit history is replete with one tribe/nation/empire completely wiping out their enemy and enslaving whomever they didn’t kill. You wipe out a few villages here and there, showing the downtrodden they will be killed if they refuse to comply, and you will be surprised how quick stuff calms down. At least for a while. because as people forget what happens some will try again. Then you kill indiscriminately and brutally again.
In our modern world that tactic is no longer viable/allowed. Without it, you should basically give up on any sort of wars of occupation. No way to make it work…
But the smart people running our western world keep pretending they can make it work.
They had nukes. They nuked a city and said surrender, then kept doing so until surrender happened.
The conceit, at least where German occupied America is concerned, was that the Nazis won the race to produce atomic bombs and used them.
Yep. And the Japanese were along for the ride as allies, and were given the Western half of the US. I thought it was all very plausible.
There’s truth to that, but we’ve been singing that same chorus since Vietnam. Call it whatever you want, it doesn’t really matter how many battles you “win” when you run away with your tail tucked between your legs with a 5 trillion dollar credit card bill, several thousand corpses for Arlington, and the same government in charge when you left as when you arrived for your 20 years of trouble.
Everyone from the original Talib government is dead. Calling yourself the same name doesn’t mean you are the same folks that originally got wasted.
This is just the latest Saudi money, ISI/Pak proxy crew.
Perhaps you missed the part where I said:
“you gave up and walked away from something you couldn’t finish – trying to make a functional nation-state out of a collection of warlords, thieves and opportunists”
Because 20 years of dumping money on these guys couldn’t change the “get yours and hide/run” mentality. The 1972-2001 civil wars, invasions and such knocked the old Afghan civil society to dust.
I know you’re invested in this because of your service so I’m not going to be a cunt about it, but FFS, we were there for 20 years, even our own government is under the control of a completely different group of individual people than it was when we started. That doesn’t change the fact that we badly… I won’t say “lost” I guess, we’ll say “mismanaged” the war and left a group of backwards religious fundamentalists with the same ideology, under the same moniker, in charge after we left. It’s not as if the original Taliban was any less a proxy state than the modern one.
My time there has nothing to do with viewing this through a historical lens (my original education) – the first set of “Taliban” was different in nature and personnel than this group.
Pak involvement is a continuity factor. But saying they are the same thing isn’t quite right.
The first bunch were Pashtun quasi-separatists (ISI leveraged), leftover Muj from the Soviet war, and Saudi and other tightly controlled Gulf regime cast offs (as canon fodder). Current bunch is a lot less Pak controlled… much more difficult to get a handle on from outside, but also less likely to do anything outside their own borders. The whole place is likely to devolve back into civil war/warlords than hold together under the “Taliban”.
Your knowledge in that area is certainly going to outstrip mine. The proxies, and proxies of proxies, and their proxies are so byzantine it’s easy to lose track as a layman. It was and is still a terrible look though, even if the parties involved have played musical chairs with the names and titles.
It will get worse in the near future, believe it or not.
“even our own government is under the control of a completely different group of individual people than it was when we started”
But the US cast slowly handed off, aged out, still has the same parties, interest groups and such. Plus there are many, many leftovers – Pelosi, Hoyer, half the Senate…
It’s not the battles that we lost, it was the war.
The only way to win wars, especially if your goal is to then occupy, is to completely destroy the enemy or the enemy’s will to keep fighting. We are no longer prepared to do either.
See Sherman, William Tecumseh
And Eisenhower.
In WWII we killed enough Japanese and enough Germans to convince them that continuing down this road will only lead to more death and destruction.
Funny how that was the last war we won, huh? After that killing people and breaking shit to destroy their morale, or if that didn’t work destroy them, became taboo. And now we have more an more wars that never end and body counts nobody pays attention to because it all happens in a trickle instead of all at once…
Feature, not bug
The MIC prefers a steady flow of money instead of a boom/bust cycle.
War is all hell.
Only took 20 years for the last member of the coalition of the willing to find the prefix “un”.
“but nobody can ever point to all this defeat and being driven from the field.”
The final retreat from the airport?
I favored leaving, but the way we left was clearly a defeat.
The way we left was botched “leadership”. Whether it was malice or incompetence is open to debate like everything else this administration does.
Yep, but still a defeat.
They didn’t kick our asses; just tired us out and we left. Same-same Vietnam.
Same-same American Revolution.
They didn’t lose the battles, they ceded the territory. Turns out an occupying force has to occupy.
It is stupid and it would be even worse than Afghanistan. Unlike all our recent futile wars, that F-15 pilot and family still actually have to live here in the U.S. – along with every other fed. Same power grid, food supply chain, etc.
Morning, all you happy glibbies.
An almost amazing day (for me), but just didn’t have the letters for LL/UR to not burn another guess. Ah well.
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Warmup round was meh.
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Best result yet! But it is an opening I play as black.
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I blame the slow time on too many negroni’s last night.
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How are we supposed to fabricate a case with some court appointed referee looking over our shoulder?
The Justice Department argued in its court filing Tuesday that appointing a special master to review the materials taken from Trump’s residence would harm national security, arguing it would delay the intelligence community’s ongoing review of documents that were kept at Mar-a-Lago.
“Appointment of a special master would impede the government’s ongoing criminal investigation and — if the special master were tasked with reviewing classified documents — would impede the Intelligence Community from conducting its ongoing review of the national security risk that improper storage of these highly sensitive materials may have caused and from identifying measures to rectify or mitigate any damage that improper storage caused,” Justice Department lawyers wrote.
Something something phony baloney jobs.
Because she’s telling the truth.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/19631317/ex-bitter-lies-friends-manhood/
Nothing is as evil as an uppity skank that feels she was not treated like a princess…
“– saying I’m rubbish in bed and have a small todger.”
Take a dick pic of it next to a beer can, then text it to all her friends. Thats what I do.
So they can all think you sit around screwing beer cans? (Owwwwww….)
I had a buddy that had to do that with a tuna can…
he used to add the caption “I may not get in there real deep, but I will scrape the shit out of the sides”…
Tall cans!
I say it for a reason…..HMU KK!
The closing of the summary argument is worth a read:
The DOJ is basically claiming that they cannot be second-guessed on this, and besides, the “Intelligence Community” needs to look at it and we all know that the “Intelligence Community” supersedes everything else.
It’s a huge FYTW.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.48.0_1.pdf
-and the government’s investigative team has already reviewed all of the remaining materials,
“Trust us.”
“We just went ahead and executed the prisoner, so that writ of habeas corpus is now moot.”
It’s an on its face shit argument. This is what we pay these people for?
Yes, and nothing will happen personally to them.
NATIONAL SECURITY!
Funny how that means they get to do criminal shit to help them keep doing criminal shit, and we must all just shut the fuck up and take it up the ass, huh?
The MUH NASHUNUL SECKURITEE argument has worn out its welcome.
Declassify everything except actual equipment designs and let the chips fall where they may.
Take-home message: having affairs will save your marriage.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/woman-multiple-affairs-married-men-27875372?int_source=nba
Or in other words: “How to use a beta to pay your bills and take care of other people’s children, while you fuck alphas”?
Wide-Leg Khaki Pants Are Back. For Real This Time
Yeah, bicycling… I’ll be curious to see what this does in the next year. It would actually be nice to be able carry a cell phone in pocket comfortably.
What, no more tight fitting pants that crush your balls every time you shift in your seat? What a shame.
I feel like I can comfortably ignore fashion now. I wear Duluth jeans with roomy pockets. I still have a great distaste for khaki from having to wear it at every white collar job I had in the 1990s.
I wear Wrangle carpenter jeans when it’s cool and Carhart cargo shorts when it’s hot. Give zero fucks if I’m in fashion or not. They are functional.
Dickies shorts in the summer and either 501s or baggy corduroys in the winter. I am 51 and married, ie DGAF.
Unintended consequences
President Joe Biden says he hopes his proposal to forgive federal student loans will narrow the nation’s racial wealth gap. But a generation of Black and Hispanic Americans was disproportionately shut out of one of the keys to Biden’s plan: the Pell Grant program.
As part of the “war on drugs” — a consequential, anti-crime legislative agenda that Biden championed as a U.S. senator — an estimated hundreds of thousands of convicted drug offenders had their access to federal financial aid delayed or denied, including Pell Grants and student loans. If they wanted to go to college after their prison terms ended, these offenders had to take on larger, often predatory, private student loans.
Some were discouraged from seeking federal aid by a requirement to disclose their drug record on financial aid applications, while others put off attending college or dropped out entirely.
The people most harmed by these policies: Black and Latino men, thanks to drug laws in the 1990s with harsh punishments for crack cocaine and marijuana offenses. Incarceration rates for men of color skyrocketed. The policies remained in place for 25 years, until Congress repealed the Pell Grant ban in 2020.
You don’t say.
We should probably just give those people a check for $20k, because fair.
Not mentioned, selective service registration for men.
The main predators are the colleges themselves that make it a policy of admitting those who are statistically almost destined to fail all the while encouraging them to take out large loans. They should look into that.
Yeah, they’ll get right on it.
Unlike those beneficent and altruistic loans made the government, whose terms were so reasonable and non-predatory that we have to write them all off because ostensibly no one can afford to pay them back…
The first round cannabis seller licenses in NY require you to have a previous MJ conviction.
Nobody’s mentioning it, but I guar-ron-tee that since the new carry permits are being centralized through the staties, that anyone with both a gun license and a MJ license will be arrested and referred to BATFE for a 4473 violation.
Well that can’t possibly be true, every Democrat in my lifetime has assured me that there is no such thing as a federal gun registry or database of firearm owners.
Ah, but it’ll be a STATE registry!
Got a link for that first line?
Mais bien sur!
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2022/03/09/new-yorkers-with-prior-marijuana-convictions-expected-to-get-first-retail-licenses
Thank you.
You can’t make this shit up.
Honestly, this has got to be one of the best forms of reparations around. Other than diverting the budget of DEA/NYPD/etc towards business startup loans.
*cues Afroman: “I was gonna start a small business, but then I got high”*
My mortgage identifies as a student loan, a Pell grant one, where is my $20K?
If it wasn’t for the drug conviction, they would surely have been admitted to Harvard.
“It also references a scene that Jamie Lynn Spears filmed for her series Zoey 101 — which Schneider created, executive produced, co-wrote and even had a guest appearance on — in which she had goo ‘roughly the consistency of an egg white’ splattered onto her face.
Her costar Alexa Nikolas recalled that Schneider wasn’t satisfied with the take and made a crew member squirt her in the face multiple times.
After Spears caught the goo on her forehead during one take, at which point it started to dribble down to her face onto her mouth.
Nikolas recalled Schneider bursting into laughter at the sight, which led other crew members and even Spears’ mother Lynne Spears to erupt into giggles.
‘It’s like a c** shot,’ she recalled one of her male costars saying, before noting that the most sexualized take was the one selected for the episode..”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11163131/Nickelodeon-allowed-sexualized-Victorious-scene-Daniella-Monet-Dan-Schneiders-insistence.html
I’m surprised it wasn’t on her feet.
The goo was green the article says and shows like this are sexualized by their very nature. They’re reaching a bit here IMHO although Four Chins Schneider is almost certainly a weirdo.
Putting pre-teen girls in full make-up just seems wrong.
“Female NYC sex trafficker, 39, ‘lured ”hundreds” of migrants into working as prostitutes by posting fake online ads for waitressing jobs over 10 years’
According to the FBI, Gomez would post online ads using Facebook, Bedpage.com, and MegaPersonals.com to try and lure women into ‘waitressing’ jobs for a restaurant in Manhattan”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11162585/NYC-sex-trafficker-lured-hundreds-victims-posting-bogus-online-ads-waitressing-jobs.html
It’s hard out there for a pimp.
They were just working for tips but got the shaft.
Oh, I’m going to Hell for that one.
*narrows gaze*
a pimp’s love is different from a square’s
“You’ll be serving franks and beans.”
The trial balloon did float…
Japan’s Kishida Says He Wants to Reduce Reliance on Nuclear Power as Much as Possible
So the Japanese want to freeze and kill off some people like the Germans will do this coming winter?
They’ll be fighting the snow monkeys for space in the hot springs.
I would like to invest in your new TV show.
Back to whale oil.
Great. I gotta do something about my shitty skin now or I’ll be getting chased all day and night by some Nips with harpoons.
Most of Japan is more temperate than Germany.
Still going to be might cold. Also, similar to Germany, their automobile and aerospace industry might have a few issues.
They should just enact the lessons learned from Fukushima like don’t put your emergency generators at ground level. Or was it below ground level? I can’t remember but I do recall that generator placement was ninety percent of their fuckup.
Problem: It’s cold.
Solution: build walls.
Problem: walls are made of paper.
Solution: kotatsu!
Problem: throwing a blanket over a fire makes the paper walls catch fire.
Solution: don’t need to worry about the cold anymore.
The photo shows a series of documents on a carpeted floor, some with “secret” or “top secret” marked on them. A box with a framed copy of Time Magazine Trump was on the cover of can also be seen in the photograph.
Pictures of classified documents. Though redacted. I doubt I would have been able to get away with this back when I handled classified data.
Republicans hoping to seize control of the House in November are already setting their sights on what is, for many of them, a top priority next year: impeaching President Biden.
How about you get control of Congress first?
You don’t understand! These documents are TOP SECRET! There are probably NUCLEAR SECRETS in them! So it is imperative that we take selfies with them and then send them out to AP News to splash across the front page of every paper in America! TRUMP WAS RECKLESS! ARGLE BARGLE! THE LAUNCH CODES!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Argle Bargle Morble Whoosh!”
What happened to the guy that took the picture? He was authorized to do that, right?
I’m still waiting to hear how many of the 30 odd FBI agents had the right security clearance for whatever they claim the top-level classified documents were. And how many of the FBI/DOJ people who have been combing through them have the right clearance.
They got Trump now. Clearly those documents were never declassified, otherwise every page would have rubber stamped on it “This document used to be classified but has been declassified by the President on August 1, 2018”. Do you see any of those stamps?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
New business opportunity – selling oil lamps in Europe.
Better make it all natural, non-GMO, renewable whale oil.
Q: What did environmentalists use before candles?
A: Electricity!
Who will sell the oil for the lamps?
More and more people are coming out and staking their reputation on the belief that Mar-a-Lago raid was about taking away documents that Trump had declassified but the bureaucracy didn’t want released that exposed the level of criminality in the whole Russia hoax coup attempt.
They have a new hoax they are about to spring either before the midterms or if Trump runs in 2024. Trump having and releasing those documents showing how criminal our bureaucracy is would pour cold water on whatever the new set of coordinated and controlled hoax lies is going to be.
It’s the only explanation that makes sense. The raid was a huge risk for the FBI/DOJ, it had to be worth it to them.
There are people out there who still believe the whole Russia hoax thing. Repeat a lie enough times on fake news and people will take it as gospel.
THE MUELLER REPORT PROVED THERE WAS RUSSIA COLLUSION BY PROVIDING NO FACTS TO PROVE ANY COLLUSION!
Don’t you even conspiracy theory well, brah?
I don’t know, they kept saying Russia a lot. And having grown up during the cold war, Russia is scary, so I’m going with Orange Man Bad here.
There is already plenty of evidence out there about the 2016 hoax and everybody knows it – and nothing else happened.
Nothing else will happen this time, too.
Nice racist story Joe.
I still say that Clarence Thomas was Cornpop and he fought Biden to stop him from molesting little girls at the pool.
I am now certain Cornpop was the good guy in that story.. He cock blocked a honkey child molester with a chain that had been prowling the pool.
Holy shit the lack of self-awareness is * chef’s kiss *
https://mobile.twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1564371295164399617
This guy was good when he was always drunk and high. Wrote up some real cool shit back when. Then he went and got clean after some accident, and his ruined brain made him a serious liability has been…
Writers and musicians both tend to go to pot when they give up intoxicants.
You mean I’ve been doing it wrong by writing sober?
You know how all your letters to sober come back stamped “Return to Sender”?
Take a hint.
No, I’ve been stamping your letters that way because they’re full of drunken ramblings.
THE BITCH SET ME UP!
*Maharishi Mahesh Yogi nods*
(sweet holy fuckballs, Maharishi Mahesh is recognized by spellcheck).
Q: What did the Deadhead say after he sobered up?
A: “Dude! This band sucks!”
Uncle John’s Band is a good song and there’s…there’s…
OK, point taken.
True story- one morning I needed to make a liquor store run. Id started “Fire On The Mountain/Scarlet Begonias” and listened for a bit. Then I got up, took a shower, got dressed, went to the store, came home. When I walked in….it was still playing. It was a bootleg version that was like 45 minutes long.
Why do all these homosexuals keep sucking muy cock?
Hey hey, The Onion from back when it was funny.
Ever since they left Madison they have been on a downhill slide.
The slide started with the online edition.
You are supposed to pick up a copy at Rocky Rococo. Do those still exist?
Apparently.
https://rockyrococo.com/
BEST ONION EVER
is still
“Smells Like Splattered Brains”
Complimentary:
Area Man Experimenting With Homosexuality For Past Eight Years
Look, he writes horror and even he couldn’t think of anything scarier than Trump. That’s how you know Trump is bad.
Following the science: Unvaccinated NBA players, staff must test weekly for COVID-19
We must guard against the appearance of impropriety
Attorney General Merrick Garland has set new restrictions on the political activities of some Justice Department employees, while also strongly reminding them of already established limits.
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“As Department employees, we have been entrusted with the authority and responsibility to enforce the laws of the United States in a neutral and impartial manner. In fulfilling this responsibility, we must do all we can to maintain public trust and ensure that politics — both in fact and appearance — does not compromise or affect the integrity of our work,” Garland wrote.
Garland also issued a memo on abiding by the Hatch Act, which walls off public servants from using their government posts to boost their political parties or candidates.
Questions have bubbled up recently about protections against improper political influence over the Justice Department, as prosecutors investigate how top secret documents came to be stored at former President Trump’s home and also delve into who funded and organized the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
It’s supposed to be done on the sly.
Believe US!
How did that work for the MeToo# crap we saw play out recently?
Too late bub.
That “public trust” doesn’t exist anymore.
uNpReCeDeNtEd!
Except for every other president who did the same thing!
“Could you people stop leaving paper trails a mile wide, already?”
Biden Warns ‘Brave Right-Wing’ Americans—’If You Want to Fight Against the Country, You Need an F-15′”
This is the idiocy of someone that has no real military experience. Those F-15 have pilots , ground crews, and logistical needs for parts, ammo, and fuel, right? How many people do you have to guard all the families of people involved and the supply lines to get those F-15s in the air, huh?
Also, before you say the US government has nukes, remember that using those means you kill off and destroy the places in the country that produce all the food and valuable shit not coming from China that all the idiots in blue urban areas need…..
At this point, I wouldn’t put this past President Poopy Pants and his puppeteers.
Saying bend to our will or we’ll kill (or nuke) you, which is essentially what is being said here, isn’t going to change any minds. When it comes from the CINC it’s a straight threat.
In shit you can’t make up…
Tesla can’t stop employees from wearing union swag, labor board rules
33 PIECES OF
SILVERFLAIR!If you are happy with the minimum…
Who can live on the minimum?
a hindrance to anyone trying to organize
Organize on your own time.
a hindrance to anyone trying to organize or show union solidarity.
Everybody wants to belong to a union. Pro-union campaigning on the shop floor is not distracting or divisive in the least.
In re: online training,
It’s amazing how much of a difference giving a shit makes. The training to get certified to officiate at USPSA matches is far beyond NRA RSO training, and beyond some of the training I’ve gotten at work. To start off (RO), you get two full days of in person training with practical live-fire exercises, then there’s a couple of hours of online training if you want to work Steel Challenge matches, and another three hours of online training if you want to work multigun matches. Then for the second level (CRO), you need two more days of in-person training with more practicals. And the tests — holy fuck the tests. Not only do you need to get the right answer, you have to give the correct reasons for the right answer.
Interestingly enough, both my real employer and my volunteer job both use SumTotal LMS software.
I’m not sure what the third level of training involves, except that it’s invitation only.
We do LinkedIn Learning here, with assigned classes. I stopped taking them when the latest re “Unconscious Bias” was sent my way. I know it’s woke BS, but trying to wrap my head around it…
If I have unconscious bias, I wouldn’t be aware of it. And another person would have to be a mind reader to know I had it. If another person thinks I have it because they have it, then it’s not “unconscious” for them and just becomes projection on their part.
They won’t say it, but I’m sure it’s just more “disparate outcomes” voodoo.
Still waiting to see what the repercussions are for not taking any more classes. And I’m not the only upper manager to boycott them.
Party like you read about!
The people that accuse Americans that do not want the unaccountable corruptocracy in charge anymore of being Nazis requires loyalty oaths for higher level indoctrination….
Remember the guy defending himself behind the deli counter in NYC not being able to make bail?
Man accused of ‘mutilating’ stranger in fatal NYC stabbing back on streets thanks to judge
Chump, chump, chumpity chump, they’re making us into chumps.
Well now he will have to come up with $11,000!
/DA
Guarionex Torres
Hello, fellow Latinxes.
Isn’t a 10% bond fairly standard? A better question is why the fuck you’d grant bail in these circumstances in the first place.
Yes, but $100K bail seems pretty low for murder.
Hence my followup question. They’ve got him on tape stabbing somebody to death, that’s usually enough of a “threat to the community” to deny bail entirely, let alone set it at $100k.
And who let that one out?!
One of these days a judge might get what Vitaly Kaloyev gave an air traffic controller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Kaloyev
But did he get all the organs in alphabetical order?
Probably stay away from Portland
STEVE SMITH HAZ A SAD.
So they were feds then?
I am sure they will blame fascists at the vigil.
And why is this not national headline news?
I glanced at MSNBC just to see what they are covering and holy shit, they’re far worse than they’ve ever been
Police made no arrests.
Also – vigilantes bad!
TEAM spirit
Ahead of the Department of Justice’s filing Tuesday night that opposed President Trump’s call for a “special master” to review White House documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, seven former federal prosecutors filed an amicus brief asking a Florida federal judge to deny his request.
Former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, Donald B. Ayer, Gregory A. Brower, John J. Farmer Jr., Stuart M. Gerson, Peter D. Keisler, William F. Weld – who all served in Republican administrations – called Trump’s request a “waste of time.”
The motion said the former prosecutors have a “special interest” in the case and “can provide assistance to the court.”
“Amici all served in Republican administrations and collectively have decades of experience prosecuting cases involving sensitive materials or advising on matters regarding the proper scope of executive power and executive privilege,” the motion said.
The brief said Trump’s request should be denied because the appointment of a special master for a claim of executive privilege by a former president “against the same Executive Branch to which the privilege belongs” is unprecedented.
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Finally, it called Trump’s request a “waste of time because the claim of executive privilege against the Executive Branch in this case is manifestly frivolous.”
This is not the Deep State you’re looking for.
These are merely American patriots, dedicated to defending the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Especially domestic.
Lol, Bill Weld, the great libertarian hope.
I wasn’t aware that “executive privilege” applied to every person who works for the executive branch of government.
Who was the knight that designed King Arthur’s round table?
Sir Cumference.
No credit to Sir Cull?
he was cut out of the credits.
Not to be confused with Sir Cumfence, who designed the champagne room at Camelot.
Miss Adriatico Porto Allegro Montesilvano Tour 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8e8LBYXB-U
Baby gets glasses
How do you work out the prescription for a baby?
They got lasers and shit. LIDAR or photo-acoustic-NDIR doodads they shoot in the eye and w/e bounces back reads the focal length or some shit.
AgileCyborg would say it was “beams of pussy light shot into the skull but the result was mechanical wasps flying over a barren landscape, their nipples leaking poison”
OK, now I get it.
I know for all my optometric needs, Ill be visiting “Flip Daddy’s Brilliant Burgers & Craft Beer Bar”
How come the babies hearing for first time videos are always in a dusty room?
Never change CA!
California Approves Bill to Punish Doctors Who Spread False Information
LOL. Where’s the balance?
Well they originally planned to summarily execute those evil science-denier physicians, but they balanced it by just punishing them.
You’re free to speak but you’ll lose your license, your ability to find a job in your field, and you’ll be financially ruined. Kind of a fucked up balance if you ask me.
Tar em feather em and run em out of the state on a rail.
CWAC
Accurate info like the vaccines prevent Covid infection? WTF do words mean?
Get the fuck out of California.
As incredibly bad as this is, it’s not going to stop with COVID.
Hey lady- I think I found your problem. “strike a balance between free speech and public health”
OFFS!!!
What’s the recourse if the fucking state punishes you for misinformation and we later find out the state was in the wrong. What if the state knew it was correct information but still took you down for misinformation?
I might tolerate a misinformation junket like this if I can then execute the fuckers in the state tat abused their power on live TeeVee and then got to go roll around in my pull full of $100 bills they had to pay me…
But California believes in freedom and doesn’t ban stuff, unlike that meanie in Florida. Gavin told me so.
So this is like totally different.
Japan to Allow Non-Guided Group Tours From September
I still won’t be able to meet my friends and I’m pretty sure the booster requirement remains. So no trips in the near term for Sensei!
Yeah. i’m not going back under those rules.
Think the booster and vaccination requirements were just for relaxed pre arrival testing, but I’m probably wrong.
There’s enough travel agencies that it’s already much better than it appears, other than basically paying a vig. Once the official tour is over for the day, you’re free. And if you want to opt out for a day, no prob. Unguided tours is basically have a POC if you have problems or get sick.
Oh, visa exemption is still in abeyance and sounds like Japan will be going to an electronic authorization/visa on arrival permanently. Also, required medical insurance coverage and depending on the consulate, bank statements for proof of financial ability for your visit.
Good. I mean, sorry you can’t come, but after seeing what wypipo are doing around the world, I’m enjoying Neo Edo Japan.
Never fear the Black Ships are coming!
“How In The Name Of God”: Shocked Europeans Post Astronomical Energy Bills As ‘Terrifying Winter’ Approaches“
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/how-name-god-shocked-europeans-post-astronomical-energy-bills-terrifying-winter-approaches
Lots of small businesses are going to be closing. Funny how caution is thrown to the wind when the productive and therefore hard to control class is negatively effected.
The fact tat these people now screaming and acting all surprised are the most likely to be the most vocal green movement types brings a warm feeling to my heart…
The most important lessons in life are the ones that show you you are a fucking dumbass…
No, they’ve BEEN screaming. They’re just now being heard. They have no more control over their government or economy than we have over ours.
See California for an example.
That state is so thoroughly corrupt, that the only way to recover it now is through open revolution. When Newsom survived his recall, it was over.
Not just small businesses. They’re going to collapse the economy and entire industries.
The German steel industry and everything downstream like hydraulics manufacturing are completely fucked. God knows how long it will take to recover, if it ever does,
Reset baby, reset!
Re Russia v Ukraine
Right now my outrage is on the world for taking away the livelihoods of innocent people.
On Etsy, the mostest cutestest cross stitch patterns are by Russian and Ukrainian designers. ADORBS!!! But now the Russian ones are gone. I haz a mad. Because they are SOOOOOOO important to Putin that their businesses must DIE!!!
That’s infuriatingly stupid.
In these trying times, let me offer you a Russian cougar who lives like a house cat.
One of my Russian instructors wore a shirt with Puma in cursive when he went to Russia. It took him awhile to figure out why some people called him Rita.
I am a bit more angry about the lives being taken, of innocent people.
Lives and livelihoods are sorta linked.
I would not equate not being able to sell stitching on Etsy with being killed.
Fucking server errors. Testing
Please don’t fornicate with the servers!
It’s not about stitching. I’m not sure why you think it is.
Selling on Etsy vs being killed – there is some degree of difference. As I noted below, it is merely the degree of anger and its target, not that anything is good about this.
So it’s the difference between dying of bullets or dying of starvation. Okay.
If Etsy sales are preventing people from starving to death, then that is a different story.
You can blame Putin and the Kremlin all you want (I give Putin a huge chunk of the blame) but shit like this is on par with some of the Islamophobia post 9/11.
Why not both? One can be angry about the war and *also* angry about the abysmally stupid cult-like response to it.
Putin puppet!!!
If I were a Putin puppet, I’d be cheering the west’s response as that response has done nothing to curtail his aggression and has, it seems at least in the short run, to have strengthened his position, with the added ‘benefit’ of degrading (further) the cultural and legal norms of the west.
Umm…yeah. I understand that.
Mo could be a Russian apologist. *scribbles notes*
That’s it.
Is it Etsy doing this to virtue signal, or have they been forced by governments, central banks, etc., to stop transactions?
I’m not sure, but it doesn’t matter. Innocent people are being punished for what their government is doing.
True, but if it is because of government action, I will reserve my anger for them. If it is Etsy doing it, they get my scorn.
Even if it’s not a direct government action, buying and selling is a financial transaction so potential to run further afoul of sanctions. Plus the ire of the outrage mob that was stirred up.
Yes.
He’s lying, right?
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
Are they fact-checking rumors before they are published now? I haven’t seen anyone say the man-boy has Monkeypox.
“some online” are saying it, so it must be true.
Maybe this is why the communists want to do the free money for student loan cash shit?
6 years, and Oberlin still has their hail mary federal appeal (why not, no sense letting that $1.1B endowment go to waste). The plaintiffs will likely be dead before their great-grandchildren see a thin dime from those slimy fucks.
Several plaintiffs have died since the suit began.
Right now my outrage is on the world for taking away the livelihoods of innocent people.
Eggs were broken.
Monsters.
“I’m perfectly fine being not like America.”
one of them sniffed haughtily