Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another wonderful day and the links!
Judge names special master in Trump FBI case, denies DOJ use of disputed documents
Martha’s Vineyard in State of Emergency Over Migrants Arriving From Florida
Busloads of migrants arrive at Vice President Harris’ residence
DeSantis: Hypocritical Democrats don’t want illegals in their affluent neighborhoods
Illinois governor declares emergency after migrants bused from Texas
Biden Admin Awards $80 Million Contract That Prohibits GPS Monitoring Of Illegal Immigrants
Facebook Spied on Messages of Conservatives Questioning 2020 Election, Sent Them to FBI
Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee says woke FBI analysts are going after Americans
Retail Sales, Manufacturing Activity Suggest Slowing US Economy
1.3 Million Jobs Were Result of Double-Counting This Year, Heritage Economist Says
I actually look forward to the cringe
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Martha’s Vineyard in State of Emergency Over Migrants Arriving From Florida”
LOLOLOLOLOL
You laugh, but the reaction when the virtue signalers have to deal with the same problem they tell everyone else that complains about when the same invasion is done to them must be signs of racism, is absolutely priceless. When their ass is the one kicked, suddenly it’s neither fair nor a sign of them being racist like they accuse anyone else that complains.
Yeah, I have to say, this shit is absolutely hilarious. You’d think the pols in these places would be smart enough to downplay it so as not to look like the bunch of whinging hypocrites they are.
Yeah I mean, how hard is it to spin?
“We’re disappointed that Florida is not more accommodating to these migrants. We look forward to helping them integrate into our community.”
You forgot
*puts them back on bus and sends them on their way*
A homeless coordinator in Martha’s Vineyard, the latest destination where migrants are being sent by Republican governors in an effort to bring attention to the southern border, said that the island doesn’t have the resources to help them long-term and that they will eventually have to move ‘somewhere else.”
It’s fifty immigrants. More people have used my guest bathroom.
I hope they send 5000 more..
Now we know who’s hosting the wild parties in real life…
She also said there is a “housing crisis” on the island. Da Gubmint oughta emininent-domain some mansions and build some projects there.
There’s plenty of unoccupied houses during the off-season.
Their reaction is all that DeSantis could have hoped for and more.
Remember, every time someone from a self-designated sanctuary city complains it’s just them getting what they voted for. They never thought they’d actually have to put out.
I was all for Obamacare, but I didn’t thinkI’d have to pay for it!
If you talk the talk, you’d better be able to walk the walk.
The troll game is through the roof. I never would have thought they’d have it in them.
They had another island they could send these people to, but they offed the operator of it for some reason.
“woke FBI analysts”
What fresh hell is this?
“”Then some woke analysts at the FBI decide, ‘Oh, wait a minute. This guy waves the American flag, he owns a gun, he voted for Trump.’ Whatever basis they come up with that fits the Joe Biden narrative that half the country are ‘extremist’ and they investigate him.””
OK, so not woke, but partisan. That’s nothing new.
That’s the weaponization of the bureaucracy done under Obama. No president’s administration caused this much destructive and terminal damage to the republic, without the vast majority of Americans realizing what level of criminality was going on because of a complicit media that covered every scandal for the corruptocracy, as the Obama admin. They took the horrible shit from the Bush years and basically implemented rule one of marxist systems: you put people whose loyalty is to you and your cause in the positions of power.
Lucky for us, I get when some people complain it is not really lucky at all, though, marxism is always doomed to failure precisely because the need for top down decision making & management by experts and the requirement for people in power to be loyalists first and foremost, creates an impossible dichotomy. When you are forced to pick the top men based on their loyalty to you and your criminal cause, you are not going to be able to fulfil the need for expertise. Just never happens. You end with incompetence at an ever growing level. And that incompetence is what might give the people that actually understand the shit going on a chance to fight back.
Marxism may be doomed to failure in the long run, but can exist for decades before it finally collapses.
“In the long run we’re all dead” – some asshole.
You are absolutely correct Tonio, and the people that peddle it always figure that they will be long gone before the reckoning happens, so it is a great gamble for them. We need to be vigilant and fight them, or we will pay the price.
the people that peddle it always figure that they will be long gone before the reckoning happens
Only the most cynical ones. The rest assume that they have cracked the code and it’ll work this time. Either that or they don’t bother thinking past first order consequences.
Marxism – so quaint. Marxism lost to fascism.
It sure did. The fascist realized the system was doomed and fixed the problem by creating the illusion that there is a private sector with free will. But today’s marxists – the people that never really read and understood Marx’s drivel and have been indoctrinated to believe it’s utopian and the real evil ones that read it and did and realized it was one heck of a way to stomp your boot on the neck of others – have not given up yet.
Do you think intersectionality, etc. are fundamentally marxist?
Marx was not at all woke.
Exactly. Marxism is stupid, but not all stupid is marxism.
Wokeism is marxism, but with race, gender, and other external characteristics instead of class. Class warfare was never going to work in America.
I think Alex and NA nail it. Class warfare was never going to work in the US. The wokeists are rotten with Marxist DNA. Wokeism is repackaged crypto-Marxism, with the same goals as Marxism – the fundamental restructuring of society, beginning with the destruction of civil society and the family.
Wokeism is marxism, but with race, gender, and other external characteristics instead of class.
You know who else came to the exact same conclusion?
(well, technically Hitler was a second order consequence of the Weimar academics pushing the racial struggle in place of the class struggle, but close enough)
but with race, gender, and other external characteristics instead of class
Which is to say – it refutes the very core of Marxism, which is dialectical materialism. There is no other class conflict but the material one and every other proposed conflict is false class consciousness. THAT’S MARXISM.
It’s also why the only true Marxists are academics.
If the Frankfurt School retards who innovated cultural Marxism weren’t Marxists, it would certainly be news to them. You may as well say Martin Luther wasn’t a Christian.
Remind me again of the Pope’s reaction to Martin Luther?
Never mind the resulting centuries of religious conflict across the continent.
But maybe all that means is that the Frankfurt school “innovated” their way back to the natural inclination of Socialism, which is tribalism – they just came to the same conclusion that fascists did, that economic class wasn’t a strong enough binder to usher in collectivist utopia and reverted back to stone-age thinking. They just couldn’t use the name because the taint of WWII was too strong.
A popular heresy doesn’t remain a heresy for too long, I guess is my point. The Frankfurt School didn’t have half the uphill climb the theological reformers in Christianity did either. If they want to be called Marxists, I’m fine with it. It’s all just shorthand for “lower than pig shit” anyway.
they just came to the same conclusion that fascists did, that economic class wasn’t a strong enough binder to usher in collectivist utopia and reverted back to stone-age thinking
I can’t find the Road to Serfdom quote that says exactly this, but it’s in there somewhere.
The True Believer is also a valuable perspective.
Since they both disregard the individual in favor of group identities, and they’re both premised on the idea that the fundamental social interaction is power struggles between groups, yes.
That includes way more people than Marx.
That’s an interesting thought….essentially fascism skinsuited Marxism? It sounds too right to be wrong, if you get my drift.
Fascism isn’t far from Marxism at all. The fundamental difference between the two boils down to this:
Marxism seeks to destroy all pre-existing cultural, economic, and social institutions and replace them with the State.
Fascism seeks to co-opt all pre-existing cultural, economic, and social institutions and make them de facto organs of the State.
I agree with you there. I just really hadn’t thought of our current situation that way and viewing it from a different angle is making my noggin jog.
Side note: I need to finish Vampire Economy.
Sorry to flood the thread, I’m just sitting here going down a rabbit hole.
I spend a lot of time arguing against Marxism and Communism on the internet and getting nowhere, but putting it JI’s way made me realize I had a fundamental flaw…
I wasn’t arguing against Marxists. Sure, they call themselves Communists, they call themselves Marxists, but they aren’t. I should be doing the reverse, arguing against Fascism but dressing it up as with their pseudo-Marxist clothes.
Maybe. I mean, arguing on the internet is a waste of time anyway, but that is probably how I should approach the problem.
I mean, arguing on the internet is a waste of time anyway,
Yes. Outside of this place, I’ve never seen anyone change their mind (and admit it).
A liberal changed my mind, and lead me to Libertarianism…
We were debating the social safety net, and I argued that if he wanted to pay for it he could go ahead, buy why force me to do it? He replied asking why should he have to pay for the Gulf War of which I was/am a vet? My knee jerk reaction was that national defense is in the Constitution, even though I didn’t believe the Gulf War had anything to do with national defense at the time. My own internal contradiction revealed, I began to reassess my principles and in time found my way here.
“As part of an FBI collaboration operation, an employee at Facebook red-flagged private messages containing such sentiments over the past 19 months, transmitting redacted versions to the domestic terrorism operational unit at the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC. This was all done without a subpoena.”
So can we finally stick a fork in the “but a private company can do what they want!” child nonsense?
“These claims are just wrong. The suggestion we seek out peoples’ private messages for anti-government language or questions about the validity of past elections and then proactively supply those to the FBI is plainly inaccurate and there is zero evidence to support it,” said Sackin, a DC-based crisis response expert who previously worked for Planned Parenthood and “Obama for America” and now leads Facebook’s communications on “counterterrorism and dangerous organizations and individuals.”
Well, if a a DC-based crisis response expert who previously worked for Planned Parenthood and “Obama for America” said so.
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
Interesting she felt like she had to change “false” to “wrong.” Almost like a lawyer told her to avoid words with a particular legal meaning.
That’s the kind of very carefully worded denial that makes me pretty sure they are doing what they are accused of.
Yep.
The claims are “wrong”, not “false.”
The suggestion is “inaccurate”, not “untrue”.
“We don’t seek it out but theres a handy algorithm that dumps accounts on my desk and then i look through them all”
Weasel
It think it was finally laid to rest a couple weeks ago when Zuck told Rogan that the FBI “made them aware of Russian disinformation” wink-wink nudge-nudge.
whaddup doh’
I’m not actually good at my job!!
Flying them in the middle of the night to suburbs all over the country in what looks like an attempt to seed either civil unrest or voter fraud in areas that didn’t vote your way in the last election, why that’s just solid statesmanship!
You’re talking about the stealth relocations done by the Biden administration, right?
Yup. Was I too subtle in the sarcasm? 😉
I’m not a morning person. Just started second cup of coffee.
Me too. Them Swedes can party. I got home pretty late.
Nordsquatches?
And it should be noted that DC’s immigrant welcome center is conveniently located in the Maryland suburbs, and that Chicago’s Mayor Lightfoot immediately re-bussed her allocation of migrants to another county.
So she committed human trafficking as well per some Democrats?
Re: The FBI in particular, and the intelligence community in general — shut it down, repeal the Patriot Act that ramped up the domestic focus and salt the earth. Let the military itself do COMINT again and that’s about it, but vet the hell out of them before letting them stay (along with 90% of the dead weight Pentagon). Black Pill rant off.
It isn’t like SNL hasn’t been non-binary before… I just doubt they’ll be funny. At all.
Morning, Banjos!
The democrat crime syndicate will NEVER allow any of the recommendations you make come about. It would be an end to their existence. This is an existential fight for them (hence the lack of concern that people can see they are behaving like a crime syndicate), and they mean to win it at all costs. They have already shown us they would rather burn it all down than allow other people to be in charge.
They have made the clip of Pat stranded on a deserted island with a guy difficult to find for some reason.
“As part of an FBI collaboration operation, an employee at Facebook red-flagged private messages containing such sentiments over the past 19 months, transmitting redacted versions to the domestic terrorism operational unit at the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC. This was all done without a subpoena.”
Totally NOT an FBI agent that got a job at FB. I’m certain.
Actually, my gut is that it is not. Because a former Fed would at least forward something actionable (or nudge them towards something actionable). With the reports being that it was almost all normal post election grousing (Nothing we’d ever see *here*! 😉 ), and nothing was worth wasting FBI time on — it sounds much more like a WAAAAHHH-ing purple haired college hire idiot to me.
I can see it either way. Either Jiggly-puff with an agenda to oust icky MAGA people, or some fed that took a “leave of absence”, went to some coding boot-camp, and reported back to HQ on anything and everything. Cast a wide net and all.
And in this administration, it seems like plausible deniability to me. “Sure, he/she works for the agency, but they’re currently away on sabbatical.”
I vote Tru Bleever. We know they exist at twitter, no reason to assume they’re not at facebook.
I mean, they actually put dozens of full-time employees to work directly for the Obama administration in 2012 to help with data collection and analytics. Not an in-kind contribution btw.
Was this part of using the IRS to go after political enemies?
Same era, but different scandal.
Re: SNL
Is she funny? ( I have a biology degree so i think i can call they a she)
The picture is inconclusive. There’s room for doubt
Pat is back?
Figured that would happen…. but i don’t think they have the will to bring that back.
Some people are wising up. Unfortunately, the number remains too small because the mob has basically been whipped into a religious frenzy by the PsyOp manipulations of a corrupted government.
Re: Newsom — I so, so, so wish the recall had succeeded just so I would never have to hear that idiot again. Then again, Stacey Abrams keeps coming back like a malignant tumor… so I’m sure he would too. Insufferable windbag idiot.
After the first few recalls were successful, democrats in blue areas realized they needed to make any such effort fail long before voters could chime in. There will be no more successful recall efforts in these blue areas. The corrupt machine will find ways and reasons to disqualify them all, and if that fails, they will be the ones counting the votes.
Yeah — with ballot harvesting in 2018 to sweep out all the Republican House members and ensure Pelosi’s majority, they aren’t even pretending anymore. That and Newsom’s very convenient “Oh, we have surplus COVID funds… why I’m just going to send checks to all my likely voters!” sealed our fates. One party, meaningless elections stamping the human face forever….
Hold on there Cochise!
Cali does some very strict checking of ballots. Look at how thoroughly they vetted those signatures on the petition to get rid of the DA for LA.
See the LA recall where signature review is in secret so they can discard as many as needed to reject the petition.
Newsome will be back just like Her Cankleness will never leave us alone.
“1.3 Million Jobs Were Result of Double-Counting This Year, Heritage Economist Says”
Donkey excuse makers: It’s a global economic problem!
I am sure it is. The destruction of the US economy by these crooks serving the Davos cause has global implications.
People here have been saying this for a long time.
It’s not like they did the same thing from the mid 1980s until the end of the Clinton administration or anything.
Every white supremacist gang in this gang is a bare minimum 50% feds.
*in this country.
No government effort EVER succeeded at fixing/solving any issue/problem it was put there to deal with. EVER. Fixing/solving an issue/problem would put you out of a lucrative and easy job. The people that are attracted to this sort of work want the cushy job. That’s the motivation. Add to that the incentive to find even more of the problem so you can get promoted, and you get where we are today. The corruptocracy’s political sidekick, team blue, has made it a point to convince people the existential fights today are against a climate hoax they pretend is real and their political enemies which they label as racists.
For every story we get of how the FBI ran some entrapment racket, I bet there are hundreds we never hear of. They have quota system to meet, and they will do a lot of that.
That is a nice chunk of change for an iPhone app.
I’m in the wrong fuckin’ industry.
Why does it feel like every single program put out by these people is a scam to allow them to funnel tax payer money to their friends, family, connections, donors, and campaign coffers, huh?
Because it is.
That is literally the entire purpose of government for some people. That’s why NY politicians are so corrupt, the voters here think that’s what the purpose of politicians is.
Literally the sole purpose of the Federal Government at this point. Imperial colonies a couple centuries ago were not robbed and looted this thoroughly.
Learn…
I’m on ticket queue monitoring duty today. The most hateful task. One might say Hate Task, the Task That Hates.
Also, I have a meeting at 10am that will require me to be on camera with my ratty hair. Pony tail, it is!
Rainbow colored turban. That way some people will be extra nice to you ’cause they’ll think you have cancer.
Or you could go full Burkha and dare them to call you out on it.
That’s even better, because then you can have friends fill in for you at meetings you don’t want to attend.
“You’re awfully baritone today, Kristen, are things all right?”
“*kof koff* COVID.”
Alternatively: “Are you making a pass at me?!?!?”
I was in a city where someone tested positive for
COVIDmonkeypox. I’m wearing this for your protection.IT IS MA’AM!
Yeah, I was thinking veil, but that would work too. Bonus points if you have do a burkha but put up a Star of David behind yourself just to screw with them.
So you are the person who makes sure the tickets are not irrational and have all the i’s dotted and t’s crossed?
The Queue/T/π
How the FUCK did my phone get switched to night mode?
KK: Wake up phone.
Phone: Just five more minutes….
mine does so automatically around 21 30
Every couple of weeks my apple watch changes faces on its own.
Your FBI handler mistakes your watch settings for his own occasionally.
It was shot in the face and after reconstructive surgery it is on a lone crusade to champion the innocent, the helpless… the powerless?
In a dangerous world where BSD kernels… do not exist.
My work iPhone spontaneously switches to silent mode.
“Judge names special master in Trump FBI case, denies DOJ use of disputed documents”
Be careful that this isn’t some attempt at 3D chess thing.. The machine is corrupt. It’s priority is to itself and its continuation.
‘Orning ‘Ordles:
First round was okay — not great, blew a couple of guesses — one because I just didn’t have enough from the 2 seeds, the second because I was over eager (dumb) and should have tried other words to get a needed letter and avoid a 50/50 scenario. Time (not that I do Hype’s version of this as a challenge) wasn’t bad, though…
Daily Duotrigordle #198
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 05:41.34
https://duotrigordle.com/
Second round score isn’t great — but given the words, I’m actually pretty happy I got it at all. Weird ones today.
Daily Quordle 235
7️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣3️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 235
8️⃣🟥
4️⃣6️⃣
Walter Kornbluth: “What a week I’m having!”
Chessle 216 (Normal) 3/6
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟨🟩⬛🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
https://jackli.gg/chessle
Easy one today. Or, at least, one I know, even if I don’t play it.
Daily Quordle 235
9️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
quordle.com
It started so good.
Daily Quordle 235
4️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣6️⃣
quordle.com
Meh.
Daily Quordle 235
4️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
Show off… 🙂
Kidding aside, nice job given those words.
I try to front load vowels in my first two guess, which paid off.
Daily Quordle 235
5️⃣8️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
Fuckers.
Daily Quordle 235
6️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
Ugh.
Daily Quordle 235
5️⃣9️⃣
6️⃣8️⃣
quordle.com
Inside Sienna Miller’s Secluded Country Cottage | Open Door | Architectural Digest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4HmK4JCN2U
I like the fireplace but Sienna Miller talking kind of annoys me
Pie: Shut up beaotch and go make me a sammich!
I don’t have problem with her as an actress but in this video she seems fake and pretentious
Fake & pretentious….
Isn’t that acting in a nutshell?
not good acting
The only good acting I have seen is the pizza delivery guy saying “I like to watch” while yanking his crank in a particular genre of movies for adults.
Nobody likes to just watch… That’s a participation sport…
Nice place. Definitely would.
I like her. She was fantastic in Keen Eddie (very underrated show, btw).
See, if Bill Gates had any political sense whatsoever, he’d offer to inject migrants with his tracking chips and then the GOP would be all for them. Then, they’d get data on how well you could actually track people who didn’t want to be found, as well as a cohort of test subjects that couldn’t sue you for any side effects.
I’d be a great evil genius advisor. The problem is the retirement plans for that gig typically suck.
inject migrants with his tracking chips and then the GOP would be all for them
I don’t see GOP voters being down with that, at all.
Honestly, I don’t know. I’ve been extremely good at avoiding political discussions with real human beings. I do get to hear rants about evil Dems, but it’s confined to 2A issues.
They prefer to conduct that type of research in the developing world, where the lawsuits are cheaper to settle.
You don’t want to be demoted to trap door tester and then…. let go?
Excellent graph from the FT that highlights that for nearly half of British households the “nightmare of being overtaken by Eastern Europe” has already happened.
https://twitter.com/adb0wen/status/1570684372239683585
The graph shows Slovenia which is neither Eastern Europe or representative for former commie countries. Also the US is pooor haha
Slovenia makes decent guns.
And the bottom 10% of Norwegians have $35k in disposable income? I am suspicious of that “fact.”
graphs never lie.
Neither do statistics, right?
I would be shocked if the bottom 10% of Norwegians had $35k in gross income.
after tax median income for households is $53k
after tax median income for single people is $32k
So rent and food costs for a year in Norway are <$17k? It really is a socialist paradise I guess. You'd think their clothes would be kind of expensive, what with needing all that eiderdown and walrus fur and all.
Median That is the value at 50%. So, the bottom 10% of the bell curve is guaranteed to be lower, likely substantially so.
An abSerb assertion
US figures for “the poor” tend not to include the government handouts they receive.
It’s how they fabricate lies about “child poverty” and such.
Yeah, those charts leave a lot of room for playing with the numbers. It smells like propaganda bullshit to me.
Also, I have a meeting at 10am that will require me to be on camera with my ratty hair. Pony tail, it is!
Get one of these
GAH!
What does Takei think is actually going to happen to these people at Martha’s Vineyard?
They are going to be sold into sex slavery, cause that’s what they are all about?
I hear Mexican chicks are really great at buttsex as long as you smoke them up first.
AY PAPI!
And he votes for the people wo put him on those trains.
But, Southern Strategy, derp.
Where are (((they))) to demand that no one use train cars to camps arguments? Seems like Takei is trying for some Stolen Genocide here.
Also, it seems like this isn’t an apples to apples comparison. I don’t think being sent to Martha’s Vineyard is exactly the same as being sent to a camp in the mountains where you are locked up is the same.
Unless he’s implying that the rich progressive people in MV are actually crueler than camp guards?
You may not remember, PJ, but many years back a lot of boxcars littered the Res landscape, made into homes for those inhabitants. I still see a few remnants but everyone has moved on up to the east side now.
What a sanctimonious twat.
He continues to prove that Kirk was the GOAT and Sulu deserved more of this
John Lydon wishes to distance himself from any Sex Pistols activity which aims to cash in on Queen Elizabeth II’s death. The musicians in the band and their management have approved a number of requests against John’s wishes on the basis of the majority court-ruling agreement.
In John’s view, the timing for endorsing any Sex Pistols requests for commercial gain in connection with ‘God Save The Queen’ in particular is tasteless and disrespectful to the Queen and her family at this moment in time.
https://twitter.com/lydonofficial/status/1570426280168017923
If there’s anything punk music is known for it’s tastefulness and respect for authority…
What a clown.
/remembers needing to teach a young punk who was afraid of a skinhead about the SHARPs.
Coming soon the the US!
If only that were true.
Jan. 6 Rioter Who Wore ‘Camp Auschwitz’ Sweatshirt Gets Jail Term
Packer “wanted to support the subversion of our republic and keep a dictatorial ruler in place by force and violence,” Furst told the judge.
Counselor, I’d like to request some citations of “dictatorial ruler”.
Pete Davidson and Kate McKinnon almost singlehandedly destroyed SNL. Now they’re fleeing the dumpster fire they set.
SNL went stupid back in the 90s. It has been bullshit lib tropes masquerading as sad attempts at humor for decades.
Yeah, but when McKinnon performed that cheesy tribute to Hillary in 2016, there was no salvaging it anymore.
Oh fuck, that was the nail in the coffin…
They had a pretty good crop with the late ‘80s and early to mid ‘90s bunch but it sucked balls since then, at least from the skits I’ve seen.
IMO, they still had strong moments into the 21st century – https://youtu.be/zw4zlvTlaI0
Like music, SNL benefits from age because the clunker skits are lost to the mists of time. I watched a bit in college ca. 2008 and it was just okay. Occasional funny skits, but most were formulaic and chuckleworthy at best. Better than watching Jon Stewart or Sarah Silverman or whoever else Comedy Central was pushing at the time.
That’s a good point, even during the up years there were plenty of bits that were, well, just terrible. We remember the good ones.
The Gold Standard for SNL is supposed to be the 1970s. It was risk-taking, irreverent, blah blah. Watching episodes from back then will elicit some smiles here and there, along with a whole lot of blank face watching coked-up twenty-somethings jump and flail about on stage.
WORSHIP ME!
I think they started going downhill around the time they lost Lovitz and Dunn, myself…
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Im headed across the big lake, headed towards Honey harvest, beer and cigarettes on the upper deck, yippee!
What about the little lake?
Big Lake, little lake… Is this some Tres speak?
Lake Michigan smartasses
🕳🦎
Yeah, I think they are supposed to be talking about the little man in the boat. The size of the lake doesn’t really matter.
Hotdog down a hallway?
Lake Inferior is shy, introspective and stays underground.
Hope the gales of November don’t come early. Safe travels.
Is this new SNL person stupendously fat?
I still read Foreign Affairs for the LOLs.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/build-better-order-great-power-rivalry-dani-rodrik-stephen-walt
The globalists just cannot give up on their dreams of one-world government.
But why would the rest of the world not want to be just like us?
A faceless totalitarian bureaucracy?
No thanks.
Ever since I decided to become a nutty libertarian, I have always been amazed at stories like this: Minnesoda missing out on $46M in pot taxes.
The question seems so backwards. Why should the state get to wet its beak for $46M? Can they point to a cost that legal pot has burdened the state with? I know this is just standard FYTW tax policy, but I’ve actually had luck making normies think about things by asking them questions like this.
That’s how they think. They need cash to fund their pet projects. Everybody else needs to subsidize their great ideas. It will be awesome for everyone, why would you oppose it?
What about increased revenues from food taxes?
“The question seems so backwards. Why should the state get to wet its beak for $46M? ”
How would the mob answer this if they were asked why they wanted to wet their beaks? Cause the answer is pretty much the same…
It is all
the Lord’sthe government’s money, you are merely a steward.Pope Jimbo, Duluth was the one place I remember seeing democrats with their hands in their own pockets…..
It was freaking cold, though..
Pipe down and get back to building the mill, Boxer!
“Well, if they tax those pot-heads, my taxes won’t go up.”
<a href=" He whose asshole tastes like strawberry ice cream saves America (again)
As the marathon meeting between rail industry and union representatives neared its 12th hour, the moment Biden administration officials viewed as equal parts inevitable and essential was set into motion.
It was time for President Joe Biden to call in and underscore the stakes. Biden’s message was consistent with the one he’d delivered in private calls over the course of the last several weeks, sources said, but an urgency framed around just how devastating a rail shutdown would be for the country was palpable.
It would be another eight hours before the White House hit send on the President’s statement announcing the tentative agreement, but Biden’s call at a critical moment was emblematic of an approach as carefully calibrated as it was high stakes.
“Failure wasn’t an option here,” one source with direct knowledge of the call said. “Everyone knew the stakes, but the President really hammered home how deep and catastrophic leaving without an agreement would be for the entire country.”
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In a celebratory White House speech Thursday morning, Biden said the agreement “can avert any significant damage” that a shutdown would have wrought. He thanked all of the negotiators for negotiating “in good faith,” calling it a win for the “dignity” of the work of rail workers.
Doesn’t he realize what a bunch of ultraMAGA fascist Trumpistas those railroad workers are?
Wally the Beaver is the hero we need.
https://www.honeycolony.com/article/natural-flavors-beavers-butt/
From Bari Weiss: Even she thinks Hillary has gone bonkers.
“Gusty women.” Well, that’s certainly one way of putting it.
She’s a real windbag, you say?
More in the sense of Nanny Ogg saying “no onions, they give me wind.”
So Hillary identifies with a lesbian goddess, what a surprise.
“Together, you have reached an agreement that will keep our critical rail system working and avoid disruptions of our economy,” Biden told leaders in the Rose Garden.
He added, “This agreement is validation — validation in what I’ve always believed: unions and management can work together.”
Yay.
Hey railroads, you’ve seen what we do to our enemies. Now come to an agreement or prepare for some midnight raids.
Unions and Management can work together to screw over the workers and customers.
Fucking link-
Hier
Biden and his economic team have grappled with a series of major supply chain crises from his first weeks in office. None presented more complex dynamics — or a more dramatic threat to the US economy — than the one he faced this week.
Faced with an increasingly volatile mix of elements, administration officials have taken pains throughout the process to stick to the established legal framework and precedent. Biden’s economic team, battle tested by months of port and trucking supply chain crunches, has shifted its well-honed, cross-agency supply chain contingency planning into high gear.
Yup.
This must be that new, straight-shooting CNN I keep hearing about.
one can even imagine a world in which the leading powers actively work together to limit the effects of climate change, improve global health, reduce the threat of weapons of mass destruction, and jointly manage regional crises.
Global dictatorship of the technocratic elite, FTW!
I’m going to an SCSA steel challenge tomorrow. It’s my first time. I hope the other shooters are nice to me.
Blam! Ping!
Blam! Ping!
Blam! Ping!
Blam! Ping!
Blam! Ping!
And repeat.
It is a very fun game. I personally prefer games with movement, but SCSA is just about made for winter.
You do burn through an awful lot of ammo really fast though.
I’m going to go with my iron sighted ruger mk3 target model. I can pew pew pew all day with it.
I have other, legal, viable guns. But this one is the cheapest to shoot and the one I think I can most reliably hit a 10″ plate at 60+ feet with.
I’m not 100% confident I can ring steel that far out with a 1911 but the I suppose I will get there eventually. Really want to use my henry lever 22 but the loading/unloading process might be too much for a first timer.
Under SCSA rules, lever guns without loading gates are banned. Placing your hand in front of the muzzle while loading is an automatic DQ. So it depends which era of Henry you’ve got.
Tube load, hmm. Guess it’s not allowed. I have a 1-4 optic on it and it makes tight little groups, gopher gun.
The cowboy shooting guys at the range love to pretend to flip out at the red dot on my Henry. It’s all in good fun, it’s not like I’m doing cowboy shooting with it.
Good luck, and have fun! 🙂 And if the other shooters aren’t nice to you, well, you DO have a gun…
Of course, so do they…
I’m sure everyone will be very polite!
Pointing a firearm towards another participant gets you disqualified and ejected from such events.
Yeah, I switched to rimfire at the height of the ammo silliness. I’ve gone back to 9mm since I need the holster work.
Nice!
Some days it seems as if the primary function of web design is to eliminate any trace of useful information from the internet.
We get a lot of coverage of the Wisconsin Senate race for some reason. For months we’ve been assured that Ron Johnson is a MAGA nut and will get curb stomped. Obviously no one would vote for a guy who hates democracy.
Uh, oh!
What is going on? I was assured that everything is trending Dem lately and there would be no Red Wave! I’m blaming CPRM for this 9 point swing.
Like I mentioned earlier this week, polls are manipulated shit.
They invariably show GOP candidates getting stomped early in the season to swing perception and then come in closer to reality as the election approaches in order to preserve the pollsters credibility for the next cycle.
Ron is pretty much the only one talking about vaccine side effects and the fraudulent Phizer studies. No way they allow him to win that election. Never happen.
they
Ah yes, they/them, the all powerful and unseen!
Liberals turn on each other in Martha’s Vineyard Facebook groups.
https://twitter.com/doctorturtleboy/status/1570571488956395521
That whole thread is gold.
https://twitter.com/mtmjr77/status/1570593722823487488
Bwahahahaha!!! It’s gold, Jerry! Gold!!
Looking at that Martha;s Vineyard twatter thing, this occurred to me: they should have given each of those migrants a 9′ x 12′ blue tarp, so they can erect a tent village just like the ones in west coast cities like San Francisco and Seattle.
We got them here. In fact, there is trouble in Tent City
I can’t believe that they’d be so insensitive to try to stop the Noble Red Man from living in a tent during winter. Do they not respect his traditional way of life?
Need more birch bark to chronicle the daily life. Living under the Hiawatha bridge one hears a song, but it’s not too long, fellow.
“A temporary shelter, planned for a nearby Red Lake Nation-owned site, is scheduled to open in mid-December.”
I wonder how many millions the tribe is raking off for that.
Shit start to the day; my Wordle streak ended at 130. Oh, the humanity!
I don’t think the aquarium here has a Huge Manatee, else it probably would have been a selling point on their website. It’s raining pretty steadily, so I might just visit there today. And my umbrella is in my car.
When I was there they had a little guy you could pet. If I recall they had some pretty good sized ones in a tank. It was a neat place. FYI, the vast majority of the Railroad museum is indoors.
Yeah, but I’ve got all day and they’re right next to each other.
Oh for sure, go there if you have the time. It’s pretty cool. There is also an old ore ship to tour not far from the Aquarium.
And then this
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*sigh*
Wordle was a bitch. I do it as warmup before quordle.
Wordle 454 X/6
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That was complete bullshit.
#metoo
That is the advantage of quordle. You get that situation and instead of trying to guess between the 5 options you solve the others and it helps you out on it. Wordle is kind of stupid.
And yet I’ve busted in Quordle maybe a dozen times within my former 130 game Wordle streak. Weird. I guess I’m better at Wordle than Quordle.
Mine somehow got reset on travel despite playing every day. Annoying. But now i don’t care so maybe it did me a favor.
IT has rebranded themselves “GFIT.”
I keep wondering why I’m getting emails from Glibfit.
Took me a moment to figure out what the acronym really stood for.
Don’t forget to apply regular security patches and updates to your exercise routine.
::looks at acronym. Keeps looking at acronym::
…
Girlfriend Information Technology??
Gluten Free, clearly.
Whoops…
Uber Responds to Breach After Hacker Claims Widespread Access
The HORROR! Minnesoda T-wolf uses bad word! Actually two bad words, but only one counts for him.
Our NBA star Anthony Edwards is in deep trouble for a video he put on instagram where he says “Look at those queer ass niggas” while filming a group of black guys who are wearing what looks like sport bras.
I’m amused that if a white NBA star had the same video posted, no one would care that he used the Q-word.
I didn’t know the guy from E.R. played basketball.
I thought he played volleyball.
Goose was in a E.R.? I hope he’s OK
Didn’t the owner of the Suns just get banned from his own arena for a year and fined $10m for quoting someone using that word?
Not sure, but local sportzwriter has a less onerous plan for Ant’s rehabilitation.
Maybe the Lynx gayz could teach Ant about the fundamentals.
“The Lynx’s president of business operations, general manager and coach — Carley Knox being the former, and Cheryl Reeve being the latter two — are gay and married to each other. “
Sounds like a conflict of interests, to me. I’d probably steer clear of having staffing like that if I was the owner.
I’m getting the impression that being gay makes you an exemplary human.
If only I had known this sooner.
I hope the queer ass niggas survived that brutal attack.
Menno Henselmans
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After a single with 90% of 1RM, you can perform more reps across 4 sets of squats at 70% of 1RM.
That’s what a recent study by De Freitas et al. found. This phenomenon is called post-activation potentiation and it’s one of my favorite advanced training techniques.
I use it in particular for these 2 groups of clients:
1) Powerlifters, obviously. If you’re going to do heavy singles anyway, PAP(E) is a nice way to get some free extra volume for your hypertrophy work. It also helps you be explosive during the lighter sets.
2) Bodybuilders/advanced ‘look good naked’ trainees that can probably benefit from a bit of strength work but don’t want it to detract from their main goal of building mass. A few non-maximal singles before your higher rep sets can help you build more strength while simultaneously increasing rather than decreasing work capacity.
Caveats: most research finds you need to do the activation set pretty shortly before your other sets, often as little as 1 minute before. Some people also respond much better to it than others.
Noire by Genese Legere Swimwear Fashion Show – Miami Swim Week 2022 – DCSW – Full Show 4K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VamAMIsZdV8
Anti-vax groups use carrot emojis to hide Facebook posts
There’s that gumshoe journalism we so desperately need.
I guess they’ll have to ban Denmark, then.
Lizardmen need tampons too
https://www.samizdata.net/2022/09/lizardmen-need-tampons-too/
Period poverty looks likely to increase as the cost of living crisis bites. 6% who currently have periods have been unable to afford period products in the last 12 months
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The Scottish government’s form of help was this: (1) Pass a law called the Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act. The procedure for passing a bill in the Scottish Parliament is described here. I have no idea what it all costs, but no doubt it was less than most bills because no MSP was brave enough to oppose it. (2) Appoint a Period Dignity Regional Lead Officer (salary of £33,153 – £36,126 per annum) for each Scottish region, and a bunch of lesser Period Dignity Regional Officers to serve under the Lead ones. The salary and other employment costs of these new local government posts would depend on how many of these regions there are. I hope a region is more than just one Local Authority, because Scotland has 32 of those. (3) Just for fun, appoint a bloke as your first ever Period Dignity Regional Lead Officer, then scrap the role because of the controversy, and wait ’til he sues for sex discrimination. The costs of that argy-bargy remain to be seen, but the services of barristers, sorry, advocates since it’s Scotland, do not come cheap. (4) After the Members of the Scottish Parliament, assorted Parliamentary researchers and support staff, recruitment consultants, HR managers, Period Dignity Regional Lead Officers, Period Dignity Officers and the lawyers have all had their cut, use whatever is left over to buy some tampons to give away. Good thing tampons are cheap.
They are going to bleed us dry!
Ass bleeding is the worst…
a bunch of lesser Period Dignity Regional Officers to serve under the Lead ones
I do want to see the business card printed up for those folks.
I wonder if those period products are really free, or if there are strings attached.
I’m pretty sure they are padding their numbers.
That would be a douchey thing to do.
“Status seeking individuals moralize rationality as a form of grandstanding and use it to spread hostile information, in order to sound relevant.”
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1569574524194291713
“Twitter use is associated with decreased well-being, increased polarization, increased sense of belonging, increased outrage, and increased boredom.”
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1569392683969556480
So… tribalism
Sadder, but not wiser: Another psychology classic, the popular idea of “depressive realism”, bites the dust in failed replication.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1570626092414955520
Henri haz a sad.
Meh, the study that rejects the idea is more likely than not to be just as shit, maybe more so, than the study that spawned it. Psychology is valuable but it’s also replete with trash.
Psychiatry may be of some utility to the extent that it rubs up against neurology. Psychology is as close to valueless as any discipline has ever been. Confession for the irreligious and precious little else. If pathologizing thoughts and emotions weren’t so politically useful, psychology would be rightly considered in the same league as homeopathy and chiropractic.
Once the BBC alerted Facebook’s parent company, Meta, the groups were removed.
To serve man.
Next up will be charging DeSantis and such with aiding and abetting illegal aliens.
And kidnapping, trespassing, and square dancing in a round house.
Paraphrasing Michael Malice (who was talking about the raid on Mar-a-lago):
No one is above the law! Well, except for illegal immigrants.
HYOOMUN TRAFFIKKING!
Anarchotyranny – Criminals go free, dissidents get punished.
Saw this earlier:
https://twitter.com/CalltoActivism/status/1570469859045281792
Yes, let’s do that. Discovery will be glorious.
Dastardly cynical ploy
Democrats are accusing Republican governors of cruelly using migrants as political pawns after they chartered buses and flights to send them to places like New York City and Martha’s Vineyard.
Oh, the humanity.
Have mercy, talk about taking off the fucking mask. Jeez…
Progjection….
It’s a real thing.
“Why send these folks only to blue cities or blue states? Why isn’t Abbott sending refugees to Mississippi or Oklahoma or Idaho?” Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) asked at a press conference on Wednesday.
Those people are all racists, not caring, kind, generous Democrats like you.
Cuz Biiden already did that, Tubby.
Because they are specifically and explicitly sending them to self-proclaimed sanctuary cities, that’s why.
Pritzker said Abbott isn’t notifying Chicago or the state when they send migrants. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) said on CNN on Saturday that some of the migrants were taken to hospitals upon arrival.
“They were put on the buses with delicate medical conditions that no one in Texas seemed to care anything about,” Lightfoot told the outlet. “That is simply not right, and it’s un-American.”
Delicate medical conditions; such as?
COVID, monkeypox, polio …
PTWSSD
Post-Traumatic White Supremacy Stress Disorder.
“that no one in Texas seemed to care anything about”
Nor the Biden administration who lets them in?
Short- and long-term effects of an extreme case of autotomy: does “tail” loss and subsequent constipation decrease the locomotor performance of male and female scorpions?
2022 Ig Noble prize for biology
Does losing your ass and the ability to poop effect mobility? Death from constipation doesn’t sound pleasant.
Unlike the rest of the country, Martha’s Vineyard has zero tolerance for illegal immigrants.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/quick-buses-arrive-marthas-vineyard-deport-illegals-off-island/
This is going to turn into another “garbage barge” isn’t it.
Perfect. Absolutely perfect.
Let everyone see the reality of those twats. Harden the political lines because we’re going to need that resentment on our side.
Good morning, Banjos!
Martha’s Vineyard in State of Emergency Over Migrants Arriving From Florida
50 people. I can’t get over this. FFS, I’ve hosted parties with nearly that many people.
Proggies suck.
Virtue signaling is easy when you make other people responsible for the painful and difficult work…
The Glibberatti should all load up on a bus and do a day visit. If people speaking Espanol makes them lose their shit like this think what that’d do.
The Glibs roll in.
We can convert KK’s RV into a war wagon, complete with flamethrower.
https://twitter.com/theh2/status/1570499501756121089
Nats Park Occupancy Permit Set to Expire at End of Month
That is the SOP for subdivisions here. Promise taxes from retail space instead of proffers. The retail space doesn’t get built because the market is saturated.
All is proceeding as planned…
You can’t force a 2 tier global feudal system on the serfs unless there is no American middle class and people can’t survive without government help.
“EXCLUSIVE: Woman who accused LA Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer of violently assaulting her during sex is seen in new video UNINJURED and SMILING at camera, before panning to the sleeping baseball player morning after the alleged attack”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11217093/Trevor-Bauer-accuser-seen-smiling-alongside-pitcher-bed-attack-new-video.html
Shocking.
These days I assume it is always a false flag ops or an out right lie whenever I hear the left complain about someone being subjected to any of their emotional pet peeves. I usually end up vindicated when we discover it is astroturfing, outright lying, or both for political purposes.
The penalty should be a prison time commensurate with what he’d have gotten. These guys need to either not do this kind of thing or to film everything.
With the caveat of “beyond a reasonable doubt”, which is much more difficult when proving a negative.
LOL. Some chick tried to blackmail Jagr a few years ago.
He had no fucks to give.
Jags was already a hockey legend by then – and I remember when that first broke.
That is absolute baller status forever.
“Give me money or I’ll tell the world you porked me.”
….
/yawns, rolls over/
“Okay.”
*chef’s kiss*
I remember that. He was unmarried right? So….she was dumber than a bag of bricks.
Sounds like MLB owes him a couple of years’ back-pay.
Tampa Glibs,
I’m going to be flying into Peter O. Knight (KTPF) Saturday. Should be a bunch of Mooney’s arriving this weekend. Available Saturday and some time Sunday and Monday nights.
Any relation to Ted Knight, greatest actor ever that isn’t William Shatner?
It seems not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_O._Knight
He was an attorney, but not a judge as we best remember Ted.
https://www.seniorreligion.com/moonies-wedding_24_2495630b.jpg
The butthurt is real, and it is glorious.
https://democraticunderground.com/100217161464
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/15/987618530/why-the-u-s-government-is-dropping-off-migrants-in-rural-arizona-towns
This is how you know they are lying.
A year ago, the proggies were celebrating bussing illegals all over the southwest, dumping them in small towns.
First, consult an authoritative source
Honda manual transmission fluid is a specialized oil that helps protect the gears and bearings in your Honda’s manual transmission. This type of fluid is designed to withstand the high temperatures and pressures that are generated by the gears in your transmission, and it also helps to keep the gears from slipping. Honda manual transmission fluid is typically red in color, and it should be checked regularly to ensure that it is at the correct level. If you notice that your Honda’s manual transmission fluid is low, or if it looks dirty, you should have it replaced immediately. Failure to do so could result in damage to your Honda’s transmission.
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Honda manual transmission fluid is a specialized oil that helps to keep the transmission of your Honda vehicle in good working condition. The fluid also helps to protect the transmission from wear and tear, and it can also extend its life. Honda recommends that you check the level of the fluid every 30,000 miles or so, and add more if necessary.
If you are going to be adding Honda manual transmission fluid yourself, there are a few things that you need to keep in mind. First, make sure that you are using the correct type of fluid for your Honda model. You can find this information in your owner’s manual. Second, the process of adding Honda manual transmission fluid is very similar to adding oil to your engine – so if you are unsure of how to do it, be sure to consult your Honda owner’s manual or a professional mechanic.
Adding Honda manual transmission fluid is a relatively simple process. First, locate the dipstick for the transmission fluid. This is usually located near the engine, and it will have a label that says “Transmission Fluid.” Dip the end of the dipstick into the transmission fluid, and then withdraw it.
Next, check the level of the fluid on the dipstick. If it is low, slowly add more Honda manual transmission fluid until it reaches the “Full” line on the dipstick. Be careful not to overfill – too much fluid can cause problems with your Honda’s transmission.
Once you have added the correct amount of Honda manual transmission fluid, replace the dipstick and close the hood of your Honda. You should now be all set – your Honda’s transmission should be properly lubricated and ready to go!
Right. Red in color, like ATF?
*I have been using ATF in the 5speed manual transmission in the Civic for more than fifteen years, and the gears and synchros looked like new when I pulled it apart. The bearings looked perfect, too, but I replaced them anyway. Unfortunately, I’m not sure if the AWD gearbox in the Elefent has a hypoid ring and pinion to ship power to the rear.
Slap a Honda sticker on the bottle and it’s official. I’m pretty sure most manuals use ATF anyway – I mean, modernish ones anyway. I know T5s do.
My 1983 Trans-Am had the T5 and used ATF and not gear oil..
Over at TOS, ENB went full DNC propagandist on the Republican governors strategy of sending illegals to sanctuary cities.
And I went full Glib. Like, “too local” era glibertarian.
I took a massive dump all over the morning links. Not my usual polite version… a genuine scree you bunch of liars dump.
Worth ju.ping over to take a look and pile on the heaping corpse, if you have the stomach for it.
As an enticement, here was her headline:
DeSantis and Abbott Are Wrong To Treat Migrants as a Punishment
https://reason.com/2022/09/16/desantis-and-abbott-are-wrong-to-treat-migrants-as-a-punishment/#comment-9704180
What was the punishment? Sending them to places that express their undying love for them?
You got a good level of support too.
I had hope. A bunch of us left and didn’t let the door hit us in the ass. But I had hope.
I love Reason. Reason of Balko exposing Hayne and West and helping free innocent men.
It is no more. They were already broken, but I still believed they could come back. Now?
They are just partisan propagandists. They stick a few libertarian things in there, but they dutifully publish the DNC talking point of the day. My criticisms have been scathing for a long time. But now?
This week they published 3 separate hit pieces on Marco Rubio. That was the final straw for a whole new batch. It became too obvious. This is not TDS anymore. This is Drudge leaving DrudgeReport.
I am openly speculating that the death of David Koch, the libertarian drive left the Koch foundation. Now, reason works for an establishment organization and supports the DNC line. I have called them out recently for quite obviously waiting to hear what they are supposed to think in political issues. It was clear that they waited to see the party line, then followed.
I am pissed. And hurt, to be honest. The Reason that fought against killing puppies and stealing a man’s home was important to me. Having that turn into just a partisan rag is painful.
I know the Rubio thing sounds like no big deal.
But he is a nobody. A former fresh face, now an empty suit establishment Republican. …. but a top DNC target.
So, with 435 members of the house up for reelection, and 36 governors and 35 senators… that is over 500 races and 1000 candidates.
But reason has been pushing hit pieces on DeSantis… and now suddenly, as the DNC opens a push on Rubio, 3 hit pieces on Rubio. In a week.
1000 other politicians. Almost zero dedicated articles like that. A few mentions of governors like abbot and Newsome.
But a sudden singular focus on one statewide politician who is not making any news at the moment? Out of 1,000 at a similar juncture?
Nope. That breaks credibility. That makes it a directive from above to do hit pieces on Rubio. This I shall believe until proven wrong.
Reason was responsible for many of the hit pieces on Ron Paul in 2008.
the racist newsletters. oh boy.
Funny, I don’t remember sarcasmic being that much of a douche.
I do.
I nuked my account when I migrated over here. Congrats on sticking it out lo these many years. The Shikha Dalmia pro-political-violence tweets and ENB’s feature-length spread on the dignity of race riots was plenty for me.
Incidentally, if you had any lingering respect left for Balko, don’t read anything he’s written since the Michael Brown incident. He’s lost his fucking mind.
Yeah, I was an original Agitot. In fact, it was the first place I ever posted about politics on the internet. I loved that place.. it was like here, but with more pure libertarian discussion.
I followed him to HuffPo and WaPo. And I watched the proggie come out over time.
He is still a hero for that early work, regardless of what he became.
Balko was never a libertarian either. He left and became a partisan propagandist (other than continuing his good work). Plus he never ran with my idea and published his columns in a book titled “Yet Another Isolated Incident”.
She’s right, it’s a blessing. The Governors agree, and wish to spread this blessing to the less fortunate. Quite magnanimous of them, really.
Semi blows its load all over the interstate.
the sales are buzzing
Hey-yooo!
DeSantis and Abbott Are Wrong To Treat Migrants as a Punishment
So- they ARE the punishment? That sounds… racist.
See how easy that is.
God help, the editor in chief of Reason magazine should not be that stupid.
For the wealthier glibs:
https://twitter.com/zillowgonewild/status/1570439697180295169
Alternatively, we could pool our cash then have a gladiatorial contest for it.
Flat roof, obvious ceiling water damage. Nope, I’m out.
I seem to remember complaints that many of his homes were maintainence nightmares.
Someone mentioned in the twitter thread, that he designed them for relatively short term. They were meant to “die”.
I don’t understand this way of thinking. Why WOULDN’T you create to last?
I saw a TV documentary on Fallingwater when I was probably like 17 years old. At the time it was, well, falling into the water. It also needed extensive mold and mildew mitigation. A pretty building that falls apart a decade after you’ve built it is the definition of useless to me, but then when it comes to architecture I’m about the furthest thing there is from an aesthete. I’m probably the only schmuck in the world who actually likes brutalism.
Yes, that is exactly the primary source I was remembering.
Yes.
Also, FLW projects seem to age poorly.
If you mean maintenance, sure. I mean, I don’t run in architectural circles, so I don’t know if they are/not maintenance nightmares. I can see how they would be, though.
But if you mean aesthetic, I would dis/agree. What may have seemed like out of date, say, 20-50 years ago looks period/mint now. The place has lovely carpentry and lots of storage. Everything FITS. At worst, it looks more midcentury modern than prairie, and there a lot of people who love MCM (including me).
My brother’s boyfriend bought a house that seemed to strive for that look and pretty much failed, so I’m sort of also comparing it to the knock-off.
I mean flat roofs in wet climates, shoddy builds and weird material combinations.
They are cool looking, yes, but they are too weird to own.
https://www.insider.com/what-frank-lloyd-wright-got-wrong-2016-8#his-roofs-werent-properly-supported-1
Howard Roark haz a sad.
Look fat, it wouldn’t be a FLW house without certain, peculiarities.
The living room looks like a small-town library.
Yeah. The whole thing has a small public school feel to it. Weird.
I just had an orgasm.
You think you had a money pit before…
Most of those homes were on the bleeding edge from an engineering perspective and need all kinds of stabilization and preservation.
Good thing I don’t have to worry about that part. A FLW house isn’t my you-made-it unit of measure. It’s a swimming pool.
Wow. If I wanted to live in Wisconsin, I’d make an offer.
It would certainly take into account a roof replacement though.
Cute animals as antidote to all the crappy news:
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1570513427327774721?s=46&t=DzUkMK3UIzxnbS-H_zOukQ
Thank you.
If Trump would just get out of the way, De Santis could stroll to the GOP nomination in 2024.
Why haven’t the Dems, with control of house, senate and wh, passed new immigrant legislation? Maybe the emperor has no clothes.
Or maybe they actually want an underclass of easily exploited people.
Remember, they have had many overtures from Republicans to do immigration reform
Bush basically offered open borders with work visas that don’t lead to citizenship. They didn’t want it. And not because they were holding out for full open borders and instant citize ship. But because they don’t want the workers to be legal. They want the power over them.
If you are old enough that this isn’t your first time, this is obvious
We did immigration reform and amnesty 30 years ago. This is settled.
Yet they still insist on allowing millions to come in illegally when nobody is legally allowed to hire them. Somehow they have jobs… 20 million or more of them. That means millions of businesses are at risk. That means they have leverage.
The idea that any libertarian would support this system is anathema. This is as anti-libertarian as it gets. Worse than full isolationist closed borders. This exploits people. On purpose.
I wrote a rather extensive paper on exactly this topic back in college. So, 2006. 16 years. By official estimates, we still have the same number of illegal immigrants now as the number I cited in that paper. And exactly nothing else has changed. Illegal immigration is labor price arbitrage the exact same as offshoring, only for the shit that rich people want to pay less than minimum wage for right in their own back yard. Nothing more, nothing less.
The only difference being the “illegal” part restricts the arbitrage to local manual labor. No national corporations. If you are a sizeable operation, you gotta be issuing payoffs to the right people too.
A full guest worker program with work visas for anyone would not onlu allow for cheap housekeepers and gardeners and drywall subcontractors, but also factory workers at Ford and GM, dock workers,nurses. Doctors. Web developers. Etc.
And it is an excellent observation that we have had record levels of illegal immigrants for many, many years since 2006, and yet they still use the same number.