I’m off traveling to Cleveland and Buffalo, so WebDom was going to grab Links this morning. Unfortunately, she got brutally sick, so I have to stand in at the last minute. But she did send me the actual Links she was going to use, so I got that going for me. Which is nice. But I won’t have all my usual rigmarole. Next week I will, promise.
Part of the haste is a reduced birthday count, but I do have to note a reluctant fellow; a guy who wasn’t the worst news columnist; the true star of Leave It To Beaver; along with Gabby Hayes, one of our local heroes; and the hottest woman ever to wear adhesive tape.
Here’s WebDom’s inimitable Links:
I’m sorry, I’m an open-minded guy but this looks horrible. Who EATS this shit???
How wack are goyim? About this wack.
It doesn’t get much respect, but it’s deserving.
Fascinating and clever things I never knew about Disney.
“And you smell like a monkey.” I love the takedown of statist academics. Did I mention that WebDom was homeschooled? Started college at 12?
One Link from me: Vindictive fuckheads finally coughed up.
One more Link from me: I swear, Spud and I have alibis. Well, I do, anyway.
And the Old Guy is always intrigued by this song. Maybe you’ll be, too.
“Unfortunately, she got brutally sick”
Get well soon.
+1
Quick recovery, please.
“a guy who wasn’t the worst news columnist”
His on language column was great.
That’s just Burning Man with Christianity.
Burning a cross is not a good look.
“Started college at 12?”
That sounds awkward.
At least she wasn’t a teenager, she had that going for her
Sounds about right for OMWC’s daughter.
“Texas Chicken Spaghetti”
Blech.
I have a storage cube on out property painted “go away green”. Its not a perfect match for Oklahoma weather, but works rather well.
“Complete failure as a general, but a hell of a cook”
I hate that sticky-sweet crap. But I’m no connoisseur so it’s hard to know how to avoid it because it seems like everything has it.
Same. I don’t have much of a sweet tooth. Sweet and hot can be good, though.
I must admit I like orange chicken, which is sickly sweet when you get in a restaurant. I do my own version at home with only a little pinch of sugar that’s a lot more citrus-y and a lot more spicy. Probably closer to Thai flavors, I guess, although it’s most certainly not any kind of authentic ethnic cuisine.
Just call it fusion cuisine.
I enjoyed the doc The Search for General Tso.
As the link says, American Chinese is now it’s own thing and it can be very good.
Good Chinese food took a huge hit in the late(?) 90s when the Feds forbade the importation of Szechuan Peppercorns. They confused it with another plant that potentially could host damaging insects. Rectifying the error took the better part of 2 decades. The timeframe coincides with the marked decline of quality Chinese restaurants and food.
You can get them now. I make cumin ribs with a generous portion of the in my rub.
Yes, they’re now available. But the we really haven’t recovered from the damage to Chinese restaurants and menu items.
I’d say the decline of (American) Chinese was more due to healthy eating fads (including fear of MSG), aging out of family run restaurants, changing tastes as newer more authentic foreign cuisines became available, and the Sysco-ization of sauces and food.
Traditional American Chinese was Cantonese based.
Yep, and a good Cantonese restaurant’s really hard to find these days.
“1 large onion, chopped
1 large green pepper, chopped”
I hate this shit. I have no idea what you think a large pepper is. Recipes, by definition, are repeatable. So don’t drag me into your world of mystery and chaos.
“1063mg sodium”
That’s salty af.
With ingredients like veggies, recipe amounts usually aren’t critical, so I don’t have a problem with that. You can tell when the recipe maker thinks an amount of something is critical when they give an exacting measurement.
“It’s definitely about right and wrong. And to be quite frank, the three students that shoplifted, they admitted their crimes,” adds McHugh. “It was Oberlin College that could never admit that what they did was wrong.”
Social justice is about more than bourgeois notions of right and wrong.
The original General Tso’s chicken that Peng cooked six years later borrowed heavily from his Hunanese roots. He described the recipe as heavy, sour, hot, and salty—all flavors characteristic of Hunan cuisine. This early General Tso’s wasn’t fried, and it was sometimes served on the bone instead of cut into bite-sized chunks.
I’d try the original.
Same. The modern is pretty nasty.
Trojan goat?
“Look, if we built this large wooden badger…”
Haha! That’s what I saw, as well. Gave me flashbacks of a Trojan Rabbit..
Time to end Santa’s ‘naughty list’?
Having the sort of neurotic parent who obsessively worries about this kind of shit is probably worse for kids than being lied to about santa claus.
Have her watch Fatman. Problem solved.
Yeah, I think I’ll pass on that one.
What’s not to love about a movie that is about a spoiled sociopathic brat hiring a hit man to kill Santa Claus because he got coal for Christmas?
I thought it was good.
OK fine I’ll watch it. But after Christmas.
It’s not bad. It’s got a few holes, but it ends well enough.
I was thinking of the Dom DeLuise movie Fatso.
Unfortunately, she got brutally sick
Webdom, get well soon
Maybe it’s the part of the country I’m in, but Chinese food is fucking disgusting. You get fried lumps of meat, that if you cut them open, are mostly breading with a tiny lump of tasteless dried matter in the middle, covered with a sauce that is basically a pint of corn syrup with food coloring in it. After eating, your stomach hurts terribly. I don’t understand why anyone eats it. Mostly the people in line are lazy welfare recipients in sweatpants.
There’s huge regional differences. My parents had a couple of (Americanized) Chinese restaurants they loved back in Spokane. They tried a few down here, ordering the same menu items, and thought they got the wrong order at first because it was so different.
I have a diabetic co-worker that eats way too much of it. It’s very difficult keeping my opinions to myself.
I know a few type II diabetics and their idea of clean eating and mine are vastly different and I’m not surprised they got the ‘beets. If that’s the amount of processed sugar they eat after they were diagnosed, how bad was it before?
Yeah, I stay away from all those cheap joints for the same reason. You never know if it’s any good and it usually isn’t.
There are better options – some truly excellent – but are more “special occaision”.
There are a handful of good places here, but they’re few and far between. Good Indian and Thai food are much easier to find.
here it is most often a stir fry of meat and vegetables with some rice and a sweetish slightly spicy sauce
There was a terrific one in Minneapolis back in the day. I don’t recall ever getting something breaded from them.
Even thinking about their garlic beef makes me a little tingly. Closed many years ago, however.
Regardless, I much prefer Vietnamese food.
Absolutely depends on where you go. No chains or buffets. Racism alert: if there aren’t gen-u-ine Chinese people cooking, skip it. You may have better luck in an area where there are a lot of Chinese living, like a college town. Best I ever had was in Ann Arbor.
I live in a city/province that’s had multiple large waves of SE Asian immigrants over the last 50 years or so; all the Asian food here, while sometimes “Westernized,” is actually quite good, and the best places have a large Asian clientele as regulars (and the really “best” places don’t even have English menus, though they’ve smartened up somewhat by putting pictures in their menus). Doesn’t hurt that a notable dish (Ginger Beef, sometimes amped up with even more Szechuan peppercorns and then called “Szechuan Beef”) was a dish most likely invented in Calgary in the early 1970s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_beef
The food you describe just puzzles me.
Essence of evil
This thick, toxic substance makes cleanup so much more difficult, said Jane Kleeb, the founder of Bold Alliance, and Anthony Swift, director of the Canada Project with the Natural Resources Defense Council, both environmental advocacy groups.
“When a tar sands disaster like this happens, it is worse than a traditional oil spill. Because tar sands is much more difficult, expensive and much more toxic to clean up. We know that this is going to take years,” Kleeb told NPR. She said she’s been monitoring oil spills, particularly tar sands spills, for 14 years.
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Even though TC Energy maintains that it has the right training and equipment to effectively respond to the Mill Creek spill, the effort will be a daunting one, Swift said.
Bitumen doesn’t flow through a pipeline efficiently, “so it is mixed with diluents to be readied for pipeline transportation as diluted bitumen, or ‘dilbit,’ ” the American Petroleum Institute says.
“It’s a very thick substance that’s almost peanut butter consistency,” said Swift, with NRDC.
Most containment efforts don’t really work for bitumen, he says. In situations of other oil spills affecting waterways, one of the first steps is to set up booms to prevent the oil from spreading farther in the water.
It doesn’t run off, and that makes containment harder?
These are the same environmentalists who were adamantly opposed to the Keystone XL project which would have offloaded some capacity and relieved the necessity to operate the original at higher pressures.
“I definitely think it can erode trust between a parent and a child, but I think the biggest danger is the anti-critical thinking lessons that they are teaching,” says Johnson.
Indeed. That should be left to the professional academics and credentialed educators.
how else are people going to learn to base everything on meaningless buzzwords
Kansas and people on the ground are going to have to prepare for the long haul, Kleeb said.
“I haven’t seen a tar sands spill of this scope in a creek. We don’t know what that is going to look like and how it is impacting the biodiversity in that creek. And not to mention the pasture land,” Kleeb said.
“In the past, when we’ve seen the spills happen it impacts the land for years. They not only have to excavate all of the polluted soil, there is a lot of work to be done to make sure that this isn’t impacting the root system,” she said. “And now all of that precious topsoil, which is critical to agriculture, is now destroyed and will be destroyed forever.”
Forever!
Anyone remember what the aftermath of Mt. St. Helens looked like? The area looks like this now. Turns out nature’s been handling this shit for about 4 billion years before humanity existed.
the earth is not billions of years old silly
Neat pics!
Appropriate rant
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
I’m still dead from the Deepwater Horizon spill killing everything in the Gulf.
Good morning, friends!
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And let me concur with rhywun’s “Worldle is BS” from the overnight thread.
you people are getting worse and worse at this. sad.
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Potato Rösti in a Swiss 2-star Michelin restaurant with Paolo Rota – Da Vittorio St. Moritz**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ayz0m13VVc
All this talk about Chinese food makes me want to go on a quest for some good hot and sour soup. I haven’t had any in a long time.
I could eat a Chinese right now
There’s a “$$” joint two long blocks away that I’ve been meaning to try. It gets great reviews.
I now have a goal for this week.
And the Old Guy is always intrigued by this song. Maybe you’ll be, too. – slightly boring tbh… and the lyrics are not great
Turns out nature’s been handling this shit for about 4 billion years before humanity existed.
It’s odd, but the Gaia-worshippers obdurately refuse to acknowledge the resilience of the living Earth.
Fishermen and hunters – actual environmentalists – could school them rather quickly.
MEN! Every list says you want beard oil, a pocket knife, or something leather. WHAT DO YOU ACTUALLY WANT?
https://twitter.com/RosemaryCard/status/1603276147369775105
no one wants any of that
Bourbon, beer, blowjobs, and beef.
I’ve got plenty of beard oil, plenty of pocket knives, and “something leather” is leaving a bit too much up to chance.
Killer B’s works every time.
The basics will do, hookers and blow
I do.
Not the beard oil, but a nice knife and wallet sounds great!
I switched to a SlimFold front pocket wallet years ago. Life changing. That’s how fucking dull my life is. I had the original Tyvek one, but when it wore out they only had the newfangled less-slim soft shell model, so I “upgraded” to that.
Nice.
Yes, I prefer minimalist as well. I got one of these last year. In dark brown. Love it.
Get him something he can really use, like maybe a woman who knows him well enough to buy him a gift without taking a Twitter poll.
honestly buying gifts aint that easy
A new snowblower.
My husband is getting a gift certificate to a spa. You read that right. A massage and a pedicure.
For his birthday (the week after Christmas), he will get a Stephen King book and a Chiefs tie.
A massage and a pedicure. – see Nephilium’s comment to see what is missing
Don’t drink, got beef, and blowjobs are not reserved for special occasions.
[insert Sean’s avatar here]
I’d take that as a hint. Kind of like gifting deodorant.
My beard isn’t long/thick enough for oil, but a good knife is also welcome. I’d love to find a bottle of top notch calvados under the tree, but scotch, Irish whiskey, tequila or mezcal will also find a home here (briefly).
Leather? I don’t swing that way, thanks for asking.
Capitol riot: Committee to seek charges for Trump – reports
They’ve got him this time for sure.
If he’s charged and tried in DC he’ll likely be convicted. You’ll get thirty years there for running a red light if you’re a Republican, especially one of those icky populists.
I like Chinese.
Wes Streeting: I won’t pretend NHS is envy of world
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-64002936
burn the heretic
“NBC News pulled tech journalist Ben Collins from covering Twitter and Elon Musk after he bashed the Chief Twit in tweets deemed not ‘editorially appropriate.’ ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11547289/NBC-News-SUSPENDS-tech-journalist-Ben-Collins-tweets-mocking-Elon-Musk.html
HA HA
I’m thoroughly enjoying the REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEing of these fuckheads getting hoist on their petard. The only difference, of course, is that Musk hasn’t spent the last decade publicly lying about it.
ON THE EDGE We’re selling our £350k home of 40 years as a new apartment block is being built outside – they’re ruining our lives
https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/property/20726116/selling-home-new-apartment-block-built-outside
“It will affect our privacy, peace, our space and and light, and will devalue our house by thousands of pounds.
“All the neighbours are complaining, no one wants it. It will increase traffic and cause parking issues and the council should never have allowed it.
“We feel we’re being driven out of our home. We’re sick and tired of this.”
oh boo fuckin hoo
They’ve got him this time for sure.
They should just put a price on his head, and be done with it.
Milton Friedman and trickle down economics
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkGyTUhWAAAFJ5S?format=jpg&name=900×900
Perfect.
Today, in everything is stupid
“California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a former assemblywoman, authored the bill that created the state’s task force, and the group began its work last year.
The bill was signed into law in September 2020 after a summer of nationwide protests against racism and police brutality following the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer in Minnesota.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11548119/Faizon-Love-says-black-people-use-reparations-money-buy-Cadillacs-Mercedes.html
“Protester is banned from woke school board meeting after dressing up as controversial trans teacher with Z-cup prosthetic breasts to demand they are all fired – before being escorted out by police”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11548557/David-Menzies-dressed-trans-teacher-Kayla-Lemieux-banned-life-school-property.html
That guy with the ridiculous fake hooters is still teaching kids? Oh Canada…
The reparations thing is going to be an endless fount of derp and hilarity. Please make it happen, California.
Watching California fools part with their money for bling and fancy cars will be only part of the fun.
I think the Meso-American population of California will be a bit pissed about having to help pay for this. In effect, they voted for this but got nothing for themselves. They might eventually signal some regrets.
A caravan of carpet bagging lawyers, opportunistic fuliginous folks, quack DNA analysts, and dodgy genealogists will soon be headed to the new gold rush.
There will be many “you can’t make this stuff up” stories to enjoy.
*looks around*
I see the world is still stupid.
*Goes back to o bed*
Stupid, yes, but still entertaining!
[historian from the year 4000 voice] “As the central government began to lose control of the periphery, the elaborate suburban houses, or ‘McMansions’, of the wealthy became the nuclei of new self-sufficient communities, often adding defensive structures…”
https://twitter.com/kendrictonn/status/1603781565737275393
Dried up and blowed away
The Colorado River’s largest reservoirs stand nearly three-quarters empty, and federal officials now say there is a real danger the reservoirs could drop so low that water would no longer flow past Hoover Dam in two years.
That dire scenario — which would cut off water supplies to California, Arizona and Mexico — has taken center stage at the annual Colorado River conference in Las Vegas this week, where officials from seven states, water agencies, tribes and the federal government are negotiating over how to decrease usage on a scale never seen before.
Outlining their latest projections for Lake Powell and Lake Mead, the nation’s two largest reservoirs, federal water managers said there is a risk Lake Mead could reach “dead pool” levels in 2025. If that were to happen, water would no longer flow downstream from Hoover Dam.
“We are in a crisis. Both lakes could be two years away from either dead pool or so close to dead pool that the flow out of those dams is going to be a horribly small number. And it just keeps getting worse,” said Tom Buschatzke, director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources.
He said there is a real danger that if the coming year is extremely dry, “it might be too late to save the lakes.”
Environmentalists rejoice.
Well, Cali decided they didn’t want any more desalination plants, so here we are.
I’d say it’s three-quarters full.
Shaquille O’Neal has defended his appearance in ads for the collapsed cryptocurrency firm FTX, saying ‘I don’t understand crypto’
https://mobile.twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1603841536999002113
Look at the guy with the doctorate playing dumb. It’s education but still.
Related
The Colorado River has long been severely overallocated, and its flows have shrunk dramatically during a 23-year megadrought supercharged by global warming.
Now do population change in that period.
I’ve asked Cali people about that. It’s not’s a productive task.
Gaia is laughing at our hubris.
War!
Who is it good for?
At least they don’t bother hiding it anymore.
Well, Cali decided they didn’t want any more desalination plants, so here we are.
If they did it right (Heaven forbid!), they could be selling water to Nevada and Arizona. But….
Thieves catch the robber! What a wonderful world!
https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1603753330769002497
but is it fake?
Good morning to all Glibs from somewhere in the stormy Aleutians!
It’d be a much better morning if I had a chance to leave before mid-week.
Howdy!
How’ve you been?
Hey Tundra!
Been mostly good. Got a 4+ feet of snow at my house the past 10 days so it’s looking like a White Christmas if I make it home before then.
Wow!
Safe travels and Merry Christmas!
Good morning, 61N! Where are you headed?
Back to the big city for a few days before heading Outside to see some friends for Christmas.
Today, I shall make a cheesecake. The peppermint bark one.
FUCK YOU, CHEESECAKE FACTORY!
My best friend is getting a cheesecake delivered to his house in about 3 hours, as well as challah, a chocolate babka and some gelt. The Jewish bakery I ordered from doesn’t do delivery on the sufganiyot.
Earlier this week decided to try to call in an order to a local strudel place for Christmas, they were already booked solid for all orders through the holidays. The second option that the girlfriend wanted only had basic sugar cookies available, so we went with option three which was decorated and chocolate covered treats.
I still have a shit-ton of cookies to bake, too. I now have made Spritz, magic cookie bars, chocolate chip cookies (husband sprang that request on me; I hadn’t planned to make any), and one variety to sugar cookies. I still need to do the other variety of sugar cookies, pecan tartlets, chocolate crinkles, and possibly thumbprint cookies with either lemon curd or maraschino/candied cherries. There are others on my list, but who knows if I will get to them. I think my mom is making the “goodie cookies” (Mexican wedding cakes/Russian tea cakes).
Try lemon curd with a quarter or half cherry on top.
NEW 1796 Pattern Light Cavalry Saber by Windlass: WITH ACCURATE DISTAL TAPER!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ5MuiRqOnQ
I am not sure I like the mirror shine on swords looks silly for some reason
Fried a steak (no eggs) for breakfast. The day is looking up.
What kind of steak?
a mis-steak
NY strip.
Nice.
“fried”?
In a skillet with butter, of course.
“One way or another, physics and Mother Nature are going to dictate outcomes if we don’t come up with some solutions,” Entsminger said. “I would like every water user on the Colorado River to recognize that the 21st century has substantially less water than the 20th century. And all of the institutions we built in the 20th century need to be adjusted — in months, not years — in order to face the reality of less water for every user, in every sector, in every state.”
SCIENCE!
OFFS.
Fine with me. Dihydrogen Monoxide kills.
I, for one, am glad that we live in a free country as opposed to some third world, corrupt shithole.
Two young Trump supporters, Luke Bender, 22 of Stafford, Virginia, and Landon Mitchell, 32, from Texas, were found guilty by DC Judge Beryl Howell on Wednesday of walking in the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Then the two men then committed a truly horrible crime as described by your FBI:
The two men were found guilty of this horrific crime and now face up to 20 years in prison.
I saw a headline yesterday about some guy who was accused of chasing a capitol cop that got 5 years. A couple of the Oath Keepers got seditious conspiracy convictions. I wonder if Ray Epps testified…
It’s a third world corrupt shithole with the resources to be somewhat effective in fucking over the citizenry unfortunately.
I wonder if the witch-hunt stops in January with the new House?
With AG Garland in charge? Surely you cannot be serious.
Nope. They are handing it off to the DOJ.
Criminal probe opened on Norwegian actress for saying men can’t be lesbians:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/norwegian-actress-faces-3-years-prison-saying-men-cant-be-lesbians
I identify as a male lesbian myself but I can’t say that this offends me.
Word. I love pussy.
Joking aside, remember that speech/thought crime is a thing in the rest of the world and that is what the left wants in the US.
So this is what happens in a non-free country when G and L speak out against T – which has been advocated several times here, as a necessary response to the groomer set latching on to goodwill that G and L built up over decades – and you can bet they will try to make it happen in the US too.
Once the government decides it’s going to do something we’re all just along for the ride. You have to act before that point is reached, which is actually happening to some extent both here and in the UK. Most likely too little too late by now though.
They’ve got him now.
Anchor Jake Tapper asked, “The chairman of the committee, Bennie Thompson, says he expects the committee will release the executive summary and eight chapters of your final report during Monday’s meeting. Can you give us an idea of what that might include?”
Lofgren said, “Well, we’ve gone in greater detail over what happened. Really we laid out the basic facts in our hearings. There are additional facts, and importantly we will be releasing additional evidence through our footnotes through what we are talking about in the report. There’s a large volume of just raw evidence, committee records that were not possible to release during the hearings. I think the public, as well as the press, will find that of tremendous interest because there are, you know, there’s some pretty bad things we discovered.”
Really we laid out the basic facts in our hearings
Sure sure. Plain old, incontrovertible “facts”. I’m certain of it.
Yes, the basic cherry picked facts with all the exculpatory evidence excluded. A fair process indeed.
Horseshit. If there were any “smoking guns” in that “evidence” they been sitting on for almost two years, it would have been all over the MSM from the start.
It’s all a strange kabuki dance where even the true believers really don’t believe what they’re saying, the press pretends to buy in even though they’re well aware it’s horseshit, and the investigators and those recommending charges are the supposed victims of the event. I’ve never seen the like.
After weeks of 12-18 hour days, seven days a week, I finally got this big urgent project over the finish line. Ima drink and wait for Spud to get here next weekend, when I can drink some more.
Mazel tov!
What’s the first thing to be cracked open?
I am drinking this
https://www.vivino.com/US/en/ktema-tselepou-ktima-tselepos-driopi-reserve/w/1310257?year=2017
not bad at all
Excellent! Nothing like finishing a big project.
So I may ask this again…..
So we know that Rome was in decline with the Germanic barbarian tribes sacking the capital.
I am trying to envision what would be the modern day equivalent of the US. Not necessarily a physical sacking, but something that would say that we were at out zenith and something was going to take over.
I really don’t see a #2 becoming #1.
Total, unrestrained illegal immigration?
While i agree that is very corrosive to our identity as a nation, and while it may make us a leftist gang of thugs, who would have the ability to surpass us in military bluster?
I’m thinking more of a slide from our zenith than some sort of event. Just rotting until we’re unrecognizable.
Agreed that this is very likely.
So Britain then? Or Spain or Portugal or any empire that didn’t end via cataclysm all with a bit of Argentina thrown in for good measure.
But someone overtook those empires.
I am definitely not saying it cant happen. I just don’t see how it would happen. No new lands to concur, no new monopolies.
Yes, I see Britain as our future – a soft slide into left authoritarianism, with memories of greatness.
“The call came from inside the house.”
The US has already been taken over, not by anyone from outside but by an evil ideology.
China’s imperialist ambitions will lead to it gradually supplanting the United States as the protection racket with the most assets under management, at which point its military policy will become very much like ours
China’s demographic issues remain a big question mark for me.
They’re getting old, quick.
It depends upon whether you want to try to put a pin on a specific event or you’re wiling to consider more of a period of time.
The early 1900s looks like where the wheels came off for me, but the roots go back to the Progressive Movement.
The Income Tax, direct election of Senators (No! I’m not including women’s suffrage in there!), Prohibition, along with a slew of progressive SCOTUS decisions, including Schenck, and it leads us right into FDR and we’ve never really recovered as a liberty loving culture and polity.
WWI isn’t a bad place to put a pin in the map; if there’s still history to be written a hundred or two hundred years from now, I think that’s a good place to look at “whence,” if not precisely “how”, it came unglued.
It is either Wilson and the progressive movement or Lincoln and the civil war. Both are excellent choices.
I like the WWI pin because it’s when we became an empire. As to the how – continued societal degeneration leading to schisms. I just hope we can avoid a civil war.
While its only 20 years, I think we became an empire after WWII.
Spanish-American War says hi.
The Mexican-American War says hi too.
Isn’t that more old-school adventurism than the Wilsonian “let’s remake the world” foolishness.
Regardless, it is definitely difficult to say when we tipped.
What will mark the fall of the American Empire? A continuing slide into fascism and government intrusion into every aspect of life until it becomes completely intolerable.
I watched the “Krupps” episode of War Factories last night. The National Socialist model is not really efficient or resilient.
But don’t we sort of already fall in the technical definition of fascism? The symbiotic relationship between govt. and business contracting?
Seeing that thing by the idiot from Vox about the book “Managerial Revolution” was a serendipitous coincidence.
Particularly the part about how Burnham was convinced the Germans, due to their superior organizational skills, would inevitably win WWII.
*I still don’t know what he (Vox idiot) was trying to “explain” by hanging Burnham around Musk’s neck.
Vox idiot thinks Burnham is evil and thinks Musk is evil too. Therefore, make some sort of connection between the two.
China’s imperialist ambitions will lead to it gradually supplanting the United States as the protection racket with the most assets under management, at which point its military policy will become very much like ours
We send paramilitary DEA death squads to Africa. The Chinese send engineers.
But don’t we sort of already fall in the technical definition of fascism?
Absolutely. *Continuing* slide.
Just don’t use the F-word
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump pledged to fix U.S. infrastructure as president. He vowed to take on China and bulk up American manufacturing. He said he would reduce the budget deficit and make the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes.
Yet after two years as president, it’s Joe Biden who is acting on those promises. He jokes that he’s created an “infrastructure decade” after Trump merely managed a near parody of “infrastructure weeks.” His legislative victories are not winning him votes from Trump loyalists or boosting his overall approval ratings. But they reflect a major pivot in how the government interacts with the economy at a time when many Americans fear a recession and broader national decline.
Gone are blanket tax cuts. No more unfettered faith in free trade with non-democracies. The Biden White House has committed more than $1.7 trillion to the belief that a mix of government aid, focused policies and bureaucratic expertise can deliver long-term growth that lifts up the middle class. This reverses the past administration’s view that cutting regulations and taxes boosted investments by businesses that flowed downward to workers.
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“There’s an industrial strategy that actually uses public investments to drive more private capital and more innovation in the historical tradition of everybody from Alexander Hamilton to Abraham Lincoln to John F. Kennedy,” said Brian Deese, director of the White House National Economic Council. “The outcomes speak for themselves.”
New Deal 2; economic boogaloo!
uNfEtTeReD!
Um… well, yeah they certainly do that.
“No more unfettered faith in free trade with non-democracies”
Isn’t that the opposite of what trump actually wanted?
Forget it, he’s rolling.
Something something just ignore the low intensity trade war we had with China. Regardless of whether one thinks that was good or bad it did in fact happen.
Picked up a standing rib roast today. Yum.
Trump pulled us out of the Trans Pacific Partnership (which had precious little to do with “unfettered free trade”).
This was viewed as bad at the time.
And so! My peppermint bark cheesecake is in the oven. Yes, I know it’s a dedthred. Didn’t want to shit all over MS’s.
Texas Chicken Spaghetti
That’s not far from the after-Thanksgiving Turkey Tetrazzini my ex-wife used to make for me. Although she made her own cream sauce rather than using canned soup.
So I guess the answer is me, I used to eat that shit. AND IT WAS GOOD!