Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another wonderful day and the links!
Gorsuch: Supreme Court Should Not Set Policy
Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin diagnosed with ‘serious but curable’ cancer
Tall Tales: Before George Santos, politicians from Biden to Clinton fibbed about their past
Dem States Are Worried They Can’t Pay Out Retirement Benefits
Credit Cracks Widen With Distressed Debt Ballooning
US Home Sales Fall Again, Posts Second-Lowest Monthly Reading in 20 Years
Study finds worse antibodies after mRNA boosters
Washington Post discovers that there was slavery in the US
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
F>I>S>T>
And now I feel silly, and sad.
At least you have Etiquette, I suppose.
Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!
*runsaway*
I think we should build a big wooden badger….
Where we’re going, we don’t need no stinking badgers!
RIP, Raul
F.I.S.T.?
whaddup doh’
Wow… 1) If only everyone had seen this sort of thing coming (unfunded liabilities) for years now and warned them. If only….
and
2) I thought a lot of the COVID bailout to the states was to cover some of this, actually. Good to know Newsom at least blew that too. Yay!
I can only assume buying off voters during his recall put a dent in the surplus.
Choo-choos. It was to build choo-choos.
Well at least it doesn’t affect social security. That’s in a lock box with my name on it, right? Right?
‘2) I thought a lot of the COVID bailout to the states was to cover some of this, actually. Good to know Newsom at least blew that too. Yay!’
They already spent it on other stuff, but it did buy a year or two. I’m sure the stock market shitting the bed isn’t helping them either.
Interestingly, residents of Massachusetts got a refund out of the blue a couple months ago for a few hundred dollars because we had a surplus. I was actually surprised they didn’t have some boondoggle or grift it could have gone to instead.
But antibodies!
Some of us remember saying that gauging the effectiveness of a vaccine solely based on the magnitude of an antibody response is retarded.
Tetanus is good for you! Just look at that antibody response!
“Enslavers or Confederates”
Oh, that’s cute. Same diff, right?
Otherwise know as “Democrats”.
Democrats don’t even want to own the original Progressives, they’re not about to take ownership of the ancient past.
The be fair, a very healthy percentage of the original Progressives were bible thumping, teetotaling, Republicans.
Teddy Roosevelt – and that is the Republicans burden to bear. Woodrow Wilson was bible-thumping, constitution-despising, racist and all Democrat.
I was thinking more along the lines of the rank and file. Especially those that supported Prohibition.
Back when New England WASPs still went to church.
Now they’re just WASs I guess.
— since we know from 2009 that the Blessed MegaBanks are Too Big To Fail, keep the money presses going whirrrrrr and inflate the currency to the point where multiple trillions are manageable (because that’s a loaf of bread), doesn’t matter what that does to the peasants, after all… they’ll never come near Versailles. (Seriously, ever get the distinct feeling Louis XIV would blush at the crap done today?) Can’t think how else they might be planning to get out of this — other than “whirrr!” FedGov doesn’t have the money to give them this time in actuality. And austerity (aka actually having a budget and trying to get strong economic foundations again) is icky….
The stimulus wasn’t big enough!
That’s what she* said!
She, in this case, being Janet Yellen.
Yuck!
You could’ve gone with Krugman just as easily (and twice as snarkily).
Guess that judge in the Lake case wasn’t just a squish that hates the truth after all.
Well, that’s certainly all the proof I need that he was completely unbiased and fair from start to finish!
That’s pretty much what we presume of all judges isn’t it. I mean until we have evidence to the contrary. Otherwise a judge is just someone who doesn’t tell me what I want to hear.
‘…a judge is just someone who doesn’t tell me what I want to hear.’
Well, anecdotally speaking…yeah.
Gorsuch is a good example – he doesn’t give the whiny children what they want.
I was talking more along the lines of my personal court cases.
Well, ya gotta pay your child support.
Nah, no kiddos for me. Wouldn’t be surprised if I was shooting blanks.
I know, you said you had none.
“That’s pretty much what we presume of all judges isn’t it.”
Once upon a time….
Who is we? You and that frog in your pocket?
I asked one of my lawyers once “What is the hardest thing about being a lawyer?”
His answer – “Forcing myself to say ‘Your Honor’. “
Or just wants the case to go away.
Good. Still not sure where “clear and convincing” and “intent” came from. I’d be interested in reading a serious account of what the statute says v what the judge required, if anybody know of one.
And what the actual legal basis was for throwing out 8 of the 10 complaints without even hearing the evidence. And by that I mean the actual law and not just what the judge’s desire was.
Given you practice law in that state, I’d say you’re the best source for that knowledge.
He gets to pretend to be impartial.
The idea that she could have been sanctioned after presenting claims, including some actual evidence of election irregularities is ridiculous.
Muh precious model!
When models don’t match reality, reality must be wrong.
Now do “climate change”/”global warming”.
Agreed,
This is actually a prevalent problem in all sorts of computer modelling. These tools should be looked at as engineering products, not an oracle.
GIGO is a thing.
Start with a spherical cow …
Quordle is proof of that.
Good in, good out?
/s just in case
The substitution of computer models for good data continues apace.
When this trend makes it to the engineering field, watch out.
In case you hadn’t heard.
Of course the difference is, engineering usually produces actual things that must work, as opposed to academic based modeling.
Systems engineering, of course.
You don’t fly much I guess? Of course you might also consider the 737 ‘defect’ they built in.
Funny, you mention the exact case of systems engineering failure I was thinking about.
Complexity comes with a price and that is a perfect example of it. Software is especially prone to the issue. Nobody cares if Microsoft Word has a bug or two, but it tends to matter when the software that nobody fully understands controls your ailerons.
From what I have been able to read in the public domain, it appears that key people subverted the systems engineering process to produce the system that failed on the 737Max.
Boeing was hoping to adopt the Tesla model where customers would pay more for the software version with more security built in….
Think about that..
Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin diagnosed with ‘serious but curable’ cancer
What a shame. Yes, I am done being cordial with these destructive, tyrannical Congress-cuntes.
Well before Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) admitted to fabricating key details of his biography, lying about one’s past was a rich political exercise. President Joe Biden got caught boasting about bogus academic credentials, Hillary Clinton made up a sniper attack in Bosnia, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren had to apologize for claiming Native American heritage.
But Santos has an ‘R’ next to his name. So it’s different.
^This, obviously
Three high-profile Democratic governors are struggling to stabilize their states’ retirement programs due to a falling stock market and may have difficulties paying out benefits in the coming years, according to Politico.
Time for another trillion dollar spending bill to bail them out.
I’m sure Mitch is already working with the Dems on just that. As long as there’s more money for Ukraine in there too… our Top Priority ™ after all.
At this point, I almost want retired government workers starving and living under bridges.
It would be one thing if they had worked for their money, but when you hear government workers talk about coming in and watching football and drinking in their workshop you begin to lose sympathy.
There were a few that read newspapers or hung out in the cafeteria all day. We were an analyst shop yet they didn’t produce a report while I was there. You couldn’t fire them for being unproductive. The agency played musical reorganizations to shift the known dead weight around until they slipped up by doing something that could get you fired within a year of the event.
If watching porn only got them a warning, what was the threshold to get them fired? Did you need to find some dead kid that had been raped repeatedly under their desk? Or did you have to find out they voted for someone with an (R) next to their name?
Time card fraud was the only reason I say in action. You don’t have to work but you better be onsite.
“There you go again”
Oh, “Almost”. Whew………….
another trillion
I think you’re missing an ‘s’ there.
Another’s Trillion?
Lol
Isn’t that always what it comes down to when “government” pays for things?
A new peer-reviewed study is raising concerns that a third dose of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines may actually worsen immune response against COVID-19, creating waves in both mainstream and heterodox COVID circles.
*shocked face*
Exclusive: A Washington Post investigation of more than 400 artworks in the U.S. Capitol building found that nearly one-third honor enslavers or Confederates.
*faints*
I’m betting it’s closer to 100% “enslavers”, myself, seeing as they are all members of our Ruling Class.
Well, that just invalidates this whole experiment! Tear it all down and replace it with mob rule. This time it will work.
Mob rule is bad. There needs to be a revolutionary vanguard to guide the mob to utopia and defend against the counterrevolutionaries.
I’m particularly fond of this quote.
He showed his disdain for the masses quite often.
The peasants are revolting!
“Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem as a class to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.”
“moral responsibility” is a luxury that the bourgeois can afford, not the working masses that have to do what it takes to survive. You would think Marxists would understand that
I guess you don’t recognize The Importance of Being Earnest when you hear it.
It’s funny that you reference Wilde, since his vision of socialism is actually the most prevalent one (and not anything relevant to Marx).
I just think his inversions (?) were wise. Work is the curse of the drinking classes, etc.
It’s amazing. The lack of long-term sectarian strife post-Civil war is one of the greatest miracles in modern geopolitics. And the progs want to throw it all away, because they can’t stand not having someone to screech at.
You can’t sustain a revolution without a Devil to rail against.
Yep.
Also, the next civil war will not take prisoners. The winners will be doing fuck you parades through the losers for the next three hundred years like the Orangemen.
How are you going to get 100% of people to say “Sure., lets try communism. It sounds swell!” if more than half of the population remembers what communism wrought? If you wipe history you don’t want people to know about, especially when you do it under the pretense of getting rid of things that were “bad”, you can have a whole crop of morons that don’t know better fall for it all over again..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JtGKL63iG3M
“The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer – and they don’t want explanations that fail to give them that.” – Thomas Sowell
Therein is the value of sport for a civilized society – they can apply all that passion to the pursuit of the utterly trivial. Not that we do, but we could.
I wonder if she’ll resign writing for the WASHINGTON Post?
I’m sure you could fill all four tires on your car to proper pressure from what is contained between her ears.
“Courts should not be in the business of perpetuating administrative edicts designed for one emergency only because elected officials have failed to address a different emergency,” Gorsuch wrote. “We are a court of law, not policymakers of last resort.”
He’s not wrong.
Most state and local retirement systems lost money in 2022, including the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the country’s largest public pension, which lost nearly $30 billion, according to Politico. Some of the blame lies with the three governors’ predecessors, who failed to adequately fund the retirement systems while in office, Politico reported.
We can’t blame that those pension funds are schemes that can never work. No.. no.. .no…
Bail out incoming!
No, he isn’t. It would certainly help if a certain administration followed the laws that were in place already, though…. so pointing out that the states and the Congress need to set policy seems more than a little pointless. They did — the current elites just don’t care. (That Congress should use the power of the purse until the Executive actually enforces the laws as written is obviously too much to hope for).
The obvious remedy for a president who refuses to faithfully execute the laws is impeachment and removal. But of course that will never happen.
Impeachment is easy. It’s the new norm when the White House and the House of Representatives are controlled by different parties. Removal, well that is difficult for the same reason impeachment is easy. It is a political act.
I’m not sure we’ve had a president that viewed his job as simply enforcing the law since Eisenhower.
the current elites just don’t care
Neither do the current plebs (otherwise we wouldn’t have so many Congresscritters re-elected).
I disagree. I surmise the plebes care quite a bit, but they don’t count the reelection votes.
Those who care are a tiny fraction of the electorate. Most voters are quite content to vote for whatever team-creature is put before them, and from those, we get the Congress-critters we have.
As disgusting as Lump is, would Oz have really been someone doing our bidding?
Honestly, I am under no illusion that Oz would have done anyone’s bidding, and especially not that of the people, but the issue for me was whether voters were so trapped in their bubbles that they would actually choose a vegetable over a moron. Team blue plays to win. You could put up a fucking turd as their candidate, and they would find enough people to count and pronounce that turd the winner. The lesson there isn’t that a better candidate on the other side would have made a difference as so many prognosticate.
BTW and IMO, even DeSantis would have lost in PA in this election cycle. Not because the voters would have chosen him the clear winner, but because of the people fortifying and counting the votes. Just like happened to Lake in AZ.
Congress gets low approval ratings but members get high approvals. It’s all the other districts that vote for bad reps.
The people who assumed a steady 8% (IIRC) return?
‘Orning ‘ordles — LR can die in a fire… multiple possibilities, none of which were ruled out by any of the other words. Grumblebitchmoancomplain…
I suppose Chump Town expected its Dictator For Life to show back up at some point anyway. Really need to fix Ms. Johnston’s pothole… she needs a better place to store her cannabis.
Daily Duotrigordle #302
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What’s your chump-free streak up to?
I don’t think I’ve chumped on Quordle since the daily round ups stopped. I don’t play every day anymore either.
Stats on this PC only says I have a streak of 44 games. *shrug*
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Trick question. The interest and debt can never be paid off at this point.
$100 billion to Ukraine. Let’s put that in perspective.
That’s more than $200 million this year from each Congressional district.
What could your congressman have done for your district with $200 million?
How long will the kids in your district be paying interest on this debt?
Ya’know that opens up an interesting perspective, since not all districts produce the same amount of tax revenue to feed the beast. So really, CA, NY and the other highest income states (voting blue mostly) are the ones disproportionately funding this.
As those districts are also disproportionately funded by the expansion of the money supply, I’d say that’s fair.
No, shitheel, you’ll take a tax someone else and spend Democrat. I’m quite positive you think your own taxes are either high enough, or too high. Or are you mailing some of your paycheck to the Ukraine yourself?
“There’s two things I want, I cant have both of them so I’ll take neither.” – Dumbass
“We are a court of law, not policymakers of last resort.”
Stop it. You’re killing me.
And people say conservatives can’t do comedy.
Banks say their wider credit models are proving robust so far, but they’ve begun setting aside more money for missed payments, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Loan-loss provisions at systematically important banks surged 75% in the third quarter compared with a year earlier, a clear indication that they are bracing for payment issues and defaults.
Most economists forecast a moderate slump over the next year. A deep recession, however, could cause significant credit issues because the global financial system is “vastly over-leveraged,” according to Paul Singer’s Elliott Management Corp.
I have an image in my head of screaming panic-stricken bankers desperately battling for a seat in the lifeboat.
Pepperidge Farms remembers when the point of downturns was to reduce such rot.
But, but that’s mean.
More importantly, the rot is usually connected.
I’ll take things that didn’t happen for $1,000,000, Alex.
https://democraticunderground.com/100217503571
Wrong category. It should be in ‘Things I Don’t Care About.’
pick up the Paxlovid
“…after making sure the life insurance is paid up, and bumped up the coverage.”
Seriously, who the fuck is still taking Paxlovid?
DU denizens apparently – not that big a surprise is it?
Dr. Drew?
Yeah, an impromptu and voluntarily reciting of the pledge by grown adults during, well, anything, isn’t a thing.
Every fire company meeting opens with a prayer and the pledge, and we be mostly grown adults.
Really? That’s just bizarre. Especially the pledge. Honestly never heard of or seen anybody do that my entire adult life.
I think if it’s part of the customs, it isn’t bizarre. If impromptu, then I can see being off putting.
Small town life dude.
My Dads gun club opens every meeting with the pledge. As a kid I didn’t think much of it because, we’ll, I was a kid and did it autonomically in hometown. In hindsight it was….weird.
I think the pledge is fucking creepy. There, I said it.
Given it’s heritage, I can understand that
I agree with it being creepy.
Yup. Kinda creeps me out.
Happens at some matches too.
Fudds man, Fudds
The pledge of allegiance at Christmas lunch? Yeah, bullshit…and even if that did happen how do they know that for sure? I assume everybody there was breathing.
Its a variation of a different story running around about going to a family Chtistmad dinner and the Trump side of family got in a circle and said the pledge of allegiance.
And I believe it stems from an actual event where a family was messing with a new member of the family or new girlfriend.
And if your husband was that high risk what were you doing in a social setting?
“Hey, shut up.”
/Screen Rant Pitch Meeting writer
She either one of those evil fucks that was praying he would get sick and die so she could virtue signal and score big points with her team, or she is one of those people that feel the world must inconvenience itself to adapt to her dilemma, cause it is not her responsibility to avoid risk…
…and then everyone clapped?
You would think those evil Trumpers would’ve walked up to him and coughed in his face.
It is known that saying prayers and singing the anthem produce much more viral shedding than yelling leftwing slogans.
Actually used Trump instead of TPG? False flag. Sad!
Mike Scott, a portfolio manager at Man GLG, said that “markets seem to be expecting a soft landing in the U.S. that may not happen. The leveraged loan market is something that we’re monitoring as well.”
*outright, prolonged laughter*
This guy…
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/12/28/zelensky-says-ukraine-has-helped-the-west-find-itself/
And I think we’ve found Soros’s true spiritual heir.
He has laid bare the evil and corruption at the heart of every western government. They gladly sacrificed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians so they could steal $billions from their own taxpayers. There will be a special place in hell for the neo-cons.
It’ll be the nicest part with very fine houses though because those cocksuckers are getting rich(er).
Zelensky said Ukraine helped Europe
By laundering money for the elite?
I’d give anything to hang a picture of Diem on his bedroom wall.
Ha! I’m so old I remember when Diem was”The George Washington of Southeast Asia”.
‘”To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” wrote Melanie Griffin, secretary of DBPR.”
If the regulatory state is to exist, restricting minors form adult activities is an acceptable use of it.
Went out last night with the wife for some line dancing (she didn’t like it) and to a local brewery, sat outside ad watched the stars. It felt good to breathe free.
I get the idea that you don’t like the idea of three year olds stuffing dollar bills into a forty year old man’s g string. What are you, some kind of bigot?
Actually I could care less about using the state to prevent stupid parents from being stupid.
CFP knows what a woman is.
THICC Thursday reminds you that yoga pants are indeed a thing.
https://archive.ph/48Axo
One and done.
Ayup. The rest look like implants
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2022/12/how-a-school-project-prompted-oregon-to-rid-slavery-from-its-constitution.html
Disgusting pieces of shits and carpetbaggers. I have no illusions anymore that moronic children in this country would think twice about kicking off a new Cultural Revolution.
On par, children have always been sufficiently sociopathic to serve as revolutionaries. That’s why we used to spend a lot of effort socializing them and telling them to shut up and listen to their elders.
During Mao’s record setting body count revolution, all the brutal beatings & killings were done by the youth. Especially against the elders. The less life experience you have the easier it is to goad you into believing shit those with more experience would see through immediately.
Just out of curiosity, did the constitution specifically allow “slavery” or is that activist spin? I don’t have a problem with involuntary servitude to a reasonable degree as punishment for some crimes.
The long term goal is eliminate incarceration or any other punishment for a crime.
If I recall correctly, the constitution was not written as a laundry list of what was allowed or not (like that EU craptastic thing), but as a clear framework to limit what the powers/responsibility of government were. Specifically what the feds could do (and definitely couldn’t do) and what otherwise was the responsibility of the states. People have forgotten that, because today too many people think government is there to solve their problems instead of realizing every problem they have can be traced back to shit government did.
The Constitution has guaranteed the government we have today.
Don’t trust anyone under 30.
But the over-30s don’t know what’s cool!
In an address to Ukraine’s parliament on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in 10 months of the war, his country has helped the West “find itself again” and provided a “historic opportunity.”
They all ant to be Moses parting the sea and leading their tribe to the Promised Land.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and CEO of the US investment management company Blackrock, Larry Fink, held a video meeting on Wednesday and agreed to coordinate the reconstruction of Ukraine.
That’s where the real money is.
My god, with that blank slate imagine what Klaus & Friends can come with!
Trillions were sent to Afghanistan/Iraq to rebuild there…. There was nothing really built in either country, and most of the money just disappeared. First Iraq went away. Then Afghanistan went away…
Yay!, now we have Ukraine to rebuild….
Karzai is living a splendid life, somewhere (and likely a lot better than the shithole that spawned him).
Spelling Bees these days….
I have no illusions anymore that moronic children in this country would think twice about kicking off a new Cultural Revolution.
We need another Children’s Crusade.
We need more helicopters, is what we need.
Hello and good morning Glibs.
I found out yesterday that a friend of mine I’m used to visiting on Christmas night had a stroke Christmas morning at 47 years old. We usually catch up when she comes into town for Christmas and walk over to her dad’s house after returning from our family’s for the evening.
So far this year in my circle of friends and acquaintances:
49 year old woman who is not overweight and very active had a brain aneurism
45 year old man who is relatively healthy had a stroke
47 year old woman who is pretty un-healthy diabetic (under not over weight, smokes, and still drinks daily) has a stroke – this one is not completely unexpected
For those with more “experience” than I, am I just that age where the defects in people start to manifest, especially if they are living a hard life?
What’s the bathtub curve for people look like?
“For those with more “experience” than I, am I just that age where the defects in people start to manifest, especially if they are living a hard life?”
Yes. And sadly, you will be seeing more of this as you keep aging until you reach an age where the first thing you and the other survivors will discuss whenever you talk is who just kicked the bucket.
I just looked up actuarial life tables for death probability by age and sex. Looks like it’s a pretty exponential trend from 45 – 85. Not that that is surprising. Looking at a LOG scale of the same data and there is not any unusual bumps once you get past 45. Males spike up in mortality from 10-24, then the rate of change slows until 45.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
Yeah, that looks right… I still remember how creepy it always was when I chatted with my parents when they were in their sixties, then seventies and later, and for my mom, the first thing she wanted to share was which people in her circle had recently died. Now I am old enough to see the logic behind that as it seems to be the game all the elderly play.
You’d rather hear tales of their orgies at The Villages?
*hurk*
I’m not gonna want to hear about that even when I’m that age.
Heh, my dad did tell me all those old widows were desperately looking for some man meat, and didn’t care who they could get it from…
No, that’s the second thing, after the doctor and meds discussion but before the sleep and bathroom discussion.
Pallets of hundred dollar bills choppered in to Ukraine.
Meanwhile, if you sold your dad’s ’67 Camaro which has been cluttering up your garage since he died, you’d better be damn sure you account for it on your 1040.
I have a co-worker who was completely oblivious to the new $600 rule and all the new agents they want to hire. Just had that convo this week.
Luckily there is a delay in that reporting requirement. Until how long, who knows.
But why did this take a lawsuit? ///rhetorical
In a settlement with Judicial Watch, officials revealed that 441,083 outdated registrants were removed from the city’s voter rolls in February 2022 — 82,802 in Bronx County, 128,093 in Kings County, 145,891 in New York County, 66,010 in Queens County, and 18,287 in Richmond County. …
The settlement ensures that the city’s voter rolls will be cleaned up every odd-numbered year after a federal election. In 2023 and 2025, officials said they would notify Judicial Watch sometime before the month of April with lists of outdated registrants who are removed from voter rolls during the prior two years.
Seems like there should be an easy way to end the need for this permanently but I just can’t imagine what it is!
/Voter-roll Barbie
Accountability is the enemy of Bureaucracy
Go fuck yourself.
Sean Penn calls the Unvaccinated “criminals”:
“They should stay at home. Not go to work. Not have a job.”
Back to pushing that are they?
Have another booster, Sean. Please.
I’ll do my part by not going out to watch or spend money on his films.
What a sad little penis.
Hey Sean what do you call a guy that leaves a gun in the trunk of his car to be stolen?
Sean Penn calls the Unvaccinated “criminals”
That’s nice.
Thanks to whoever recommended the Sideways commentary, if you’re here.
Luckily there is a delay in that reporting requirement. Until how long, who knows.
They won’t send the 1099 (yet) but you still have a tax liability, you tax-shirking billionaire.
Meanwhile, down in the lunchroom, the
seventhfifth graders are going at it hammer and tongsEnvironmental activist Greta Thunberg and controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate traded barbs on Twitter Wednesday in an exchange that went viral.
Tate, who has gained notoriety for his frequent misogynistic comments, instigated the tiff by tagging Thunberg in a tweet about his 33 cars and their pollution-causing emissions.
“Please provide your email address so I can send a complete list of my car collection and their respective enormous emissions,” he requested of the 19-year-old activist.
Thunberg shot back with a scathing diss.
“yes, please do enlighten me. email me at smalld–kenergy@getalife.com,” she replied in a quote tweet.
“How dare you?!” was all the self-described “success coach” came back with.
Many commenters reveled in the take-down of the influencer.
“This may well be the greatest tweet of all time,” George Conway tweeted.
So pwned, dude.
I thought it was funny. I am guessing she didn’t write it, but not bad
“You own 33 cars. Greta owns 1 Andrew Tate,” one Twitter user replied.
That’s not how I take it.
Post office delivers an enormous amount of advertising than most people throw away or wrap the fish guts in before throwing away. Amazon delivers stuff that people actually want and are willing to pay for.
Apropos of nothing:
The discussion of sociopathic children up thread got me thinking about
Dances with WaterworldAvatar 2, which the wife wanted to go see last night. Overall it was just kinda meh. Entertaining but utterly forgettable. Cool cgi and action sequences, inane storyline. Woke in the sense that the first one was woke (colonialism BAD) but no idiotic tranny characters worked into the plot or other such nonsense.I do wonder about the whole portrayal of humanity as utterly unsympathetic and the complete lack of introspection about their wholesale slaughter in the movie. Is this conditioning for the utes? Mercy is portrayed as a weakness more or less….
Bro and I were talking about it. 250 million spent to make an utterly average film, with antagonists who had a completely unrealistic attitude towards fellow creatures. Very poor scriptwriting. Bringing back the dead bad guy from the first movie? What, are those scriptwriters five years old?
It really was nonsense from start to finish. My wife loved the first one but she agreed with me in the lobby that the story was a complete mess. I do wonder if the script writers just take notes as their kids play action figures on the floor.
Cringiest Moment for me:
The water smurfs acting like Mowri warriors when they got mad. Most imagination is mimicry in one form or another but at least put a little effort into it.
The Way of Water and there was NO GENDER FLUIDITY?
I am disappoint.
Greta vs Tate:
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
Time has expired
The January 6 committee is withdrawing its subpoena of former President Donald Trump before Democrats lose control of the House and the new Republican majority dissolves the panel.
“In light of the imminent end of our investigation, the Select Committee can no longer pursue the specific information covered by the subpoena,” January 6 committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) wrote on Wednesday to Trump’s lawyer, according to CNN.
The Republicans should subpoena him and let him ramble.
I’m reading a great book by historian Dan Jones called “Powers and Thrones” about the “Middle Ages”.
I happen to be in a chapter called Merchants, covering the evolution of a merchant class in the 12-14th centuries, and how “Pax Mongolia” was a key part of it. Good stuff.
I have liked all of his books so far. (Not to be mistaken for Dan Brown of “Illuminati around Every Corner” fiction.)