What a week! I spent the last few days visiting an old client in the VOQ at beautiful Ft. Bragg, NC. He announced his retirement from the Army, and invited me to the ceremony!
He was always thankful I helped him find his true self, and the red rockets. He got the best way to send off a beaten old dog for being such a good boy. Plus he always fixed the bed the morning after with nice, tight corners! …Anyways
Meh. We all knew this was an uneven trade.
Those dolls always gave me the creeps.
If your looking to buy a car, wait about 6 months. At that point the salesman will probably give you road head during the test drive to seal the deal.
Jesus tap dancing Christ. How about no?
Good. Soy is probably the third or fourth worst thing you could be eating.
He stands in solidarity with his fellow communists. Makes my job easy at least.
VOQ?
Visiting Officers Quarters
Due to inflation, they’re Visiting Officers Dollars now.
Boo!
“If your looking to buy a car, wait about 6 months. ”
Will there be any cars?
Not for the plebs.
Yes
It’s fanfuckingtastic from my perspective.
I need to buy some vehicles in the next year.
I know which direction the gap is, but I’m now envisioning a scenario where the seller wants less and the buyer wants to pay more. Maybe a tax issue? Anyway it wouldn’t make an interesting story, so I’ll file away the idea for background events at some point.
So that’s for used cars?
Used car prices skyrocketed, so maybe they’ll come back to normal.
I mean recent normal, not before Cash for Clunkers normal. Thanks, Obama.
And here I thought all the rum and sodomy was confined to the navy.
The Army drinks beer.
All I got was a handshake
“Thanks for the invitation man. No, really, congrats. I’ll pass though.”
How will we manage to get by without his words of wisdom?
You could rub one out.
Kyrsten Sinema is on CNN, but Jake Tapper’s voice kind of ruins it for me. Challenging, but not impossible.
Cue the howls of outrage…
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tired-partisanship-senator-kyrsten-sinema-abandons-dems-goes-independent
Like she isn’t going to toe the company line just like Bernie.
Jimmy Dore was on Malice’s podcast this week. I didn’t realize how much Dore hates Bernie, called him a warpig lol.
Jimmy Dore is an overrated, communist cunt.
There I said it.
Sure. He knows all about government corruption, but still thinks we could pull off free healthcare.
He’s an honest commie, which means he’ll never be a successful commie.
I’ll take it.
I still enjoyed listening to him shit on Bernie, Hilary, and Obama.
Of course he is. Still funny and definitely worth listening to the Malice interview.
She also said she would keep voting the way she has been, so we’re still screwed.
My take is that she has some very powerful supporters that wanted this to happen. Most likely in the NY financial sector.
And right on cue…
https://democraticunderground.com/100217448255
Lol, isn’t Sinema a lesbian?
Psychologically speaking, women are wired to plays both sides of the field. From an evolutionary stanpoint it makes sense to create ties with a successful couple if you have something to offer both.
Its why polygamy is a thing, frankly. She just happens to be open about it.
I thought she was bi?
I believe she is
Someone who actually gives a fuck about Democracy
Democracy is asshoe.
a woman who cares about not becoming a handmaid.
I can’t even get a woman to make me a sammich.
It’s not that difficult.
Admittedly, they work in a sandwich shop, so it’s their job…
Just make sure they wash their hands.
I appreciate the honesty of capitalizing the word “Democracy”
We lose majority in committees…
Which also rips the power of subpoena from Dems.
Huh.
If that’s true… will Rand Paul be able to grill Fauci?
Fauci: my memory doesn’t seem to be so good no more, I don’t recall, one way or the other.
What’s even better was the link over at RCP to Sinema’s statement was immediately preceded by this:
Can Democrats Break America’s Political Stalemate? Will Marshall, The Hill
Sure – they can all resign. Stalemate broken.
But what are the first and second worst things?
Winston’s Mom
Winston
It depends on who you talk to.
Seed oils and sugar.
I can’t argue that.
Okra and cilantro.
Agreed on the soap weed.
I feel bad for those of you with that genetic variation. I can’t imagine tacos and salsa without cilantro.
It’s a bummer but the slightest bit cuts through all the other flavors like they aren’t there. I get a hint of cat urine with it as well.
I’ve never had the desire to sample cat urine.
I’ve never had the desire to sample cat urine.
You are totally missing out on the cheese
Agreed on cilantro, but what’s your beef with okra?
It’s slimy and tastes like ass?
Breaded fried okra is The Best.
This is an objective fact.
Scrape the bread off, throw away the okra
Okra, along with eggplant, is proof that the Devil exists, and hates us.
Well Biden make Griner his new Minister of Sport? She has all the qualifications he looks for (the actual working experience in the field is a bit unusual).
Maybe he could make her head of the FDA.
LOL. Clown World.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bidens-kinky-senior-nuke-official-charged-another-airport-luggage-theft
Sounds like a hobby.
Probably just takes the underwear and burns the rest.
Good morning, WM!
Thanks for all the lynx.
Jesus tap dancing Christ. How about no?
They just can’t help themselves. TMITE.
If your looking to buy a car, wait about 6 months.
I wonder what this will look like as rates continue to rise. Writing 7 year notes is hardly sustainable.
FInally!
The Bee shares your enthusiasm:
https://babylonbee.com/news/disinformation-on-twitter-down-92-as-nyt-writers-go-on-strike
Alright, I’ve seen this used around here a half dozen times or so now, but didn’t want to look clueless asking what it means. But since search engines are useless, I may as confess I’m out of the loop. WTF does TMITE mean?
I’m pretty sure a T-Mite is a type of insect that lives in T-Mobile phones.
Trashmonster is the enemy
Tax Men Interrogate Trannys Endlessly.
The Media Is The Enemy
Although I like the other suggestions. too.
I could have sworn Tonio had a guide for noobs with such translations in it. One moment while I look for it.
I just skip over the initialisms. Easier that way
Good news: I found the N00b guide to Glibertarians. It’s a good piece to bring forward again.
Bad news: It does not have TMITE in it. Not that I saw.
https://www.glibertarians.com/2019/10/a-noob-guide-to-glibertarians-com/
Geez, I’m an OG Reason escapee, I’m not *that* out of the loop.
I figure the initialisms are a shibboleth among a subset of glibs who think the random collection of letters that don’t form a word carry some deeper meaning.
Or they’re too lazy to type out the whole phrase that they overuse.
U wot m8?
Don’t listen to these clowns Pat.
The Media Is The Enemy
Ahh! Nice.
The Media Is The Enemy.
Or if you want it in musical form, Media Sensation.
I dig it. For a more plodding but equally respectable approach, there’s this
Thanks for cluing me in, fellas. But you should have kept the ruse going longer.
Ted’s Music Is Totally Excellent.
I would expand that to include the current administration.
KJP no doubt agrees with TMITE.
I just bought a new car. Looked at the same used model (2 years older) and the price difference was about $2500. That’s it. The older model had 35K miles on it, too.
Got a better warranty, obviously.
The 7-year-old Honda needed a new transfer case and a bunch of other stuff and I really didn’t want to sink the money into it.
I’ve been low-key looking at cars, as the Honda just passed 111,111 – as you saw, you’re not saving much with used cars right now. I’d do new, assuming I could get one.
Perfect, that’s when I want to get a new one. The interest rates better be low though…
Pull a Don Escaped – pay cash.
I’m not cutting my steak/booze/ammo budgets.
Old bills, assorted denominations no sequential serials?
Sure, why not.
Though I’d love to see someone find old bills with sequential serials.
Somewhere, someone with OCD mumbles “challenge accepted”.
Krugabe is a man of principle.
In support of Kruggie and the NYT I promise not to read the Times today and with any luck, never. Just doing what I can, on a local level.
Interesting. What it says about establishment Republicans too.
What a incompetent, self-serving twat.
Thanks, Obama.
Hmm… Some interesting points. That article couldn’t get more angry and partisan though.
Partisan? Which party is he standing up for?
I can’t tell. Definitely a hatred of Pence. That article needs more facts to back up his assertions. I hate Pence too, but I’d rather have a detailed account of his sins than posturing. Look at the section written about the cruise ships, in particular.
I believe he quotes, liberally, from Pence’s new book – which is why he seems to be a bit outraged.
Justifiably outraged. FFS, from the quotes, it’s clear Pence is taking credit for a lot of the worst policy decisions the past few years.
The anger is warranted. Tucker has written many articles chronicling the awful govt actions in response to covid. He has a right to be pissed. Fuck Pence.
In Atlas’ book, it’s clear Pence has his own agenda which lines up most closely with the Fauci/Birx/Redfield troika.
Man, the lockdowns really did a numbr on homosexual econ man.
But it sounds like somebody convinced Pence to run. Which will be fun given he has Mitt Romney’s charisma and history of de jure homophibia.
I was going to snark about how classy WM is based on at beautiful Ft. Bragg, but citing Mitt Romney’s charisma totally balances the books.
The guy is a complete turd. He was also a prime player in the betrayal of Chris Christie and General Flynn. He made sure the Trump Admin was crippled from the outset.
He strikes me as being completely convinced of his own humble greatness. He’s the perfect companion bookend to Trump’s not-humble greatness.
Pence was always GHWB to Trump’s Reagan. He had to bring him along to get the old guard and their money behind his campaign. Which was the biggest damn fool mistake the world’s greatest negotiator ever fucking made.
Be honest, there were damn few good hires in Trump’s entire admin.
I’d be hard pressed to think of one, excepting Devos, I guess. If his instincts are really that shitty it’s miraculous he managed to stay out of jail as real estate developer. I know the pickings were probably slim on account of none of the political insiders wanted to work for him out of spite, but there’s no rule saying you have to hire from within the party ranks. I think he was pitifully naive about the nature of politics, having made the presidency his first foray.
This is what intrigues me about who was doing the work on judicial nominations – someone willing to do good, hard work and not run around, even anonymously, to the media bragging. That was one hell of a staffer.
Didn’t Trump essentially take all the recommendations from the Federalist Society?
His judicial appointments and deregulation are two good things to come out of his administration. Pissing off all the right people and getting the unhinged left to let him live in their brains rent free is another.
Of course, he never drained the swamp, and is a narcissist carnival barker.
I’m not sure those people in Washington exist. He would’ve had to bring in a bunch of outsiders. It didn’t make much of a difference as no one inside DC wanted to play ball with him anyway.
I had the impression that Pence was also brought in to appeal to the family values wing of the Republican party.
He’s be more appealing if he didn’t always look like he’s constipated and he just got a slight hint that the laxative’s starting to work.
The genuine stability versus the stable genius? Yeah, that worked real well.
Pence was a beard – period. He was brought in so that the gigantic number of dispy-type Christians in the US who can’t fathom voting for a candidate who’s not a Christian (Trump) could convince themselves that this made it OK. Not one person anywhere ever knew or cared anything else about him.
Yeah, that seems to sum it up.
Not sure I buy that. These stupid elections are pretty much 50/50 whoever is running.
Dementia patients, stroke victims, pussy-grabbers.
Still 50/50.
No, there were a whole lot of “woulda stayed home” votes that Trump got because of this, and it’s the whole reason they did it.
This chunk of Christianity would never have voted for Herself, but was also turned off by lots of things about Trump’s history, and especially that he wasn’t credibly/publicly a believer. Pence’s presence let them hold their noses and do it.
Enough of them would have stayed home that it would not have even been close – Shelob would have won easily.
Pence represented Flyover Country, something the deplorables needed
The interest rates better be low though…
Are you a “qualified buyer”?
You betcha!
I’ve seen some crazy shit done with construction equipment, but this one is near the top of the list.
Freaky Friday
That’s…impressive?
An always-on-topic song
Good one.
Another.
Would I lie to you?
Correct answer
I’d never lie to you.
I like that one. Thanks to your links, Youtube now thinks I am an aficionado of punk. I wonder what recommendations I will get if I click on TedS’ “music” links.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtTGfWDamVE
Morning yall! First day of vacation for the rest of the year, going to be a great few weeks.
Go Brazil!
That is fantastic! Enjoy!
Takes more than a gigantic explosion to stop Carolina Man.
A Colleton County man’s family is grateful their dad is still alive after his home exploded on Monday night.
Wow
This is why I call a guy for that sort of thing. Glad the dude is ok.
For some reason I envision him smoking a cigarette before, during, and after the incident.
There used to be a propane tank farm at the intersection of Interstate 35 and Crosstown in Minneapolis (two very busy roads). There were at least 20 90,000 gallon tanks buried there.
I remember watching a guy chain smoke cigarettes while mowing the grass on top of the tanks and thinking “this is not a good situation”.
The tank farm is gone now.
Boom?
No removed
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Good start but went off the rails. Fuck you, LL.
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Great minds think alike…
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Yeah, I need you to create some decals for my truck. I’ve sketched it out on a napkin here.
https://i.redd.it/1ltxb58map4a1.jpg
Never trust a fart.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33274/Onara_Gorou
That is fantastic. Episodes appear to be about 3 minutes. I found the whole thing on YouTube, but the subtitles are German.
He and this guy just use the same paint shop.
Disgusting. I mean, R/T decals on a Ford Explorer Sport Trac? Ugh.
Belongs on a Tacoma TRD, not a Dodge.
Street harassment: Wolf whistling to be banned in crackdown
Enslaving and raping twelve year old girls will remain perfectly legal however.
Sexual harassment on the street will be made a crime – what are the odds this will fast become a racist policy?
criminal staring?
This combined with the 15 minute walking districts, SMDH.
Fuck off Britain. Good lord…
1984 was not a how-to manual, you malignant twats!
Limey tyranny will be the best tyranny.
Yes I’m sure women don’t feel safe at night because of the cat calling and *not* the “gangs of Asian rapists”
Haven’t you seen M? Whistling directly proceeds the crime.
“:two-thirds of women did not feel safe walking alone at night, at least some of the time”
67% of 50% of 20% of the people?
Yet More Elites Vs Experts
https://www.overcomingbias.com/2022/12/yet-more-elites-vs-experts.html
In a stereotypic rich household of long ago, servants and the served had different roles, and different styles of talk. Servant areas of responsibility were practical, concrete and narrow, and servants were subject to being overruled by the served. The served were responsible for overall policy, especially those that reflected value choices.
…
Talk between servants, qua servant, tended to be concrete, expert, professional, and instrumental.
Talk between the served was usually less precise, and more eloquent, emotional, and aspirational. It allowed less for frank direct pointed criticisms and rebuttals. But their talk better managed the greater complexities of their social world. For example, their talk better allowed speakers to show off their prestigious qualities, it better protected them from pointed criticism, and it better navigated treacherous waters of motivations, alliances, and conflict.
a similar relation also exists today more generally between our entire classes of experts and elites. Experts are the people who know and do the most on particular valuable topics, while elites are the people of highest status (status includes dominance and prestige), status based on weightings of wealth, smarts, artfulness, beauty, achievement, celebrity, and much more, all combined and ranked via a gossip-induced consensus of elites on who has how much status.
How am I only discovering this today?
https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMcDojoLife/comments/z07e0p/pure_imagination/
Higher intelligence ain’t universal
https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMcDojoLife/comments/zf2xy1/police_instructor_walking_in_between_live_fire/
He probably trained under this guy
I love the videos where these guys actually believe their own bullshit and decide to take on somebody who really comes at them and won’t take a fall. It’s hilarious watching them try their “magic” and getting their asses kicked.
I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t seen one of these sessions.
https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMcDojoLife/comments/yxyba7/they_have_fallen_and_they_cant_get_up/
Now we’re getting somewhere.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/zccauf/do_not_choke/
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First Gen Z member of Congress struggles to find housing in D.C.
I have no sympathy.
I laughed.
And yet, in a few short years, he’ll have an 8 figure net worth.
Ha ha.
Get bent, gun grabber.
The national average credit score is 714? I find that hard to believe.
Mine is down to 825. I’ll have to do better to bring the average up.
I guess people are good at making minimum payments.
*eye twitch*
Must… pay down… debt…
If not for the damn brakes and the unexpected school tax payment, I’d still be on track to be debt free in January.
Now I have to recalculate.
It’s called having roommates, you dumb $120k/year fuck.
Man is he going to be cheap to be bought.
My first thought as well.
They’re probably arguing over who gets first crack at him over on K Street.
Sold! To the lowest bidder.
All you have to do is offer to cosign.
I don’t mind a parasite, but I object to a cut-rate one…
Parasitism explains why so many leftists hate ivermectin.
*golf claps*
That’s my rep!
(note: I didn’t vote for the dipshit.)
Bucolic splendor
A woman in Sonoma County, California, shared video showing a mountain lion standing over her dog in her backyard after she says the predator burst into her home and dragged her pup outside by its neck last month.
Rebecca Kracker, of Bennett Valley, told FOX2 KTVU on Tuesday that she went to check on her border collie, Sherman, after she heard him yelping and growling.
To her shock, Kracker said she found a mountain lion inside her home with Sherman’s neck in its jaws.
Video she shared shows the mountain lion standing over Sherman in the backyard after the big cat dragged the dog outside.
Everything is a kitty toy.
Meanwhile, in Nederland, CO….
https://kdvr.com/news/local/nederland-mountain-lion-attacks/
Recommendations noticeably do not include “shoot the damned lion.”
Why not? That’s response #1 with a bullet.
Frost said Thursday that his application for an apartment was denied by the landlord due to a really bad credit score.
A record of uncontrolled spending? He’ll fit right in.
He’ll find a sponsor soon enough.
You know what would tickle me? If the King of England asked for a DNA test for his 2nd-born as revenge for that gawd awful “docu” series on Netflix.
That would be delicious. Especially since the results are quite obvious.
Naw, he has Philip’s eyes.
He really should give them back.
I don’t see any of the Windors in him, at all. His older bro is almost like a 50-50 mix of the two parents.
I walked into the loving room after work last night
…And my wife was watching that.
Living room. Dammit.
Come on, like you’ve never…
True. But if I named it that permanently nobody else would ever go in there.
OMG why did she contribute to their viewer #s??? I’ve just been watching clips on YT. That’s been more than adequate.
I’ve been simply not watching it. I don’t want to give an attention hound attention.
I’ve been watching Youtubers tear it apart
Normal people just call it their sex dungeon, RJ
Netflix and chill?
I spent the last few days visiting an old client in the VOQ at beautiful Ft. Bragg, NC.
General Lee speaking I do not see anything here to Bragg about.
If you throw a Hood over your head it isn’t so bad.
Good one, I’ll Grant you that.
I was wondering if anyone was going to make a mountain out of a.p. Hill.
This isn’t Leavenworth commenting about.
Swiss must be busy. He Eustis issue a narrow gaze right away.
His ignorance is truly Bliss.
Isn’t it a bit Early for puns?
Jenna Ortega was forced to stop being a vegan after taking role of Wednesday
https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/jenna-ortega-vegan-stopped-wednesday-role-068555-20221207
“I was vegan for a really long time,” she explained. “But I stopped being vegan when I went to Romania to shoot Wednesday actually because the food is very different there.
“And I don’t think that I was meeting my nutrient requirements so I started eating fish again.
“So I’m currently pescatarian.”
A Romanian viewer explained that they were not surprised that the actress struggled to be vegan in the country because of the high meat content in their food.
Fucking Romanians man
So what you’re saying is I need to find a Romanian restaurant?
Well, shit, there’s nothing closer than NYC. Guess I won’t.
LOL. I looked it up too.
Menus weren’t looking all that interesting either (for any that I found).
Bloody steaks with a side of blood?
Cornmeal!
Bitch, you’re 20 years old, you haven’t been anything for a really long time.
Define a really long time.
10 – 15 billion years ago, the universe is born
Being vegan for more than month sounds trying.
You want me to give up CHEESE?!
I gave up after 2 weeks
There was a Romanian restaurant in Austin when I lived there. Lots of cabbage and pulses.
“pulses”
Blood needs to circulate to stay fresh.
I don’t think that I was meeting my nutrient requirements
Clearly only a problem with Romanian veganism.
Purported expozay
Weiss’s Twitter thread is the second installment in what Twitter CEO Elon Musk has dubbed the “Twitter Files.” The first installment, released by independent journalist Matt Taibbi, appeared to show an internal debate at the social media company over how to handle a New York Post story about Hunter Biden.
While the first installment of the “Twitter Files” sparked outrage across right-wing outlets, it seemed to fall flat otherwise, with some criticizing the release for failing to deliver groundbreaking revelations.
Weiss’s Twitter thread is the second installment in what Twitter CEO Elon Musk has dubbed the “Twitter Files.” The first installment, released by independent journalist Matt Taibbi, appeared to show an internal debate at the social media company over how to handle a New York Post story about Hunter Biden.
Advocacy groups make last-ditch plea to Schumer for vote on antitrust bills
Animal shelters face a potentially fatal pet adoption crisis
While the first installment of the “Twitter Files” sparked outrage across right-wing outlets, it seemed to fall flat otherwise, with some criticizing the release for failing to deliver groundbreaking revelations.
The release of the “Twitter Files” comes just over a month after Musk acquired the social media company. The billionaire, who promised to reshape Twitter into a “free speech” platform, shared the trove of internal documents with Weiss and Taibbi in an apparent effort to show that content moderation under the previous management was biased against the political right.
Good people striving to defend DEMOCRACY!
IT’S OKAY WHEN WE DO IT!!!
The big story is that they were being implicitly pressured by government officials and, as such, were acting as a defacto government agency to censor American citizens.
As always, the *real* story is that Republicans pounced!
Frost was adopted, did not finish college, does not come from wealth and has never held office, according to his website. Instead, he spent his time volunteering in the community and speaking out about abortion rights and gun control, while driving for Uber to make ends meet.
Frost is an ACLU activist and was the national organizing director for March for Our Lives, a student-led demonstration in Washington to support gun reform legislation in the wake of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting in 2018.
Herschel Walker was an unqualified candidate.
Congressional races are always easier. Look at AOC and MTG.
And Bono and Gopher.
Biden administration weighs Ukrainian requests for access to US stockpile of controversial cluster munitions
We’ve given them everything else without replenishing our own stocks. Why stop now?
Their use is banned by international treaty but it’s OK when we consider disseminating them apparently because Russia. Seems like a desperation move really.
As soon as these get used on Russian troops, Russia drops cluster bombs and fuel-air-explosives all over Ukraine. The people in charge know this and don’t care.
Viktor Bout has to be giddy. We abandoned $7 Billion worth of military hardware in Afghanistan and have sent $100 Billion to the Ukraine with no accounting.
Apologies if drugs/ass, etc., but it appears that everybody’s favorite crypto bro had a hand in funding a lot of the coof lockdown nonsense that has hamstrung the country for the last couple of years.
Read it if you’re suffering from low blood pressure today.
Link just redirects to home page.
Dammit.
https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=14352&omhide=true&trk=title
A series of revealing texts and tweets by Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former CEO of FTX, the once high-flying but now belly-up crypto exchange, had the following to say about his image as a do-gooder:
It is a “dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shibboleths and so everyone likes us.”
Very interesting. He had the whole game going: a vegan worried about climate change who supports every manner of justice (racial, social, environmental), except that which is coming for him, and shells out millions to worthy charities associated with the left. He also bought plenty of access and protection in D.C., enough to make his shady company the toast of the town.
As part of the mix, there is this thing called pandemic planning. We should know what that is by now: It means you can’t be in charge of your life because there are bad viruses out there. As bizarre as it seems, and for reasons that are still not entirely clear, favoring lockdowns, masks, and vaccine passports became part of the woke ideological stew.
How about that Mayfield guy? I almost turned that game off in the third quarter.
I did, I was quite entertained that Baker is now on his third team this year, and was playing with no practice time. I’m mildly irritated I turned it off early.
I enjoyed that very much indeed. Baker did an amazing job on 48-hour notice.
The Raiders inability to score after the first quarter certainly helped out the Rams
“‘The inmates were running the asylum’: Elon Musk calls out former safety czar Yoel Roth and confirms right-wing accounts were suspended when ‘NO rules were broken’ after bombshell Twitter Files exposed ‘Soviet-level’ censorship”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11519867/Inmates-running-asylum-Musk-confirms-right-wing-accounts-suspended-without-cause.html
Shadow banning is lame.
“Two Kansas high schools have opened investigations after students were caught on camera holding what appears to be a black baby doll and allegedly yelled the N-word during a basketball game”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11518765/Kansas-high-school-students-yell-N-word-waving-black-doll-basketball-game.html
Odds it turns out to be nothing?
If there’s no video, it didn’t happen.
So, there’s a black cheerleader there and another black student in the stands in front of the girl with the doll.
And then the shot of the “crowd” is hilarious.
LOL!
Is Ngozi Fulani a cultural appropriator?
So “Where are you really from?” struck too close to the scam?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11519835/Brie-Larson-Emma-Roberts-Paris-Hilton-lead-stars-Celine-fashion-LA.html
Kim Gordon looks like a man.
She always was a handsome woman, but yeah, she’s kind of converging with Iggy Pop.
BLONDE bombshells?
their roots are blacker than Kunta Kinte’s
The greasy hair, manly make-up job, and those clothes – none of it makes her look feminine. Are men supposed to find it attractive?
Our betters look ridiculous.
“virtual picket line”
Lmao, is this the new “sending good vibes” and “thoughts and prayers”?
So when the World Cup was on a couple of weeks ago, some interested co-workers started a pool like we do for Final Four, etc.. One of the originators is one of our (thankfully rare) young wokesters, and he included some sensitive-y sounding language recognizing some people boycott blah-blah-blah.
Anyway, a coupla times when I was in proximity to conversations about it, I managed to steer the conversation around to me saying “…well, no, I’m boycotting it for obvious reasons…”, and then if they wanted to expand on that, I’d point out straightfacedly that my reason was just that it’s soccer, and I’m a man.
Viktor Bout: Anyone with such a sweet mustache can’t be all bad ‘cept maybe Bolton.
Professional pet peeve: people who act confused & incompetent until someone else gets fed up and does their job for them, but they somehow remain employed.
We have those people too. Eventually they end up in directorships. I have no idea how or why.
Holy fuck, this.
I had to deal with a person yesterday who didn’t know what I meant by ‘scroll down’…
“So what is this job you can do without any modicum of computer literacy?”
Zoomers inculcated on smart phones are as computer illiterate as boomers.
That’s sad.
And most boomers I know do just fine with computers.
We really are going to end up with a caste of tech-priests whose arcane rituals are a mystery to the populace at large.
Going to? Twitter is a church being ransacked by the barbarians.
No, those losers don’t know any of the rituals by which the machines are appeased.
I certainly hope so.
The world needs ditch diggers too.
Last time I looked at the controls on an excavator, I couldn’t figure them out.
It would have helped if the labels were legible.
Ugh right there with you.
That’s why we have NCOs in the Army. Someone needs to know something
The average consumer expenditure for a car fell to $30,659 in October, down 0.9 percent from September (see fourth chart).
If I decide to get a Hellcat before Dodge kills off the ICE version (the only true version, fuck that electric version), I expect I won’t see a fall in the price of the Hellcat.
Not that model. I would influence you to look at the scatpack version, has the 6.2 without the blower. Most of them came with a stickshift. Those feel perfect. One of my favorite drives. And it will not carry the “Hellcat surcharge.”
This is good advice.
Rescuing the middle class
The White House is sending $36 billion to buttress the Central States Pension Fund, one of the biggest and most troubled funds that manages the pensions of over 350,000 union workers and retirees.
The pending announcement on Tuesday comes about 21 months after President Biden promised $86 billion to troubled multi-employer pension funds via a controversial provision tucked inside the American Rescue Plan.
The check from Washington is a note of finality in the decades-long push to shore up these troubled plans, which had fallen on hard times as the blue-collar industries they represent shrank. Critics also charged that mismanagement played an important role in their decline.
“One cannot underestimate the significance of this assistance for basic economic security and dignity for union workers in their retirement years,” Gene Sperling, the Biden aide who oversees the enactment of the American Rescue Plan, reportedly told Midwestern reporters Thursday on a conference call.
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The program is set to ensure solvency for the funds through 2051, but critics say there is no plan beyond that and the fund will likely need another bailout down the road. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) blasted the program when it was passed, calling it “just a blank check, with no measures to hold mismanaged plans accountable.”
Everyone will be dead by then.
Where the hell does the federal government, particularly the executive branch, get the authority to use tax money to fund union pensions?
I know, I know, FYTW.
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/invisible-enterprise-part-4-most-abused-misused-pension-fund
I need some Glibs to enact my labor. Some months back, someone posted a link to podcast (I think) in which the presenter was talking about China’s impending and inevitable demographic and economic collapse. Does anyone remember this?
I remember this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Me2G6FJZMI
Maybe?
Nope. Good article the other day though.
When’s the next one coming out?
Probably me, and you can YT search for Peter Zeihan and China.
Thank you Pie and JI, that’s exactly what I was looking for.
Lack: uh.. ::tugs collar nervously:: is it hot in here?
Regarding Jo Jo the dog-faced boy, isn’t there something in the UCMJ about proper respect for the uniform and how you shouldn’t engage in unseemly behavior while in uniform?
There are some bigger fish that should be enforced against.
There’s nothing against being a dog faced pony soldier in Biden’s Army.
Congrats, you win the internet today.
Fido kink isn’t unseemly you bigot. Lots of perfectly respectable folks like to fantasize about fucking dogs.
about being fuck
inged like dogsFTFY
Inside Honduras’s abortion pill black market
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-63905544
Honduras’s first woman president, Xiomara Castro, campaigned on a promise to overhaul the country’s super-restrictive policies on female reproductive rights within 100 days in office. A year later it’s been announced that the morning-after pill will be legalised – but in cases of rape only.
Laura meets us in the hour after sunset, as the last of the day’s light is quickly fading.
She’s 25 years old, two months pregnant, and not ready for a child.
“Two months ago, I went out and met someone. I was not careful, I got pregnant,” she says, wincing. “It has been hard for me because I live alone. I am my own support.”
But Laura has heard about a prescription drug for stomach cancer that people are taking to end pregnancies. When inserted vaginally, it causes heavy bleeding of the uterine wall, and ultimately an abortion.
She plans to buy these pills through a drug dealer called José, who she says is well-known to people her age in Tegucigalpa.
Jeez… Dont be a fool wrap your tool
Filed under ‘adulting is hard’
Cross referenced to “actions have consequences”.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Parents Are No Longer Teaching Law at Stanford
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/12/sam-bankman-frieds-parents-stop-teaching-law-at-stanford.html
Obligatory.
exactly what I though that would be.
“For Bankman, that means that the single tax-policy class he was teaching in the winter is canceled. Fried told the student paper that it was because of a “long-planned” retirement, which has “nothing to do with anything else going on.” “
Nothing says “long-planned retirement” like still being on the schedule so classes have to be abruptly cancelled.
Although, given that they acquired tens of millions of dollars from FTX, I bet they were planning their retirement.
Friday Funbags got yellow fever.
https://archive.ph/jl9v1
So it’s taking the day off?
I took it to mean “love you long time”.
We’ve got him now.
“Donald Trump is a legal terrorist. He has benefited for decades by delay, delay, delay. This is a tactic that he is used, but the walls are closing in, and as you just pointed out, there is really no right answer here for Donald Trump. His silence is deafening. It is essentially an admission that he still possesses these documents, which gives reason for the DOJ to proceed with this case.”
Swalwell added, “We are approaching a legal crescendo for Donald Trump that he has not seen in the years that he’s been in the courts.”
But seriously why does this treasonous, chinese spy banging cunte still have a position in the government?
“the walls are closing in”
They really said it.
“But seriously why does this treasonous, chinese spy banging cunte still have a position in the government?”
Think about it for a minute and you will have your answer. It’s not a flattering answer to either or government or our people.
Forget it RS, it’s Calitown.
I would have gone with Chinatown.
You saying that Xi envies Newsom?
“So Twitter did the bare minimum to prevent the spread of pandemic-related misinformation as the virus was killing thousands of Americans every single week.
And that’s a scandal?”
https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1601036646434377729
CWAA
‘misinformation’
Which is all now confirmed facts.
Papa’s (Mama’s?) got a brand new bag.
He’s gonna have to report that to the IRS too.
The IRS will audit the people he stole the luggage from for not filing 1099s.
It’s quite a black eye for the airport.
I wonder how many bags he has stolen? It ain’t just the two, that’s for sure.
Bad Orange Man is the climate change of political outsiders.
“Looking at these events in Peru and in Germany, one thing is very clear, and that is the threat to democracy at home and abroad is not over. These QAnon conspiracies in Germany and in the United States have so much in common with their Deep State, dark fantasies with the strands of antisemitism flowing through them. Other despots and would be despots in places like Peru, look at the president of the United States, the foremost democracy in the world, trying to stay in power, engaging in illegal if not corrupt acts, corrupt and illegal acts, and sadly, look at the former president as an example to be followed, not an example to be shunned.”
Strange how being anti-authoritarian and against pedophilia elicits such accusations.
I have to wonder how much the lefty outrage over MAGA “anti-semitism” isn’t people pissed off that righties are horning in on their racket.
Good morning you terrible people who just want to be left alone. Tis my b-day so some whisky in the coffee and bacon in the pan to start the day
Just whisky, coffee, and bacon?
You say that like it’s a bad thing
Have something substantial.
Seriously.
Like a blow job?
It’s a lot of work for not much protein.
It’s a good start for sure. HBD!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday, brother!
Enjoy it!
HBD 🙂
Happy birthday!!
Happy Birthday!
Do whatever you want OBE. We don’t get too many of those kinds of days, limited edition.
Happy Birthday, Buddy
Happy birthday, OBE!
“Nudged.”
People should have ‘the courage’ to tell off motorists who leave their engines running outside schools, Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer said yesterday.
Professor Whitty said air pollution was causing between 26,000 and 38,000 deaths a year in England alone, with more across the UK as a whole.
In his annual report on the nation’s health, Professor Whitty said he has targeted air pollution as it is as significant a health risk as the Covid-19 virus.
He said the public need to be ‘nudged’ into action to change their behaviour to stop toxic dust and gases.
Professor Whitty and colleagues suggested a raft of recommendations that could help clean up the air — including avoiding wood burning stoves, ‘accelerating’ the transition to electric cars, and getting farmers to inject their slurry into the soil to stop it spreading ammonia into the air.
Sure. Promote the use of more electricity without providing the ability to produce more electricity.
Name the people that are being killed and let their estates sue the idlers.
People will find my nudges to be unsubtle, almost like a fist to the nose.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Parents Are No Longer Teaching Law at Stanford
Just because they couldn’t teach their kid right from wrong doesn’t mean they’re not qualified to teach in a law school.
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Given the context of the question, I’m guessing “a few” = three figures.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/20669610/worried-boyfriend-will-use-past-against-me/
Also: dump his insecure ass.
Just tell him he’s the biggest dick she’s ever had.
“Big Mouth Media is excited to announce the upcoming launch of the Miss Informational podcast with Rebekah Jones. This podcast will look at misinformation and how it harms the American people. The first episode drops next Thursday. Stay tuned to Big Mouth Media for more details!”
https://twitter.com/BigMouthMediaFL/status/1600877726021619712
In other news, I’m starting a sobriety workshop.
a sobriety workshop
With a kegger I presume.
From Pie’s link:
Sam Bankman-Fried messed up a lot of lives when his crypto exchange FTX collapsed. He lost billions of dollars belonging to customers who deposited their savings with FTX, caused the bankruptcy of at least two other crypto firms, and left hundreds of his own employees jobless. Now, the damage appears to have spread to his parents, both of whom have been scrubbed from Stanford University Law School offerings next semester, where they were longtime and influential professors.
Call me a victim-blamer all you like, but let’s be serious. How many of the people who got screwed by Bankman were putting up their nest egg? How many of those people were anything but straight up speculators?
If you take your life’s saving to Vegas and bet it all on 17 because that’s how old you were the first time you got laid, you’re not “investing” it.
you underestimate the capacity of people to put their life saving in get rich ponzi schemes
Just like some are susceptible to the plea “C’mon, man. If you were my friend you’d help me rob the convenience store. The cops will never catch us.”
This right here.
I’m stunned at times about the ignorance of basic investment steps from average people. One place I worked had a very healthy 401(k) match (100% match up to 5%, vested in 5 years). During a year when the market was down 10%, I heard multiple people complaining, and talking about stopping contributing to the 401(k) “because it just keeps losing money”.
Hmmmm…
One of my gun clubs sent out an email saying Saratoga Shooting Sports is willing to be a FFL for ammunition transfers, which is something none of my LGSs will do. I immediately thought “way to go Saratoga Shooting Sports! You’ve made a customer for life! …why have I never heard of Saratoga Shooting Sports?”
They have no online presence. On the one hand, that sort of thing screams “scam.” OTOH, faking a FFL in order to get people to send you free ammo doesn’t seem like a scam worth pursuing.
Not even a geocities page?
You can use https://FFLEZcheck.atf.gov to validate an FFL number.
Well, I’d assume luckygunner, targetsportsusa etc would do that. I’m guessing this is a guy who got his FFL for personal reasons and set up a dummy organization (like I was thinking about doing to get a “Keeper of Ammunition” license.) I’d also guess it’s not much of a risk on my part since there’ll be a well-maintained paper trail if he deicdes not to hand over my ammo.
That and don’t order $1k worth of ammo to start…
My prime account with targetsports hasn’t expired, so free shipping on single boxes!
Do you have an address? Try finding it with an online map.
Use it or lose it
Twitter is preparing to delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts to free up dormant handles, or user names, on the platform, owner Elon Musk said Thursday.
Musk said the deletions would free up the “name space” of dormant accounts, adding that the accounts to be deleted were “obvious” because they had “no tweets” and “no log in for years.”
Some Twitter users have complained that inactive accounts have unusual and desirable handles that were snared in Twitter’s early days.
In the second quarter of 2022, Twitter counted 237.8 million of its users as “monetizable daily active users,” a measure that suggests they’re active on the platform and are being shown advertisements.
Musk has previously promised to remove inactive accounts from Twitter. In November, he said accounts that had been inactive for 15 years would be purged.
It’s unclear at this point how long an account can be inactive before it’s tagged for deletion. In October, Musk hinted that accounts that had been dormant for more than a year might also be at risk.
That might free up a little disk space.
Mine was suspended years ago. I recently tried to log in, but I couldn’t remember my user name.
Too bad, because I really wanted to go back and see what I did to get the hook.
Shit. I’ve got about 10 for my characters, although I should probably make an effort to keep two of them more, since they, you know, in the story, they DID tweet. I see this as almost the same as me owning all the domain names I mention in my books.
QAnon is a government psy-op, you twat.
Hey Elon, under your leadership neo-Nazis, homophobes, and racists are flocking to Twitter. And spewing hate speech.
Your denial would be more credible if it was backed up by any real evidence.
And if it wasn’t followed by a bunch of antisemitic QAnon tweets attacking me.
I love the days of government officials calling for censorship of their own constituents on a public platform. That bug eyed douchebag really is a sack of shit.
You deserve to be attacked on twitter, you bug-eyed, mendacious pustule.
you underestimate the capacity of people to put their life saving in get rich ponzi schemes
Guilty as charged, M’lud.
Ooh. Aah.
WANT
Shiny… and tiny.
Scariest car I’ve ever driven.
Would.
Think it cracks $100K?
I haven’t decided whether my Zippicar is a girl or a boy, although I refer to it as a boy. I’ve decided to call him Zippi Two Spirit.
https://twitter.com/AuronMacintyre/status/1601228358032818176
Fuck elections, I guess?
Yeah because everyone’s opinion is controlled by one bit of media or another. [eyes roll out of head and down the hall]
There seems to be a lot of far-right, white-supreme insurrection going on in Brazil.
Criminal charges have been filed with the Military Supreme Court calling for the arrest of leftist Chief Justice Alexandre de Moraes. Massive protests are scheduled for the weekend in Brazil, as the demonstrators call for the Army to intervene.
The Brazilian military continues to mobilize, according to posts on GETTR.
A police SWAT unit chanted at Lula supporters “Watch out, you bastards, Bolsonaro is President of Brazil!”, wearing Christian crosses Crusader-style, amping themselves up for action.
Protestors outside the Army Headquarters in Brasilía chanted that “The Brazilian people authorize President Bolsonaro to intervene.”
Mass protests are scheduled for the weekend. The Brazilian military is asking for volunteers to join up. …
Retired General and Deputy Girão Monteiro posted on Twitter: “A message to everyone excited and flirting with communism: We have reacted before. If necessary, we will give our lives to defend the freedom of our people. It is not undemocratic to invoke Art. 142″ of the Brazilian Constitution, which empowers the military to act in conflicts between branches of government. “Those who are breaking the law should be afraid.”
South America, talk of a coup, wait a minute, it’s not Tuesday.