Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another amazing day and the links!
Bolsonaro supporters invade Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court and executive buildings
El Paso Bulldozes Illegal Alien Homeless Encampments Prior to Biden Visit
IRS Targeted More ‘Easy-Mark’ Low-Income Families Than Millionaires, University Report
World Bank to Warn of Global Recession Risk in Economic Outlook
Food prices were at record highs in 2022, U.N. says
Tech Firms Lead Job Cuts in Corporate America
McDonald’s CEO Warns Layoffs for Corporate Staff Are Coming
Hysteria Begins as the Reality of a GOP Majority Sinks In
First newborn baby placed in Florida Safe Haven Baby Box
2022 Was Another Gloomy Year For Many Cable Networks
Movie Attendance Collapses 48% over Four Very Woke Years
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Bolsonaro supporters invade Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court and executive buildings”
This looks a lot more like some kind of insurrection to me than that field day on J6 2021.
Twitter is already filled with stories. One blue checkmark was saying this was planned in Florida. Somehow this means Trump is behind it.
Isn’t Bolsonaro in Orlando?
That was the connection
And Trump is in West Palm Beach… only a couple of hours away. So… obviously.
And he called for peace, which clearly means he incited an insurrection.
What sort of Mickey Mouse operaton are they running down there?
There are 2 ways to look at this phenomenon:
1. These masses of people are domestic terrorists who will not accept elections and the governance of their country by their betters
or
2. Something is seriously wrong with how we pick leaders.
I’m guessing the corporate media is all-in on 1.
Or electronic voting machines are cancer?
Subset of #2
Brazil’s capital could use some destruction. Those building are ugly.
Brazils capital, Brasillia, was a manufactured city in the sixties, I think. Totally useless place with no connection to the country.
Kinda like DC.
“El Paso Bulldozes Illegal Alien Homeless Encampments Prior to Biden Visit”
How often have you read any of the plethora of dystopian novels with shit like this, and said to yourself, this just seems too far fetched a notion to be plausible, only to see it happening for real in the last few years, huh?
Old me wishes I could go tell young me that dismissing those things as implausible was not just wrong, but potentially disastrous for human civilization in general.
My first question after reading the headline was “Did they bother to evacuate first?”
I need a crying AOC meme with her driving a bulldozer over a bunch of tents.
They did. The hobos are now all in the luxury suites at the most expensive & posh establishments in that area…
At tax payers expense.
“El Paso Bulldozes Illegal Alien Homeless Encampments Prior to Biden Visit”
It’s always about optics. Same reason people are mad at Libs of Tik Tok.
“Food prices were at record highs in 2022, U.N. says”
2023 says “Hold my beer and watch how the corruptocracies and the green antihumanism movements will make tat shit look tame”….
“Movie Attendance Collapses 48% over Four Very Woke Years”
The one serious positive I see that came from the shenanigans related to the scam-pandemic is that so many people decided or have come to a point where they do not give their money to these scumbags anymore….
It doesn’t matter. Now the government will fund movies with ill-gotten gains.
Governments already subsidize film production. Now they need to subsidize consumption.
France already does. See below.
To be a little fair, 2018 included some big titles, like Infinity War, a Star Wars Movie, and the Spiderverse movie, plus Black Panther.
A trendline over time with median attendance rather than box office dollars would be more useful to measure film performance.
Why not pick 2019 to compare to 2022? Probably because it included the final Avengers movie, the final Star Wars movie, and the final Bond movie.
I haven’t been in a theater since 2008.
What’s taking the rest of you so long to catch up?
You missed out seeing Dune then.
Naw, Frank Herbert turned me off the franchise.
No, David Lynch’s “masterpiece” was in 1984.
No. Lynch’s film strayed too far from the books and was too condensed. Of the two films, Villeneuve’s is clearly the better – unless he screws up part 2.
I agree, hence the quote marks.
Although Lynch’s film does have some things I liked. I’ve watched it a few times and realized it was better than when I first saw it in the theater. If you never read the book I’m not sure how you were supposed to understand the film.
I think Villeneuve’s version would work better if you never read the book.
Yes – I’ve read the books and the wife hasn’t and she didn’t pester me with questions during the movie (Villeneuve’s).
El Paso Bulldozes Illegal Alien Homeless Encampments Prior to Biden Visit – I mean Texans are evil it is known
“IRS Targeted More ‘Easy-Mark’ Low-Income Families Than Millionaires, University Report”
Low hanging fruit. It’s the same as the War on Drugs. Why go after people who can hire accountants and lawyers to defend themselves?
Well, the way it is phrased it could not be otherwise. More low income than millionaires? A couple of orders of magnitude more low income earners than million dollar earners.
^^ This
2022 Was Another Gloomy Year For Many Cable Networks – we need to ban popular youtubers. The networks must be saved. Our democracy is at stake.
“Movie Attendance Collapses 48% over Four Very Woke Years”
I think closing theaters due to covid is more of an issue than wokism.
All theatres are open again… Most people are still not going to the movies. In my case it is simply because the product delivered seems to be idiotic woke shit that I now no longer feel compelled to go watch anyway to kill a few hours on a weekend. I was not that big of a movie goer, but I saw a movie at least once or twice a month, but now, simply see no reason to go spend all that money for a subpar experience and a screed intended to insult my intelligence.
You don’t want to pay to see yet another Marvel spin-of where the woke hero beats up bitter-clingers?
You and I might not want to, but that’s not stopping them from pushing out one after another. Somebody’s watching that crap.
In my case, part of it is that I don’t trust this insane state not to still have some masking / proof-of-vax / whatnot crap in theaters even at this point (and certainly don’t trust big theater chains not to have them anyway). I don’t know what crap they’re requiring… and it simply isn’t worth it to deal with it. I thought about seeing the first 2 episodes of season 3 of The Chosen last month or so… and then decided I just didn’t want to deal with whatever crap they might be doing. And I’m probably not alone in the stupid states.
I generally went to art theaters, and they ALL have/had mask requirements, or are doing some sort of streaming service. Which is a lame as it sounds.
That might have stopped, but I haven’t bothered to check.
Just checked the local one, and they are now listing masks as optional.
I might go to the movies again. But it speaks volumes that I hadn’t even bothered to check yet.
In the 90s my father and I went almost every week. We didn’t check what was playing. We found out when we got to the cinema. It was inexpensive entertainment. Now prices are up and quality down. It’s been years since I went.
In my case I was playing the role of the father, and my kid was the one dragging me out to all the movies. And it has been over 5 years since I would let one of those movie theatres rake me over the coals and rob me of so much money for a product that has not steadily declined in quality, but had become downright insulting to my intelligence in too many cases because of the woke shit in these dumb movies.
“All theatres are open again”
Yes, but they were closed. So you have the time when people couldn’t go, followed by the time people got used to not going.
Also streaming has some role… I do not go much to the cinema anymore, one because most movies are not worth it, but also because I no longer have the large group of frienmds to go with like in university or immediately after
I think this is huge. Covid taught people to stay home. They spent government checks on Big TVs. Now nobody wants to pay for crappy sequels with “reimagined” characters.
They will pay for the good stuff though. People went to see Top Gun in huge numbers. Avatar is doing well domestically. (Not nearly as well as overseas)
Closing the theaters led to a re-evaluation and a lot of people going “Why was I paying so much for this shit?”
They worked together as lethal comorbidities.
Very true. Also that article ignores the fact that movies had been flagging down for years due to shitty content and poor experience. The last four years of difficulties just added another nail in the coffin.
I think comparing pre- to post-pandemic moviegoing habits is simplistic (Breitbart? Shocker!)
People simply got used to not going and realized they could get a similar or better experience at home. I know this has existed for quite awhile but I think being forced made a lot of people change their habits in ways that they just became more comfortable with. I do agree the cost is not commensurate with the experience most of the time. I am very discriminating about what I choose to see in the theater.
I also only go to to one movie chain. Marcus. The CEO, Greg Marcus, is a corny MF who makes pre-trailer videos that always thank the audience for coming to the theater. He also seems to really love movies and the experience of going to them.
I miss Alamo Draft House.
I did a massive remake of my media room early in the pandemic thanks to some good luck in Lake Charles/Las Vegas just prior to the plandemic. I need to get my return on investment from that.
Also, unless you like pregnant Jokers, movies have really gone to shit. The last 2 movies I saw prior to the plandemic were The Gentlemen and Ford v Ferrari. I saw those probably a week apart. Since then, I’ve seen Maverick and Elvis in theaters. Nothing else even looked worth making the effort.
Perhaps people just realized that for the cost of a single movie ticket they could fund a whole month of entertainment?
“Hysteria Begins as the Reality of a GOP Majority Sinks In”
I would think that the bigger stink comes from the fact that for all its worth, the establishment/uniparty now has to operate by rules that could make it harder to just steamroll the people like D.C. does by rote.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization said in a press release that “many commodities are still at record highs” even as overall prices declined modestly through the end of the year.
“World prices of wheat and maize reached record highs last year,” the FAO said, “and the average value of vegetable oils hit a new record.”
“Individual indexes for dairy and meat prices also marked their highest full-year levels since 1990,” the agency added.
Obviously the solution is higher taxes and more regulations on industrial agriculture and food subsidies for the consumer.
The powerful should be in charge of picking winners & losers so the world is more just!
/evil fucking leftards
Need more electric tractors in the farm fields.
First, get rid of subsidies. Let the market figure things out.
And lose control over the ability to punish those you disapprove of while giving victories to those you do no matter how inept and undeserving they are?
PSHAH!
World Bank to Warn of Global Recession Risk in Economic Outlook – I think we need to print more money for stimulus. Also print some natural gas for Europe… oh wait that aint that ewasy
That Modern Monetary Policy shit is and should be D.O.A. after the destruction & havoc these scumbags caused using it the last 2 or 3 years…
“The boxes have a side that opens to the outside of the building, allowing parents to place their infant in a temperature-controlled container that alerts firefighters to the baby’s presence 60 seconds after they’re placed inside. ”
Seems unnecessarily technology. Someone could just leave the baby in a basket or whatever, ring the doorbell, and run off.
I suppose the alligators make it hard to go really old school and float the baby down the river in the hopes that it will lead the revolution later in life and all….
I donno, the Nile Crocodile was around in those days.
Moses didn’t have to worry about Florida Man in a boat.
Well yeah, Mooses don’t live as far south as FL.
I hope there are some lady firefighters standing by. The guys would all look at each other and try to get someone else to touch the newborn. It would be like Mikey’s brothers waiting for someone else.
The box makes it so there is a direct anonymous handoff to a person on the other side of the wall and eliminates any chance of anything happening the baby due to lack of supervision. It incentivizes the parent because they don’t risk prosecution for abandonment. It was a concept started in Asia where there was a lot of abandonment of babies (resulting in deaths from exposure) with disabilities. It’s actually a good idea.
What it really needs to be paired with is easier adoption. It really galls me how much expense and hassle there is to adopting in-country, leading many families to adopt from other countries when there’s so many children locally in need of a home.
Is there an age limit?
The kid just has to be able to fit in the box. Did you raise a surly contortionist?
Actually, I was thinking of giving myself up. Having someone else buy me a pony would be a nice change.
Yup, it’s criminal how much adoption costs.
Pass a background check, inspection and interview, should be under 1k, maybe $500?
After we lost our baby, my ex and I went through the process. I spent almost a grand just hiring a consultant to help us through it.
If you want a 5 year old kid from an abusive home, the foster r system will support you. But if you want a healthy baby… you gotta make an “adoption portfolio ” to advertise what great parents you will be.
With lawyers and everything else, 20 grand was what we were told to expect 25 years ago.
We have a friend who went the Africa route. She adopted a baby and by the time the legal and diplomatic work was done, she got an expensive 2.5 year old. Probably spent over 30 grand. Had to take a couple of trips to Africa, so 50 grand is entirely possible.
Those “productivity enhancing” tech companies sure seem to have a lot of dead weight.
a lot of dead weight. – what you are saying sounds misogynist to me
fatphobic
‘This hysteria isn’t actually about it taking three days to pick a Speaker. It’s not even about the rules changes that took place in the House. Rather, it’s about the realization that unfettered leftwing power at the federal level is coming to an end.’
Sure, Red State columnist, sure. It’s so relieving to know that those newly elected Republicans will finally bring some fiscal and social sanity back to the halls of Congress and break up the power of the alphabet agencies and the MIC by withholding funds and conducting investigations into their actions. The long national top-down Uni-party nightmare is finally over. Thank the God of your choosing.
Yeah… now it is “mostly unfettered”.
Unfettermaned?
“You mean I have to go through the motions of pretending to do my job before voting to pass a bill I neither read nor would understand even if I did?! The horror!”
Open mike at the comedy club? Sure sounds like it. My Trumpinista friends were quick to jump on the bandwagon.
“We got ’em now”
It was a razor thin majority of Republicans in the House that was going to save us all along. Who woulda thunk it? Nevermind the fact that the major majority of them are the same lazy, corrupt, useless squishes that were roaming the Halls of Congress for years and years prior to this election cycle. This time it will be different.
Why do you think Republicans want to enact your (our) agenda? Are you a Republican?
Are those serious questions? I don’t and I’m not, neither are/do they. The disconnect from the verbiage and their actions are the Republicans’ favorite running joke on the people who keep voting for them.
Reagan promised smaller govt – did he deliver on it? I mean you’re right – it is a joke – that anyone stills believes a single word about that, ever. I don’t think Republican voters really do – because they’d have to get a bit pissed about never getting it.
Totally agree about the desire for small government. Being an average Republican voter today seems to have boiled down to little more than reactionary Owning the Libs as the bases of political and philosophical thought. Not a helluva lot different than those on the left who automatically want the exact opposite of whatever Trump happened to be pushing at the time.
“I want my team to win at all costs and I’ve never heard of a Greek guy named Pyrrhic.”
Hell, I don’t think most Dem voters really believe what the Dem politicians have to say. It’s just fucking TEAM labels and how you feel so good belonging to one team or the other.
If we could really have the chance to make life interesting we’d have the parties relabeled Hutu and Tutsi.
there was no greek guy named Pyrrhic
*rolls eyes*
Pyrrhus
Happy?
No, these victories are costly.
Not enjoying your extended stay in Sicily?
I think we need to print more money for stimulus.
We can print and spend our way to prosperity. Worrying about government debt is just outmoded superstitious nonsense.
Reality must be made to bend to the wishes of the people that want to force it to behave in the way they want it to….
Ex-French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot Takes Aim At “Cinema World… Stuffed With Public Money” In Pandemic Memoir
https://deadline.com/2023/01/ex-french-culture-minister-roselyne-bachelot-takes-aim-at-cinema-world-1235212010/
Veteran French politician Roselyne Bachelot has taken an extraordinary potshot at the French film industry and the state funding system that keeps it afloat in a candid memoir recounting her difficult term as France’s culture minister during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Entitled 682 Jours – Le Bal Des Hypocrites (682 Days – The Hypocrites’ Ball) the book is stirring controversy in France following its publication there on Thursday for Bachelot’s outspoken criticism of the behaviour of everyone from technocrats to small-town councillors to “stars on big salaries” during the health crisis.
In a section on the film industry, Bachelot questioned the efficacy of France’s state funding mechanisms for cinema, suggesting the driving principle of French cultural exception resulted in films that were of no interest to the general public.
“The famous ‘Cultural Exception’ in fact allows very many French films ‘not to find their public’, to put it politely, or more explicitly, to be flops,” she wrote. “This system also guarantees lead actors to secure extraordinary fees, three or four times superior to actors in American independent cinema.”
Does she have a newsletter?
Glib gearheads – Recently (just discovered this morning) the seal along the top edge of my windshield has sprung a leak and water started dripping down the inside of my windshield (not a lot, one drop at a time). I figure I could run a bead of something in the gap between windshield and frame to seal it, but wanted to ask for product recommendations so that it wouldn’t cause trouble if I ever needed to replace the whole windshield.
you should buy a new Teasla
Why? My current statuette of Nicola is doing just fine.
duct tape
Does your insurance have a all glass coverage? Shatter it, and they’ll seal the new one.
That’s just wasteful.
Monsieur Bastiat would have a word with you.
The easiest thing to do outside of having the windshield replaced is to run a bead of silicone RTV along the seam.
So, something like This stuff?
Yup
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 5) — The Makabayan bloc of the House of Representatives has filed a resolution to investigate the potential price manipulation and overpricing of onions, which recently sold for up to ₱800 per kilogram.
“There are reasons to believe that there is an ongoing control and manipulation of onion prices from farmgate to market retail by big traders who store onions in cold storage warehouses,” read House Resolution No. 673, which was released to the media on Thursday.
It was filed a day prior by Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Arlene Brosas, ACT Teachers Partylist Rep. France Castro, and Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raoul Manuel.
The lawmakers pointed out that the prices of local onions have surpassed the highest daily minimum wage in the country which is ₱570.
https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2023/1/5/makabayan-bloc-house-probe-onion-prices.html
Someone is trying to corner the onion market
Wait until the Mexican cartels learn about onion smuggling.
Maybe the problem is whatever laws results in onion smuggling?
Makes me want to cry.
Im sure there’s many layers to that story.
And roughly $7/lb ?
Thanks for saving me from translating it from gibberish units.
It could become a dicey situation.
“During the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant believed that onions would prevent dysentery and other physical ailments. He reportedly sent the following message via telegraph to the War Department: “I will not move my army without onions!” Within a day, the U.S. Government sent three trainloads of onions to the front.”
Faaake.
The only way the government would have sent three trainloads of onions to the front within a day is if they had already scheduled the shipment a year previously.
You aren’t accounting for the govt’s hyper secret strategic onion reserve.
It must be true. I saw a Civil War uniform collection at the Smithsonian, and they had onions strapped to their belts.
I think I won some converts to shotgun at winter steel yesterday. All of my last six strings were under 3 seconds.
I set up the last stage to be fast — all of the targets were within a 30 degree cone, and I got a 1.79 sec run on that one. There was much grinning.
Did you have any feed issues, or have you figured out what ammo works best?
I was using the CZ1012 — it runs without a hitch. Just loads slow. One of the cowboys brought his lever gun — he was good.
Has anyone sued over the longarm permit requirement yet?
I don’t know. Something is going to give though, Fulton Co is apparently adding dumb requirements.
For those of you unfamiliar with NYS’s gun licensing requirements.
Evey handgun you own has to be written on your license (your standard sized plastic card). When you acquire a new handgun, you are supposed to file an amendment prior to acquisition. The Sheriff’s office gives you a coupon that you give to the gun store to take possession of the handgun. But they do not reprint your license card. You are supposed to hand-write the info on the card yourself.
Fulton Co Sheriff’s office suddenly thought that people might just write “semiauto rifle” on their cards without actually filing the amendment! So they’ve told the gun shops there to require that purchasers how their handgun license, plus a receipt for the amendment fee.
In the 90s my father and I went almost every week. We didn’t check what was playing. We found out when we got to the cinema. It was inexpensive entertainment. Now prices are up and quality down. It’s been years since I went.
I used to go to the afternoon matinees once in a while if there was something interesting-looking on. It was like $4.50, so even if the movie sucked it wasn’t that big of a deal.
And I was usually just about the only person in the theater.
Pre-covid that was the old people’s time. After the movie hit a buffet that offered an early bird special and the day was perfect.
My folks spent a lot of Sunday afternoons with friends, playing cribbage and maybe a beer or two.
I remember my parents playing cribbage. I feel like I should learn.
Oh, and Tripoli
Cribbage is a great game, unfortunately all anyone around here wants to play is Euchre which is the lamest card game ever.
My family played a lot of cribbage on family trips. I still have a couple nice boards I pull occasionally pull out for family game days.
The local UA cinemas had Tuesday $2 matinees. There was also a non-chain cinema that had $1 weekday matinees but only older films. Disneyland was also only $99 for an annual pass.
Apple destroyed my 7-figure business, unjustly, and threatened to report me to the feds.
To clear my name, I had to reach deeper into Silicon Valley than ever before.
Here’s the story, AKA how I learned about platform risk.
https://twitter.com/evanmr/status/1612085234648121346
Sounds like some criminal enterprise combined with the crime syndicate that creates the legal climate (government & regulatory agencies working with politicians) to destroy the competition.
Same goes for YouTubers, etc.
Lol,
How I lucked into millions by buying low and selling high
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I think I won some converts to shotgun
Do you use slugs? Big (#00) shot?
Birdshot. The rules of the game are “nothing that can damage my targets” (3/8″ AR500).
In my particular case, I’m burning through a case of some Spanish #10 birdshot that is labeled for “hunting,” but which can’t knock over a late at 15 yards. This game only makes you have to hit the plate.
What are they for hunting? Snark?
Dunno. Mice? According to the box, the pellets are 1.75mm across.
#10 is for doves and clay targets.
This is the stupidest attachment for a rifle that I have ever seen.
https://twitter.com/Lord_Defect/status/1611829044659486720
stupid wordpress. anyway I am sure there is dumber stuff this looks tame
Do you NOT want to survive the apocalypse?
For that, you need THIS FUCKER!
Yeah. The MLok knife ruiner is dumb, but believe me, there’s much dumber stuff out there…
There was a time when a revelation that the media had been lying about someone or something, like this, would have resulted in some serious repercussions and problems for the liars. These days it feels like these revelations just are another “well, there we go again” experience to us….
I really do not get how anyone takes the media seriously anymore. I by default assume I am being lied to for some reason or another if it comes from the usual bullshitters.
Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro broke into buildings for Brazil’s National Congress, Supreme Federal Court and the Planalto Palace, the presidential workplace, videos show, as some American politicians are comparing the event to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Seems to have followed the same formula.
WORLDWIDE RIOT.
It looks like a reenactment. They even have their own shaman.
https://twitter.com/hodgetwins/status/1612218060638658560
Brazilian feds organizing it so they can hunt the opposition for a few years?
Los glowinos?
Os glowões
El Paso Bulldozes Illegal Alien Homeless Encampments Prior to Biden Visit
Wouldn’t want any bad optics for the photo shoot .
[narrows camera aperture]
The new Elon Twitter problem is I keep getting followed by those bot-model random woman accounts. There seems to be no end of them. I have to remove them as followers.
why are you on twitter in the first place, if you dont want as many followers as possible, real or not.
I never bothered removing them.
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Pleasingly average.
TL made me go wut
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Can’t brain today. I has the dumb.
Can anyone explain to me how this could even happen
https://twitter.com/TheGingerarchy/status/1612280208899411969
Bullets work in mysterious ways
“Back, and to the left.”
I’m wondering how he lived nearly a year after a bullet traversed his entire torso top to bottom.
Probably skated under the skin. Live human skin is amazingly tough – I read somewhere that the skin is about equal to 3-4 inches of muscle tissue, for purposes of ballistic testing.
Well, the primary function of skin is to protect the insides from the outsides.
The IRS is continuing its historic trend of pursuing more low-income groups as relatively fewer billionaires and millionaires have come under its audit sweep, according to a recent report by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).
Plebs are easier targets with their possibly illicit $600 transactions.
People with money use tax software and accountants, and they can afford court if the IRS dicks around with them. If you can’t afford even to talk to a lawyer, being told by some tool at the IRS that you owe the corruptocracy another $433 plus daily compounded interest, means you pay up, because THAT’s your only fiscally viable recourse.
Totally would.
Save a horse, ride Tres.
Someone needs to record this song…
Mammary Monday thinks that the way MSG has been treated in the press is a travesty.
https://archive.ph/iLzyZ
Global food prices reached record-high levels in 2022, the United Nations said this week, marking a sustained period of sharply elevated commodities amid historic worldwide unrest and economic turmoil.
“Excellent.” – Klaus Schwab
“Lula[…]announced an official “federal intervention” in Brasilia – consolidating the public security powers of several agencies into the hands of a hand-picked, top-level official”
How do you say “Reichstag fire” in Portuguese?
Carnaval?
☝️
The lights are going out in the western world. Brazil will never again peacefully elect a conservative President just like Republicans will never win a state-wide election again in Arizona or Pennsylvania.
*Klaus and George’s geriatric and shriveled penises get as semi-erect as they are capable of*
PA Republicans don’t deserve to win with the candidates the voters selected in the primaries. Choose badly, lose in the general.
Yeah, Fetterlump was so much better than Oz. Why does the “bad candidate” thing seem to only go one way?
Oz sucked, but he could at least put together a sentence.
And that ended up a much closer race than governor – where the Republican thought he was running for chief preacher of the state. I still voted for him, purely out of spite, not because I thought he should be governor.
As for bad candidates – how ’bout that Beto?
Or Stacey “I was cheated and you’re still suppressing votes” Abrams?
Oh I see, no one has too much objection to Dems having bad candidates after all. And you didn’t even make me roll out the queen of them all – Hillary.
Your assumption, and error, is that you think the machine gives good candidates a chance. Have you missed how big money was spent by team blue to help elect team red or other independent candidates they felt war unelectable or shit anyway?
What most people need to realize is that good candidates – meaning one that actually goes into government to shrink it, make it responsible and responsive to the people, and demands it lives within it means – will never make it past the gatekeepers unless it is by pure accident. And in states where team blue controls the machine and counting, it won’t matter anyway (see Kari Lake).
Dems poured money into the Republican primary to get Mastriano. That worked out well for them. Too bad Republican primary voters are so easily fooled.
deserves got nothing to do with it
I guess you’ll never vote again if the system is that corrupt. Wonder how that’s going to work out for everyone that chooses that?
The difference will…?
A scenario where nobody chooses to vote will have the the exact same outcome as if everyone chooses to vote in a rigged system.
I’d bet the presented vote count totals after election would even be damn near mirror images in either scenario.
Check out voter turnout for primaries. It’s fucking pathetic. If people aren’t willing to put up the slightest fight, why would anything change?
We just watched 20 people slow Leviathan for a couple days. It’s not much but it’s something.
Primary turnout is the party stalwarts – for what that’s worth.
Yeah, that’s the point. How the fuck could you change anything if only the insiders play?
I’d be very happy if we killed the primary system. Let the parties decide who to put up for the general election at their own expense and trouble.
Brazil has a storied history of military coups.
We’ll see what happens from here.
The usual way that plays out is that the civilians on both sides lose.
According to the box, the pellets are 1.75mm across.
seventy thou. That’s like dust. Are they for hunting parakeets in the conservatory?
Somebody made it, it must have a purpose somewhere.
McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski revealed in a memo to staff on Friday that he is planning to cut some corporate staff as part of the company’s new business strategy.
Nothing a Happy Meal can’t fix.
I only eat bacon mcmuffins at ROmanian mcdonalds
This is lacking in perspective. Nothing can be understood absent the shadow of the Finno-Korean hyper-war.
https://twitter.com/wandlearner/status/1611901602197307396
memes are getting weird
Well, there is only one country between Finland and Korea.
Mind you Twitter’s not loading at work these days, so I don’t know what the original post was.
But are they Khazar milkers?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/other-sports/paige-spiranac-alpha-jugs-boobs-28902408
“‘Listen, Paige, you’re not famous because of your golf swing or how far you can drive the ball,’ Adams hit back.”
The guy has a point…
What is Adams famous for?
Complaining about alpha milkers?
McCarthy’s win means doom. @GStephanopoulos: It “came with concessions to the most extreme members of his caucus…prospect of two more years of brinksmanship over his hold on the office, the fiscal security of the United States and the basic functions of governing.”
Better to have uniparty rule to continue printing and spending until the dollar is no more useful than a piece of toilet paper.
DOOM!
DOOM!
Good morning, Banjos!
Billy Idol is a perfect Monday morning choice!
From the hysteria article:
I’m aroused.
I know that it should not reflexively cause me to feel good about something, but when anything that pisses of these propagandists and members of the statist cabal is presented I am by default pro it until I hear evidence otherwise that shows me it is not worth my agreement. That is also my de facto attitude towards any accusation by the woke against someone. i assume a hoax, Ruparing, or bullshit, until proven otherwise, and so far it has not failed me.
So this is rather interesting.
Well this makes the case for more governments or people would die.
are these the total effect of transfers, transfers minus taxes? Or does the middle also pay some in taxes?
RTFA
What do they count as transfer payments?
And if we abolished these programs, how many of the recipients would seek employment/better employment?
The point they are making is that the Census bureau and other trackers of poverty do NOT include these payments – only ‘cash’ income.
I’m not tracking poverty, I’m trying to trim government.
Trim govt? Around the edges?
anywhere and everywhere.
Your personal grooming habits are TMI.
?
Those hairs that go up the shaft are quite annoying.
Looks like I’ve been doing the whole “poor” thing all wrong.
[Bureaucrat examines rules on who to give to]
“Hmm, white male, single – nope you aren’t in here.”
Good article.
Fuckery with numbers. Color me shocked.
America doesn’t actually have poverty in the traditional sense. We only have relative poverty, whereby those in the lower quintile are relatively “poorer” than those above, but they don’t lack for any necessities and even have income to pay for TVs, smart phones, etc. etc.
Some of the poverty stricken have reported difficulty in buying ammo for their inner city protection. Ammo deserts coupled with no ammo stamps, plus a shortage created by the hoarders have left some to carry empty or 1/2 filled magazines as they go about their daily business.
That’s my beef with all this poverty shit… The bar keeps moving, and it is always shifting upward at a faster pace than warranted. Not being able to buy the latest electronic must-have today – iPad/iPhone, Android device, computer, gaming console, wrist device, ear buds, and so on – the day it comes out, or having to settle for cheap Hulu or other streaming service over premium stuff, doesn’t make you poor.
If you have decent shelter (and deciding you prefer to live & shit on the streets cause of whatever reason is a disqualifier) ad don’t have to go without food for days, you are not really poor. You may be living below the standards others have, but you are not poor.
BTW, I still contend that the biggest reason for inequality in America today is the public school system. No other system causes as much damage to people’s chances to have the skills required to be successful in the real world as that. and it is by design. It’s not an accident that in the poorest urban areas these schools piss away the largest amount of money to be nothing better than a poor excuse for daycare where these kids get indoctrinated in how to fail at everything (or to not even give it a try).
‘received an astonishing $45,389 in government transfer payments annually,’
To play devil’s advocate, this may be the cost of the programs provided rather than their value. Compare per student spending at private and public institutions to get an idea of what I mean.
The government pays much more than the value of a service that would be purchased in a free market.
I’m willing to bet that SocSec is by far the largest transfer system, and it operates pretty efficiently (for a govt program). Whatever AFDC is called these days, and given it operates under the Dept of Agriculture – yeah, the overhead on that is probably 50%.
Wouldn’t it just be easier to acknowledge that you’re gay?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/20974663/hooked-on-transgender-porn-escort/
Except gays usually aren’t attracted to MTF. They’re attracted to men.
Why do these homosexuals keep sucking my cock, huh?
“‘She was going to confiscate it, and that’s when he shot’: Parent describes moment teacher, 25, was deliberately shot by six-year-old boy in Virginia classroom – child unlikely to ever be charged with a crime”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11613793/Teacher-25-deliberately-shot-chest-six-year-old-boy.html
Hot/Crazy on the mom?
maybe it is the European in me but a 6 year old should not have a loaded guin
Strangely enough, even us Americans don’t think this is quite right.
The teacher (yes, I hope she recovers) looks nuttier to me.
Am I desensitized to what our society has become? Is it crazy of me to think that just maybe some nutty person in a position like a teacher would set-up some kid to shoot them just to maybe take one for the team on gun control?
Or just attention in general ?
It’s really a lot easier to believe this kid doesn’t know his father and that whatever male pseudo-adult is banging his mom might have left the gun accessible.
‘ pseudo-adult’
This is a neologism I can get behind.
That’s not the mom of the shooter. Just a random hottie who’s kid was in the classroom.
I love the DM.
“Whose” even.
Sorry, TedS’
That’s an extremely DM move – “she’s hot and vaguely connected – publish!”
Weird because they were showing pictures of her with her kid, which reinforced that perception a lot.
She’s cute, would.
“her son has suffered nightmares in the nights since the shooting”
Pobrecito. He has bad dreams since almost killing someone? How tragic.
Also, would the teacher and the mom; preferably at the same time.
No, that was not the shooter, a kid in the classroom who witnessed it.
Q’s point that he would still like to do the teacher and that witness’ mom at the same time still has standing in the court of Would….
Molon Labe @6…
Word!
Parent describes moment teacher, 25, was deliberately shot by six-year-old boy in Virginia classroom – child unlikely to ever be charged with a crime
It happened in Newport News. I’d be surprised if half the kids in that classroom weren’t strapped and already slinging rock.
people really want to blame the gun, but man, there’s so many failures that have to happen to get to this point.
“Professor is FIRED after showing a 14th-century painting of the Prophet Muhammad to students at Hamline University: Muslim student – who at first did not object – later complained and said incident was an attack on her religion
As a Muslim and a Black person, I don’t feel like I belong, and I don’t think I’ll ever belong in a community where they don’t value me as a member, and they don’t show the same respect that I show them,’ the student said.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11612991/Hamline-University-adjunct-professor-fired-showing-painting-Prophet-Muhammad.html
Nothing shows respect like getting someone fired.
Indeed, they showed the complainant too much respect.
I could be wrong, but I thought the first complainants were NOT Muslims – which means they couldn’t have possibly had their religious sensibilities offended. They were white-knighting.
Virtue must be signaled.
“‘As a Muslim and a Black person, I don’t feel like I belong, and I don’t think I’ll ever belong in a community where they don’t value me as a member, and they don’t show the same respect that I show them,’ the student said. ”
Level >900 victimhood status
Ok… I’m now at “screw this infantile idiot” then… you’re an adult, you were warned at the beginning of the semester and again before the actual event. If it bothered you so, step outside that day.
“they don’t value me” == “they aren’t in their proper role as dhimmi following all of my rules”. Asshole.
later complained and said incident was an attack on her religion
As a Muslim and a Black person, I don’t feel like I belong
Oh, well, go fuck yourself.
I really don’t understand these universities.
Why don’t they tell the students to pound sand? And if they are continuously disruptive, just trespass them off campus. Most higher level schools have a waiting list.
“LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne calls on her fans to be ‘respectful’ after throngs of ‘rude’ teen boys flocked to Utah event to mob her and call other stars ‘Livvy 2.0’: Officials forced to move team bus to avoid huge crowd”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11614761/LSU-gymnast-Olivia-Dunne-calls-fans-respectful-rude-teen-boys-mobbed-teammates.html
Posting thirst pics probably didn’t help.
“Attention whore complains about too much attention.”
Reminds me of a Benny Hill line. Benny’s getting interviewed and the interviewer throws him a lot of compliments. Benny says “Don’t, stop!” The interviewer stops, and Benny says “I told you don’t stop, didn’t I?”
Reading the article, it sounds like she was asking for her fans to be respectful of the other athletes (being a bit derisive i.e. ‘you’re not Livvy, but you’ll do.’), not that she didn’t crave the attention.
On the US fast food front, I have tried popeyes chicken. It is somewhat better than kfc but meh overall. I got some drumsticks maybe I should have tried the sandwich, kfc sandwiches are not that good.
Fast food is generally Meh.
You need to come visit and have real food.
Hole in the wall > fast food. Find a local joint that is making some good southern fried chicken.
“Six journalists are detained after footage of South Sudan’s president wetting himself leaked on social media”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11614625/Six-journalists-detained-footage-South-Sudans-president-wetting-leaked-online.html
Leaked?
Well, dribbled out. It was a piddling amount of data.
Urine big trouble now. Apparently that president is pissed.
At first yes, but then there was a torrent of coverage.
A full stream, even.
His reputation is stained. He wants revenge on the press that smeared him.
One drop of information getting out is too much.
I’ll wait for more details to trickle out.
He’s gotta shake off this embarrassment.
I bet if the journalos used the old Monty Python skit as a guide, they’d be just fine.
The journalists are just wetting the public’s appetite for that kind of thing.
We need to have a summit with him and Nadler.
Now do Joe Biden!
That’s a real pisser.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Awesome. Thanks, Holiness!
Thanks, these are a welcome balance to the normal nut punches.
American skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin has equaled Lindsey Vonn’s record of 82 World Cup wins with victory in the giant slalom at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, on Sunday.
The two-time Olympic gold medalist is now the joint record holder for the most World Cup wins by a female skier, and by an American.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/08/sport/mikaela-shiffrin-lindsey-vonn-record-spt-intl/index.html
And here I thought Americans can’t ski.
Where would you get that idea?
Yeah, there are plenty of polish-Americans.
To be fair, I cant downhill. Cross-Country, but its been a long time.
Wisconsin’s version of Fourscore
This seems to be happening with increasing frequency.
College Basketball Player Collapses Suddenly, Imo Essien Goes Down Clutching His Chest
“Members of the Old Dominion men’s basketball team watched in shock, and many held back tears, as their teammate Imo Essien had to be tended to by training staff” – Nathan Epstein
But Dr. Fauxci is on the case(s)!
Fauci: “Completely untrue” Covid vaccines played a role in Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest; “clearly” the result of the hit itself.
Myocarditis post-mRNA shots is “relatively benign” and “very, very rare”
I donno about anyone else, but I don’t recall sportsball players suffering any form of cardiac incident on the field at nearly this rate in the beforetimes. In fact, It was always a once in never sort of situation prior to mandated clot shots.
And back when – Len Baez as an example – the cause wasn’t completely medical but due to “self medication”.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hank-gathers-death-college-basketball
Myocarditis is never benign.
Well, it doesn’t metastasize and spread to other organs.
When your heart stops beating the symptoms tend to spread.
More rare than a mild hit to a chest protected by a shouldpad chest plate causing a cardiac arrest?
That hit was not that bad, even for backyard no pads football.
I don’t have the numbers on either, but my SWAG is that myocarditis is the much more common of the two.
And the basketball player above wasn’t touched at all.
Yeah, I was willing to consider commotio cordis for the Bills player, but the basketball one is scary.
Eh… Hank Gathers wasn’t the only one with Marfan syndrome either.
But it would be nice to know that the CDC is doing a good job of investigating and the FDA is gathering all followup evidence for their oversight of the vaccines.
it would be nice to know that the CDC is doing a good job
Bruh
Brazil Congress: Lula vows to punish supporters of Bolsonaro after riot
By Frances Mao
Just a staged repeat of the last stolen election so Lula can hunt his enemies.
Taking political prisoners is a sure sign that you are a legitimate leader.
Supporters of the ousted far-right leader also stormed the Supreme Court and surrounded the presidential palace.
Anyone insufficiently left is “far-right”.
Inspirational teacher. There are some.
Lol.
Reminds me of this.
I like that guy’s approach…
That’s just excellent – it’s a treasure-trove of hilarious details.
The “Educasion is over rated” sign over the door is just fantastic.
Biden visits the Mexican border. The part where there is a great big wall for his security.
https://apnews.com/article/biden-politics-united-states-government-mexico-el-paso-2e30ea26bbc55c7af509a6e60ad3d33c
A big, beautiful wall built by the Trump administration.
Random unrelated travel question – How bad is it if one were to drive from Cleveland to Iowa on I90/I80 and pass within the Chicago radius midday on a weekday?
Summertime? Road construction is the only thing I can think of that will be a problem.
September.
I was ploting the shortest rational Honey Harvest Route. Since Canada is out of the question, that leaves south of the lakes.
Ludington-Maniwoc ferry across the lake if you want the shortest route.
I don’t remember any problems when I did that drive, many moons ago.
Except getting bored, of course.
Corn corn corn soy soy soy….
I’m more worried about getting stuck around the city than the rural drive.
Hold on, you’ve got that whole stretch of RV manufacturers in Indiana.
That’s fair.
They interesting thing is that parts of Iowa have way more interesting topology than most of the states you drive through, at least along that route.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMYGbRO-jmE
I stay on 94/294 when I travel to the east of chicago and rarely have any issues traffic-wise, if anything the idiots are driving too fast.
Wait, are you the guy doing 30 in the left hand lane?
I always drive no more than 5 over in WI. They always seem pretty strict there about the speed.
They also enjoy ticketing IL and MN drivers, so maybe they are just a bunch of biased assholes who like to pull people over for “Driving while Purple”
* The Altar Boy and I couldn’t get enough of The Pack losing to the Lions at home and being eliminated from the playoffs. It was especially great because Rogers is gonna have an aneurism soon if his receivers continue to drop balls like they did in that game.
“Shit, I’m 47 and could have caught that.”
— Donald Driver on his couch.
Mid day shouldn’t be bad.
How bad is it if one were to drive from Cleveland to Iowa on I90/I80 and pass within the Chicago radius midday on a weekday
Been there; done that.
Stop and go traffic for a hour passing through around noon.
Uffda. I have no idea how an idea this stupid wasn’t shut down instantly.
Of course, the loudest of the outraged are just as stupid. Why being the mother of an armed robber who ends up being killed by a cop makes you an authority on anything is beyond me. I feel sorry she lost a kid.
I feel sorry she lost a kid.
I don’t. Not if the asshole was committing armed robbery. He got what he deserved.
Militarizing of police is stupendously stupid, so of course we’re doing that. If the morons would stop screaming about race and just work on accountability for police, I’d be all in with them.
^^^THIS^^^
The fucking cuntes going stupid is destroying any chance for real and workable reform. In the end my suspicions are that things will get so bad that police will get the same pass as Judge Dredd.
Most of the officers in the video appear to be white, and all of the officers appear to be male.
And?
I think the racial divide on LEOs is an issue. You have towns and cities that are 80% black and close to a 100% white police force. I get that Glibs don’t see the world through a racial lens, but I’m not so sure LEOs are in that boat.
Racism aside, cops should be pulled from the communities that they are supposedly keeping the peace in. When the racial proportions are that far off, it’s showing the LEOs have no connection to the community. They are brought in from the outside and that ramps up militarization and abuse. Just fueling that transition from peace officer to police officer.
I wouldn’t worry about the racial makeup if they all lived in the city. I agree with you that busing in cops from other cities/areas does exacerbate the U/Them mentality in a cop shop. Right now, I don’t know how you could get the “right” number of black cops because no one in Brooklyn Center wants to work for the police force. You have to take anyone who applies.
Who applies to be a cop these days is part of the concern (and the ‘standards’ they are held to).
“Is it racist to like big butts?”
https://unherd.com/2023/01/is-it-racist-to-like-big-butts/
*occupies Poland*
Sir Mixalot hardest hit?
https://twitter.com/katrosenfield/status/1611043355084955649
LOL
So many people misinterpreting the author of the article with the author of the book, despite Kat clearly being dismissive of the concept.
Also, not bad.
I like the cut of her jib:
Kat Rosenfield
@katrosenfield
·
Jan 5
Replying to
@and_furiouser
I keep a ready supply of butt pics at hand, it’s my version of apocalypse prepping
Yeah, doesn’t seem to take herself overly serious.
It’s a very attractive quality these days.
we covered that a few days ago
I look forward to Q’s take on this question on Wednesday.
‘IRS Targeted More ‘Easy-Mark’ Low-Income Families Than Millionaires, University Report’
More so, the disparity in rates looks alarming, in particular it is interesting that so much changed in 2 years. I wonder how much of that is COVID related vs. Biden related or other factors.
I also wonder what triggers an audit, there may be a very good reason for any disparity.
the government should get all the money automatically and then give you your fair share, it would avoid audits
My mom ran her own tax preparation service for decades. She’d justify her fees by knowing what triggers an audit. Some types of deductions or moves would trigger them. Other times it would be the amount of a deduction.
Her other value add was that if you did get audited, she’d go represent you. In the small world of NW Minnesoda, she quickly became known by the various IRS agents. They realized that she ran things on the up and up for the most part, so if she showed up, there wasn’t a lot of searching for more violations. Usually it was some arguing about a technical rule and that was it.
Millionaires have accountants and your average IRS auditor is not a genius.
If you were allowed to know what triggers an audit, you could avoid one, and then they would audit you for audit avoidance behavior patterns.
No pattern is a pattern /HR
In local tax news, they are again attempting to tax tips given to waiters and such
Besides the general reasons no one should be taxed, what is the argument against it?
Yeah if we’re going to tax income, then cash tips should be included.
Loan forgiveness should also be taxable, you whiny cunts.
Um … it is.
I know, it’s a trigger of mine when normies try to tell me why it shouldn’t be. Not to mention, there are enough exceptions for most people to avoid paying tax on a forgiveness anyway.
When the G does it…?
eh it is more a gift for good service than standard income…
a gift for good service
We call that earned income.
This is why with good service, I tip cash. The server can decide what they wish to declare.
I’m glad to see Pie in the posts above. I was afraid he was part of Andrew Tate’s entourage…
‘Toxic’ influencer Andrew Tate is arrested in rape and human trafficking probe involving at least SIX women in police raid on his luxury villa in Romania
1. One that is old news
2. There isn’t even a picture with the former police woman who was the madam of his establishment
here
https://res.protv.ro/assets/protv/2023/01/03/image_galleries/96453/cine-este-luana-radu-fosta-politista-arestata-impreuna-cu-fratii-tate_1.webp?image=1
ARREST ME! ARREST ME!
And be rough about it cause I am resisting arrest….
Sorry man, I’ve been really busy for a week with work!
Maybe Tate was in Pie’s entourage.
Wut?
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-bows-to-erdogan-adopts-turkeys-name-change/
I was taught a long time ago that American English does not use diacriticals.
It doesn’t. And Asia Minor belongs to the Greeks, give it back.
Free Byzantium!
Restore Greater Assyria!
From your lips to God’s ears.
Using difficult to spell and pronounce spellings from other languages makes no sense and only adds confusion when reading historical reports. When well this stupid trend stop?
“Hawaii”
We should start calling it “Booby”.
*sigh*
Trying to figure out how to explain to [Current Supervisor] that most of what I do in the ‘legacy’ environments isn’t task-based but troubleshooting. I get reports of “something wrong” and work backwards to a cause, identify what needs to be done to fix it, and either do it or send the tasks to whoever is supposed to. There’s no “Here’s what needs doing every day/week/month/etc” because it’s mostly just sitting there, rotting and waiting to be replaced. To be useful, the knowledge transfer needs to be a deep dive in the system architecture and foibles.
Oh well, that’s your foot in front of the muzzle, not mine.
Explain your “task” is to see what broke today?
Depending on what broke and how spend, minutes, hours, days or week fixing. Rinse and repeat.
Death to America party
Pundits were quick to portray McCarthy’s grueling and at times comically pathetic three-and-a-half day slog to victory as a symbol of weakness and dysfunction within the not-quite-post-Donald Trump Republican Party, but the reality of what just happened on Capitol Hill is far worse than that, and I’m not sure if it’s fully set in.
The ambitious but low-wattage Californian was finally elected speaker on that 15th ballot — in the kind of gridlock that America hasn’t seen since the run-up to a Civil War that killed 600,000 people — with just 216 votes that amounted to less than 49.8% of the total, since 218 House members cast ballots for either Democratic leader Hakim Jeffries or “present” as a final show of anti-McCarthy animus.
That seems most fitting for the titular head of a political party that — while it did manage last November to win its narrow 222-212 House margin despite an atmospheric river of tailwinds like President Biden’s low approval that should have created a blowout — just lost ground in the Senate and in key statehouses and has also lost the national popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections.
The ability of a McCarthy-led House to stymie progress for two years against the run of play in American politics would be bad enough, but it’s a lot worse than that. To win that diminished and tarnished speaker’s plaque over his new office door, McCarthy ceded much of his power to the radical bloc of the House’s 20 or so most extreme right-wing members. He gave them not just increased visibility but power to investigate their enemies and block basic governance — and to replace the speaker on a whim. These grifters and C-list stars of their own reality shows, elected from the most extreme pro-Trump, uncompetitive districts in the United States, now wield veto power over the will of the American people.
The living will envy the dead.
“These grifters and C-list stars of their own reality shows, elected from the most extreme pro-Trump, uncompetitive districts in the United States, now wield veto power over the will of the American people.”
Replace Trump with Leftist and you just described The Squad. Recycling text much?
I’d recommend that all liberal assholes and mouthpieces for the technocracy like yourself go hide in the basement when that happens. Because it’s unlikely to turn out the way you think it will.
https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/man-faces-terror-charge-for-damaging-power-plant-outside-las-vegas/
It’s ok though, since he wasn’t trying to shut down a DQSH.
These people are always so smart too…
‘An employee at the plant said the fire caused “major damage,” estimating it would take two years to receive replacement parts, police said.’
The value of having spares on hand… Though this might be a bit of an extreme case.
The actual question is why there were no alarms for either “someone has rammed through the gate” or “The plant is on fire”
The Mrs. and I used to go to movies a few times a week before we had kids. It just got too expensive. And lately, it’s too expensive and there really are not great movies out there. I have some teammates that go at least once a week, but they can’t even come up with a top 5 best movies of last year. They can only think of 4 that they liked that much.
I think that Billy Idol video was filmed right after he got in a motorcycle accident. He was coming home really late from the recording studio, and had been drinking among other things, and wiped out on his bike. In the video he’s sitting down because he couldn’t stand up due to his injuries.
I used to be at least a bit skeptical about things that sounded like conspiracy theories. After the Twitter files, I’m now assuming that not only are those things very likely to be true, they’re also very likely to be much worse than we imagined.
“I don’t think anybody should doubt his influence,” McCarthy said of Trump — on the second anniversary of the 45th president’s attempted coup to thwart the peaceful transfer of power that resulted in at least five deaths.
The lie too big to die.
And there were good people on both sides…
If you are going to call it a coup why not lie about how many people died?
Those cell phones they were carrying around looked like guns! Well, they ‘could’ have been guns. You see how dangerous they were?
They would have brought WMDs if they had them. They could have killed millions.
There’s proof that Trump tried to email them those WMDs.
“45th president’s attempted coup”
If they ever saw a real coup, you know, the kind with guns and people getting shot?
“IRS Targeted More ‘Easy-Mark’ Low-Income Families Than Millionaires, University Report”
This is truly shocking.
I believe there will come a time when Americans wake up to the reality of minority rule and say that enough is enough.
The kind of minority rule where a highly motivated 25% or less of the pool of qualified voters decides elections because an actual majority of people can’t be bothered to register their preference between a giant douche and a turd sandwich?
That kind of minority rule?
“It was pure entertainment”
It was. Latest update I got last night was after they called the military on them. I guess the next step is to build the gulags to keep the insurrectionists in an then the show trials. Let’s see, January 8th Committee? Perfect! Now all they need is their very own Lizzy, I’m sure they will find her.
“World Bank to Warn of Global Recession Risk in Economic Outlook”
No shit. What visionaries.
Tomorrow i shall be issuing my prediction for the college football championship game.
EXTREME!
“Our general concern is the dysfunction that was historic that we saw this week is not at an end, just the beginning. And while the Congress was held captive this particular time, what is going to be a problem is if the American people will be held captive for the next two years to the extreme MAGA Republican agenda that apparently has been negotiated into the House rules and the functioning of the Congress. That going to undermine the health, safety, and well-being of the American people. It may undermine national security and a robust defense and undermine our ability to advance an agenda anchored in kitchen table issues, not extremism.’
Divided government means all is lost.
Politicians arguing and negotiating is dysfunctional. They’re not supposed to do that.
I mean I can get my dog to roll over, why won’t you?
And while the Congress was held captive this particular time, what is going to be a problem is if the American people will be held captive for the next two years to the extreme MAGA Republican agenda that apparently has been negotiated into the House rules and the functioning of the Congress.
I haven’t dug deeply into it, but it seems like the rules are just changed back to how Congress operated for decades before Pelosi had changed the rules to further entrench power in the leadership. The wailing about this extremism from Republican-leaning media sources, like PJ Media and the WSJ Editorial Board, just shows the uniparty in action.
Amash explains.
Did they reinstitute the CSPAN blackout of cameras pointing at the gallery?
“Food prices were at record highs in 2022, U.N. says”
No shit. More visionaries and geniuses. Where do they find these brilliant people?
Graduate school?
Loan forgiveness should also be taxable, you whiny cunts.
It will be interesting to see what sort of treatment those written-off student loans get.
And by “interesting”…
All negative consequences are waived by the secretary as authorized during a national emergency.
“Hysteria Begins as the Reality of a GOP Majority Sinks In”
Yeah, if I were a prog, I’d panic too! I mean gee, they’re going to talk about stuff and sit around like a bunch of cucks. The horror! Our socialist utopia will end!
Sen. Paul delivers…
Why is it that that kind of ability to think is so rare in both the legislative and executive branches?
Because they’re not actually interested in a deal.
They want war.
Well, he also didn’t play the nonsense game of describing the Arab countries as partners in democracy! He called them what they are.
Again, you’d only be interested in the “subtleties” of the situation if you actually wanted a resolution.
The vast majority of DC pols are just propaganda shills, particularly among the Democrats but most of the GOP qualifies as well.
I would be interested in understanding what resolution you see is possible for a conflict that goes back a couple of millennia and is ingrained in the region…
I get that it shouldn’t be our job to fix all the stupid in the world, but the problem is that this part of the world sits on a lot of wealth – energy – and ignoring it would be catastrophic for the world. I sure as hell would prefer us to go independent of them, but the rest of the world would end up burning if we did that and we would be dragged in sooner than later. I just wish we were smarter about this shit.
We absolutely have the opportunity to ignore that region and its associated stupidity. All we have to do is drill.
Iran? What is that? We don’t have time for that, we have to take care of Ukraine, the one true democracy!
Just as Rand speaks sense, this idiot gives us a double-dose of toxic hubris. We define what is right for you!
We aren’t doing regime change, we are doing cultural change…see! Different!
Actually what they are desperately are trying to do is a “reality change”…
Too many people feel they can simply change reality to suit their needs/goals.
Perhaps that idiot thinks cultural change is a more reasonable goal.
Got news for ya bub, wars destroy nations but they also make them.
WWII certainly remade ours.
I seriously cannot figure out how Rand hangs out with all these cucks every day without just losing it and saying fuck it.
Dems really have their talking points down.
“We have shown, Jake, Democrats stand ready at all times to work for the American people. It is exactly the American people and the solutions they need to meet the challenges that were completely left out of the speaker’s chaos we saw this week. It not only endangered our country’s national security, but it also showed that the keys have been handed over to extremists. At the top of their agenda is a national abortion ban, dismantling Social Security and Medicare. These are the priorities they’ve put out. But we have demonstrated over the last two years, when Democrats are united and in charge, that we work for the American people. Whether that’s rebuilding infrastructure, gun safety, returning manufacturing to our shores, reducing health care costs and making sure we’re investing in climate change. Those are going to continue to be our priorities, and we hope that some Republicans will be able to get to work for the American people.”
It’s amazing you cuntes can keep a straight face when saying things like that.
They left out grooming children.
It’s almost like Republicans talking about smaller govt, isn’t it?
“we work for the American people”
For sure, we’re going to make sure all Americans are robbed equally by the new mega IRS and we’ll build comfortable gulags, that’s what we call doing infrastructure right. We’re nothing like those do nothing Rethuglicans.
Today’s winner with multiple idiots!
Idk if this goes here, this is not my video, im just posting it.
Good lord. 🤣
“First newborn baby placed in Florida Safe Haven Baby Box”
How long before the first Baby Box smash-n-grab gangs appear?
I’m surprised babies aren’t popping up in ballot drop-boxes.
Dead babies in ballot drop-boxes might actually get our election officials to consider we have a baby-roll problem.
LOL, this is true.
“In FL we gave parents the option of bringing kids in or keeping them remote, and for a long time the majority of parents kept their kids remote. We kept kids safe by ensuring proper protocols for a safe return. #TeachersAreHeroes”
https://twitter.com/KarlaforFlorida/status/1612244311935950850
CWAC
#TeachersAreHeroes? Lol. A handful, yes, but not all. As my dad always said, the only requirement to teach 3rd grade is to have a 4th grade education.
So what’s with this “Master’s Degree and State Teaching Certificate” bull?
Gatekeepers to ensure they can control the educational narrative at the root?
As he said, a 4th grade education.
#TeachersAreIdiots if you are going for a percentage win.
Seriously, from my own personal experience, teachers are some of the dumbest people with jobs I’ve ever met.
Why is it that that kind of ability to think is so rare in both the legislative and executive branches?
The world is best and most easily understood as string of ones and zeroes.
Today’s winner with multiple idiots!
I was waiting for the right front to rise and fall as he ran over the motorcyclist’s head.
Same. And wouldn’t you stop and make sure the dude was ok?
It seemed like the dude with camera was pulling over.
Movie Theatres – It’s not woke or re-thinking anything after the pandemic for me, it’s just the simple fact nothing I want to watch is being produced. There are fewer and fewer things made for any platform that interest me. I WANT more comic book movies, but not the ones being produced. Not because they are woke, just because they are shit. When I want to watch something at home it’s mostly the same. I check 3 streaming sites, the TV, youtube, even pirate sites and often find nothing that interests me. Maybe I’m just getting old and cranky, or maybe they aren’t producing anything of value.
Plastic straws – Drove through McDonald’s last night after work. ‘Straws Available Upon Request’. The drink had a little opening like those plastic coffee lids. Because of the ice I had to tip the cup back really far to get a drink, not really what one wants when driving. But we’re saving sea turtles or such, because all those straws from Wisconsin landfills migrate into the oceans like mudskippers.
Thats the wife and I. Nothing really looks good enough to open the wallet. Hell, we were going to overlook Silicon Valley when it first came out until I was stuck in DC and that was the only thing on TV and realized it was a funny ass show.
Before The Message, the reason I didn’t care for most movies was the Bruckheimer effect.
+1 lens flare!
Proof
You’re thinking of Michael Bay.
The turtles and dolphins are now being killed by all the disposable face masks we have to dump into the oceans..
1. Maybe I can do Cribbage Thursdays after Tinfoil Hat Thursdays plays out.
2. You should get a stainless steel straw that can also function as a weapon. Tactical straws are the new hotness.
Thursday is never my day off, and when I’m watching bad movies I want to talk people about them, but the site is usually dead by the time I get home. The rare Thursdays I have been off I’ve enjoyed Glibflix.
I’m with you on the super hero movies. In the past I couldn’t wait for the next Marvel thing, because they were usually good and tied in to a larger, interesting story line. But now there’s not really anything tying them together, and they’re producing way more with decreasing quality. Films like Top Gun stand out partially because they’re not woke, but mostly because they have a compelling story and good characters.
House Democrat Whip Katherine Clark Admits Biden Inflation Bill Full Of Tax Hikes
“1.7 trillion dollars of inflation reduction”…
I guess this was another “You must pass it to find out what is in it” event… But it had a great name that doesn’t bear anything on the reality of what the bill is really doing. I surmise that the “Fuck the tax payers in the a$$. HARD” bill would kind of face SOME questioning and resistance.
*Yawn*
U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) vowed to bring “traitor” general Mark Milley to justice in a tweet Saturday. Gosar, Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), among others, had been lobbying for the establishment of a “Church Commission-style” investigation into the weaponization of the FBI against Americans, as well as alleged federal government coordination with January 6 instigators. Under a compromise between newly elected House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and his 20 dissenters, such a committee will be established. Many conservative pundits and voters have expressed skepticism, however, as they do not trust McCarthy to follow through.
I’m not holding my breath for anything to come of this.
First off, Milley is the wrong target. I wonder if Gosar knows that or he is just that fucking stupid?
Yes.
Wasnt Milley the one who said that he would give the Chinese a pre-emptive heads up in the event we ever went to war with them? Yeah, I can see how admitting that could see one getting investigated by Congress.
This is a joke I just heard…
What do the Super Bowl and a Doctor’s Office have in common? Aaron Rodgers doesn’t have a shot at either this year.
I would like a shot in the head.
I am gonna go with so what the guy makes bank and is apparently dating some billionaire heiress or something
It is amazing how the media view on Rodgers turned on a dime with the vaxx thing. ‘HE LIED! He NoW CraZy!’ I’ve had my gripes about the guy even as a fan, but the media went from disgusting tongue bathing to two minutes hate.
Is there supposed to be something in between?
Into the wilderness
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump, officially resigned from the Senate on Sunday as he prepares to step back into academia as president of the University of Florida.
Sasse, who led Midland University, a small private college in his home state, before he ran for the Senate, submitted his resignation last month saying he would leave office Jan. 8 — two years into his second term.
In farewell remarks last week, Sasse criticized the body that he had been a member of since 2015, saying, “This institution doesn’t work very well right now.”
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Sasse’s departure opens up the seat to an appointment by Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, a Republican. The previous governor, Republican Pete Ricketts, has said he would seek the appointment.
As a senator, Sasse was a conservative China hawk who backed repealing the Affordable Care Act and voiced opposition to same-sex marriage, having abstained from voting on landmark legislation codifying gay marriage rights in November. He served in President George W. Bush’s administration as an assistant secretary of health and human services and was first elected to the Senate in 2014.
Now he can destroy higher education in Florida with his radical far right extremism.
I think Sasse is an interesting guy, for what that’s worth. More honest than most of those mendacious backstabbing clowns.
Full disclosure: Sasse was my write-in vote for the 2016 presidential election. Interesting guy, as you say.
Here’s a thought.
What if instead of term limits, we had a Constitutional amendment that said no person could serve in the U.S. govt for more than 20 years. That would cover politicians and the bureaucracy. It would also modify the lifetime appointments to the judiciary.
That would create maximum howls of protest from the agencies.
I like it.
And lose all that “expertise”?
20? I proposed 5.
People like me have been in the bureaucracy too long
Agreed. In a perfect world government employees would not have unions either.
Man, unions wouldn’t even exist today if it wasn’t for AFSCME, et al.
And UCS, can’t be 5 – that’s less then a Senate term. I’d want it to cover everything in the federal domain.
I’d say 10. Plenty of time to be good at the job and add value. By 15 years people get jaded.
*looks at upcoming 15th year anniversary with the state*
Does that mean I should ask for something in jade?
You should quit.
Why?
I haven’t heard that. I like it.
I think every agency and every department should have to pass a detailed audit every five years or it is automatically defunded.
The audit should be wholly public and they should be answerable for every nickel spent.
Also would be fine with this. I am the outcast for maintaining a lean budget
DOD hardest hit.
Yes
I knew an auditor for the Navy. He got drunk one time and admitted that he had never found a base or any other entity that was able to pass an audit. The corruption was endemic and persistent.
I’d be fine with it…Radar seems complicated, but it isn’t. Takes about 2-3 years to be fully trained and enough time to work through attrition.
I would prefer if my work went private but the proposals for privatization have been really a proposal for defense contractors to do it, not mom and pop shops picking up former feds to do the work.
Instead of term limits, I like something more tangible. Each vote for a tax increase should cost each legislator something like 1 pound of flesh or blood. If they think it’s important enough to steal from millions, they should have some skin (bone, muscle, sinew, blood) in the game. So it’s kinda self-limiting.
If we can’t get a meteor strike, this is a good solution.
Unfortunately, I think the meteor strike is more likely.
Eh, 16 years of President Obama? No thanks.
I’m okay if we leave in the presidential limit.
OK with 20 years but modify it to be “10 years working for the U.S. government followed by 10 years in Federal prison.”
Ah, so we’re going to pitch full on anarchy are we?
Huh…didn’t know my peers would put me in prison
There will be full pardons for those who attempted to do the right thing.
What if instead of term limits, we had a Constitutional amendment that said no person could serve in the U.S. govt for more than 20 years.
As UCS said, 20 years is too long, but better than nothing.
At one time, I dabbled with the notion of drafting cops and prison guards, specifically because nobody should spend a lifetime doing that. Drafting politicians for a specified term and then banishing them from DC on pain of death would be my preferred plan.
With the #1 Pick in this years draft the Washington Senators select Jemarphus Randle-Tussle, Flat-Earther; Greater Piedmont City College Commuter Site C.
New Twitter files drop:
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1612526697038897167
They suppressed known to be true at the time information that natural immunity was more effective than the shots, and that there was low risk to children from the virus.