Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another stupendous day and the links!
President Trump indicted by NYC grand jury
Donald Trump Indictment Includes over 30 Counts Related to Business Fraud
Ron DeSantis says he will refuse any extradition request after Trump indictment
Trump’s indictment rests on this bizarre legal theory and has three major flaws
Nashville Transgender Shooter’s Manifesto Will Be Released to Public
Caravan Of More Than 1,000 Migrants Crosses Into El Paso Illegally As Chaos Erupts In Mexico
Democrats fume after Biden breaks with party on COVID-19 emergency
Los Angeles, Cook counties post biggest population losses in U.S. in 2022
China and Brazil agree to ditch US dollar for trade
Jobless claims unexpectedly climb to highest level in three weeks
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
sup’ banjos
whaddup doh’
Well, her song choice definitely nails how I feel about politics and culture these days.
Same, but I LIKE anchovy pizza
Back in the day I worked at Domino’s and we had a customer that would religiously order an anchovy pizza. We didn’t have anchovies on the topping list but we were next door to a grocery store and we would buy a tin of anchovies for the guy’s pizza. They stunk the entire store up baking that pie.
Morning yall happy friday
On Thursday evening, a Manhattan grand jury voted to indict former President Donald Trump in connection to alleged payouts made to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Read somewhere else it was 30 counts of bullshit. But I find this all entertaining.
Speak of the devil…
The indictment issued by a Manhattan grand jury against former President Donald Trump on Thursday will include more than 30 counts related to business fraud, according to CNN.
Going the IRS route claiming each entry on a form counts as a separate offense? SCOTUS recently rejected that doctrine.
This is Manhattan — home of the “The Supreme Court just said our gun policies are unconstitutional…. we’ll put them back and let the lawsuits wind through for another 6 years… nyah nyah!”. See also: The appeals court may care, I’ll bet the trial court won’t.
+1 Biden: It’s probably unconstitutional but it works while it goes through the courts.
The process is the punishment, and the courts cannot exercise prior restraint.
Yeah… 30 counts surprises me. Still sealed, so all we can do is guess — if it really is all built on the payouts, they must have decided every payment to the lawyer counted or some stupid crap. Kind of wonder if there’s something different there… but it is such an open and transparent process (sarc) and all….
Oh, and we have this viewpoint to look forward to from the left (and probably the jury, I expect the same non-partisan rigorous holding to the law as DC courts have shown up there in Manhattan…)
Back to “see song choice for today”.
Donald “Ham Sandwich” Trump
So much for getting (((their))) vote I guess.
“President Trump indicted by NYC grand jury”
I am guessing that now that J6 has been proven to be a government inside job and all bullshit, the machine is looking to force the people into actually doing something that lets them crack down on anyone that opposes the corruptocracy and the dnc crime syndicate it owns.
Personally, I think they were going to back out but the Tranny Day of Vengeance was getting too much press so they needed to dangle a shiny thing in front of the media and change the conversation before a real backlash built up.
Also, bad news coming about Ukraine’s glorious victory being postponed for a couple centuries.
“Donald Trump Indictment Includes over 30 Counts Related to Business Fraud”
This here is how I know this is all shit being flung against a wall hoping something, anything, sticks. Trumps business is run by lawyers and other people, so pretending that Trump did this directly is only something idiots fall for.
Yes, I dread opening my social media this morning. I know there’s going to be a retard chorus of “We finally got him. Hurr. Durr.”
How many times do they have to be promised they will get to kick the football only to see it be moved by Lucy while they whiff, before they finally get that they are being played by evil fucking people?
Never. That’s the same reason they hate and fear us. They are entirely dependent upon their worldview where government is good, and we always need more of a good thing. Just as we are always one gun law away from stopping school shootings.
Stupid really is worse than evil.
Yeah, the people that despite all facts and a never ending series of failure after failure by government keep pretending government fixes things baffle me. I surmise it is a mental disorder where if they admitted their was no government to come save them, they would be totally on their won and lots.
own and lost….
I think a lot of them aren’t being played anymore. There is an entire class of people whose entire self is wrapped up in this political soap opera stuff. They personally have achieved nothing. They personally do next to nothing. They are, both left and right, true NPCs. Their emotions are not their own. Their words are not their own. Those things are their TEAM’s for the using. They’re not being played. They’re being parasitized Matrix-style for their emotional and social capital.
Hoffer looms large.
“When the great Tao is forgotten,
goodness and piety appear.
When the body’s intelligence declines,
cleverness and knowledge step forth.
When there is no peace in the family,
filial piety begins.
When the country falls into chaos,
patriotism is born.”
“When they lose their sense of awe,
people turn to religion.
When they no longer trust themselves,
they begin to depend upon authority.”
Or as Franklin put it “when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.”
Some of us don’t feel the compelling need to become sheep. Some can’t live without being sheep.
Herd animals will be herd animaled…
In my Fallout mods I have where you can make NPCs perform tasks by assigning them to this little rug, I have noticed that the greeters at wal-mart are standing on same such little rugs. Maybe I AM inside a video game…
“Nashville Transgender Shooter’s Manifesto Will Be Released to Public”
After they edit or censors it? Cause I don’t need the manifesto at this point to know the motive of this evil fucking woman. Dead name my balls.
There is also the caveat that it will be released after the FBI is done with it. And we know the FBI will sit on things for years because it’s still “an ongoing investigation”.
I wouldn’t be surprised this never get released. Period. Because this is going to expose the evil agenda of the machine.
It might also have an acknowledgement section that mentions a FBI by name.
“Special thanks to G. Manuel Hoover for all the good ideas!”
IF Trump could suppress his ego a bit and think, then right now is the chance to cement an alliance with DeSantis. It was never gonna happen incrementally. This is sortof a friction weld.
He should step back and be seen fighting the (ahem) trumped-up charges and become the public face of the partnership while DeSantis becomes the actual candidate for the future.
Gonna do it? Doubt it.
Suppress his ego? Ask him to stop consuming oxygen why don’t you?
Well statistically and biologically, that’s gonna happen reasonably soon anyway. So part of “grow a brain” is to figure that out and leave an obvious “annointed” successor in a winning situation, instead of just flaming out.
What would he care about a successor – he’ll be off the stage, there will be no more applause for him.
Legacy. Being the one to (in his mind) pick a successor, set a course for the future, etc. Something bigger than oneself.
That’s what a real man would do.
But he’s him. So like I said – grow a brain.
Once Bassett died, there was no one to stop Trump’s ego from destroying the USFL.
Agree that it will never happen. If DeSantis offered Trump a high level position in his administration like a task force for rooting out the swamp, maybe.
Nobody less ruthless than Stalin can root out the swamp.
And when it comes down to it – did Stalin actually clean out a swamp in the Soviet Union? Or did he kill off mostly competent people? It’s so easy to believe a stupid story because it promises a happy outcome at no cost to you!
You are are right of course. I have my doubts about both of them, but yeah a team-up might work.
DeSantis did say that Florida wouldn’t cooperate with any extradition proceedings due to the dubious nature of the whole thing.
The line I will use here is don’t let perfect become the enemy of good. They are still politicians, and inherently will have flaws which irritate. Would they provide a bulwark against WEF-sponsored societal collapse? Yes they would. That is all you can ask for at this point.
^^^THIS^^^
I want people that will stand up against the WEF/globalist cabal, the CCP and the people it has bought and owns in our corruptocracy, and that in general believe America, for all its flaws, was better than the alternatives.
That’s a big point about the dollar as reserve currency – it is necessary to make the globalist system work. Assume even a significant portion of trade goes the China-Brazil route, that’s going to impede globalism.
They are already hard at work replacing the dollar with a central bank run crypto currency so they can keep playing this modern monetary insane shit.
Good luck with that.
Doesn’t stop them from doing real destructive shit to take us there…
We get destruction in one form or another – it’s what humans do.
Would DeSantis truly be any different than Biden, Obama, or Bush? I seriously doubt it. He’s part of the controlled opposition. A professional actor (like almost every politician) brought in to hijack the MAGA element, neutralize it, and bring it back safely within GOP control. Just as was done with the Tea Party.
It spoke volumes that the Senate was receiving briefings that there was no 2016 election interference from Russia, and not a single Republican senator came forward to dispel the Democrats rants about Russian election stealing. It’s a uniparty solidly through.
DeSantis is one of the few politicians who frequently says stuff that I agree with. If anyone could peel off enough reflexively leftist voters in swing states, that would be him IMO.
Ballots, not votes.
As of right now there is no path to 270.
Nah you just go down 79, hit 70 west and the interchange with 270 is about 25 miles.
Because frankly, we need it — and not to steal the good Pope’s thunder… but Things you can only do when you’re young and cute (and related)!
I give the China-Brazil agreement less than 2 years before they agree to some 3rd party stable currency. Or, the trade between the two will diminish as long as they insist on their own currencies as both are even more manipulated (by the respective govts) than the dollar is!
Russia, India, and Saudi Arabia will also be major players in that deal.
With what? What common currency are they going to use? Without that, everything is bilateral and depends on which country is doing the more aggressive currency manipulation (for their benefit).
You are gonna be my prison bitch. NO! YOU are gonna be my prison bitch!..
/Prison bitches fighting over who will be bitched…
We’ll see if they manage to come up with a commodity basket to value against. It’s a tall order, but there is motivation to do so. Whatever happens, the movement away from the dollar appears to be real and gaining steam.
And we’ll see who has how much gold in their central banks.
Hahahaha, and people think the dollar is unreliable.
Well, when the dollar and the international banking settlement system becomes a weapon of war…
Exactly. What was the world like 6-700 years ago?
Personally, I think it’s too early to tell what will happen.
All I really know is that the monetary regime which has been in place for almost eighty years is ending and the transition phase is going to be rough. There’s a lot of very powerful entities with different ideas about what should come next. I’m just hoping to not get stomped on.
I also know that when it comes to banking, there are practically zero politicians who understand it and aren’t lying about the situation.
The only thing a politician is an expert at is getting elected. All other knowledge is secondary, at best.
I give the thing 5 years before it goes in the shitter. You can’t trust any of the information coming out of these countries, except for sort of India. And Indian financial statements are generated by starting with the desired profit and cooking the books in reverse until you get the numbers to balance. In other words, the whole thing is a fiction.
It has all the problems the Euro has, but with even more authoritarian governments that are even more corrupt than France or Germany.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said his state “will not assist” in any extradition request by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg amid what he called “questionable circumstances” while slamming the charges against former President Donald Trump as “un-American” and as a “weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda.”
It’s treason then.
“In other unrelated news… President Biden is sending a resupply convoy to Fort Sumter, South Carolina….”
It really does seem like the Democrats want to have Civil War 2.0 despite how the first one went for them.
“This time We’ve got the North!”
Civil war with no quarter. None of that reconciliation bullshit next time. Slaughter the losing side as traitors.
So… setting courthouses on fire is still cool, or nah?
Well, storming legislative bodies is all in vogue again — so like the “Be attractive, don’t be unattractive” rule — I’m sure it is fine as long as you fall under the “Be a marxist, don’t not be a marxist” check.
Uh….
The Grand Jury has acted upon the facts and the law.
No one is above the law, and everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence.
Hopefully, the former President will peacefully respect the system, which grants him that right.
…that’s not how it’s supposed to work.
Yup… someone’s still high on J6 Kanagaroo Court fumes, it seems.
If nobody is above the law, why are Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and multiple members of the Biden family out there living large & in charge?
As SDF-7 noted, it is fine as long as you fall under the “Be a marxist, don’t not be a marxist” check.
Bragg is a reasonable prosecutor?
Isnt Sharpton still wandering around while owing the IRS millions ?
That must be his reparations…
Just noticing that makes you racist.
Wesley Snipes has a sad.
Didn’t know we supplanted the Code Napoleon for the Constituton…
Pelosi won’t be happy until she can usher in Code Stalin.
I think the second sentence is actually worse. At least the drunken moron understands the basic idea that “everyone gets their day in court.”
It’s much worse that she believes that the government grants us rights.
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits unexpectedly ticked higher last week, hitting the highest level in three weeks.
Figures released Thursday by the Labor Department show initial claims for the week ended March 25 rose to 198,000 from the 191,000 recorded a week earlier. That marks the highest level since late February, although it is still below the 2019 pre-pandemic average of 218,000 claims.
Listen, Jack. It’s the best economy ever. Especially since Bad Orange Man crashed it.
I like “unexpectedly.” Who didn’t see this coming, with the ending of the COVID gravy train?
“Trump’s indictment rests on this bizarre legal theory and has three major flaws”
It is all banana republic level bullshit. Shameful. The crooks in charge wield the law as a weapon against their enemies and to protect those they control & own. That is why the Clintons, Bushes, Obamas and Bidens are still presented as good people when they are tops in various crime syndicates while the one guy that told them he wanted to curtail the corruptocracy’s criminal use of its power, is an enemy of the state.
Our country is run by a cabal of evil fucking people that hate the fact the serfs won’t just shut the fuck up and let them do what they want.
Soviet Union was not banana republic! Beria approves of this prosecution.
Tomorrow morning we look at a house way the hell out to where the hills almost meet the mountains. Would have an hour commute each way 3 days a week, but don’t even care anymore. Just looking for a place to watch from a distance as the American Empire comes in for a crash landing.
An hour each way isn’t too. bad. I used to do that. It will be worth it.
Luxury. We used to dream of living in a box on the road! *cough*
Oh, right… different rant. Yeah, back before I went officially remote, my commute was 2 hours. A lot of that is due to the crazy road layout through the “mountain” (overgrown hills, really) passes… if I could go due west, it would be less than an hour. As it is, to get to Silly Valley, have to swing south or north and then back the other way enough to stretch it out. Being California, no chance they’d improve roads or build another one, of course….
… Shit, I think my commute is slow when it takes me a full half hour.
I did 1 1/2 hours each way, 5 days a week for over ten years. I wore out two good cars and another was irreparably wrecked when it was rear-ended. I do not miss it. I will say that W@H makes me fat though. Always there is a tradeoff.
When I worked at a steel mill, it was 99.6 miles from my driveway to our front gate. I had to go right through CIncy, and usually in the morning Id leave in time to miss (most of) the traffic, and it took me around 90 minutes. Coming home was a different story, since rush hour in CIncy/N. Kentucky starts around 3 pm.
There were nights it took me 3 hours.
Reminds me of the few days I drove to NoVA. Traffic wasn’t bad at 0-dark-30 but the roads where packed 8 hours later. I noticed a lot of the federales showed up well after I arrived but left when I did. It was similar to the ones that put in 9 hour days but rode the same trains I did for an 8 hour day.
RoaT, you’re forgetting that government multiplier.
My longest ever commute was 22 minutes (normal traffic). I knew it was too long when I bought the house.
Perhaps a smaller house, or locating the office closer to the bedroom.
I chose the latter. Bedroom to office is now two flights of stairs (Bedroom is upstairs, office is in basement).
Roads are racist.
So, not only is Somalia a libertarian paradise, it isn’t racist!
I spent an hour each way on a train for 11 years. I would have taken a pay cut to work from home before COVID.
Yes. It was time lost, forever. I was not productive while driving for work or home. I would not be able to host Thursday movie night, or write additional content here if I still had to do that.
At least with a train you can do something, like read a book.
Driving is worse. Although I would listen to econtalk podcasts, so it wasnt a complete waste.
I tolerated the commute because I could do other things. Still sucked to spend a couple hours each day, if no delays, stuck on a train.
Totally agree, just better than the smae amount of time driving, stuck in traffic.
1.25 hours door to door. Roughly 50 minutes of that is train.
By NYC standards that is just about normal. Unless you walk to work and live in the neighborhood. Even that takes 20 minutes.
My walk to Penn Station and the office is 15 minutes one way.
It’s Cali, just park at the park and ride and take your high speed rail.
Did you live in Patterson?
Very close… about 20 miles south.
An hour each way sounds like hell to me.
On the plus side, two hours away from the family and work everyday. Crack open a beer, slide the seat back, throw the feet up on the wheel…
I’m just under an hour, but it’s all back roads with very little traffic. Worst part is getting behind a school bus on the morning route.
One of my priorities when looking for a house each time we moved was the commute. They were mostly 20 – 30 minutes. The year we lived in Chicago it was around 30 unless the traffic was randomly fucked up. Unless I lost a job and got another one and the same city, I would never voluntarily have taken on a commute of an hour each way or more.
An hour commute is right at the limits of what I can stand. My current commute is 20 min. That is about right for me (20-40 minutes). You can get your day out of your head on the way home and get your mind right on the way there.
The worst for automobile wear and tear is the 1 hour balls out on a toll road commute. That one had me going through tires, in the winter the salt killed anything unprotected under the hood, and lots caffeine required on both ends. 85-95mph with the radar love active the whole time.
20 minutes is my upper limit, my commute in SC was just over that and drove me crazy. Especially when traffic would push it up to 30 in the afternoon.
Best of luck on the place. I hope it’s the spot. Country homes rock.
I made the move back in ’20. Best move I ever made. I have to drive (4 hours) into Charlotte for three days a week (I have a room in a house rented there). But, I wouldn’t move for the world.
Thanks. If we do buy, we’d probably keep the rental for a while longer. The commute would be half highway and city, and half country roads in the sticks.
Hopefully you can dial that back to 2 (or 1!) days a week.
Someone on this board (I forget who) said your neighbors should be far enough away you can take a leak off your front porch. This is true.
I can but I would still pee on my pants
They do know that Trump can run for prexy even from Rikers, right?
Maybe it is Sean and his avatar, but I keep thinking of The Deadly Assassin — “That’s just a legal dodge!” “No sir, it is my Constitutional right.” and all.
🙂
I think it’s a combo of trying to make their dipshit supporters happy and draining him of his resources and time to campaign.
They have to counter balance it with rejuvenating Trump’s base and handing him a ton of sympathy from fence sitters. But they are not intelligent enough to see that far.
I expect him to get millions in donations in record time because of this idiot move by the corruptocracy. The only virtue and boon for us is that the corruptocracy is basically run by a bunch of credentialed idiots with incredibly high opinions of their abilities and skills but that are mediocre at best, if not outright incompetently stupid.
Yep and the idiots will pony up the cash even though Trump showed no loyalty to the people who supported him in the first place.
Weird luggage thief says hi!
‘Orning ‘ordles — DuoTri is back, and I almost flubbed it. Main event was okay (for me), mediocrity by y’all’s standards:
Daily Duotrigordle #394
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Time: 04:38.29
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Letters: A E I L N P R
My score: 198 points
My longest word: 8 letters
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Play Blossom:
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OMG complete roll of the dice on TR
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Blossom Puzzle, March 31
Letters: A E I L N P R
My score: 307 points
My longest word: 9 letters
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Play Blossom:
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Come to college, let your freak flag fly, that’s why you’re here, right?
https://hub.jhu.edu/2023/03/30/gender-affirming-closet/
I remember when Hopkins was indifferent to narcissistic student whining. It was “suck it up, buttercup, or fail out”
People keep catering to the whiny bunch of asshats with mental disorders and narcissistic personalities.
But enough about our political class.
That left a mark….
“Even if folks aren’t engaging with the service, it’s indicative of our commitment to promoting inclusivity on campus,” Nawrocki says.
Lol.
It’s all about meeeeeee…….
It’s narcissists all the way down.
Funny how inclusivity, and tolerance, always seems to mean “people that agree with me”….
and people that serve me.
Well, these people know their proper fucking place….
DON’T LET THAT MASK SLIP UNDER YOUR NOSE MARIA! AND WHERE THE FUCK IS MY MACCIATO AND MIMOSSA ALREADY?
Italian Spiderman is on it….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imZWJTWIlDM
You are supposed to pimp slap your sammich makers.. Not punch them… Ruins the wares..
The Gender Affirming Closet
So, if they get this, will they finally go back into the closet?
carefully inventoried
Good. My sensitive skin can’t handle anything under 1600 thread count, and I don’t need to be wasting my time if the shade of teal isn’t correct.
The Lyin’, The Which? and the Wardrobe.
So it looks like the guy orange man likes to call “Meatball Ron” or “DeSanctimonious”, whatever your take may be, is not going to let the child molesters at Disney get away with their workaround to avoid Florida removing their special privileges. Burn that shithole down!
https://s.abcnews.com/images/International/paltrow-trial-gty-jt-230330_1680220000700_hpEmbed_3x2_992.jpg
“If I ever see you on the slopes again, I’ll break the rest of your ribs.”
“Resistance is futile. The GOOP will assimilate you.”
I kinda dig this bitch.
Paltrow is a top-notch troll. A real pro. Vagina-scented candles for $75 from a store named GOOP?
She’s retail’s PT Barnum.
If Trump (or any president or any ex- entitled to lifetime SS protection) would get incarcerated, what do they do with the SS detail?
DOC says, “Go home boys. We’ll take it from here.” ?
cellmates?
Be sure to turn the cameras off when you leave.
Realistically, the worst he’d get is sentenced to house arrest, ie internal exile, which is the ultimate end game IMHO.
“I have the best briar patch, believe me.”
Can he move into a motorhome and still campaign around the country?
There’s something about realistic interest rates that brings high flying pie-in-the-sky ideas down to earth.
https://twitter.com/gurgavin/status/1641642288160833536
One down, several thousand to go.
Meanwhile, closer to home, I drove past the old location of the closest CiCi’s pizza. The guy who owned it was great. I asked him about his business every time we stopped in. Super nice guy, dedicated to customer service and kids having a good time. Actually made the best thin crust pizza, believe it or not. Not on the bar.. had to order special.
Little league teams and church groups routinely filled the place. I brought busloads of kids many times. It was a real staple of the community.
COVID killed it. He had to close for the duration. Not really a takeout business. So they shuttered the place.
My world is worse for it. There is no comparable local location now.
But I think about him and the cost… He was in his fourties. This was his swing for the fences. He was making something. His own place, making good money. He put everything into that business. All of his savings. All of his credit. And he worked pretty much all day, every day.
Now he has nothing.
All for the lies of COVID and the overreach of our government.
Why do you hate grandma?
Because she borrowed on her grandchildren.
Bingo.
If the COVID state of emergency goes away, where does that leave the vaccines, which, as far as I’ve heard, are still only available under emergency authorization? Neither Pfizer nor Moderna have completed phase 3 trials, have they? And Pfizer can’t, without starting over, since they unblinded their control group. Or does the FDA cravenly adding the vaccine to the childhood vax schedule somehow bestow some legitimacy here?
The childhood vaccine schedule grants them a liability shield.
Which was the entire point of getting them on it.
Liability shield, yes, but that’s not the same as completing the regulatory process for actual approval. At least, in my ignorance, that how it seems to me.
There is no actual regulatory process anymore. It’s on the list because they said so.
They threw out the rulebook over these vaccines.
I am guessing most of the opposition to Biden going along comes from the connected people, mostly in government, that were hoping to hold their Pfizer & Moderna stocks for just a little longer, to avoid some tax or other liability that would be blatant when they dumped the stock and torpedoed its value…
Covidians will sign a waiver if you allow them to get all the jabs they want.
Two of the vaccines were fully approved a year ago for some but not all uses, which the EUA covers. Nor does the liability shield end immediately when the declaration ends. Those end dates are separate. In addition, as Scruffy says, adding to childhood vaccine schedule puts it on another permanent liability protection.
Yes, and approved without undergoing the normal trials, but with a FYTW level of “testing”.
Should have gone through “normal” trials and just been approved anyways, like Aducanumab. The Good Housekeeping seal of approval means more these days.
Did they finally approve the version actually available in the US? The original approval was for the German version, and the US version was not on the bio equivalent list last I heard (which was awhile ago).
No idea. As long as the EUA is in effect, it doesn’t matter* and the EUA version covers more.
*unless you’re Ozy trying to nail an oiled snake to the walll
I saw the Queers play late last year. This kind of music about teenager related angst is tough to hear when sung by a 50+ year old.
It was still fun though and they are still touring this year….coming to dive bar near you!!!
Yeah, I’ve lost my taste for seeing people still living out their youth. You had a good run, back then.
Who wants to go in on this with me?
zerohedge.com/geopolitical/abandoned-267-foot-superyacht-caribbean-possibly-heading-auction
You know how when we were kids the crazy anti-government nutcase would always say “all government is just organized crime”?
Yeah…. Not even hyperbole. They just steal as much as they think they can get away with, that is all.
I get that we all hate Russia right now, but all of this new “put sanctions on individuals” is pretty scary, and pretty shortsighted.
What makes them think China isn’t capable of just confiscating half of Apple? Or coming in and just taking Intel and AMD chip designs for “sanctions”?
It really seems crazy to start confiscating private property without due process as a matter of foreign policy.
There’s a price to be paid for tearing down the old system of protections. We’re going to have to pay it before we come to our senses again.
Hell, given they have to have everything in the name of Chinese owned companies in order to operate in the first place it isn’t like it is much of a stretch. I always expect it of anything that sufficiently catches the CCP’s fancy when they decide they can flip off the West. “Sorry… you can no longer collude with your former Chinese partner corporation. It still owns and operates all assets. ‘K bye!”
Don’t stick it in Commie.
I’d make an exception for Zhiyi Zhang.
Well, the ChiComs aren’t going to suddenly lose their longstanding respect for property rights and due process because of this, so . . . .
It would be extremely short-term thinking, which the Chinese are supposedly not inclined to (being long-term thinkers instead). That also unravels the globalist system that they not just benefit from, but completely depend upon.
It is part of their long term thinking. As long as the foreigners keep designing stuff for China, they are allowed to do business. The moment the foreigners try to leave, the counterfit machine cranks up and puts them out of business.
It’s a threat to keep the others in line.
“What makes them think China isn’t capable of just confiscating half of Apple?”
This is definitely on the dance floor. Not so aggressive as seizing Apple in-country assets though. Knock off Tim Cook and replace him with a new CEO from China. I expect that to happen soon.
The good kind of fencing, I guess.
The propaganda machine apparently doesn’t think much of these criminal indictments of Trump. They all seem to be taking the partisan politics / horserace angle on the whole thing, as if it is only about scoring political points and not about any actual crimes.
Even the wife, who is virulently anti-Trump took the attitude of “you were paying off a porn star… Who needs to pay off a porn star” loudly muttered in response to NBC’S coverage this morning.
NBC seemed well-breifed by the powers that be, keeping their messaging tight. The hook was “first ex-president ever indicted”. They hit that several times. They did not, however, include any detailed rundown of the egregious crimes committed.
Their big story? Love coverage of the fact that there have not been any protesters gathering as of yet. Apparently the establishment really wants to goad some Trump supporters into a situation where they can be used.
“first ex-president ever indicted” SO FAR
(mentally insert that Homer Simpson gif here)
It will become traditional.
Well…for only those residing outside the Uniparty trying to break in.
Yes.
Republicans did not retaliate the last go-around when they came after Tom Delay on invented political charges. But the moral panic of the 90s that peaked with Packwood being forced from office for dictating accounts of his sexual exploits while writing his memoirs did culminate with the impeachment of Bill Clinton after he was credibly accused of rape and then conclusively proven to have taken advantage of a young intern in the office.
When the Republicans did nothing about the CIA and FBI framing people to try to get them to flip on Trump, I thought this might be the last of it. They won. But no…
Now the Republicans have that scandal, Biden being on the take… And whatever Epstein had, if they can get their hands on it.
The opportunity to go scorched earth is huge. Even ignoring the bribery, Obama and Biden could both be felons for conspiring to frame Flynn. We have contemporaneous notes saying that they were told that the investigation found him clean and ordered FBI agents to go manufacture a lie during an interview. Everyone in the room is on the hook for that, and an aggressive prosecutor could use conspiracy laws to really ramp up the charges.
Which is why I am getting that nothing will happen. One side fights dirty. The other complains.
FIFY
Packwood being forced from office for dictating accounts of his sexual exploits while writing his memoirs
Uh, no. He resigned after the Washington Post ran an article detailing nearly a dozen women accusing his of sexual harassment and assault. Which turned out to be the tip of the iceberg and had been covered up by the hometown media for years
Fuck that RINO bitch. And Hatfield too.
I know there’s a lot Metallica non-fans here, but that’s a bit harsh.
I donno, De Re Metallica was a good book.
McCoy Rules!
The opportunity to go scorched earth is huge. Even ignoring the bribery, Obama and Biden could both be felons for conspiring to frame Flynn.
Why would the eGOP want to take down Obama and Biden?
Which is why I am getting that nothing will happen. One side fights dirty. The other complains.
Nothing will happen because there is one side, not two sides.
Well… Yeah. There’s that too…
How many times can one man be acquitted?
I still maintain my shock over the fact that he has been the object of so many extremely motivated investigations and they have not found anything. Even this is a zero (if it is as described).
New York developer and organized crime go hand in hand. How he skates is unfathomable. He really must be the biggest boy scout on the planet (while being notably gross in his personal life)
-3 felonies a day?
Either that or Vito paid a visit to Joe and explained how long his leash was unless he wanted to get Kennedy’d.
Some see the two impeachments and now indictments as proof that OMB is a corrupt politician. Others see the acquittals after so much scrutiny of how unusually non-corrupt OMB is.
Friday Funbags are now mandated by the CDC.
https://archive.ph/ayBQ7
Daily Ray of Sunshine
I’d give my ‘gift’ back. It was a surprise. It changed my life forever. For the past 2 years I’m reminded of it every day.
The real Law & Order candidate.
I hope Trump is taking notes. Because it would be wonderful to quote this back to her when she is indicted for immigration fraud for marrying her brother.
The machine has no need to take her down yet, do they? Has she gotten too uppity?
That entire extreme left class got brought to heel very quickly, didn’t they? I wonder how big the graft is?
😂🤣
I thought by definition this was the Law & Order candidate.
I remember Rush Limbaugh having such a schoolgirl crush on Thompson, back in the day.
Joking aside, we are at that point – aren’t we? Same place the Roman Republic reached around 90 BC with Marius and Sulla. The normal rules for the political process were thrown out the window and they stated playing for blood.
Yep, the consequences for abusing the public go from being voted out office, to losing your head. I don’t think our ruling elite has studied enough history.
Any day now, the FedGov is going to raise the retirement age; when that happens, watch out!
It’ll be phased in years after the current office-holders are out; how stupid do you think they are? They’re not going to nutpunch voters that could turn them out (like those anywhere near the current retirement age).
My first SS payment should arrive on June 1. Pay me, bitchez!
I remember it was 3 months after I started my first part-time job – and the first time I had ever seen FICA – when FedGov raised the retirement age.
Warren rolled out the same line…its the Demo talking point.
Strip her of her fraudulent citizenship and deport her back to the place she loves so much.
Worked for geriatric Nazis.
Note that she was lucky to escape an evil shithole only to come here and try and turn the community that took her in into the same shithole she left. She truly is a progressive.
Just like Jayapal.
She is despicable.
People like that really do need to go back where they came from. And no, that’s not racial- any Europeans who want to chirp up on healthcare or taxes can go back too.
There has been some local accusations that one of the reasons that her family history is so murky is because they actually were from Family A who pretended to be part of Family B because Family B won a bunch of refugee slots to come to the US.
It is hard to follow because of the way Somali names work and because the vetting process for those refugees was pretty shoddy.
This is a ridiculous take when oh so many are above the law.
Good morrow, alles!
The Mr. Clean meets SMOD pic is the best thing evar.
Do they need to sanitize it first?
Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale’s manifesto is set to be released to the public after the FBI and its highly skilled team of criminal profilers analyze its contents, a Nashville City Council member revealed to The Post.
The FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit is working “in tandem with” the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) to complete “a very in-depth analysis of certain aspects of the shooter’s life,” Robert Swope said Wednesday.
“The manifesto is going to be released. It’s just a matter of when. There are some incredibly brilliant psychological minds and psychological analysts combing through her entire life,” added Swope, who is a member of the city council’s Public Safety, Beer and Regulated Beverages Committee.
They could do that after releasing it. In fact, even more brilliant minds would have access to it if they did so.
Not brilliant, reliable minds that will come to the right conclusions after being filtered through the groupthink.
The FBI vetting it frankly makes my first thought “So they had an informer egging her on.”
Yes, FBI — that’s where the country is at when they think of you now, you bastards.
I did not go there, but now that you bring it up, there certainly is a pattern.
The Federal Bureau of Instigation?
So releasing it destroys the copies the Feeb
phrenologistsprofilers are working from? And how is this a time-sensitive issue? Do they suspect that there are ore transavengers out there?“Phrenologists,” for the win!
Worst comic book ever.
[orson welles clapping gif]
And the live action stage version is even worse.
Just identify as a woman and there should be no issue here.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/21837496/aroused-sister-in-law-towel/
Everyone should do it with 2 sisters at once… It can be real fun.
I assume these are girl inches.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/world-famous-porn-star-reveals-29595436
From the comments:
“Long and thin goes right in, doesn’t please the lady.
Short and thick does the trick, manufactures baby!”
I might not get in there too far, because I am shaped like a tuna can, but I will scrape the shit out of the sides…
/someone I knew
More robust than my typical retort of “Long to tease, thick to please.”
A too local thought. Wonder how this indictment will affect the “most important election evah!” for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat?
For a while we’ve been getting inundated with stories from proggies about how they have to win this seat. That would make the court have a liberal majority and once that happens they can really get shit done!
Trump’s indictment might overshadow abortion as the big issue.
Puts the media who has an obsession with Trump in a bind. Run breathless stories for months to come on the person they hate, neglecting other stories or don’t run stories on the person that has been paying their bills for the past 7 years
None of the ads here are about abortion. Maybe in Milwaukee and Madison, but not out here bumpkinland. Here they are trying to tie him to corruption.
She’s quite the candidate too. Think I’ll take the greasy corruptocrat over the judge who keeps letting sex offenders out.
Responding to Trump’s indictment:
It’s hard not to like this guy.
Dennis Trainor Jr
@dennistrainorjr
#LockHimUp
#LockTrumpUp
I firmly believe that most people currently in jail do not belong there. There are better ways to find #justice than through incarceration.
That said, it is hard for me to conceive of a justice that does not include Donald Trump dying in prison
No idea who that is… But he is a blue check
“actor, writer, producer”
“serious thoughts person” 🙄
Anyone can be a blue check now…its what drives them crazy
If they pay for it – oh horror.
I hear they are planning a weekend of vengeance.
KJP: “Our hearts go out to the trans community, as they are under attack right now.”
Trans activist kills some Christians. Trans community hardest hit.
To some extent, they believe this.
They simply cannot bring themselves to have sympathy for some troglodyte country Christian kids. That would be embarrassing to admit among their own.
They are trying to frame this as their lack of sympathy for the parents (see awful woman on Libs of TikTok), but they are not doing it well (because it really can’t be done).
Did we do the video of her confronting AOC about her defamation?
It was pretty good. AOC flipped out and resorted to name-calling and ran away.
The left unanimously celebrated this huge win by AOC.
I’m not a parent but….
Why isn’t the narrative that the left-wing media and politicians are radicalizing these people with propaganda that everyone is after them, resulting in these events?
Oh yeah, that only works on things that can paint as right wing.
Cancelled –
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11924171/Trans-Day-Vengeance-CANCELED-credible-threat-life-safety.html
“The demonstration would have been held outside the Supreme Court but ‘astronomical amounts of hate from the world’ forced them to cancel, TRAN said.”
So they can read a room.
Agent provocateur translator:
“our threats of violence have possibly lead to a situation where people might fight back”.
We planned a violent event, but your focus on us being cuntes made us cancel…
Hah!
When leftist do evil shit the news is always focus on and blame the reaction of the people that are not the leftist scum.
Those seven year olds were asking for it. /Democrats
Fuck her.
I saw a headline that the “Trans day of vengeance” was a hoax that tricked Tucker Carlson.
NPR had a story like that today. They started with the victims but made sure to end with reminding everyone that the T’s are not to blame and must be loved.
Do not interfere with your enemy while he is busy making a mistake.
Alvin Bragg has irreparably damaged our country in an attempt to interfere in our Presidential election.
As he routinely frees violent criminals to terrorize the public, he weaponized our sacred system of justice against President Donald Trump.
The American people will not tolerate this injustice, and the House of Representatives will hold Alvin Bragg and his unprecedented abuse of power to account.
Oh spare me the sacred system bullshit. We get enough of that from the retards on the other side of the aisle.
“Democrats fume after Biden breaks with party on COVID-19 emergency”
This is hilarious. They’re mad because he’s leading them and didn’t give them good matching orders. Now all the Democrats in the house who voted against it are on record against ending the COVID ’emergency’. Sadly the Republicans won’t do anything with that nugget. Three years late, but at least we eventually ended it, Republicans aren’t entirely useless.
Good morning, Banjos!
It appears that people have been conditioned not to work and have adjusted accordingly. Just wait for UBI.
Nashville Transgender Shooter’s Manifesto Will Be Released to Public
I doubt we’ll ever see the freak’s “manifesto.” The whole purpose of this movement – and government backing – is to demoralize, humiliate and terrorize the normies.
Caravan Of More Than 1,000 Migrants Crosses Into El Paso Illegally As Chaos Erupts In Mexico
My question: where are all the illegals going after they are released?
Great song! Here’s another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYifPVaR6lE
Good luck out there today people!
Honk honk.
President Biden issued an official proclamation declaring that transgender Americans “shape our nation’s soul” and established a holiday relating to the group this week.
Biden issued the proclamation Thursday to mark March 31, 2023, as the Transgender Day of Visibility, a day some transgender activists have renamed to “day of vengeance.”
“Transgender Americans shape our Nation’s soul — proudly serving in the military, curing deadly diseases, holding elected office, running thriving businesses, fighting for justice, raising families, and much more,” Biden wrote in the Thursday morning proclamation.
“Today, too many transgender Americans are still denied…rights and freedoms,” the president’s statement continued. “A wave of discriminatory state laws is targeting transgender youth, terrifying families and hurting kids who are not hurting anyone. An epidemic of violence against transgender women and girls, in particular women and girls of color, has taken lives far too soon.”
Trans is not real. These people need counseling, not scalpels. Leave the kids alone. I cannot say, in polite company, what the people pushing this agenda deserve. Miss me with all of this nonsense.
The problem is that the counseling is recommending scalpels.
If they keep coming after kids, they’re going to get scalpeled.
Body dysphoria is all its form is an illness.
Do counselors recommend anorexics to not eat? Of course not.
I know, I know, preaching to the choir here. But how can they not see the evil they are doing?
What makes you think they can’t?
Touche.
I said it before, but I thought Atlas Shrugged was the most important Rand novel. But it was The Fountainhead all along.
I just didnt get it 25 years ago. It didn’t make any sense.
“Biden issued the proclamation Thursday to mark March 31, 2023, as the Transgender Day of Visibility,”
Shooting a bunch of kids will definitely get you noticed.
Please explain how this isn’t the most tone deaf administration in history.
Meh, we have autism awareness days, breast cancer awareness days, prostate cancer awareness days, and heart health awareness days, why not have another illness awareness day?
I’d rather we got rid of them all. There is also an entire month already.
I’m fine with Body Dysmorphia Day.
I’ll take that compromise.
Thank you for pointing out indirectly that I can’t spell.
There is the key, they don’t see it as an illness…
^this
It is meant that the deplorables must accept the mentally ill as they are.
Well… As they want to be viewed, not as they are, that’s a hate crime.
My ex late wife thought she was the Virgin Mary, in her more lucid times. Our 2 kids disagreed.
Didn’t help that the kids were names Jesus and James.
They are so full of wellness they need to take medications every day or they will become ill.
Same logic as vaccine pushers, which makes them natural allies.
Because autism, breast cancer, prostate cancer and heart disease are not celebrated as good things.
OFFS.
You are such a stupid cunte.
Still doesn’t have the word “own” in it, Motherfuckers
That’s the level of mental processing we’re dealing with and he’s one of the smarter ones.
Lol, just stick to beating up the phrase well regulated.
“shape our Nation’s soul”
Nope…
And the thought that they’d be politically bold enough to do this after the other day is not good at all.
It’s really damn funny to hear talk of the Nation’s soul from people who don’t believe in God.
The Nation’s Soul in this instance was begotten from the State; all for the State.
What do you mean?
Pro-abortion Biden is a devout Catholic, just like the Pope.
Teen Pokémon player booted from tournament after laughing at pronoun question
So either nervous laughter or legitimate shade. Either it shows you can’t reach peak derp.
“You’re here to play a game, but if you don’t answer this irrelevant question how we want you to, you’re out” No wonder kids are confused.
Holy crap what an asshole.
I would have a hard time not flipping the table and walking out of there, maybe accompanied by some choice words at “they/them”.
“don’t be a jerk about it.”
Since he got kicked out over it, sounds like the judge was a jerk.
Honestly, asking someone’s pronouns is the most insulting thing you could do to someone.
“Can you tell me what you are, cause I can’t even tell.”
“If you aren’t fluent enough in English to understand how pronouns are used, you shouldn’t be in that role”
It’s narcissism and the power to make you dance to their tune.
Don’t you dare mock my power grab.
Teenager Makani Tran detailed his disqualification from a Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) tournament in Charlotte after appearing to laugh after being asked his pronouns by a judge.
He’s a Tran? Doesn’t that confer protected status? I can’t keep up any more.
OT – I hate the Fox News website with a passion. They have some javascript garbage that causes the site to hang on non-chromium browsers (Firefox, Falkon…) so I need to either disable javascript (which causes other issues) or fire up Brave.
Japan Curbs Semiconductor-Gear Exports as Ties With China Chill
This timing on all this is really interesting. China just disappeared a Japanese national in the pharma industry for corporate espionage last week. I’m wondering if that was to pressure delaying this decision.
When the last time Japan conducted pharma research in China…
The problem is that the counseling is recommending scalpels.
When the only tool you have is a scalpel, everything looks like it needs to come off.
Good news – the Vegas mass shooting has been solved. They dropped a 15 second clip in the local news last night how they think the Vegas shooter was motivated by gambling losses and he was sore over poor treatment by the casinos. Makes total sense.
What shooting?
Well if a fortified pipeline at the bottom of the ocean was blown up by some yahoos on a rented pleasure yacht, why not have the Vegas shooter be motivated by gambling losses.
Was Pravda this ridiculous?
“Was Pravda this ridiculous?”
Want the old chestnut that they’re lying and we know it, but we can’t do anything about it?
Sounds like we’re right there.
We know they are lying.
They know they are lying.
They know that we know they are lying.
We know that they know we know they are lying.
And still they continue to lie.
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Demoralization (and it works!)
Only because you expect to be led.
Excuse me?
Tundra, well known for his yearning of a strong and steady hand in the tiller.
I am just going to assume it was the general ‘you’.
Honestly I don’t even get the point. It’s demoralizing because the common people aren’t doing anything, aren’t standing up and saying ‘this is all bullshit!’ there’s no repercussions to the system or politicians.
Yes, general you, not specific. It is what the common people aspire to. Doesn’t matter if they’re being led to the slaughter house – you [more specifically here] only upset them if you try to warn them. The kind of people Joker was talking about with going along with the plan.
Just want to say your initial use of the general ‘you’ was confusing as hell the and not at all intuitive.
That’s it.
Didn’t even realize it was from Solzhenitsyn. He’s the biggest black/white pill depending on how you read it.
LOL what a crock.
So he shot people at a concert?
Seems pretty SUS.
And his backup plan was a concert in Chicago. Yeah, clearly gambling losses were the reason.
He also checked out other locations outside of Vegas, but you know, he loves to gamble!
Shoulda gamboled, there’s an opening right now on the Glibs
It would have been more believable if they blamed the country music.
I’m not a musician, but since country music is an abomination, you can see how it wasn’t really the shooters’ fault.
/Democrat
“Now it’s canon. This case has been solved. Stop asking questions. The news already reported it was gambling losses. What we really need in this country is gun control.”
Did they ever explain that whole “we just couldn’t figure out what room he was shooting from” thing?
http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2023/03/looking-back-part-two.html
UK beer sales stats from the 1970s.
At least 3 of us find this interesting.
A great quote from a different article on that site, pulled entirely out of context, but it is amusing, and describes the site to a T.
Bolding, if I got the tag right, is mine.
Fuck you, fuck you…
I laughed.
Well done
I love it
My work got feedback from their survey of employees that they’re eating it time in meetings which have no clear goal and that aren’t prepared properly.
They sent an invite to me to go over budget with senior leadership this morning, no agenda, no sharing if the PowerPoint they were going to use… The meeting was planned in December but they invited me the morning of.
Then they spent an hour going over nonbudgetary stuff (including the survey which everyone from my group has already been privy to), good use of time. Way to go.
“Since we are all together lets go over some items before we get to the agenda.”
You guys get an agenda?
Sounds like it’s just a head fake anyway.
Having an agenda isn’t the same as following an agenda. I believe the agenda was only used to justify how long the meeting should be.
I pretty regularly decline meeting invites with the response “I don’t attend meetings with no posted agenda”.
Then I’m a double asshole and insist we stick to the agenda when I do show up.
I’ll let my boss know my new policy for his meetings.
Work in a highly regulated industry like I do.
We send invites to people on our team or others that we’ve spoken outside it that are blank and titled – “Follow up on yesterday’s discussion”.
“That’s unfortunate, but we accept your resignation.”
My wife recently replied to a meeting request with no agenda.
It simply stated, “No agenda, no attenda.”
I have a rule. No agenda, no meeting.
Someone doesn’t understand America.
With Trump facing arraignment, I am thankful federal law enforcement under Merrick Garland arrested over 1,000 insurrectionists from Jan 6, sending a strong signal that violent, anti-government protests from MAGA and militias will not be tolerated.
The same government that imprisoned him and his family in a concentration camp.
JFC he is on a special level of stupid.
He’s not opposed to camps. He just wants to limit them to his enemies.
I hope he’s getting hit with that on Twitter.
Get back in the camp, Korematsu-san.
We got him!
As surely as the sun rises and sets, Hollywood celebrities will share their hot takes on social media when major news breaks. And when news broke Thursday evening that their hated nemesis — former President Donald Trump — would be indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, left-wing entertainers erupted into a symphony of joy.
“I have you now.”
John Cusack comes off as completely unhinged.
He never over came his role as Lane Mayer….
Market is up today. I take that as few really care about Trump’s indictment. Life goes on.
I know I link to Steyn too much, but this video he posted of a chat with Douglas Murray is mandatory viewing for anyone who gives a shit about Western Civilization.
https://www.steynonline.com/13367/the-existential-question
One concept they discuss that some of you might be able to appreciate is that even Western atheists are culturally Christian whether they like it or not.
Difficult point to support if, looks around, Western culture is basically Christian. It runs into the same problems Spooner pointed out wrt the constitution and the government.
It also elides the apparent fact that ‘Christian culture’ is either Romano-Athenian or totalitarian.
Takedown
Of course, sick days often are announced that morning. So, if a typical school has 180 school days, they’ll need an emergency replacement armed officer 1.7 percent of the time. Who at the school will call around at 7 a.m. to try to hire a replacement? Where will that new armed guard come from? Who will have been responsible for training them before they arrive? What if they don’t?
Then there’s the matter of having one armed guard in every school. One person with a gun. Who will be accountable for that officer’s mental health, as well as ensuring that the officer receives the support that she or he deserves? For example, approximately 2.3 million Americans are bipolar. That’s about 0.7 percent of the population. If the same percentage holds for these armed officers, it would equate to nearly 900 school security guards nationwide suffering from just one particular mental illness — and one with risks of violent behavior if untreated.
Then there are the school entrances. Most have more than one. Some have four or more access points. An armed guard stationed at the south entrance of an elementary school cannot immediately stop an assailant at the west entrance. This is common sense.
Also common sense? There might be more than one assailant. One armed guard versus two or three guys with AR-15’s. Frightening.
So yeah, I guess we need multiple armed guards at each entrance, plus one or two officers patrolling the perimeter for would-be murderers looking to break a window or scale the roof and perhaps enter from above. Now we’re up to about $40 billion or $50 billion a year — conservatively speaking, of course.
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While an armed security guard in every school might make for nice politics, it’s a policy proposal befitting a child, not that of an elected official.
Genius political consultant who apparently watches a lot of Hollywood caper movies runs the numbers and proves increased school security is an absurd fantasy.What if a highly trained and heavily armed team of assassins strikes multiple points simultaneously? That lone brave officer is a dead duck, and mass slaughter will ensue. Presumably, the only grown up solution is more magic spells.
He mentions the possibility of a mentally unbalanced person ending up in the school cop position, but he doesn’t talk about schools being compelled to retain students who are known to have mental problems in the school genpop.
An awful lot of statistically unlikely “what ifs” and unsupported assertions there. Like the assumption that the distribution of bipolar is the same among armed security guards as in the general population.
Using the distribution, calculate the probability that other school staff will be mentally unbalanced. It’s not like staff go through security checkpoints.
Easier to just ban guns from private use.
Banks, Federal Buildings, State Buildings, Jewlery Stores (high end), and on and on are worth the costs….but not schools.
Privatize schools and they will find the right balance.
Why bother? Those guards would be overwhelmed if attacked by an infantry battalion.
Armed security or 25 guidance counselors?
How many guidance counselors are bi polar?
The explanation is ridiculous, but the point isn’t wrong. The closest realistic solution to making public schools safer is arming teachers. But arming teachers is not feasible in most urban government schools. Those guns will be taken by the students.
I came to the conclusion that government schools are not securable. There is no way to send your children to one and be reasonably assured of their safety.
I’m not following why anyone who carries a firearm as part of their EDC, either open or concealed, would send their children off a soft target. Why EDC for yourself but not your children? As the number of concealed carriers increase, maybe that will spur the checkout from government schools to homeschooling.
The simplest way to make public schools safe is to not make them compulsory. But too many people prefer the grift over child safety.
There is no way to send your children to one and be reasonably assured of their safety.
Live in rural Iowa and send you kids to small-town Iowa schools.
Those Amish kids in rural PA probably thought the same. Mass killers in this sense aren’t violent gang bangers. Urban vs. rural or wealthy vs poor don’t provide any protection. It’s all just an illusion of safety hoping the monster won’t come instead of standing ready to put the monster down.
https://babylonbee.com/news/mike-lindell-draws-sword-cuts-off-ear-of-officer-attempting-to-arrest-trump
This got a laugh from me.
Gold.
We need $15 million a year for capital expenditure, let’s continue to budget only $8 million. JFC
Clearly you do not work for the government, otherwise there would be a $15 millon budget for $8 million of capital expenditure.
Oh sorry, there is, but that’s going to salaries. 😂
Got to have priorities.
I went to see the Winery Dogs last night.
If you like their music and have the chance, they are worth seeing.
Those guys can put on a show!
The crowd was mostly old white guys and about a quarter of them had long hair.
My wife said to me, “You have found your people.”
It’s almost like information from various governments isn’t already known propaganda.
TikTok propaganda labels fall flat in ‘huge win’ for Russia
TikTok’s powerful algorithms..
LOL. They literally just show you what you want to see instead of trying to insert contradictory messages from “approved” sources.
Blitz
First lady Dr. Jill Biden will make a two-day, four-state blitz next week as part of the administration’s “Investing in America” tour, offering a preview of how she could be deployed in a possible reelection bid.
The first lady will travel to Colorado and Michigan, a key battleground state, on Monday followed by stops in Maine and Vermont on Wednesday where she will also be joined by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, a White House official previewing the trip told CNN.
In Vermont, she will appear with the state’s Republican Gov. Phil Scott, the official said, marking her latest effort to focus on issues that can draw bipartisan support. The first lady will also be joined by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Maine Gov. Janet Mills, both Democrats, in each of their respective states along with state and city officials.
During each of her stops, the first lady will tap into her own experience as an educator as she promotes how introducing high school and community college students to career-connected learning and workforce training programs helps prepare them for future jobs.
“President Biden and his administration are creating millions of jobs in infrastructure, clean energy, and manufacturing. These positions pay well. And many of them require associate degrees, certificates, or other hands-on instruction, not four years of college,” the first lady is expected to say over the course of her trip, according to an official previewing her remarks.
The first lady’s travel comes as the White House looks to tout President Joe Biden’s legislative accomplishments ahead of a likely reelection campaign, an endeavor the first lady has previously told CNN she is “all for.”
They’re a team, everybody. Two heads, better than one.
She’s an educator. She’s coming to educate you. We’ve never had it so good.
I didn’t realize the Bidens had enough money for her unelected to any official position ass around the country.
Wait ….
Why are the taxpayers footing her bill?
I’m sure she’s flying coach.
Why here? Aren’t we safely in the blue fold?
Also, JeffCo schools are firmly under the thrall of the Critical Consciousness fuckos. Not sure how much more the good doctor can move the commie needle.
“…many of them require associate degrees, certificates, or other hands-on instruction, not four years of college…”
Inspirational. Now the admin has turned from “learn to code” to “learn to insulate”.
Obama saying “shovel-ready” projects to me showed how much he despised people that use…ya know, shovels, and laboring to keep the lights on.
I can’t say I’ll particularly mourn the day Obama becomes a shovel-ready project.
LOL
That’s still the Bee, right?
Why are the taxpayers footing her bill?
What are you talking about? Her twatter profile says, “U S Government official”.
Now kneel and avert your gaze, if you know what’s good for you.
I can’t say I’ll particularly mourn the day Obama becomes a shovel-ready project.
*genteel applause*