Look, I can’t prose the way SugarFree does, and I can’t curate stories like him, either. So yeah, we’re cheating you out of this by substituting sugar for aspartame. But he’s tied up elsewhere today (something about Creosote Achilles), so deal with it.
Birthdays today include the Skipper (who also had a small role in the greatest baseball movie ever made); one of the biggest pieces of shit to ever serve on the Supreme Court; a shitty pitcher who wrote a funny damn book; a pretty damn good first baseman; a piece of shit politician– but I repeat myself; an actually interesting actress; the last Monkee; a guy who really got to the core of the issue and was a truly decent human being; and the dirtiest guy ever named Smiley.
And with that, we crash your blood glucose with Links.
Let me ‘splain this to you, JJ, since you’ve clearly taken a few extra shots to the head. He’s missed half of the last two seasons with injuries and lost all but one playoff game he’s ever been in. And wants $250MM guaranteed. Why is this a question?
I am shocked that TV performers play parts.
I am shocked that activist organizations lie.
I am shocked that propaganda organizations double down on propaganda when they’re caught lying.
I am shocked that an uber-Proggie city is racist.
She sobbed so hard that her husband finally got an erection.
Old Guy Music is an old song done by an odd grouping that somehow… works. Nickel Creek minus Chris Thile, but add Fiona Apple and Benmont Tench. It’s beautiful. Gave me goosebumps.
I came, I saw, I Firsted.
I’d like this…
“Veni. Vidi. Primi.” would have been better.
Being relevant would have been better.
If you aren’t going to post a true first at least have some style.
That’s mutually exclusive with the act.
Some guy who doesn’t even known that Latin has been banned in Western Firsting for generations now is going to tell me how to First.
“When muggles read the tweet talking about “mass shootings” they think “random spree shootings.”
READ ANOTHER BOOK.
“There is no doubt in my mind that that’s the largest contributor for the overall rise in crime, including murder, in 2020 and 2021.”
Also, masks.
Anyway, I think the Northwell.edu lie that’s on TV all the time about how “unsecured guns are the leading cause of death among children” is worse. It’s supposed to make you think it’s children accidentally killing themselves with unlocked guns.
Shocking.
Perhaps he needs to be more grounded.
He’s putting up a lot of resistance against the deep state and the MSM, their conduit for lies.
Perhaps he’s wired on coffee.
Or the circuits in town.
I didn’t think he had the capacitance for that type of thing.
If they breaker him, he’s off the circuit.
You shunt make this a pun thread
Ohm my goodness, but Swiss is going to have sparks flying out of his gaze.
He has to be careful, too narrow and he could get an arc.
There oughta be a Law against any Moore pun threads like this.
People will just flip-flop on the definition of the law anyway.
He will definitely not be happy about what you have all conducted in his absence by impeding his cool with your negative waves. His feedback might be very negative and only matched by his own distorted views on puns.
Careful, you’ll overload that comment.
Nice pussy.
Don’t get catty with Swiss now.
You’d prefer seeing the other end?
Well the other end isn’t as toothy
“healthfeedback.org”
Just what I need, another fact-checking organization that’s divorced from the facts.
It’s from a .org domain it must be completely balanced and fair!
But if it were .edu it would be completely scientific.
That information was “debunked” because we said so without evidence a long time ago.
Don’t bring your facts in here. It is settled science.
I read that as “Health Feed Bag. org”
Macaca!
There’s a blast from the past.
A lot of baseball birthdays, but still nothing about the WBC.
Y’all are fucking heathens.
The WBC isn’t happening until May. I mean, samples aren’t even due for another week and a half.
I’d narrow my gaze, but that’s Swisssssss’ territory.
We also learned that News Corp. Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch acknowledged under oath that some prominent Fox News hosts “endorsed” baseless claims the network knew to be wrong.
Did they KNOW those claims were wrong? Consensus is not proof.
Tell us about 2003 and Iraq war push, Rupert.
They still use the term “lies” in regard to election skepticism. If you honestly believe there was funny business, you’re not lying.
It raises the question of what Rupert knows about the Fox News daily operations anyway. I’ll bet he doesn’t know shit in reality. He just issues directives to not piss off advertisers like Pfizer.
Why is this revelatory revelation that Carlson passionately hates Trump supposedly so damning? Who gives a fuck?
Also, out of context.
Agreed. You can hate Trump and hate the Dems and call out their bullshit at the same time.
NO! YOU MUST CHOOSE!
Shit sandwich or giant douche – same as it ever was.
How did I get here? This is not my beautiful wife?
The issue lies with how they perceive the world. The ends justify the means. They cannot comprehend a set of principles that exist outside that rubric.
Bull Durham is my favorite ever baseball movie.
Major League.
That’s 2. BD reminds me of baseball’s version of Slap Shot. I’m a sucker for minor league sports.
Perhaps because of nostalgia Bade News Bears.
Eight Men Out for me
Also good. I liked League of their own, too.
Teen #1 had to watch Field of Dreams for film studies and called it the worst movie he has ever seen.
I watched that with SP who was laughing hysterically through the whole movie. “Oh my god, this is AMAZINGLY bad!”
It’s sappy as fuck, for sure, but it’s the good kind of sappy.
My favorite 2 are League of their Own and Bull Durham.
Yep, best baseball movie hands down.
The best baseball is seeing a game, a good movie about Baseball is looking at a different aspect, which Sayles does in spades.
The Battered Bastards of Baseball.
Good, but not really a movie.
I have to say, the only baseball movie I like is Moneyball, which really isn’t actually about baseball.
It was around the same time that Fox executives made no effort to obscure their support and allegiance to the Republican ticket.
NBC News always maintained a fastidious arm’s length neutrality in their coverage of Obama and the Democrats.
You can’t make a good movie about baseball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVP9WUGdgPg
Define “About”.
https://youtu.be/Z5u-H9OQT2c
Major League was good.
The juris is still out on that.
Why is this revelatory revelation that Carlson passionately hates Trump supposedly so damning?
It’s as plain as the nose on your face. “Hates Trump” = “Loves Biden”. What other explanation could there be?
Yup. It’s a (failed) attempt to undercut Carlson with the J6 skeptics.
“Hey, if they don’t want us around, just give ’em better weapons and training, then fence the neighborhood in. The problem will sort itself out soon enough.”
Sucks for the law-abiding poors who live there, but them’s the breaks.
And probably a lot more traffic tickets, etc, in the less dangerous parts of their territory to keep up the appearance that they are doing something.
Regarding Lamar Jackson. He wouldn’t play for his team when they needed him most at the end of the season. Compare to Mahomes who was playing on 1 ankle and won a Superbowl. Which QB do you think teammates will rally around?
I can remember when media would celebrate a player when he sacrificed his body for the team and rip a player that was “just in it for the money”. Listen to sports talk nowadays and they are telling Lamar, “don’t go out there until you get paid. You don’t want to risk an injury.”
No way in hell I’m giving that guy any guaranteed money if I can help it.
I’m enjoying sitting here on the sidelines being entertained by the Lamar situation.
If he was looking for the big money last year, sitting out those last several games sure as hell didn’t help him any.
Is it as entertaining as watching Deshaun Watson?
If you like watching other people’s happy endings, we’re not going to kink-shame you.
It’s still early enough I can have hope for this season. Give me until October for that to get stomped out.
Michelle Obama broke down shortly after leaving then-President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the former first lady candidly shared in a new podcast, as the emotions of leaving their family’s home after eight years and resentment over Trump taking office overwhelmed her.
“When those doors shut, I cried for 30 minutes straight, uncontrollable sobbing, because that’s how much we were holding it together for eight years,” Obama said, referring to her final trip aboard the presidential airplane.
“So this is what it feels like to be deposed from the throne? Does this mean we’re just regular people now?”
Is there video of that – I’d even pay to watch.
I would wager it would look similar to AOC at the border.
Oh, how those would be public. Lead my people to water, and let them drink!
We were leaving the home we had been in for eight years, the only home our kids really knew,” Obama shared. “They remembered Chicago but they had spent more time in the White House than anywhere. So we were saying goodbye to the staff and all the people who helped to raise them.”
Cast
out.
Never have I been so ashamed to be an American.
Exiled to a mansion on Martha’s Vineyard. Like Napoleon on Elba.
True story:
This chick used to come to the dog park and would regale us with stories about how the generationally wealthy live (she was getting back into polo — her coach says she’s a natural!) There is a lot of money flowing through this town. Anyway, she was complaining about how Obama bright down the tone of The Vineyard, since he was attracting all these grubby politicos and social climbers wanting to live nearby. Her family just couldn’t take it anymore. They did get a pretty good deal when they left though — these arrivistes did bid up prices for properties.
The American people failed her – they were supposed to make Barack President For Life so they cold stay there.
Also, weren’t the girls in college at that point?
Ladies and gentlemen, your electric transportation future awaits!
GM’s EV Push Stalls Amid Slow Rollouts for GMC Hummer, Cadillac Lyriq
What a surprise. Damned expensive toys don’t sell well.
Nonesense! My president rode around in one and said we can all get one
That’s not the issue. It’s parts and production.
They can’t produce anything in volume. The demand is there.
The children working the cobalt mines in The Congo thank them for their support.
They need to start whipping those child slaves in Chinese lithium mines more.
The Gun Lie article connects well with the T-hacking article Pie posted in morning links.
They literally start at a local minima for their measuring.
It’s the warmest since the coldest time ever.
So… If I’m following this correctly, more gun violence == bigger gainz?
That’s how prisons work.
Are we not doing phrasing?
Military Contractors Square Off Over F-35 Jet Engine Program
Can we just give them all the Ukrainians and let Russia shoot them down so we can start over?
Here’s our chance to see how the Osprey really works!
There are cheaper ‘suicide’ platforms out there
Why do you hate our defense contractors?
Because they can buy Congress off to force shit on the military that the military didn’t want?
And since every estimate with the F-35 program has been too low by a factor of 10x, I’d certainly take Raytheon’s price tag with a grain of salt here. Especially since it is in their financial best interest to keep it with Pratt.
And Drake — this assumes any of them are flying to begin with. I very much think an updated F-16 / F-15 program aiming for reasonable budget and seriously mass production would be much more in the national interest than these prima donnas that make the German weapons designers look rough and ready.
I thought this was an old controversy, and it is. The article is dated FUCKING 2011.
If contractors weren’t running military procurement, we might pay attention to the war in the Ukraine. The Russians have used close air support very sparingly because modern air defenses are too good. Many of their strikes are done with guided missiles at stand-off distances. You could put missile racks on an Embraer commuter jet and it would serve the same purpose.
New cost estimate for high-speed rail puts California bullet train $100 billion in the red
The California High Speed Rail Authority has published an update.
– over schedule
– over budget
– lacks funding
– ridership estimates reduced
They at least are honest now that it will require ongoing federal bailouts.
The only thing high speed about it is the rate at which it burns money.
It gets something like $200 million to the mile.
But think of the jobs, Rat. The cushy, do-nothing jobs. And using eminent domain to stick it to the little people.
Wonder if there is a Racial Equity Commission for the effects of the new rail and the eminent domain and how it will disproportionately affect persons of color….Maybe my boss can jump on that.
There are quite a few farmers and ranchers in the Central Valley who are pissed that they lost land, productive land mind you, to the Train in Vain project, which, lets face it will never happen. It was, is, and always will be, a huge boondoggle, and a stain on the whole concept of Big Government.
Uh-oh, haters, Americans really dig “woke”…
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/08/gop-war-woke-most-americans-see-term-positive-ipsos-poll/11417394002/
““Most Americans understand that to be woke is to be tuned in to injustices around us,” said Cliff Young of Ipsos. “But for a key segment of Republicans who make up the Trump-DeSantis base, ‘woke’ is a clear trigger for the worst of the politically correct, emerging multicultural majority.””
Things get a little more interesting on the particulars.
“Trump-DeSantis base”. I see the talking points have been issued to conflate these two as often as possible.
More motte and bailey polling. People support progressive positions when you underexplain, misrepresent and color them as benign in the questions themselves. Color me shocked.
“Americans overwhelmingly oppose, by 76%-21%, efforts by state governments to ban certain books from school classrooms and libraries.”
I’d love to see the phrasing of this question. Pretty sure they didn’t specify that the books in question have graphic sex and are aimed at elementary school kids.
Straight blanket quesiton
“How much do you support or oppose the following? (Continued)
b. State governments passing laws that ban certain books from school classrooms and
libraries”
I’ll be donating copies of Mein Kampf to the local school districts.
Harry Potter, but what’s the difference?
At Stanford maybe.
32%. That is, what, a rough approximation of the number of Democrats?
Oh..like the tie in to Trump-Desantis base. Very clever.
emerging multicultural majority
Who da fuq is dat?
Science!
🙄🙄
BAFFLING
Student loan forgiveness advocates and experts are somewhat puzzled by SoFi Technology’s (SOFI) new lawsuit attempting to block the ongoing payment pause on federal student loans.
“A multi-billion dollar lending company is asking the federal government to prioritize its profits over protecting the public interest,” Eden Iscil, a public policy manager at the National Consumers League, told Yahoo Finance. “Millions of individuals with student debt don’t even have a college degree; many of these borrowers are parents who took out loans on behalf of their kids or they’re students who couldn’t complete their degrees as the costs quickly added up. Both the Trump and Biden administrations made the correct and legal decision in putting borrowers first.”
It’s the damnedest thing. They made those loans in good faith or some semblance thereof, and now they want to be repaid? WITH INTEREST?
Monstrous.
The Education Department asserts the legality of the payment pause and also questioned the motives of the lawsuit.
“This lawsuit is an attempt by a multi-billion dollar company to make money while they force 45 million borrowers back into repayment – putting many at serious risk of financial harm,” an Education Department spokesperson told Yahoo Finance. “The payment pause is legal, as is our plan to provide one-time debt relief to tens of millions of borrowers most at risk of delinquency and default when they return to repayment.”
Outrageous.
About that risk of delinquency and default…
I can’t believe that a loan company would want to make a profit lending money to people. Unconscionable.
First the vodka and now our movies? Too far Ukraine, too far
https://www.newsweek.com/top-gun-maverick-faces-calls-stripped-oscar-nominations-russia-dmitry-rybolovlev-1786360
If movies being funded by irredeemable shit stains is going be disqualifying…..
I’m just going to leave this here: https://twitter.com/LawDog323E/status/1633217329361215489
AOC in Dorothy outfit = would.
Throw your stones if you must.
I’m not here to kink shame you. Also would.
Ill allow it
Absolutely would.
I wish I had the patience to learn deepfake. 😛
Further down was this, which made me LOL:
https://twitter.com/kenzianidiot/status/1633250737424834561
Reminds me of a time in college when a buddy set fire to his arm while doing a flaming shot. Instead of trying to put the fire out, my roommate tried lighting his cigarette.
“NEW – Scientists have revived a “zombie” virus that spent 48,500 years frozen in permafrost “to better understand the risks” it poses for animals and humans.”
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1633562416033193986
What could possibly go wrong?
It could react with our DNA and regress us all to cavemen. I’d be cool with that.
Our DNA is pretty much the same. It’s the software that’s changed. If you defrosted a caveman, he could play shortstop for the Mets.
For certain values of “caveman,” which is a term that doesn’t mean much. If you managed to defrost a Neandertal and put him in the ring with a modern pro wrestler, the Neandertal could easily pick the wrestler up and chuck him into the 5th or 6th row.
I’d watch that.
Easier to find someone with retard strength
Retard strength: does not rule the night, goes want cake.
Right?
I remember the late Richard Leakey expressed some annoyance at how people misunderstood his comment that if you “…took a Neandertal, gave him a shave and a haircut, dressed him in a suit and pulled a hat down low over his eyes, he probably wouldn’t draw too much attention on a New York subway.” People took that to mean that Leakey was saying that the Neandertal were, in effect, modern humans, which they were not.
In one interview I read, he want on to say “…if you did the same thing with a Homo erectus, he would get a lot of cautious looks; if you did it with a H. habilis, everyone would move to the other end of the car.”
Hah! Yeah. I’d disappear if the H. habilis showed up.
Leave Patrick Ewing alone.
“anatomically modern human”
Or he’d become a lawyer instead.
Or a Senator from, say, Pennsylvania.
Don’t you dare disparage her!
Hrm. Speaking of the Neandertal – I think I’m having a story idea.
Ook ook.
Regress?
Nothing, as long as it’s being studied in a nice safe lab in China that has impeccable quality control.
I know a perfect place. Unfortunately there’s a wet market a couple miles away that mysteriously spawns deadly viruses because bats or something. Don’t know why I brought that up. They’re obviously completely unrelated.
To tie it in with the loan forgiveness thread, my favorite Wizard of Oz quote: “Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven’t got: a diploma.”
Thread fail.
NPR headline:
Credit Card Nation: How we went from record savings to record debt in just two years
The suspense is killing me.
That writer has to have a lot of skill to stretch out two sentences into an entire article.
We had record savings two years ago. I would absolutely love to see the data that makes them reach that claim.
You can spoil it for me. Does the phrase “printing press goes buurrrrrr” appear anywhere in the article?
The US government has been actively penalizing savings and encouraging borrowing for all my adult life.
Literally every time I go to check out at any online store, you’re offered the ability to open a line of credit and make payments. Even if it’s $50. Let’s play a game.
This is the result of:
a) The fed printing infinite amounts of money and shooting it out of cannons at well connected banks and keeping interest rates at an artificial rate near 0% for two decades incentivizing consumers to take on enormous amounts of debt easily and without much thought.
b) Corporate greed alone. The FED is led by inscrutable angels who only want the best for us.
Yep, my savings are down at least 15 percent from two years ago and that’s without having spent a dime of it.
I’m guessing that if their claim is true, it’s only because the savings is measured in absolute dollars, not inflation-adjusted or as a fraction of the overall economy.
20 minutes into the Rogan/Malice podcast. Not sure I’m gonna make it through the full thing.
Is it Malice on JRE, or Rogan on Your Welcome?
Malice on JRE. 3 and half fucking hours.
Thanks, I’ll check it out when it gets uploaded somewhere.
It’s on Spotify.
I know, but I’m not. They also don’t allow downloading.
Huh? Of course they do.
Podcast Addict, too.
Last time I checked, they didn’t.
I download Spotify every day. I promise you it works.
“.@HillaryClinton: “Women and children are the primary victims of conflict and of climate change and there is no place that unfortunately, tragically, shows us that more dramatically than Ukraine today.””
“More Hillary: “Covid … had a disproportionate impact on women & girls around the world & a lot of consequences such as increases in domestic violence, increase in child marriage, increase in unemployment. And we have seen organized pushback to the advancement of women.””
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1633457036112568322
Again, I’m reminded of Trump’s greatest achievement.
How did lil’rona contribute to child marriage?
Because shut up and don’t question.
Fiat associations. It’s related because our god-king-emperors declare it so.
Couldn’t go to the bar and meet women. Who else you gonna marry?
Uhh, in both cases aren’t a majority of the deaths men? Especially in Ukraine?
Yes, the deaths are men, but their wives and children are most affected by them dying.
Woman and children are the primary victims, huh? There have been about 8K civilian deaths, vs. how many military deaths, almost entirely men? And about 13K civilian wounded, vs. how many wounded men doing the fighting?
There’s another one I’d like to send to Bakhmut.
Anecdotal sob story
Roth has three children, ages 2, 4 and 6 and lives in Lebanon, Tennessee, just outside of Nashville.
She has a full time job as an administrative medical assistant, helping adults with disabilities get services. She had never really had debt and had always been good with money. But during the pandemic, Roth went through a divorce and her finances and lifestyle changed dramatically.
Roth took full custody of her children and became the main support for her children. That was a stretch on a salary of about $40,000 a year. Especially considering the cost of daycare. “It’s like $1,500 a month,” she says. “That’s half my paycheck right there.”
——-
“We saw Americans across the income stream save a lot of money. I mean a lot of money,” says Jill Schlesinger, CBS news business analyst and author of The Great Money Reset.
Schlesinger says stimulus checks, lockdown and pay raises had people in really strong financial shape, with the highest personal savings rate on record. “But then 2022 starts and inflation doesn’t go down,” says Schlesinger. “And then we saw many people plow through those pandemic era savings, left with nothing.”
Schlesinger says the rising price of basics, like food, gas and clothing, have landed millions of Americans in real financial distress. “For a lot of people, this is not, ‘I’m going out and buying something fancy,'” she says. “Things are more expensive and just to keep up with where you were last year, you have to pay a lot more.”
Suddenly, with neither warning nor explanation, everything got more expensive.
Glossed right over that divorce did they and her insistence on obtaining full custody cause fuck men.
Roth went through a divorce and her finances and lifestyle changed dramatically
Who could have imagined that?
It’s a woman’s right to have the burden of her collapsed neglected relationship bore by all of society. Marriage and child rearing are things that should be engaged in frivolously and impulsively and therefore should be abandoned just as easily. It’s beyond absurd to think that she should have to suffer the easily foreseeable consequences of not bother to try to make her marriage work.
You can spoil it for me. Does the phrase “printing press goes buurrrrrr” appear anywhere in the article?
Sadly, no.
Indian Wells (major tennis tournament in California) just broke to a shot of the UK flag flying next to the US flag on top of the stadium.
Taps out – piss off with that shit.
You mean Ukrainian flag or British flag?
Ukrainian.
I always think ‘UK’ because a lot of times I see people pepper their text with it and it shows up as UK instead of a flag for some reason.
3-D printed rocket….and looks like their team took a page out of SpaceX…put up cute girls to talk geek
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/worlds-first-3d-printed-space-rocket-is-ready-for-launch/
In a related story, I have a 3D rocket printer…..in my pants.
That’s how Olivia Munn got started.
The dudes supposedly in charge of the company talk like milennial girls.
Roth went through a divorce and her finances and lifestyle changed dramatically
Who could have imagined that?
What are the odds the divorce was plague-related, I wonder.
Had Buffalo Wild Wings for lunch. It’s been a couple years since I’d gone. Last time I remember their hottest was actually mildly hot. What I had today decidedly was not.
But, my home made hot sauce is stewing in the fridge. /Doffs Fedora to Sean
My condolences on your explosive diarrhea
I thought we didn’t kink shame here?!
B Dubs is the cure for all stomach maladies.
Eat there, and you’ll be sure to piss any stomach bugs right out of your ass in very short order.
+1 Famous Dave’s
This year’s are sprouted. Two dragon’s breath as the top end of the heat. 😋
Looking at probably 7 varieties and 11-12 plants total.
https://www.pepperscale.com/dragons-breath-pepper/
💪🤙👌👍
“DR. JENNIFER NUZZO: H5N1 is deadlier than COVID-19 and it’s spreading. Humans are not easily infected YET – but the NEXT pandemic may just be a few mutations away”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11836211/DR-JENNIFER-NUZZO-H5N1-isnt-easily-infecting-human-pandemic-mutations-away.html
No.
Well I mean, the vid wasn’t really all that deadly comparatively…
The real danger are the diseases we don’t know about. Give me funding and tyrannical power lest we all die.
Nuzzo is a professional Chicken Little
Better fund a project to create those mutations.
“No, big cannabis, you CAN’T buy our votes: Anti-pot campaigners celebrate SLAYING a $32 billion industry after Oklahomans reject recreational weed by a huge 62%-38% margin”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11835413/Campaigners-celebrate-SLAYING-32-billion-industry-Oklahomans-reject-recreational-weed.html
At least they aren’t as bad as Texas.
Damn. I was all ready to move to Oklahoma.
Oklahoma tax collectors hardest hit.
Nice baseball/birthday links, OM.
I think I mentioned this previously, but one of the best (if not the best) teachers I ever had was my 9th grade English teacher. She saw how out of it I was, and then suddenly, in the shelves in the back of the room (near where I sat) appeared a copy of Ball Four by Jim Bouton. I spent most of the next semester reading it. It’s a good book on its’ own, but great if you like baseball, which I really did (still do, just not as much. She didn’t try to get me to discuss whatever, just let me read. I will always hold her in high regard.
I would love to have heard Fauci’s reaction to this.
https://open.substack.com/pub/covidreason/p/video-and-transcript-dr-redfield
Will it mean anything?
Fauci is a monster.
I think he’s about to get thrown under the bus.
If it’s not into a chipper, I’m unhappy.
Why does it matter anymore? The POS is in his 80s and has milked the system for as much time as Biden. Then he got his time in the sun, like Biden. Morons and vermin are still carrying both of them. The woodchipper is too good for him. He deserves to to feel the pain of millions.
The walls are closing in on Fauci. I feel like I’ve been hearing that for two years.
The tone has definitely shifted and Redfield just shanked him.
Fauci’s out of power now. Once the ball gets rolling, I don’t see much political will to stop it.
Mob dynamics – as soon as they sense that he can be the scapegoat, they’ll all rally to scapegoating him.
I see Fauci as another Trump. No matter what he does, he won’t get in serious trouble. I shall now place a $5 bet on this, to be collected in two year by you if he ever gets convicted of anything other than a parking ticket.
Disagree. I don’t see much political will to get it started. Fauci may be “out of power”, but a huge part of DC operating the way it does is implication that they protect their own, even in retirement, regardless of team (unless you’re team anti-establishment). Going after him might open the door for any number of politicians/deep-state bureaucrats to suddenly be held accountable for their abuses of power and back room dealings. That cannot be allowed to happen.
He’ll be used by the R’s as a lighting rod for their impotent moaning and wailing until no one cares anymore and nothing else will happen. Sorry to be so cynical, but I just don’t want to see you get your hopes up and then be disappointed.
Heh, I can’t be disappointed by people I perceive as demons made flesh.
And the reality is Fauci isn’t the problem, the system that made him is the problem.
If we are talking about my hopes, they involve a nuke or two somewhere over Foggy Bottom
Is the cover pic haamentaschen (sp?). I could eat 10 of those.
My Active Shooter Preparedness training today did not even hint at any kind of scenario where there would be a good guy with a gun. Surprise, surprise.
Another of those annual trainings I’m ignoring, because I’m retiring before the end of the FY.
I have tonight off. So I’ll hop on the zoom around 6pm CENTRAL. https://www.glibertarians.com/humpdayzoom
Is OnlyFans down or something?
That link redirects to his OnlyFans. Don’t let him fool you.
I knew he was a workaholic.
Straiff is on for all you Jaopophiles
Give him my regards. I’m on the train home as his day begins.
Elon from the top rope.
Moobs is so sad.
I got name-checked in the links. I have arrived.
A summoning!
Hope all is well and your knots remain snug.
Both the local and the long-distance girlfriend are happy. Wife is happy. Work is a shit show playing in a dumpster fire, but I can’t complain. I’m teaching a rope class Sunday and monetizing something I designed, so that’s also a positive.
Both the local and the long-distance girlfriend are happy. Wife is happy.
That sounds exhausting 😀 but as long as you’re happy
Sorry that doesn’t extend to work but it sounds like you’re winning, on balance.
If we say your name out loud three times, will you appear in person?
Beetlejuice or Candyman?
If only, I’d be able to have some fun travelling.
Last night it was the gayz.
Tonight it’s the womyn.
When is it time for just plain hockey?
I’m almost done with sports. It’s all fucking politics now.
Charged by cold fusion, the future is looking so bright I gotta wear shades.
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