Sloopy is nothing, if not consistent.
It’s a Spud marathon!
So our intrepid Sloopy is still trying to navigate the slums of California’s finest Central Valley big cities. He’s wallowing in Basque food tonight. I hope they don’t serve after dinner mints.
More fiat added to fiat currency!
I mean, how much more bigoted can this country possibly get?
Hang on, baby! Hang on as long as you can.
As has been pointed out in other discussions, rats are a part of a big city. But I only know of one that has a Rat Czar.
Okay Glibs. It’s Thursday! Almost the weekend. Buck up, bunkies.
“It’s a Spud marathon!”
Go you?
I thought it was because potatos worked cheap.
Irish slurs this early?
Just cause you can’t userstand a word I’m saying doesn’t mean I’m slurring.
Well, Or Ida thought youzz was speaking with mash mouth!
*narrows gaze*
He’s got his eyes on you.
Quality. Taters keep their eyes on the prize.
This much exposure may lead to tubertoocloseus.
That deep rooted pun is going to make you peel out when Swiss hits the thread. It is sure to grate on him.
So, NYC is trying to ensure a larger, more aggressive rat population?
I thought they’d been doing that for over 200 years.
This time it’s official!
A rat army could be useful.
*
fistpaw bump*But who among them will be King Rat?
The Rat King in on level 5.
My money would be on the dirt rat that killed Cagney’s brother. He has to be tough.
You sill fools, the Rats already have a Czar, they can’t appoint a king.
You mean Spider?
https://pixeldungeon.fandom.com/wiki/Rat_king
Ratigan?
Then again, it might not.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/12/eric-adams-names-kathleen-corradi-as-nycs-new-rat-czar/
Corradi, who will be paid $155,000 in the newly-created gig, said she’s already familiar with the pests having spent several years spearheading the DOE’s rat reduction efforts in 120 buildings throughout Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx.
Looks like NYC is finally paying the piper. Good move
So, she will commute from New Jersey?
#insert “Skynet IS the virus” gif
she’s already familiar with the pests having spent several years spearheading the DOE’s rat reduction efforts in 120 buildings throughout Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx.
So, she’s already failed at that job.
If you really wanted to do something about the problem, set concrete objectives and make any payment contingent on transparently eliminating the issue. No sandbagging for indefinate paychecks.
The peter principle; fail up to your maximum level of incompetence.
Screw up and move up
Buried Leede; DOE has rats for employees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWR1h-5EzUo
They need to check the basement.
*chef’s kiss *
They’re training them to eat immigrants bused in from border states.
“KAMPALA, Uganda — He was in high school when he realized he was gay.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APNBnIxDMug
“The U.S. government invests almost $1 billion annually in Uganda.”
Sure, why not.
Nothing. Left. To. Cut.
iT’s A rOuNDiNg eRroR!
If you can’t eliminate the deficit with a single line item why bother?
Do you know how hard it is to make change for a $Trillion dollar coin?
You don’t. You deposit it and loan it out digitally three or four times
“Invests.”…
“In fact, the proposed law doesn’t require evidence of an illegal act, only suspicion of one, to call the police, opening the possibility that personal disputes and workplace quarrels could end with unfounded accusations of homosexuality.”
What could possibly go wrong
+1 Red Flag law
You will get your day in court to prove your innocence.
How to fire somebody in Uganda.
https://youtu.be/B_obeR1OIm8
Little known fact – Ugandan mercenaries were widely used in Iraq and I’m sure elsewhere by our government. Trying to get into the DFAC after dark without a reflective PT vest would get one of them to put an AK in your face.
Is it that Dylan character again?
“During an interview on TODAY, Normani emphasized that partnership has meant a lot to her as a Black woman.
“This partnership for me stands for everything that I believe in. I’m such a girls’ girl. I’m all about women empowerment,” she explained during the interview. “And for me being a little girl, I feel like this would have been really important for me. To have witnessed being a little Black girl. And I love sports. I love entertainment. And so just that representation of the fact that I can be a part of it means a lot to me.””
Because the one place black people aren’t represented is sports and entertainment.
I just have a hard time related to people who’s self worth involves a cartoon mascot on a snack food bag. I can understand wanting real people to have a shot on a real team you support… but that could be an arbitrary fractal picture for all I care on the damned bag.
Which I suppose equates to — if it makes them happy, what do I care? Which is true to a point… I just don’t get celebrating or needing it and like griping about that apparently.
participation trophy generation
And the forced assimilation or erasure of introverts. Fuck participation, leave me the hell alone.
You see, the media has told themselves a nice story about how they are responsible for the acceptance of gays in this country through increased representation. So they believe that surely they can solve all racism and misogyny by doing the same, even when it involves ignoring cultural differences between races or genders in doing so and kind of erasing the things they claim to be supporting.
And it’s a lucrative gig for minorities and women so plenty are going to get in on that grift. It’s not that she actually cares about seeing a black face on a bag of cracker jack.
Didn’t Aunt Jemima get cancelled for being black and on food packaging? I can’t keep up anymore.
Yes, but these are good-thinking people putting them on packages for the right reasons.
As far as tranhilarity goes, Sophie Rebecca > Dylan Mulvaney
https://thepostmillennial.com/nike-sponsored-trans-ballerina-sophie-rebecca-before-enlisting-tiktoker-dylan-mulvaney-as-spokesperson
I’m glad I’m old. The world I knew is upside down.
Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye pulled it off better.
There were never such sisters.
“…a large male with no obvious talent or grace in various ballet performances.”
A sort of inverse Harrison Bergeron.
OMFG, that’s an insult to trained ballerinas everywhere.
My wife is going to have a shitfit when I show that to her.
*cackles*
Same here. Dear God, that oaf can’t even get up on pointe. I cannot imagine how it passed any RAD exam.
Because who would know more about crackers?
How is Cracker Jack/Jill not considered racist?
Because you can’t be racist against wypipo.
Will Crunch & Munch start marketing to weightlifting lesbians?
*golf clap*
That deserves a red carpet clap — at least once a month.
My wife picked up a bag accidentally. She noted that it was a huge lost opportunity by still having nuts. She wishes that the women’s empowerment movement would be original, rather than simply co-opting men’s shit and calling themselves heroes.
Tell her don’t worry — the men (see Dylan what’s-his-name) are busy co-opting women’s shit right back and calling themselves heroines.
She fucking hates that too.
Picked it up like Sam Brinton?
But I’ve been reliably informed that tax cuts are causing the deficits.
personal disputes and workplace quarrels could end with unfounded accusations of homosexuality
It’s almost like that’s the real goal.
I was watching Pine Gap on Netflix. On it a white cishet woman used the insult “cocksucker” unironically towards a gay character.
I don’t know if I’m witnessing a shift in the progressive stack, or if it’s an Aussie thing or what.
Certain insults and profanities are just satisfying linguistically/phonetically regardless of their literal meaning. “Cocksucker” is one. “Jesus FUCKING Christ” is another. “Faggot” and “cunt” are among them. Hard consonants are a big part of it, but sometimes a particular word is just “right” for the moment. I, for one, would be delighted if that kind of writing caught on instead of the dry, humorless, featureless, insipid didactic cultural Marxist shit the woke scolds have been churning out for 20+ years now.
Gays are very 2012. A lot of them are white guys, too which is kind of problematic. It’s pretty much all about the trannies now.
Food fight at a ball game? Meh. 10 cent Beer Night, that was something.
Ah, Cleveland
Well, don’t discount Billy Martin’s role in escalating things. He was the Ranger’s manager at the time. I’m not sure the Clevelanders could have elevated their riot game without Billy egging them on.
*clears throat*. We may appear a friendly and kind lot, but don’t fuck with our sports teams, our beer, or our food.
Seems like the rest of the NFL has been fucking with your sports team with no pushback.
Quite a bit of that has been self inflicted, and is there a fandom out there who doesn’t think the refs are against them?
Those Clevelanders sure are a contentious people.
Now that’s sports.
Apropos of nothing, I’ve been meaning to compliment you on your excellent taste in avatars.
He’s a star.
Thank you! And back atcha.
Molotov Cocktease may be one of the best character names ever.
There are still occasionally commemorative events of this event here in town. I expect quite a few next year.
Currently many ballparks are extending beer sales into later innings to try to make up for the revenue lost in sales due to shorter games.
Not the Jake.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Heh… good thing for the rat dog that the pittie is just playing. One thing I like about big and medium dogs — they know full well they outmass little yappers or cats and indulge them in and out of play typically.
Territory is important too. My old mutt (80lb) got run off a front yard by a little yorkie just because it was the yorkie’s yard. Dogs innately seem to understand and respect another dog’s territory.
I can’t help but notice that ALL of those Jills conform to western stereotypical conceptions of “athletic” body types. Where are our HAES Jills, hmmm?
Just count your blessings they didn’t go with another Jack and Jill.
Whycome you hate Democracy?
Because I hate the Demos.
I posted this in the prior thread, but it’s worth highlighting again. Expect more scrutiny on libertarian and conservative sites.
Leaker of U.S. secret documents worked on military base, friend says
Yes, completely baseless. Said without evidence.
Since we’re all friends we’ll just pretend that little flap with the FBI handlers instigating the two Draw Muhammad Day shooters while an undercover feeb at the event said and did nothing while they shot a security guard before the Texas police killed them both never happened. Or the Whitmer “kidnapping plot.” Or the “shoe bomber.” Or…
I mean, I don’t know if he still has internet access, but I’d welcome him here from the sounds of it. Not that I am any gatekeeper.
I’m in a few of those Discords, mostly the ones that haven’t migrated over to Signal yet.
I’d be really bummed if the feds interrupted my shooting vacation next month…
You know, there’s not a single disclosure there that actually damages U.S. national security. Just a lot of shit that embarrasses a lot of people in power.
Sources and methods…
LOL. You mean ‘Google and CNN?’ We already know about those…
bullshit – all of that kind of work was done years before there was any system of classification
Attention feds: Everything I have ever said on this website has been satire. Or rap lyrics.
Yeah! Me too!
That’s the ticket!
OG is a pseudonym for Ray Epps, isn’t it?
Thank God women finally have a version of Cracker Jacks they’re allowed to eat. That was the issue wasn’t it?
Given that all Good Citizens are supposed to spending a minimum of 2 minutes a day hating on Russia, why do we keep calling top bureaucrats ‘Czars’? Isn’t that normalizing the Evil Empire?
The culture makers are like the Robotnik meme, with one button labeled “start a nuclear war with Russia” and the other labeled “idolize Josef Stalin.”
I’ve never seen that form, it’s always two red button and a hand drawn guy.
It’s a variant, although the meaning is close to the same.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/daily-struggle-two-buttons
Russia was better when it was a monarchy?
The problem the left has with modern Russia is that Putin is kind of non-ideological. He’s just sort of a will to power sort of nationalist. Not a commie at all.
If he did all the exact same shit in the name of socialism, he’d be a hero to the modern progressive left.
He’s a nineteenth century nationalist, not a globalist.
Of course, there’s not much that would sate the neocons like the Kagans and Brzezinskis short of the entire dissolution of the Russian state. They just appear to hate Russians.
They can trace their ideological and in some cases their family roots directly back to the Trotskyites – who hated Russians. No coincidence that he was from what is now (for the time being) part of the Ukraine.
One reason Trotsky broke with Stalin was Trotsky’s desire to immediately spread the Marxist revolution to better countries rather than ruling over stupid rural dirt-farming Russian peasants.
To be fair, communist ideology claimed it would be an international class struggle, not Socialism in One Country.
Double-speak/think is an American leftist pastime.
I saw in another thread that our very own Mojeaux is now libertarian-famous, having featured on the Tom Woods podcast. Congratulations! I downloaded it but haven’t had a chance to listen yet. Stupid busy here.
Yep, just hit my ‘phone this morning: https://tomwoods.com/ep-2315-why-were-getting-killed-in-the-world-of-ideas/
Only a few minutes in, but pretty good so far.
I knew there was something wrong with Tom Woods. Who doesnt like Anthem?
I didn’t like it. People shit on Atlas Shrugged for being overlong, but Rand’s autism distilled into such a short format is a lot worse, IMO.
Congrats Mojeaux! I intend to start name dropping to everyone I meet that we are close personal friends.
If she didn’t mention Firsting at least five times, I am no longer going to speak to her.
She sold out for popularity. Sad.
I listened to it this morning.
Very well done Mojeaux.
I never read any of the Ingalls Wilder books, but I might check them out.
I have read the Fountainhead and I thought it was ok, but not great.
Part of the problem was the fact he raped her when they first met.
There is something very wrong with that.
Depends who you ask
Oh, the beauty of the “forced seduction.” Long been a staple of romance.
Excellent Mojeaux! I’m like….I know that voice!
Wtf is wrong with Nissan? They do Future Funk visuals in the ad, but not the music. 🤦♂️
It’s Nissan.
2022 Nissan Altima AWD: Regular Car Reviews
Damn
‘Orning ‘ordles — meh now… meh now… don’t dream it’s over!
Daily Duotrigordle #407
Guesses: 35/37
Time: 04:16.47
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 444
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Daily Quordle 444
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Blossom Puzzle, April 13
Letters: A E I T R S Z
My score: 333 points
My longest word: 10 letters
🌷 💮 🌻 💐 🌹 🏵 🌺 🌼 🌸 🌷
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
retirees
sitters
retries
I’ve got to get back to work
Daily Quordle 444
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Germany’s energy crisis is ‘more or less solved’ and its economy is safe, Bundesbank’s Nagel says
Makes sense this came out right after they plan on shutting the last of their nuclear down. Folks best bundle up next winter…
The credit spread on the ten year bund to treasury is telling a different story.
http://www.worldgovernmentbonds.com/spread/germany-10-years-vs-united-states-10-years/
And nobody mention the industrial capacity that shut down permanently last year.
IOW, their “leaders” are every bit the delusional, pathological liars that ours are. I am shocked.
Speaking of nuts
“Sunset acid trips on Malibu beach, ketamine injections and six massages per day: Yogi couple are accused of transforming vulnerable eye surgeon’s mansion into five-star narcotics spa and embezzling millions before he died of an overdose”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11966135/Couple-turned-doctors-Malibu-mansion-drugs-den-stole-millions-died-overdose.html
Holy shit, I knew that guy when I lived in Sacramento and the burning man people were my social outlet. Huh, he was sketchy even in that scene. He did a stint as “overly touchy yoga instructor” at the climbing gym. Wild.
Wait, no. either the details in the article are wrong and I’m mistaken. These two are definitely a west coast type. Common, sinister.
“The ‘world’s first’ skin tone condoms have been launched in a bid to make sex more inclusive.
Sexual wellness brand Roam, based in London, have created the condoms to help people of different ethnic groups feel more represented in the bedroom.
They are available in four colour choices: Dark Brown, Medium Brown, Light Brown and also in Original Latex.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11967767/Worlds-skin-tone-condoms-launch-bid-make-sex-inclusive.html
Sex more inclusive.
Sized accordingly.
Still raycist until they make green
<==
Glow in the dark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNTg2Uz7-pM
I thought of that immediately. But I was too lazy and/or too busy to go find it.
Thanks for linking it.
If I wear the darker condom does my dick look bigger?
“Its TWUE! ITS TWUE ITS TWUE!”
I would think the sex itself would make one feel included.
All condoms currently are albino.
More inclusive is defined as both pre-op and post-op.
Fucking journalos! You missed the most interesting point in this tedious discussion and left me hanging. What is “perpetual reparations”?
I especially like the fact that the Ojibwe are part of this discussion. No mention that they weren’t native to the area and were the first people to push the Sioux off their ancestral lands and out onto the plains of the Dakotas?
Also maybe someone should point out that reading, writing and research are white eye culture and they shouldn’t be appropriating it. Stick to your lane gals!
Sounds like putting the tribes on the government dole. Which has worked out so wonderfully every other time.
Lovely to see the return of blood guilt as a social factor. This cannot end well.
It usually ends in blood letting.
“BREAKING: Video shows reinstated TN State Rep Justin Jones stopping cars and assaulting drivers in summer of 2020”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-video-shows-reinstated-tn-state-rep-justin-jones-stopping-cars-and-assaulting-drivers-in-summer-of-2020
CWAA
When they do it it’s not violence, it’s speech.
I would have thought that when one gets expelled for cause from the TN House, that it’s a lifetime expulsion. Is this just yet another case of the Republicans getting punked?
That’s the way I’ve been reading this – being punked that is.
Most likely. Republicans getting punked could fill volumes.
Apparently not. The local cities/counties responsible for filling a replacement just nominated the expelled.
You would think wrong. Same is true with Congress. The voters can send the bastards back; and that is as it should be – stupid voters deserve that.
The rest of us don’t, though.
Democracy bitches.
Are those like badge bunnies?
Not my district, not my concern.
How much of it is your concern when they vote to strip away your rights?
Then they’ll deserve what they get for that.
+1 Alcee Hastings, although he was originally a judge.
The new mascot is already being cheered on by fans who appreciate the celebration of women in sports.
No one watches women’s sports, not even women.
“But I only know of one that has a Rat Czar.”
Josie Cruz, the head of Chicago’s Rodent Control Bureau, waves hi!
https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/streets/provdrs/rodent/svcs/rats_in_chicago.html
Does she oversee the mayor’s office?
“Working for the Weekend”?
Ill have you people know that this is my Sunday afternoon. Tonight at work is my Monday morning.
The federal deficit topped $1 trillion in the first six months of fiscal 2023 (October through March), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today.
Clearly we need to go to war with Russia.
This was despite the fact that federal tax revenues in the first six months of this fiscal year were $2,048,196,000,000, which was the second-highest in the nation’s history (when compared to the inflation-adjusted numbers for the tax revenues collected in the first six months of previous fiscal years).
Clearly the feds are being starved of revenue.
For Gustave Lytton.
I just learned this particular word – kunoichi. I’m assuming it is a somewhat modern addition, but don’t know it’s history.
くノ一 (くのいち)
く hiragana “ku”
ノ katakana “no”
一 kanji for one or “ichi”
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Interesting. There’s a wiki article on the word, apparently while it wasn’t widely used or at least documented, it dates back to the 1600s.
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Target security guard slugs female shopper in the face after she demanded her $1,000 bill be paid by ‘reparations’ – before telling cops this was her ‘Rosa Parks moment’
The video clearly shows the entitled bitch getting physical with employees.
Doesn’t matter, Target will fold and pay out her ghetto lottery winnings. Security guard will be lucky if a Dem prosecutor doesn’t decide to railroad him.
The cops arrested her as she was clearly the aggressor. Much to my surprise.
I would still bet that Target pays her off to avoid the “RACIST!!” accusations.
If they do, it better be damn quiet, or they can expect this crap being repeated all over the place. It would probably be more prudent for them to make a point of prosecuting her.
They haven’t exactly got a great track record with woke pandering.
The Karens are clearly kicking it up a notch.
Remember how our local Target closed (due to theft and cutting their losses) and the NAACP was there protesting the creation of a “food desert”?
Or the same at the WOW-Mart by Consumer Square?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
All I know is that our closest Kroger is a crowded PITA since they closed the Crack Central Kroger, and I always seem to get stuck in line at CVS behind the person doing all their grocery shopping there.🙄
That person is bad at money.
The girlfriend and I swung by a Giant Eagle last night, in line in the self checkout lane (only one manned register open, with two people with full carts in line already). Two self checkout kiosks are open, and there’s one person in front of us. Far kiosk opens up, point it out to the person in front of us, who is talking on their phone about a party that they’re arguing about the guest list for (apparently one of the guys coming was really hot). Look back to the people behind us in line, who shrugged and said, “You tried.”
We walked around him and checked out. I think the guy behind us also walked around him to check out too.
Feinstein’s condition
It’s called “being old”. She should have retired at least a decade ago.
As has been pointed out in other discussions, rats are a part of a big city. But I only know of one that has a Rat Czar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzj6EeFi_7U
Renfield started out as a fly and spider czar, and was working his way up to rat czar.
After the DOD leaks last week, the cracks are starting to show in DC. We’ll see if it amounts to anything.
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/04/12/seymour-hersh-the-cia-knows-ukrainian-officials-are-skimming-us-aid/
Must be some of that “Smart Diplomacy” the Dems are always going on about.
This intelligence official apparently isn’t aware that a number of Democrats and cronies have new found wealth thanks to the largesse in Ukraine, as well.
or even known in advance, by the community
Intelligence gathering consists of reading about the day after in the dead fish wrapper?
Just saw another article that mentions a “two front war” in Ukraine, fighting Russians and corruption. After all the mindless praise of all things Ukrainian, that caught my eye.
Corruption in Ukraine? Who knew?
I can relate to the way the Guardian spun this
https://www.samizdata.net/2023/04/i-can-relate-to-the-way-the-guardian-spun-this/
New Zealand’s Green party is in highly public turmoil after one politician sent a message seeming to criticise a colleague to a group of their other colleagues, apparently by mistake.
While the Greens’ Chlöe Swarbrick was speaking in the House on Wednesday, her fellow MP Elizabeth Kerekere texted a group of Green politicians and staff: “omg what a crybaby” – seeming to refer to Swarbrick’s failed amendment bill, aiming to reduce harm from alcohol.
After a colleague responded with “I think this is the wrong chat …?” – which ranks alongside “We need to talk” in its ability to instantly strike fear into the heart of its recipient – Kerekere deleted the text, then apologised for the “inappropriate message … which was not meant for this thread”.
The comments show Guardian readers wrestling with the difficult moral dilemmas thrown up by this situation. Swarbrick is female and LGBTQ. Kerekere is female, LGBTQ and Maori, seemingly giving her an unassailable lead. Then again, Swarbrick is vegan and sees a psychologist every week. And as the top comment by JunoNZ reminds us, “Chloe was trying very hard to persuade Parliament to advance a bill that would improve our terrible alcohol laws. These laws have a huge impact, especially on people living in poverty. And that includes some transgender people and their whanau as well as a disproportionate number of Maori and Pacifica, the groups supposedly of concern to EK.”
Lock them all in a darkened room with half a brick each, and my God protect the righteous.
And brick up the door.
They are not convincing me that closing most of the mental hospitals wasn’t a terrible mistake.
The progressive stack in action.
That’s just tiring.
Funny how FedGov exempts itself from things that most regular businesses have to deal with.
Supreme Court showdown over Sabbath could change workplaces across US
I’m picturing somebody in a horse drawn buggy delivering the mail.
Nah, Mennonites drive trucks. Usually the cheapest thing they can find at an auction.
You’re thinking of those annoying swartzentruber Amish.
You are thinking of Amish Express.
They don’t have enough staff to give one person one day off a week?
Why do I smell bullshit?
Here’s the give away:
Boss didn’t like the idea of someone getting “special treatment”.
Boss is pretty ignorant of labor laws and the basics of management.
Possible/probable. But maybe no one wanted to work Sundays and other workers complained that he was exempted.
Right in the middle of the aidoru playlist, YouTube put OMD’s Enola Gay. They really dropped the bomb on that one.
At least it wasn’t “Turning Japanese”.
I really think so.
If there wasn’t significance before there is now!
Dalai Lama: The significance of ‘tongue greetings’ in Tibetan culture
I didn’t expect this much spin.
*Hannibal Lecter perks up*
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1646223713396719626
William Jennings went to the Barista?
“Chloe was trying very hard to persuade Parliament to advance a bill that would improve our terrible alcohol laws. These laws have a huge impact, especially on people living in poverty. And that includes some transgender people and their whanau as well as a disproportionate number of Maori and Pacifica, the groups supposedly of concern to EK.”
Terrible in their permissiveness? Terrible because they do not save people from themselves by outlawing the Demon Rum entirely?
Forget it, it’s woke gibberish town.
This is what happens when crazy people are let out the asylum and into the government.
Ding Liren won round 4 of the World Chess Championship to even the match. One win a piece, with two draws so far.
10 rounds to go.
Ding made a nice exchange sacrifice to turn the match. The general concept is that rooks are worth 5 pts and knights worth 3, so trading them is a bad idea…but getting good at chess is knowing when these ideas are bullshit.
The senator, an iconic presence in the party who passed up its top spot on the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2020 amid speculation about her mental acuity, has kept word of her condition hush-hush. Her staff has been reticent to talk about her health even with other members of the California delegation, according to six Democrats familiar with the conversations.
Let’s just say she’s pining for the fjords.
Weekend with Dianne
Since then, pressure has mounted on Feinstein from some fellow Democrats to end her storied career on her own terms. Just this week, liberals began reupping their nudges for her to step aside; Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) retweeted a post appearing to call for Feinstein to retire, though it’s not clear whether the move amounted to an endorsement of that stance. And on Wednesday, shortly after this item was posted, Rep. Ro Khanna of California, did the same, as did Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota.
Vintage doublespeak.
I don’t think she’s feeling any pressure at all.
Trying to do what Dan White couldn’t.
Oh that’s a cold shot.
Maybe they should appeal to the voters who keep voting that witch in.
LOL. As if you have any options in California.
It’s nutbags and nutbaggiers.
The Senate needs proxy voting for the sake of Democracy.
By mail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meu0CoYv3z8
Interesting
“Good morning!” she trilled.
Got several new Twitter followers this morning. Wonder why!
Thank you all [insert Sally Field squeal].
Don’t forget us when you get rich and famous.
Not ONE new book sale!
You’re on another government list now.
If a few is good, a lot’s gotta be better.
They are offering a free vacation with your 10th list.
They need a list to keep track of all the lists I’m on.
I thought you were only concerned with the first list
Starting with the sex offender registry ?
You are inconsequential.
I’m stuck in a DC forum on ‘Threats To Democracy’. Thoughts and prayers…
The call is coming from inside the house.
Wow – try to vote your way out of that situation.
I was outvoted by my boss.
If you vote wrong you are a threat to democracy.
#1 threat: the Constitution
#2 threat: people that think the Constitution is good and necessary
A lone gun nut
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the person behind the leak worked on a military base and posted sensitive national security secrets in an online group of acquaintances.
The leaker is described in the Post story as a lonely young man and gun enthusiast who was part of a chatroom of about two dozen people on Discord – a social media platform popular with video gamers – that shared a love of guns and military gear, according to a friend of the alleged leaker the Post interviewed who was also part of the group.
The friend told the Post he would not reveal the identity of the alleged leaker, who goes by the moniker “OG,” or their location to authorities.
Biden said he was concerned about the fact the leaks happened, but not necessarily about their content.
“I’m not concerned about the leak. I’m concerned that it happened, but there’s nothing contemporaneous that I’m aware of that is of any consequence.”
More right wing treason. Ban Discord.
Like I alluded above, the smart groups have long since moved to Signal or other more secure platforms.
Good morning, Spud!
More fiat added to fiat currency!
Related:
Interest on national debt set to exceed Social Security
We might be fucked.
Reagan proved deficits don’t matter.
We’ve been totally fucked for a long time. It’s just becoming more obvious in recent times.
Ronnie the disaffected Democrat can kiss my ass.
And it all is a drop in the bucket compared to unfunded liabilities.
Also known to everyone as far back as the 70s at least.
Our very own Mojeaux on the Tom Woods show.
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2315-why-were-getting-killed-in-the-world-of-ideas/
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jill,
And just give me a giant black pill
To be truly inclusive, shouldn’t it be “Cracker Jix” or something like that?
First you have to establish both a male and female version, then you establish an inclusive one.
In the name of equity, inclusion and belonging, going forward some “Mounds” candy bars will contain almonds and some “Almond Joy” ones will not. If you object to this, you are a bigot. There are no refunds.
So an Almond Joy without almonds is a trans-Mounds in the current vernacular? Or maybe an Almond Joy that still has almonds but wants to be a Mounds can just identify as one.
Runaway
It’s not easy being a Black Republican senator from the U.S.’s all-time career-champion jurisdiction for white racism, South Carolina. But Tim Scott has the additional burden of running for president in a national Republican Party where the belief that white Christians are now prime victims of systemic discrimination is virtually an article of faith.
By undertaking the “soft launch” of announcing a presidential exploratory committee on Wednesday, Scott has signaled that he’s serious about a 2024 run. His racial identity and up-from-poverty biography are unavoidably central to his ability to distinguish himself from all of the other MAGA-tinged loud-and-proud conservatives already in or considering the race. And in the proto-stump-speech he has used in Iowa and elsewhere this year, Scott has made his personal story proof positive that the U.S. is now free of conservative white racism while accusing Joe Biden and “the radical left” of seeking to subjugate Black people via bad “government schools” (Scott is a big-time private-school-voucher proponent), high crime, inflation, and so on.
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The Confederacy, of course, was the most profoundly conservative political movement in U.S. history. Its spokesmen constantly evoked ancient and early modern precedents — from the slave-based “democracy” of Athens to the aristocratic Cavaliers of the English Civil War and the enslaving founders of our own republic. But claiming the violent suppression of the Confederacy for conservatives isn’t Scott’s only 180-degree departure from reality.
He says, “When [Biden and the radical left] get called out on their failures, they weaponize race to divide us.”
The nerve of that guy- biting the hand that freed him.
We didn’t turn those people loose so they could think for themselves.
Hmm, was expecting Chait’s name to be attached to that degree of stupidity.
Needs more scare quotes to distract from the fact that Scott is absolutely right about the Dems.
…the belief that white Christians are now prime victims of systemic discrimination
Gee, where could that “belief” have come from? Actual observation of reality? Let’s ignore that Affirmative Action and DEI require this very thing and are actual systems in place that are discriminatory.
THE WHOLE POINT OF THE VICTIM STACK IS TO KEEP YOU PEOPLE IN LINE AS THE OPPRESSORS!!! NOW FEEL GUILT DAMN YOU.
White MAGA scum only vote for Black people to try to fool everyone into thinking they’re not horrid racists.
“white conservatives love to be absolved of racism by Black voices”
Now do AWFLs.
During his trip to Belfast, Biden appears to not recognize Great Britain Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as he pushed him out of the way to salute the man next to him.
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1646276918004834304
“Out of the way, Hadji. I wanna talk to the guy in charge.”
What did Joe say about the Black and Tans?
Some of my best friends are the Black and Tans people?
If you don’t vote for me you’re not Black or Tan?
He stupidly confused the New Zealand All Blacks with the Black and Tans.
While in Ireland. That is some classy adult talk right there.
Come out and fight me like a man?
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders!
Tell her how the IRA,
made you run like hell away,
from the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra!
For those in the Vegas area, in two weeks, the girlfriend and I will be out there for a week. Currently, we’re looking pretty clear for our time there, with plans to gorge at the Caesar’s brunch on Sunday and a burlesque show (hosted by John Waters) Friday night. There’s not a big band either of us really NEED to see at the car show on Saturday, but we still plan to walk it.
Feel free to reach out to me here, on the forums, at my handle at Google’s mail or the like if you’re interested in meeting up.
Cool thanks for the heads up. We may or may not be around. Graduation season, weddings and such are all about us/
If I don’t forget, and if I’ve got a free day, I might be able to make the voyage in.
Blood money
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences is now $300 million richer, and its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has taken a new name — that of billionaire hedge fund CEO and Republican megadonor Kenneth C. Griffin ’89. Not everyone is thrilled.
Following University President Lawrence S. Bacow’s Tuesday announcement of Griffin’s unrestricted donation to FAS, some students and faculty celebrated the donation, while others blasted his support of Republican political candidates.
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Theda R. Skocpol, a Government and Sociology professor and former GSAS dean, slammed the decision in an email to The Crimson.
“I am absolutely disgusted at the sale of the GSAS name to a multi billionaire who works in US politics today to undermine the foundations of liberal civil society, including free speech, and to eviscerate the essential trans partisan features of fully representative US democracy,” she wrote.
“This is a shocking and unnecessary sell out by Harvard and FAS leaders who, at the same time, claim to be worried about Harvard College’s acceptance of slavery in the 1700s,” Skocpol added. “Feel free to quote me.”
In a statement, Jaquelyn M. Scharnick ’06, a spokesperson for Griffin and a former Crimson News editor, called Griffin “one of the strongest supporters of free speech and free inquiry in the country.”
Such a bastion of free thought and open intellectual inquiry.
…a multi billionaire who works in US politics today to undermine the foundations of liberal civil society, including free speech, and to eviscerate the essential trans partisan features of fully representative US democracy…
Citations needed. Show your work, professor.
The Harvard University endowment (valued at $53.2 billion as of June 2021)[1] is the largest academic endowment in the world.[2][3] Its value increased by over 10 billion dollars in fiscal year 2021, ending in the largest sum in its history.[1]
Griffin is an idiot.
The man supports DeSantis, so his politics are nominally conservative, and he gives $300M to Harvard unrestricted?
Talk about destroying your own efforts.
“PBS begging on twitter over the years to have people support their federal funding.”
https://twitter.com/TexasLindsay_/status/1646360238625357825
“National Public Radio Denies Being National Or Public”
https://babylonbee.com/news/national-public-radio-denies-being-national-or-public
Shut them both down.
Zinger of a conclusion on the Bee article: “At publishing time, NPR leadership had admitted some government involvement in their programming but insisted it was just the Chinese government.”
Sweet, another advertising gig for Dylan Mulvaney.
Today, we cook bronze.
Really cool thread on creating bronze sculpture.
Holy shit!
I hope our FL peeps are ok.
That’s a lot of rain.
More footage:
https://twitter.com/MyRadarWX/status/1646532762868875265
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1645912907769856002
A med school professor with a background in gender studies doesn’t know the difference between sex and gender.
“The idea of sex as an immutable characteristic is a terf talking point. It’s been around for decades”
I didn’t want to be the only one losing IQ points from hearing that.
You can’t argue with stupid.
Color me TERF.
The lynch mob has spoken
Abbott made his intentions known on Twitter less than 24 hours after the verdict and amid outrage from conservative voices on social media and television over the conviction.
“I just thought it was an egregious overreach of power,” Dowell said. “It’s undermining due process. It’s undermining democracy. I was upset, honestly.”
Undermining democracy”
You keep using that word, et c.
The DA railroading the guy despite the investigation concluding he acted in self defense and not recommending any charges was peak democracy and due process though.
👆
Well, actually it was democracy.
Did the DA not proclaim he was acting for The People? Ergo, democracy (but only because he wasn’t a democracy-thwarting Republican).
Today in great albums history.
Amazing record.
Ooohhhh college music!
Griffin is an idiot.
The man supports DeSantis, so his politics are nominally conservative, and he gives $300M to Harvard unrestricted?
Seriously. He should be earmarking that money to establish a “Profits Over People is a False Choice” seminar.
“ANDY NGO REPORTS: Portland BLM-Antifa rioter convicted for killing infant son…
The baby, Hunter Means, was found limp in Means’ north Portland apartment and the medical examiner determined the infant died of blunt force trauma to the head resulting in a fractured skull and brain bleed. The doctor’s examination also showed that the boy had suffered previous abuse as his ribs had been fractured prior to his death.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/portland-blm-rioter-convicted-for-killing-infant-son
CWAA
Wut?
Wait, wut?
Weren’t we led to believe that all of those perps walked scot-free?
What do you mean? I heard they were all disappeared into the back of unmarked vans while helpless pregnant ladies were trampled under foot.
In any case, they didn’t exactly get the book thrown at them:
Well, this guy was already out beating his kid to death, so I would say being released with time served is pretty close to walking out scot-tree.
And, yes, dozens were in fact released without charges being pressed against them. See, also, the DC riots during Trump’s inauguration. That was the flashing green light for antifa and the blackshirts.
Meh, late term abortions are legal in Oregon.
Close call.
Fuck around and find out seems like a bad foreign policy.
It is going to happen.
Tim Pool hypes up photos of Bud Light VP at a frat party as if it’s some big gottcha moment.
Yea, she’s the same as every other AWFP. I’m using a P for progressive because these people are not liberal. There’s nothing liberal about them and it bastardizes the word to let them have it.
I think one thing that may make this different from other right wing boycotts that have failed is that there are a lot of Bud Light alternates, but as others have pointed out…many alternatives are owned by Anheuser-Bush and people are dumb.
The word liberal is lost. It’s toxic now, so hang it on toxic people as well as their useful idiot squishes.