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 incredible day and the links!
Hunter Biden special counsel to seek indictment on gun charges
Feds alerted to whistleblower concern over Hunter Biden business deals in 2015
Joe Biden’s Black, Hispanic Polling Numbers Worst Since Walter Mondale in 1984
US federal budget deficit projected to double this year
Federal Reserve Reports Economic Activity Modest, Job Growth Subdued
Trump Says He’ll “Absolutely” Testify in Classified Docs Trial
Lawsuit Filed in Colorado to Use 14th Amendment to Disqualify Trump from Ballot
Court rules Arizona’s ballot signature verification guidance doesn’t have force of law
The Proud Boys Are Getting Longer Sentences Than Murders
Soros-backed Group Partners to Train Activists to Eradicate Police, Prisons
The household appliances spying on you
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
…and to seek burying anything else that might lead back to The Big Guy, based on his track record so far.
But the Dems will have their talking point for the election “Old news! He was charged and served his (slap on the wrist) penalty! Move on! Rawk rawk! Polly want a student loan forgiveness!”
Isn’t it refreshing to have a scandal free administration like Obama’s.
Just like Obama’s, imho. All the scandals are kept under the media’s rug.
I agree, looks like they’re going to keep trying that strategy. “He paid his debt to society, leave that poor man alone!”
All I can say is that I really hope something finally comes out of this (I think there’s enough to start impeachment on Biden, charges against the FBI agents who covered it up, probably Weiss himself and then impeach Garland if he won’t move on any of it). If they drag their feet and stick to “sternly worded letters” aka Lois Lerner et alia… that plus the loss of faith in election integrity will be the death knell for any faith in our current government institutions for a significant chunk of the population. Which moves them into the “little else to lose” given the persecution of political opponents we’ve seen.
AKA (as I know we’ve said here before) — if they want to start civil unrest, it certainly seems like they wouldn’t do anything much different.
“All I can say is that I really hope something finally comes out of this”
Me, too. It would be a sign that maybe I’ve been wrong that we are living through the senescence of a decaying, corrupt society.
Narrator: “He’s not wrong.”
For burning a BLM flag, no less.
Let me guess… “That isn’t First Amendment political speech! It is hateful intimidation so we’ll use Klan era laws to prosecute!”?
The political equivalent of “Be attractive. Don’t be unattractive.” — do whatever you want, as long as you’re on the correct political side. If not… woe betide you, peasant!
I’ve noted it before but getting the entire elite establishment on the side of their black nationalist antifa group – to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars! – was a freaking masterstroke of genius from those trained Marxists.
Not genius. They are just following the playbook. If you are going to remake society you need guys with hammers to smash the existing one.
See: National Socialists in Germany , Bolsheviks in Russia, Maoists in China, Castronistas in Cuba. See Venezuela, Cambodia, Vietnam, Romania, on and on and on.
If they were genius’ they would know where this road leads and avoid turning onto it. They would try to make the world a better place instead of something resembling East Germany.
Well, for some definitions of “genius”. Such as “get rich with zero consequences”.
Of course he’s fucked for years until his case makes it through the appeals process. And then this shit will still continue because there are no consequences for the people that do this unconstitutional shit.
because there are no consequences for the people that do this unconstitutional shit
Because modern Americans lack the testicular fortitude. Or they still put too much trust in the system.
‘member when it was the Democrats saying burning flags was protected speech, and it was the Republicans wanting to pass laws to ban burning flags?
I ‘member…
#metoo
I’d rant about not understanding the trade off of privacy for convenience and all… but I do own a smartphone. Sigh. I do my best to limit the shit spying on me is the best I can say.
“Poo Pourri has been added to your Amazon shopping list.”
Ha! You funny, Neph.
My washing machine and dryer (came with the house I bought) are wi-fi capable. Why?
There’s plenty of sous vide sticks, homebrew equipment, and thermometers that have both bluetooth and wifi. If you’re close enough to have a solid bluetooth connection, how fucking lazy do you have to be to not walk over to check it yourself?
The closest to a smart device I have in my house (other than the smartphone) is three old Chromecasts (two for TV’s, one for a stereo) that I use to stream media to the devices.
Yeah, I have orphans to do that.
My new hot water heater is WiFi capable, and there is a legit (in my mind) use case for it. If the tank springs a leak, It’d be nice to get an SMS about it.
That said, I don’t want the water heater emailing the county water monopoly that I keep it set at 140F and sometimes enjoy 30-minute showers.
*warning* Evil Sheldon is wanking it to unapproved thoughts in the shower. Initializing automated water shutoff. /Water company
Joe Biden’s Black, Hispanic Polling Numbers Worst Since Walter Mondale in 1984
They’ll just need to fortify a little harder, no big deal.
Nah. Those aren’t real Black Hispanics.
Speaking of, remember Black Hammer?
https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2022/08/22/gazi-kodzo-black-hammer
I’m sure they can push up to one billion votes this time. That’ll make their mandate from heaven obvious.
A couple of my appliances came with “smart” features. I didn’t care. I never connected them to the internet. Coincidentally, those are the appliances that died quickly and were replaced.
I have a refrigerator from 25 years ago, and another one that’s even older, and they WILL NOT DIE. Adding on technology that doesn’t do anything to enhance the main purpose of the appliance is just something more to go wrong.
Thank Chevrolet for that.
You don’t want a screen on your fridge playing advertisements?
Or locking me out because I’m on some list.
“I’m sorry citizen. You’ve reached your red meat allotment for the month. I’ve ordered you some cricket burgers.”
“Samsung has noted that you have exceeded your allotment of ice cream and frozen Milky Ways. Samsung has determined that you are an unfit parent. Samsung has locked your home until the authorities arrive to detain you.”
Your social credit score is insufficient to use this device.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E03/634016
“I never connected them to the internet. “
Doesn’t mean they aren’t connected to the internet. Have you checked your router to identify everything that is connected to it?
Why yes. Yes I have. I have at times also plugged in a wireless router that was configured as open and broadcasting SSID just to see who tried to connect to it.
Everyone should have a listing of all valid MAC addresses that should be connected to your router/switch. Whitelisting may take time to do and some of the newer stuff is making it easier (I say harder actually) to do this. As I mentioned below, I popped open our new thermostat to ensure there was not an undisclosed transmitter in it.
Doesn’t everybody do this?
No. I have found my phone connected to open networks at time, gone in and renamed the SSID for them.
Liberty Safe recognizes they have a problem
https://twitter.com/libertysafeinc/status/1699606598669459680
I’m not sure how you restore the trust. Also they don’t mention if there is or is not a backdoor on their electronic safes.
I’ll give them credit that they haven’t ignored the issue, however.
I’m open to seeing how this plays out. Page 3 sounds pretty good.
It was mighty dumb that nobody thought this could be an issue. However, the true test of a company is how you respond when you realize you’ve made a legitimate mistake.
My thinking in these situations is if you became CEO today what do you do?
They have to be careful about legal liability from past actions. Something that the usual screaming people on the internet never consider because they don’t really understand how civil and criminal liability works.
Honestly, this sounds like what they should do.
No. They fucked up, massively. And, as pointed out in the comments, they constantly and consistanly give money to politicians who are vocal about removing freedoms.
Toast, they are. (also, post this incident, assume ALL of their products have a backdoor. Trust, once lost.)
Of course, the opt-out list will be provided to the Alphabet agencies next week so you can be put on a watch list, and the fact that you don’t want the backdoor alone is enough to get a warrant – after all – what do you have to hide?
Soros has an obvious agenda, maximum chaos. It’s been long speculated that he works for a particular faction of Brits that would like to see the US broken up.
What astonishes me is that the Dems are completely on board with all of this. Hell, they boast about it.
…would like to see the US broken up.
It certainly seems like that’s what the Dems are trying for.
Almost everything the Biden administration is doing (outside of the neocon insanity) makes perfect sense if you assume that their goal is to force a political breakup of the US.
There’s really only a couple groups that benefit from that, the Davos crowd and old British money.
I think they are pushing for the breakdown of civil society (thus to empower the Total State), not the breakup of the Total State.
And if that doesn’t work, they’ll just nuke us themselves instead of waiting for the Norks to try it.
Pounds, shillings, and ounces?
I have a really hard time imagining would-be totalitarians pushing for the breakup and devolution of power from the imperial government to the provinces.
I’m thinking something along the lines of The Hunger Games.
Certainly not the neocons, but there’s a large swath of the Democrats who are completely beholden to whoever foots their bills. They’re completely for sale.
You remember that line from Inside Man, ‘When blood runs in the streets, buy property.’?
Soros and the rest of the Davos boys are looking to pick up discounted real property. Nothing more complicated.
Yet somehow they have failed to snatch up Detroit, Compton, South Side of Chicago, half of Cleveland, All of Baltimore…
Sure, Jan.
“The Grand Jury no-billed him! Our hands are tied!”
Pay no mind to the fact that a grand jury will do whatever the prosecutor wants it to do.
The concentration of power in order to ‘get things done’ has brought us full circle. The powers that be are no different now than European aristocracy 200 years ago. I congratulate all of the morons who facilitated this. Enjoy your chains motherfuckers.
The regression Coolidge warned us about has clearly come to pass.
“. . . About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.”
—This little quote cannot be repeated often enough.
A few days ago a Pomie, with a touch of sanctimony in his voice, told me that the English enjoy freedom of speech. Without missing a beat I replied “You lot are throwing people in prison for telling jokes.”
Befuddled silence followed. It seems that people programmed to repeat absurdities often actually believe those absurdities.
“You lot are throwing people in prison for telling jokes.”
And we in the US are just about there as well. People are being indicted and jailed for exercising constitutional rights.
Yeah, the U.S. is only about five minutes behind the rest of the Anglosphere in every facet of its rush down the drain.
Our piece of paper bought us at least 5 minutes, so it wasn’t useless.
It’s the same as me saying I have Freedom of Speech in my own home, as long as Mrs Fourscore isn’t around.
Whatcha complaining about? You can lock yourself in your closet and say anything you want to say.
“You lot are throwing people in prison for telling jokes.”
THAT’S DIFFERENT!!11111!1111111111111!@@@
I saw something similar on a Stephen Crowder Change My Mind.
A woman from Germany said in Germany they don’t lock people up for speech.
Crowder countered with the fact some people were in jail for what they said.
She replied: “They only do that for hate speech”.
I knew a l British lawyer on another website who was adamant that the’unwritten’ Constitution of the UK was far superior to the American one. But given that they were a hard leftist, maybe they meant it was better at protecting only the good think rights.
I will give them credit for thinking of it first.
🎵 In 1215 at Runnymede, doo dah, doo dah…
Well, duh. Humans are easily replaceable. The Proud Boys were trying to kill Aur Demokracee!
The Proud Boys are much more dangerous to the cabal than mere murderers.
“Are you for us or for our enemies?”
“Well, if you put it that way . . . .”
They are getting longer sentences than the guys that broke into the Capitol and shot members of Congress. Let that sink in.
The Puerto Rican separatists? They got pardoned.
Houston/Central TX glibs:
I will be at TRF on 11/11.
this sounds like a threat
You two should call a truce.
The (impeccably dressed) Rat Forum?
It can’t be that, he doesn’t wear window pane check.
He meant he will be a TERF on 11/11.
Barbarian Invasion is a good weekend to go. That’s when my buddies all camp out. If I’m there this year, and I remember to, I’ll give you a shout
It’s really about avoiding betting stuck mid-flight back because of the weather. But later enough that garbing up won’t be miserable.
With no Republican available for even pro forma blame, New York’s Democrats have turned on each other, including the incumbent president.
Democrats Form a Circular Firing Squad
https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-form-a-circular-firing-squad-adams-hochul-border-c6a00737?st=bmhb9ro60mhymou&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
And the people of New York will continue to vote Democrat. Because they somehow can’t draw the connection between the policies they vote for and the consequences of those policies.
That is because Republicans would restore slavery, install a theocracy, and start WWIII.
I see that on a regular basis. My favorites are the ones bitching about grocery and gas prices.
“Greeeeed!”
lol
Good deep dive.
Adams is on the teevee now squawking about the ‘migrant crisis’ that he and his party created. NYC voters and the Dem pols, you wanted to be a ‘sanctuary city’? Congratulations, you are a sanctuary city. Quit yer bitchin’.
I don’t get to post here much. Did I miss any discussion about this clip from the Jimmy Dore show that they uploaded over Labor Day weekend?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKIMDVACwEc
You’ll want to buckle up for a screaming display of self-importance and a stream of non sequiturs.
TL;DW: Maj Toure wants the government to back up a truckload of money to every house, but he doesn’t want the money printer going “brrrr” with fiat currency.
It’s not new that Maj wants reparations for blacks.
I lost a lot of interest in him at that point. He’s not a libertarian if he supports reparations for blacks.
The Lib Party needs to give him the Naked Fat Guy treatment and disavow/disown. I understand that they don’t want to piss off black folks but damn.
Judging by his comments in the video, he seems to think he’s the “bestest libertarian evarrr,” as the kids say.
On the other hand, I’m not sure why he thinks he’s a libertarian at all.
“I support decriminalizing recreational drugs.”, probably
guns.
He’s another of those “ass grass or gas” libertarians. Might as well call them LINOs.
Bill Maher’s Libertine Party.
Get all the former slaves and slavers in a room to work this out among themselves.
I never owned slaves so sorry, ain’t paying. Also, Maj is an idiot.
Before this video, I had only a vague awareness of the name.
Now, I can heartily concur with your assessment.
Hunter Biden is expected to be indicted on a federal gun charge by the end of September, Special Counsel David Weiss’ team told U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika on Wednesday.
I’ll go out on a limb here: I expect this will be handled like how your average prosecutor handles a case against cops who beat people/shot people/etc..
There’s your tell. It doesn’t take that long to bring a gun charge. It’s intended to be after the convention.
Convention would be next year, no?
Oh, he means by September of this year?
People should have known those Bluetooth-enabled vibrators were a bad idea.
Teledildonics is the future.
I guess some people are willing to trade their privacy for the convenience of just-in-time delivery on that 55-gallon drum.
https://a.co/d/5irlD9b
Wonder how Jesse is.
He’s still slugging put in the Reason comments section. Seems to be doing OK.
For real?
He was one of the sanest, least combative of the OG’s. Modern TOS seems like exactly the wrong place for him.
Unless someone else nabbed his nom de plume, yes.
*zips gimp mask
*sinks into drum of lubricant
*dissolve
Depends on your Kink.
Getting rid of my Nest thermostat was a great move. That thing had a mind of its own. Or more likely, the mind of an enviro-weenie telling it what to do. I’m now using a $20 Honeywell that has no wi-fi and two temperature settings, day and night.
you are murdering mother earth.
Well, she’s trying to murder all of us 24/7, so I’m fine with that.
Have you noticed her behavior? Bitch was asking for it.
Lets see…
Has cycles and expels insides from time to time
Random earth shattering tantrums
Comes through your life like a whirlwind and leaves you in disarray
Constantly is hot and cold, sometimes both within minutes of each other
Expels gases under the sheets (ice/water)
Starting to sound like an old girlfriend of mine.
Well, the Earth is bi-polar.
*narrows gaze*
Yep. We have a programmable one but at one point my wife was asking why I was opening it up. “To look for a transmitter”. None found, installed and piece of mind that I at least control that.
My solution is to just keep the house cool 24/7 regardless of anyone is home.
Suck it Gaia.
Hunter Biden special counsel to seek indictment on gun charges
*yawn*
Notably not the corruption issues.
He’ll get community service.
I don’t get it. What do people have against the name John?
https://twitter.com/BDSixsmith/status/1699462138903797906
Having a plan is better than not having one.
Socialism = planned economy
Capitalism = unplanned (“free” market)
https://twitter.com/JabariBrisport/status/1699235306615066741
New York State Senator in District 25. Chair of Committee on Children and Families. Former public school teacher. #TrySocialism 🌹
Lot of words to say over educated idiot.
So true. You can’t plan human creativity, this any attempt to “plan” and economy results in a decline over time.
P.S.
I added a Stoic costume idea to the 2023 Glibs costume post.
LOL. Just north of me. Bed-Stuy, Park Slope, Fort Greene, and Red Hook. It’s like a perfect storm of “free shit” and “commie utopia” brigades.
What if it’s a bad plan?
You just wait five years and plan again, duh.
Mounting Evidence of Corruption, Cover-ups Show Deep Suggest Deep-state Partisans Buried Evidence of Biden Bribery Scandal
*yawn*
MoistAttitude
12 hr. ago
A roundabout without an island is just a suggestion.
A wild traffic circle appears in Washington, DC
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/16c2atq/a_wild_traffic_circle_appears_in_washington_dc_oc/
There’s a roundabout near my office. It’s been there for over a decade.
Locals still don’t know how to drive around the damn thing. They’ll stop in the middle of it to let traffic in.
In New England, everyone knows how to navigate a rotary because there is one at the center of almost every town.
Anywhere a rotary is called a “roundabout”, people are clueless and chaos ensues.
I must be a mega-rube cause I call it a “traffic circle”.
Is that where rotary clubs come from? New Englanders jerking each other off over how good they drive in circles?
Don’t be so envious.
I call them “rotaries” because the first time I ever encountered one was after I moved to New England.
I figured out how they work really quickly. They’re not that hard.
And plenty of folks in Massachusetts don’t understand how they work. Every now and then I still have someone stopping in the rotary to let traffic enter the rotary.
Maybe they’re French. Priorité à droite.
If you like them are you a member of the rotary club?
Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week. Try the veal special.
There is a ton of them here in the PNW, and you can tell they were designed by non-drivers; they put cross walks right at the point of leaving the circle, so traffic stops, each, and, every, time. Defeating the whole reason for the damn things.
I drove right straight over the concrete hump of a small one in Bury, England early one morning in the rain, headed to the Manchester airport.
Probably didn’t get any air but definitely left some scrape marks behind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_%28Swindon%29
omgwtf
Just think…the sun used to never set on their empire.
“five mini-roundabouts arranged in a circle. . . . In 2009, it was voted the fourth-scariest junction in Britain.”
Jeebus. What are the top three?
And obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAgX6qlJEMc
Way OT:
Here is my new puppy, Max.
https://imgur.com/a/dRIAwZA
irish wolfhound. nice.
Cute – and useful for dusting.
That is going to be a hell of a lot of shedding in the spring.
We’re used to it, my Husky/Eskimo would shed enough hair to make another dog when I brushed him.
I’ve had 5 Keeshonds. Kmaking another dog’ post-brushing was standard. I miss them all very much.
Adorable.
He’s so fluffy!!
Adorable… glad he’s there to help you along and be part of your family, Ron.
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Awww.
ふわふわ!
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AF%E3%83%95%E3%83%AF#Japanese
What a handsome boy! 🐶
Aroooo!
That’s what he sounds like when we put him in the bathroom for the night.
Seriously, he sounds like a siren, my other dog was very quiet.
He was better last night than the first night.
Werewolves of London?
Only American.
Love him.
Looks like he’s gonna be a beast.
Congrats, dude!
Speaking ex cathedra, puppy pics are never off topic.
I have spoken.
He’s adorable!
Looks exactly like my malamute when he was a puppy, except swap red for black. (Points to avatar) Mine was a puppy for about 10 days.
Oilfield Rando
@Oilfield_Rando
Let’s do some engagement farming.
What is the most unwatchable Arnold Schwarzenegger film?
https://twitter.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/1699453411203125746
I wish I could see those comments.
Any documentary on him governing California.
Me And The Manly Maids
End of Days is probably up there.
“Great Expectations read by Arnold Schwarzenegger.”
This is easy. Batman and Robin. So bad it killed a franchise (codifying the 4th movie as a franchise killer), and (from what I’ve heard) the director’s commentary track on the DVD is nothing but apologies.
I agree with that.
US federal budget deficit projected to double this year
This is fine.
Federal Reserve Reports Economic Activity Modest, Job Growth Subdued
Best. Economy. Evar.
Bidenomics in action.
Bidenomics is working!
Lawsuit Filed in Colorado to Use 14th Amendment to Disqualify Trump from Ballot
The GOP is useless for conservative voters. And these cuntes are using the same bullshit/lying arguments as the left. Fuck ’em.
Open that door and apply the 14th. We have kept political persecution in the dark for far too long. Lets get it right out in the open. I especially like the “doesn’t need to be convicted, only thought of doing so” line.
The Proud Boys Are Getting Longer Sentences Than Murders
But they tried to murder democracy by not doing much of anything at all. Serves them right.
RE: Suthen’s Coolidge quote and the decay of Western society.
It’s just dumbass human shit. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: humans are trash; dumb feral animals. My housecat has better powers of logical deduction.
I realized a while ago that it’s on me if my expectations of humans don’t match up to their actions: my expectations were too high. Like expecting a troop of chimps to do quantum physics. Individuals can be amazing geniuses, but as a whole, expecting humans to not be mush-brained lemmings is unreasonable. My aim is to keep my head down, participate as little as possible, enjoy what I have and try to ignore the stupidity for my own sanity. Here’s some cheesecake to get you started.
https://archive.ph/gbpGs
But we Glibs are amazing geniuses…
…and so few of us…
Acourt in Arizona ruled that the Secretary of State office’s ballot signature verification guidance does “not have the force of law,” dealing a blow to the state’s Democrat leaders.
Considering the “guidance” was to literally not verify signatures…
What is the most unwatchable Arnold Schwarzenegger film?
Hercules in New York.
Junior.
People don’t seem to understand the significance of the Obama coke infused gay trysts.
It’s important because it underlines how the agencies operate.
They absolutely knew he liked men and snorted coke. They probably told the media to ignore it. Then they used it for leverage to get what they wanted from him, and he gave them everything they wanted.
It was blackmail fodder.
Besides the hypocrisy factor which is so pervasive in DC that it scarcely matters anymore.
I seem to recall from the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” era the complaints that The Gay was not being used to blackmail anyone anymore – how retrogressive!
You can’t blackmail an out gay man.
One still in the closet, though . . . .
The assumption being that he wouldn’t give the warfare state when it wanted without this blackmail. I don’t see that. I actually think that the warfare state played their hand wrong with Trump. I think Trump would have been amiable to their demands if they had been more cordial with him. I think they freaked out over his election and what he said during the campaign and they went scorched earth instead of compromising with him. The last president principled enough to rebuff the warfare state was Eisenhower and even he made his peace with the perpetual warfare state, despite his reflection upon leaving office.
“I think Trump would have been amiable to their demands”
THIS THIS THIS. Trump is basically a ’90s Democrat with no real principles. He’s also an insecure narcissist; if they had flattered him a little and used honey instead of vinegar he would’ve done anything they wanted. Not sure why they decided to lose their fucking minds but whatev.
Dumbass human shit.
They freaked out because they didn’t already own him going into the term.
Then he questioned why we were in Ukraine and Syria.
And NATO and the security state. Questioning the modern clerisy cannot be tolerated, too much grift at stake for that.
It’s simply tribalism. Trump was an outsider, and that couldn’t be allowed.
Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems like the Swamp got everything they wanted during Trump’s presidency. Even violating withdrawal orders to continue the warfare state. Every year, the noose on the populace tightens a little further.
This is exactly what I said about Pelosi too.
She could have got everything she wanted from him as long as she moderated a bit as “compromise” and let Trump take full credit and brag about how he defeated her in negotiations.
The household appliances spying on you
“Smart” anything is. Which is why my cell phone is the only spy device I own, and that is out of sheer necessity.
Budget: “This time, fer sure!”
“The household appliances spying on you”
That article keeps saying, “Which?”
Blame it on the covid.
Karine Jean-Pierre says it “was planned” for Biden to abruptly leave yesterday’s Medal of Honor ceremony before it was over:
“He left when there was a pause in the program in order to minimize his close contact with attendees”
The oldster they were giving the medal to hadn’t been informed beforehand, that’s for sure. What a sad cover story.
If that was the truth, it would have been mentioned beforehand so he didn’t look like a thoughtless idiot.
I thought I was used to those assholes lying, but they still manage to surprise me.
“He left when there was a pause in the program in order to minimize his close contact with attendees”
Nice of them to consider that safety of the children in attendance. Never know who uncle Joe might sniff.
After taking off his mask, leaning in and breathing in the face of the 81 year old honoree. Yeah, he was all about the infection control protocol.
If we’re going to actually hold politicians to that “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution” vow, it’s going to get awfully lonely in D C.
‘Trump Says He’ll “Absolutely” Testify in Classified Docs Trial’
The lawyers said it was the greatest testimony ever given in open court, the best ever maybe. /Trump from prison
“Elon Musk on Wednesday appeared to question Tucker Carlson’s decision to air an interview with a convicted fraudster who claims he had gay sex with Barack Obama.
Carlson used his show on the Musk-owned X to air claims by the ‘dubious’ conman that he had sex twice with Obama in Chicago in 1999 – retelling a story he first told 15 years ago, and once again failing to provide any evidence for his wild claims.
Larry Sinclair claimed he met Obama through a limousine driver, who knew the then-Illinois representative. He claimed Obama smoked crack with him, and then Sinclair gave him oral sex in the car.
Sinclair alleged Obama turned up at his hotel the next day, and the same routine played out. He said he was sure Obama had had sex with men and smoked crack before. Musk called the story ‘dubious’, and pointed out there was no evidence.
‘Of course, the probability that his claims are true would have to rest on objective evidence, rather than claims made by someone with a dubious history,’ Musk tweeted.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12490477/elon-musk-tucker-carlson-larry-sinclair-barack-obama-sex-cocaine.html
Wait, didn’t the Brett Kavanaugh hearings demonstrate that actual evidence is irrelevant?
Believe all crackheads.
It is all hearsay and there’s no hard evidence that it happened, that’s true. Maybe he has an old Members Only jacket with jizz stains on it in the back of his closet to back up the claim.
Technically, not hearsay. This is direct testimony, not “I heard someone say they blew Barack after splitting a rock with him”.
Pay no attention to that, errr – generator behind the green curtain.
But as with many Tesla-related things, there is a secret, thinly obscured by an Oz-like curtain, at the Harris Ranch Supercharger. Hidden in plain sight across the way from the Harris Ranch Supercharger’s main stations, behind a Shell station, is a small diesel plant that has helped power Tesla’s footprint.
https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/tesla-interstate-5-supercharger-power-plant-18343119.php
What, did people think there was a fleet of unicorns back there powering the fucking things?
They did until Musk bought Twitter.
Yes.
“The Proud Boys Are Getting Longer Sentences Than Murders”
Well, I hope they know what to do next time they decide to storm the Capitol…
Incentives, how do they work?
In the game of thrones….
Proud Boys need to learn to learn to murder for the right reasons
Minneapolis rioter burns down pawn shop with a father of 5 inside. Gets super lenient sentence. Why? Because even the prosecution thought he was a mostly peaceful protester and didn’t really mean to kill anyone.
*wink wink*
Fucking disgusting. This sort of thing keeps up, it’s going to be dark times ahead.
The anti-Trump protesters in DC set an occupied hotel on fire. Arrests were made, but no one was charged.
A police station somewhere, too, IIRC. Not that the information is readily available.
There is more info out there on the race riots of 1967 than the race riots of 2020.
The police station was in Minneapolis, and Kamala Harris bailed them out, if I recall.
Off the top of my head there were police stations set on fire in Portland and Aurora, CO.
Try giving me something that is even remotely constitutional and may prevent crime.
Enact universal background checks.
Ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
Require safe storage of guns.
End immunity from liability for gun manufacturers.
Congress must act.
We’ll gun control is one of their bread and butter items and I can’t blame them for going to the well but they’re losing.
MadLibs:
There is a hundred years or more of plain evidence that ___________ doesn’t do what @TheDemocrats claim it will. People who continue to vote for them based on this position are __________.
(noun) (adjective)
Mad Glibs!
No.
If only they were so adamant about voting.
Enact universal voter ID.
Ban electronic voting machines.
Require safe storage of ballots.
End immunity from liability for public officials.
Congress must act.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Wonderful.
Thanks, Jimbo!
That one hit close to home for me. My dad had Guillaine-Barre too. Totally paralyzed for 4 months, needed a ventilator. Then it went away and it took a year or more to get back to being physically able again. The muscle atrophy from 4 months of paralyzation was that bad. The Old Guy never got a fancy machine like that though.
That was an expensive IT fail.
“data that had accumulated in the database was deleted and organized, and an error occurred due to insufficient disk space, causing the system to stop.” The company further wrote that the servers were running on the same system as its backup, causing the same issue there, so the company couldn’t make a switch.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/toyota-shut-down-14-factories-due-to-insufficient-disk-space
‘the servers were running on the same system as its backup’
When saving money goes wrong. That’s hilarious.
I dont even understand how that could possibly be approved to begin with.
Having the backup in the same data center isn’t even a good idea, if you are large enough to swing it. And its freakin Toyota. I worked with a small company 20 years ago that had their backups in the same rack as the production. They were not overly concerned about uptime. They werent going to lose millions, so it was okay if neither was reachable due to some network issue.
But even they would have never put the backup on the same machine.
I wonder if something was misconfigured as opposed outright stupidity of intentionally running both on the same system.
*shudders thinking of past issues with Exchange servers running out of disk space*
1) run out of space
2) Exchange shuts down
3) Exchange docs say that you need to compress db files
4) Can’t run compaction tool because no disk space
I see a new Six Sigma Project is needed!
That would be weird, since Toyota is a Lean shop.
Sinclair alleged Obama turned up at his hotel the next day, and the same routine played out. He said he was sure Obama had had sex with men and smoked crack before. Musk called the story ‘dubious’, and pointed out there was no evidence.
‘Of course, the probability that his claims are true would have to rest on objective evidence, rather than claims made by someone with a dubious history,’ Musk tweeted.”
Musk has apparently never heard of E Jean Carroll/
As for the Obama sex scandal- i do not care. Sorry not sorry.
I want Obama to be shamed and ostracized. I want his legacy to be demolished.
Other than that, I don’t care where he sticks his dick.
Just as important, any nascent political career the wookie may have needs to be crushed.
Yeah, I gotta say… I’m kind of OK if the other side plays dirty to ensure that ^this^ happens.
The Wookie would just get new cover as a poor victim of a gay husband cheating on her and lying to her all those years about his sexuality. That poor woman!
Good point about Carroll. The angle on the Obama story isn’t whether or not he sucks dick though, it’s that he was compromised and the press didn’t look into it and he could have even been blackmailed into reversing some of his foreign policy stances on the back of those claims.
👆👆👆
The intelligence community has dirt on every* politician to be able to control them. Apparently, that’s what they had on Obama.
*Except for Trump. That’s why they had to fabricate it.
It isn’t about O’Bumbles sex life.
Today, in apolitical jurisprudence
Republicans in Wisconsin are coalescing around the prospect of impeaching a newly seated liberal justice on the state’s Supreme Court, whose victory in a costly, high-stakes election this spring swung the court in Democrats’ favor and threatened the GOP’s iron grip on state politics.
The push, just five weeks after Justice Janet Protasiewicz joined the court and before she has heard a single case, serves as a last-ditch effort to stop the new 4-3 liberal majority from throwing out Republican-drawn state legislative maps and legalizing abortion in Wisconsin.
The drama over Republican threats to impeach and possibly remove Protasiewicz could raise new questions about democracy and the legitimacy of elections in a state where GOP lawmakers and their allies spent two years disputing the 2020 presidential contest’s outcome.
For Republicans, the liberal Supreme Court majority serves as an existential danger. If the court, as expected, invalidates Wisconsin’s legislative maps, it would strip Republicans of what now amounts to permanent majorities in the Legislature. But removing a newly elected justice could prompt a backlash in 2024 from Democrats and moderate Republican voters who abandoned the GOP during the Trump years.
Reap the whirlwind.
Once political norms are thrown on the garbage pile all sides need to act badly to be competitive so, yeah, reap it.
“I learned it from watching YOU, dad!”
You want norms back? Well, you need to go through a period which convinces everybody we need norms back. Until the pain is equally distributed, that won’t happen.
I vote that we give Madison and Milwaukee to Illinois, an abortion that I support.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is a train wreck
Oh S * * *!
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/laxative-shortage-diet-weight-loss-5a15bf02?st=egj5oylaem8mlke&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
STEVE SMITH HALP
BY HALP MEAN….
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272397/quotes/?item=qt0283444
When our politicians are so full of shit, is this story a surprise?
I want Obama to be shamed and ostracized. I want his legacy to be demolished.
Me too. But- just as with Biden, I want the actual stupidity and destruction of his ideas exposed.
I don’t want Biden sidelined by “age”. I want him kicked out of office because his policies are destroying the economy.
Same with Obama. The obvious (to me) message sent by the voters in 2016 was “Enough is enough- anybody but another fucking Obama Democrat!” obviously did not get through.
I don’t care how or why. I just want him ruined. Same with Biden.
Once they’re ruined, someone in the press will dig into the bad things because they’re no longer protected.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
“A look at the uranium-based ammo the US is sending to Ukraine”
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-blinken-depleted-uranium-566352a33ea9035ae706345eaa4cfa95#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20(AP)%20—%20The%20U.S.,lines%20in%20its%20grueling%20counteroffensive.
Huh, missed this…shame on us.
It’s disgusting. It’s vile and it’s evil.
It’s part of the standard anti tank load out for modern tanks. As soon as they announced they were sending M1/Leopard/etc. it was a given.
I’m sure it is environmentally friendly.
But the tanks that fire uranium rounds are EV’s!
We don’t have any tungsten rounds?
At issue for Wisconsin Republicans are Protasiewicz’s stated views on Wisconsin’s legislative maps. In a deliberate strategy to energize and win support from Democratic donors and voters during her campaign this spring, she was unusually blunt about her positions on issues including abortion rights and the state’s maps, which she called “rigged.”
I believe she campaigned on an explicit intent to completely upend the law in Wisconsin and to throw out existing precedent wholesale. You know, typical “above politics” rhetoric.
Sounds judicial and nonpartisan.
What do you expect when judges run for election?
Evil Sheldon:
What match did you have in mind?
Thousands of Old Wind Turbine Blades Pile Up in West Texas
Green.
Incentives, how do they work?
It’s like they pay for themselves! We would be stupid not to cover the earth in piles of lightly used wind turbine parts.
Another story about cops making dumb decisions. This time luckily no one gets shot, beat up or arrested.
Dude tries to do some viral marketing. Rubes and cops see a bunch of red bikes left around town and leap into action. Bikes are being confiscated and Dude comes forward and says it is just a marketing gig.
Cops and local pol huff and puff and tell Dude to get rid of the bikes. Dude complies.
Lucky I wasn’t the dude because I would have told the cops and busybodies to show me what law was being broken by leaving bikes around town.
Chained to bike racks, park benches and light poles
I get it. The bikes weren’t parked from being in-use. It was advertising, the same as if the company installed 29 business signs on government property. Installing advertising on private property would be a different story.
Shut up, Mike.
I came here to St. Anselm College to simply say from my heart that Republican voters face a choice in this state and in every state around the nation as these primaries unfold, and I believe that choice will determine the fate of our party and the course of our nation for years to come. So today I asked my fellow Republicans this: In the days to come, will we be the party of conservatism, or will we follow the siren song of populism unmoored to conservative principles? The future of this movement in this party belongs to one or the other, not both. That’s because the fundamental divide between these two factions is unbridgeable.
He is still in the race? I thought when asked about the welfare of US citizens his answer did him in. “Not my concern”…that is more than just a peek behind the curtain. Who supports the guy?
I’m sure he’s in it for the money. Some sweet campaign contributions to one of his funds. It will be laundered appropriately.
Wisconsin Democrats are aghast at what they view as another attempt by Republicans to reject the outcome of an election they lost. Many now privately concede that impeaching Protasiewicz is a foregone conclusion.
“They’re deliberately trying to overturn the will of the people,” said Sarah Godlewski, the Democratic secretary of state. “We have to understand the risk this is posing. It’s a potential reality that would put Wisconsin’s democracy in jeopardy.”
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National Democrats, who poured millions of dollars into Protasiewicz’s election, have begun to sound alarms in Washington.
“Impeaching Justice Protasiewicz is as absurd as it is dangerous,” said Eric Holder, the former attorney general, who is now the chair of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. “America is supposed to be a democracy where the will of the people stands, even if some power-hungry politicians disagree.”
Shameless, they are.
Democracy is too important to be left to those cheesehead savages. The high priesthood in Washington must intervene.
Wonder how many of the Dem pols bemoaning this were among those who fled to Iowa in 2011 to keep the legislature from having a quorum?
That was Democracy in Progress! The same as those peaceful protesters who came to save the day.
Democrats also fled Texas to avoid a vote.
I’m old enough to remember when it was a gay bar. Now it’s a queer bar. https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/the-stud-san-francisco-reopening-18348690.php
Soon to be a closed bar?
“Gay” is so boring and square.
Too soon! They’re supposed to wait until he gets the nomination and the ballots are already printed, then tell everyone he’s been disqualified and any ballots voting for him are illegitimate and will be discarded.
And no standing to challenge until the election is certified, at which point it is moot.
This is just their backup plan. Plan A is still for the GOPe to, more in sadness than in anger blah blah, keep him off the ballot due to the pending criminal cases, etc.
Root out the heretics and heathens
On Tuesday, US District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Proud Boys former chairman Enrique Tarrio to 22 years in prison, after last week handing down terms of 17 years, 15 years and 18 years, respectively, to Proud Boys leaders Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Ethan Nordean.
The convictions of four of the group’s senior members on seditious conspiracy charges are a victory for democracy and the rule of law. These sentences, some of the longest in the cases against those behind the Capitol breach, hold accountable the leaders of a neo-fascist street gang that served as the tip of the spear on the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
However, as we creep closer to another presidential election, it is difficult to argue that the domestic terrorism threat is any less significant — or that the federal government is any better positioned to respond to it — than it was on January 5, 2021.
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There is little question that right-wing extremism, particularly white supremacist extremism, is currently the deadliest and most pervasive domestic terrorism threat facing the United States. Data produced by the Anti-Defamation League paints a clear and damning picture of the realities of the threat: From 2013 to 2022, right-wing extremists committed 75% of the extremist-related murders in the United States, compared to 20% for Islamist extremists and 4% for left-wing extremists. Nearly 1 in 4 of these right-wing extremist killings were committed in the name of white supremacist terrorism – a staggering 251 total deaths.
In this period of resurgence, white supremacists and anti-government actors have embraced a decentralized model driven by narratives, not group membership – limiting the effectiveness of individual prosecutions. White supremacist subcultures and communities online serve as incubators of hate and have motivated some of the deadliest domestic terror attacks in recent history, from Poway and El Paso to Pittsburgh and Buffalo.
From a spike in threats against public officials to an embrace of anti-LGBTQ hostility, right-wing political violence has increasingly been adopted by individuals unaffiliated with organized groups and instead inspired by hateful and dehumanizing rhetoric.
What this country needs is a good old fashioned sectarian purge. What would Stalin do?
Wow. Dark times indeed.
The convictions of four of the group’s senior members on seditious conspiracy charges are a victory for democracy and the rule of law.
It destroys any semblance of the rule of law.
neo-fascist street gang
The what?
that served as the tip of the spear on the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
Stated without evidence.
the domestic terrorism threat
From putting one’s hand on a temporary barrier?
right-wing extremism, particularly white supremacist extremism, is currently the deadliest and most pervasive domestic terrorism threat
Give me one example. I’ll wait.
From 2013 to 2022, right-wing extremists committed 75% of the extremist-related murders
Lies…damned lies…
white supremacists and anti-government actors
Because these are the same thing. Fuck the state.
a spike in threats against public officials
Stop being tyrannical cuntes.
anti-LGBTQ hostility
Stop transing and grooming children. It’s really that simple.
“Danny Masterson could be sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for raping two women more than two decades ago as judge is set for hearing today”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12490317/That-70s-Show-actor-Danny-Masterson-decades-prison-sentencing-2-rapes.html
These cases are ridiculous. Same reason I have no idea about the Obama thing.
He might be a total piece of shit. He might be a rapist. But we have a statute of limitations for a reason. And as far as I can tell (without actually reading about this, just from what I’ve overheard my wife say), it’s mostly a he said, she said type of case. I could be wrong as I haven’t done any actual research into it. But if that’s what it is, it’s scary, even if he is a rapist.
He also might be completely innocent. Same with all these other cases that are 20 – 30 years old.
This – statute of limitations existed for a reason.
Juries seem like a joke these days. I have trouble imagining I could be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt based on decade + old heresay without evidence.
It’s not hearsay. It’s direct testimony.
Nonetheless, after a certain point, it is impossible to gather evidence to counter direct testimony. Which is why we have statutes of limitation.
The Energy Bill currently being rushed through Parliament authorises the use of “reasonable force” to install ‘Smart Meters’ that will allow authorities to turn customers’ energy on and off, says David Craig.
https://twitter.com/toadmeister/status/1699731561115947216
probably used in the future for smart thermostats to impose The People’s temperature
“A married father of two who is accused of breaking into a German care home and raping a 10-year-old girl, who was later killed, is pictured for the first time.
MailOnline has discovered that Daniel Troger, 25, is the man alleged to have raped young Lena before going on to watch pornography with an 11-year-old boy, who later allegedly strangled the girl to death.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12491543/Pictured-Married-father-two-accused-raping-girl-Germany.html
WTF??
And some people are opposed to the death penalty, no matter who or what.
I am not opposed to it in principle, I am opposed to it based on the fact the government is the one that decides these things.
That guy, I would happily put a bullet in his brain.
Yep Ron. Same here. I am not opposed to the death penalty, just opposed to the state doling it out.
This monster is qualified to work at JP Morgan with the other ghouls. The strongest case for the death penalty.
In re-imagining “White supremacist terrorism” as “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism,” the domestic intelligence apparatus has divorced the root causes of the threat – namely the narratives and grievances that drive offline violence and function as mobilizing concepts for coalitions of white supremacists – from the violent end product.
These contortions to avoid reckoning with the uncomfortable realities of the domestic terrorism problem have contributed to paralysis across the federal government. The Biden administration’s National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism issued in June 2021 is effectively toothless, replete with platitudes such as “addressing the role of the Internet in influencing individuals to commit acts of domestic terrorism” and “prioritizing domestic terrorism-related investigations.”
The tone of the strategy itself exhibits a continued failure to engage with the realities of domestic terrorism, instead regurgitating years-old boilerplate policy recommendations and issuing self-congratulatory updates for belatedly implementing minimal changes to existing processes.
Even the small steps the administration has attempted have been abandoned at the first sign of resistance. Limited, narrow amendments aimed at countering endemic right-wing extremist infiltration in the military were expunged from the most recent National Defense Authorization Act. Meanwhile, a Department of Homeland Security Disinformation Governance Board launched in 2022 to address disinformation as a growing driver of violent extremism was shut down in the face of a right-wing pressure campaign.
These shortcomings demonstrate a lack of political will by the executive branch to make hard choices and expend political capital to combat domestic terrorism. It is increasingly evident that a far more expansive investigation by an impartial blue-ribbon commission is required. Such a commission must undertake a root-and-stem reassessment of the entirety of the domestic counterterrorism apparatus.
Just don’t mention the Constitution. It’s old and moth-eaten and white terrorists wrote it.
They really are trying to stoke a violent uprising.
We stand at a crossroads in the fight against domestic terrorism. The wave of violence in recent years has left no doubt of what the future holds if indecision and passive approaches to this threat continue. To avoid another violent insurrection in January 2024, it is essential to move beyond antiquated, War on Terror-era approaches and acknowledge the new realities of the domestic terrorism threat.
It’s our only defense against authoritarianism and the death of democracy.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
WAR IS PEACE
Well, this story didn’t go where I thought it would.
https://news.yahoo.com/scientists-discover-strange-between-internet-172020923.html
Basically doing anything intellectual seems to lower and mitigate dementia up to a point.
The correlation seems reasonable, but all of these studies don’t light the world on fire when it comes to causation.
Most likely your brain is like a muscle, exercise it and it gets stronger, stop using it and it atrophies.