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 fantabulous day and the links!
Supreme Court rejects long-shot case to disqualify Trump from 2024 election
Matt Gaetz Files Motion To Remove Kevin McCarthy As House Speaker
Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar carjacked at gunpoint by three assailants outside his DC apartment
DOD official, longtime friend charged after allegedly operating dog fighting ring for over 20 years
Hunter Biden was suspected of hiring prostitutes from ‘Eastern European sex trafficking ring’
Obscure federal commissions and boards funded by taxpayers, contribute to budget bloat and patronage
Supreme Court Case About Financial Regulator Sparks Industry Anxiety
Leftist journalist who downplayed violent crime gunned down in his Philly home
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Supreme Court rejects long-shot case to disqualify Trump from 2024 election”
MAGA fascists on the court!
Biden needs to add 9 good-think new justices to balance this Nazi entity out!
/Progtard
So SCOTUS is also part of the insurrection. IMPEACH!
Didn’t the usual suspects already make this accusation, a bunch of times, and demand correction?
“Matt Gaetz Files Motion To Remove Kevin McCarthy As House Speaker”
Bread and circuses…
Arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of pin, while the barbarians are storming the wall…
Seriously, if someone nukes D.C., while we need to retaliate for that act and the innocent loss of life, we should give them a Nobel prize for ridding us of the criminal and corrupt political and bureaucratic machine killing this country.
“Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar carjacked at gunpoint by three assailants outside his DC apartment”
Did he claim they were black dressed MAGA hat wearing Trumpites declaring D.C. MAGA country when they found him curled in a ball and covered in his own piss & shit, crying about being jacked?
No — this one is apparently one of the few moderate Dems left in the House, had joined with the GOP when they smacked down the DC City Council attempt to liberalize crime laws and has been on the side of “get your shit together, DC police” for a while now, actually.
He’s probably a fuckhead in many different ways (given how lockstep the Dems vote in the House on most issues) – but cut him some slack on this one, I would think.
“DOD official, longtime friend charged after allegedly operating dog fighting ring for over 20 years”
Michael Vick went to work for the DOD?
I just love the headline — it is Fox’s fault… but it really made me wonder about Sloopy and Banjos’s circle of friends at the DOD for a minute.
Oh, but you told us the Air Force needed more dog fighting experience.
*Fiercely narrows gaze*
“Hunter Biden was suspected of hiring prostitutes from ‘Eastern European sex trafficking ring’”
Was he forced to do this when his family lost access to Epstein island?
He wanted to meet the Russian piss hookers after hearing so much about them.
I mean, if you were into golden showers and other weird shit, wouldn’t you want some of that sweet love too, Neph?
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled in favor of the CFSA, finding that the CFPB’s unusual funding mechanism was unconstitutional and so the agency couldn’t make the rule.
That mechanism was created to keep the agency independent. Although it may seek funding from Congress, the agency is excluded from the normal congressional appropriations process and instead receives most of the money it needs to operate from the Federal Reserve System, which collects fees from member banks.
But that independence is precisely what makes the funding system unconstitutional, the 5th Circuit determined. The mechanism violates the U.S. Constitution’s appropriations clause, which states, “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”
Lizzie Warren et al thought they could be very clever and keep Congress from kneecapping their pet agency. And if they’d have kept pumping predictable leftists and fans of “results-oriented jurisprudence” into the federal court system, they would’ve gotten away with it for a long, long time.
Remember the time of the Anti-Director when they thought the resigning director got to select who filled the vacancy instead of the President?
Yup… the CFPB is ridiculous on its face, not just for its funding. Right up there with Ibram X. Kendi’s “Anti-Racism” crap… the left sure does love creating completely unhindered bureaucracies to run your life. Funny that….
This is why they are currently shitting their pants over Chevron. They know that the lose of Dem operatives, er, federal workers to make decisions unhampered by oversight cuts back on the glory of the Kingdom of Government Heaven (KGH).
Meh. As we’ve seen with the 2A cases, it won’t make much difference. The leftists will just wait out the interminable judicial appeals cycle and eventually they’ll get a Court that gives it all back to them.
You know, being black pilled won’t get us out of this mess. In fact, I am pretty sure that it is going to dig us in deeper, as it removes all incentive to make the necessary changes to start the process of fixing what is wrong. We need to be positive, show how what we want, liberty, is better for everyone, and keep taking steps in that direction. We spend far too much time letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, when we can be making steps toward that eventual goal. We have to show that we are more numerous than they think, that we give a shit, and that we are willing to work towards a better world. And I know how much that sounds like what they have been preaching, but take a second and think about what that has achieved; they, over a long period of steady, incremental change have taken over each and every major institution. In some of those institutions that has been the complete ideology of that body, but in the majority that has been only skin deep, and can change with a different set of political winds.
Right now, if you are black pilled, they have beaten you.
See also CCW & Constitutional carry laws.
I won’t speak for RC, but being black-pilled (I dislike that term) has made me much more positive. Once you come to the conclusion that there’s no fixing the system at the ballot box, then it’s actually liberating. Instead of wasting mental bandwidth on things that can’t be changed short of open warfare, I can instead focus on positive change in my family and local community.
Withdraw and rebuild. Focus on increasing liberty in your local community. Introduce new people to shooting. Plant on garden. Learn a new skill. Virtually anything you could possibly spend time on locally, while insulating yourself as much as possible from the government, is more productive, happier, and freeing than getting sucked into trying to fix a corrupt system that will utterly destroy you and family, banana-republic style, if your efforts actually rise the level of being noticed (see Jan 6th political prisoners or the Canadian Truckers).
I’d counter with, if you think you the electoral system still matters, then they have you where they want you.
What Dad said.
^^All of this^^
Fix yourself first.
I do think the electoral system still maters, maybe not on the grand scale of the presidential level, but definitely on the small, local scale. There is a reason that right has the HOR, and that is it’s members come from small, local areas which are much harder to corrupt. And, proof positive in my eyes, is that the left didn’t take the house, no matter the dirty tricks and pressure put on it by various actors thereof.
But to address your immediate points, withdraw and rebuild towards what? If liberty is being taken away electorally, that we have no say anymore at all, which is what you are implying, they were does that take you? Are you assuming a breakup of the country? If, as you contend, that they hold all of the cards, that will not happen as it would be a admission of failure on the part of the left, and a further removal of their ideals. Which won’t happen.
I am a firm believer that the left needs at least the appearance of being “of the people” and that they, especially in a country of 400M firearms, do not want a full scale rebellion, whether they win or lose. The risks are too great. No, they want to boil the frog so to speak, and it is easiest if the people are despondent. But, the more and more people that vote against them, the harder they have to work at covering up what they do. So, if those are the rules of the game, make they play it.
I do agree with you about spending time raising awareness in you local community, but to me that is the opposite of being black pilled. Indeed, it is the essence of being while pilled, starting grass roots initiatives to increase liberty. We should all be approaching people in our neighborhoods, churches, unions, etc. with the ideas of freedom, or at the very least, challenging the ideas that counter that.
Remember, even in the darkest days of the USSR, people still wrote samizdat.
But to address your immediate points, withdraw and rebuild towards what? If liberty is being taken away electorally, that we have no say anymore at all, which is what you are implying, they were does that take you? Are you assuming a breakup of the country?
It takes me to control of my life and improving my life and those around me. The government will do as it pleases, and my own actions will make my family better prepared for whatever happens in this country, whether it’s slow to descent into irrelevance, Soviet style gulags from tyrannical control, or an actual breakup (peaceful or otherwise). As Ron’s stoicism column might say, I can only control myself. That is what I’m focused on.
But, the more and more people that vote against them, the harder they have to work at covering up what they do. So, if those are the rules of the game, make they play it.
They don’t. Many of watched on election night as Trump’s vote count actually went down by over 100k votes in VA on live tv. If they can simply delete 100k votes on live tv in front of the nation, then there’s no such thing as margin of fraud or the government caring how it looks. We’ve descended to Caracas-style illegitimacy with fake elections.
I do agree with you about spending time raising awareness in you local community, but to me that is the opposite of being black pilled. Indeed, it is the essence of being while pilled, starting grass roots initiatives to increase liberty. We should all be approaching people in our neighborhoods, churches, unions, etc. with the ideas of freedom, or at the very least, challenging the ideas that counter that.
Agree with everything here. We just differ on there being any association between doing this and affecting the national government.
For better or worse, these things take time. Brown v. Board of Education was decided in 1954. The last school district to hold out finally desegregated in 2016.
And it’s not like you can send in the National Guard to force states to recognize the Second Amendment.
“Leftist journalist who downplayed violent crime gunned down in his Philly home”
Heh, I bet the commie dncers will try blame Scott Adams fans for this…
Gunned down by MAGA extremists no doubt. If only there more gun control laws….
Someone should jokingly tell these idiots that MAGA extremists, like criminals, love breaking the law!
Amish – it was the Amish terrorists.
Obligatory.
Alternatively:
Where they hostile?
In an ironic twist, the guy had just criticized Scott Adams on Twitter because Scott said crime was rising.
Josh Kruger, a leftist journalist and activist who was based in Philadelphia, was shot and killed inside his home on Monday. Kruger had a long history of downplaying violent crime in the city, often openly mocking those who expressed concerns about homicides in Philadelphia.
If he was a mouthy with his boyfriends as he is on X, you probably won’t have to look very far to find the suspect. Or maybe just shrug your shoulders, take the W, and go back to the office.
No great loss to humanity.
Michael Malice reposted a bunch of his old tweets yesterday. That guy was the embodiment of TMITE.
Does having a column in the local alt-weekly next to a Zippy the Pinhead cartoon really count as “the media”? Or was this just another example of the Very Online Left that we’ve all come to know and despise?
I’ve had a few buddies, even in the progressive enclave of Big College Town, who have remarked on the type of smug, condescending lefty twink that Kruger was the apparent embodiment of as “just in need of an ass-kicking to get his mind right.” Looks like he finally got it — and how.
Not having known the man personally, I won’t put his early demise in the “he needed killin'” camp. More like “illegal but not necessarily wrong” until proven otherwise.
Idk, he wasn’t national but seemed to wield too much influence on local politics. Philadelphia is not exactly a small town.
Those alt-weeklies have been a staple up and down the country, and I bet they have do more to change the youth vote and its politics than MSNBC.
The most useful thing in the alt-weekly here back in the day was the concert box. They would list all of the upcoming shows for the smaller venues. We referenced that quite frequently.
Various sites seem to be implying that this was a random “home invasion” and reveling in the irony and I’m not buying it.
This guy was as sketchy as it gets.
Shot seven times…
Just reading about it I was getting Diane Keaton at the end of Looking for Mr. Goodbar vibes.
Unless we’re talking classic 1911 or a revolver, the shooter didn’t even finish the mag dump.
https://www.cdnnsports.com/magazines.html?capacity%5B0%5D=6&capacity%5B1%5D=7
*bang* *bang* *bang* *bang* *bang* *bang*
::opens cylinder, dumps brass, inserts one more cartridge::
*bang*
/willfully ignores Taurus 66, et al
The only revolver I’ve ever fired was a seven-shooter.
Police shooting?
Not if he was shot 7 times.
The usual anti-American and anti-freedom propagandists, and I assume for sure their handlers and masters, just hate this man for making it so much harder for the crooks and creeps to gaslight common people. After all, disinformation is any truth that is inconvenient to the globalist agenda.
That is particularly delusional. It isn’t surprising that a politician would try accusing others of that thing which he is doing…. but that the press just goes along with it is astonishing.
They seem to feel that it would be entirely appropriate for the federal government to attack Elon Musk’s companies via the regulatory and legal process as retaliation for supporting “not me”.
I KNEW IT!
That’s pretty funny.
Where the losses don’t matter! These are really uncharted waters.
Fuck you, cut spending.
I just saw a headline in my newsfeed saying the “era of high returns on savings/CD’s is over”.
When did it start?
30 year treasuries are almost at 5%. If you are already wealthy, you can lock in risk free returns for 30 years. No state tax either.
The rest of us? Well, no one cared to begin with.
Since inflation is well above 5%, buying these is not risk free.
If you are getting $50k or $500k a year then I don’t think you are that worried about inflation. I am referring to the wealthy who already have control.
Yesterday I put some money in CD at my local bank. 7 month 5.4%
I wouldn’t call that high, but it’s as high as they have been since I started making any money.
This. I had some money parked in a “savings” account that’s still paying 2020 rates. I moved it to a Schwab money market account that is now paying approx 5%. The difference in interest is dollars over what was previously pennies and it’s still every bit as liquid as if it was in the savings account.
And yes, I realize inflation is chewing into my real return, but I need the money for another investment that is supposed to be coming up and can’t risk it in stocks at the moment.
Yeah. That’s the real problem, when interest rates aren’t even close to inflation rates, I wouldn’t call that “high interest”.
#metoo
I’m just losing value at a slower rate than I otherwise would be. My wife and I are gonna need that money to start a house building project at some point, I just don’t know when. Real estate market has to crash at some point.
It’s fine. They still have checks left.
“Obscure federal commissions and boards funded by taxpayers”
Now do state, county and local giveaways. Visit a county level meeting and see those NGOs begging for handouts.
One small example
https://www.si.com/nba/2017/06/30/midnight-basketball-program-where-are-they-now
Noecon warmonger mongers war.
Beady eyed, flappy headed idiot apologizes.
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Yeah, that’s nuts. Are we at “mugged by reality” territory yet?
Good morning, Banjos!
Matt Gaetz Files Motion To Remove Kevin McCarthy As House Speaker
I don’t know what to think about this. Mostly I dig it, simply because I’m tired of no real opposition, but Massie has misgivings. Regardless, what can’t last won’t. Fucking 33 trillion in the hole and counting means a reckoning is coming, one way or another.
Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar carjacked at gunpoint by three assailants outside his DC apartment
This seems to be happening a lot lately. Another op to justify a massive crackdown?
I’ll leave you with a song…
Holy shit is that a great song (and video). Her voice is incredible.
Have a great day, y’all. Let’s be careful out there.
Oh hey, look at that.
Right on time.
By passing concealed carry laws in DC, right?
Upon further review, it is a tweet from Mike Lee, R-Utah, so that is likely what he meant.
Carry on.
Australian news defined Gaetz as a “far right Republican.” This is also the phrase they use to describe neo-fascist politicians in Europe.
Far right means – doesn’t want to fund the nazis in Ukraine.
It truly is clown world.
He should have dodged.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/16ydkm4/oc_this_guy_lives_in_the_same_complex_as_me_i/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Heh.
Steelers fan
He wasn’t up to the challenge.
“Yale University researchers have developed an airborne method for delivering mRNA right to your lungs. In a study on mice, the scientists created polymer nanoparticles to encapsulate mRNA, making it inhalable.
What could go wrong?
Reavers.
Now that would spice things up.
Sand worms?
I thought biochemical weapons were supposed to be illegal for schmucks like Yalies to have.
You’d think the government would be keeping such a thing secret.
Why yes, my new USA made stapler works great. TY for asking.
But, damn it, Mojeaux showing off that Aceliner… Now I want a shiny one. >.>
Bidenomics downgrade as the Bureau of Economic Analysis revises down the last 3 years of economic data.
Are you sitting down? The government lied their asses off about the economy.
The numbers are actually pretty spectacular.
And known already on the street. TW – ZeroHedge for those who want print in lieu of video
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/9-sigma-miss-personal-consumption-unexpectedly-collapses-latest-gdp-revision
they need to do it again and revise it back up !
“Are you sitting down? The government lied their asses off about the economy.”
These crooks have been lying about everything. They put zero time into fixing any problems, mostly because it is their policies that cause or caused the problems, and then by design, and spend all their time managing the public’s perception with lies and gimmicks. And anyone that calls them out and uses facts, data or logic, is accused of engaging in misinformation. I want to believe it is just incompetence that is causing the problem, but these days it is more and more obvious that it is all by design. After all, marxism can’t take over America as long as it has prosperity and a middle class.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a long-shot bid to challenge former President Donald Trump’s eligibility to run for the White House in 2024 over his alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.
Time to pack the court.
For those who were asking in the overnight thread, neither OMWC or myself were injured during the Ravens/Browns game (outside some pride and mild sunburn for me). I didn’t even have to stop any dog bones from hitting OMWC.
who won?
Browns/Ravens?
I think we all lose.
So, they let us down, one more time?
The good guys lost, the bad guys won. I’m getting mildly amused that the Ravens will be going against their third backup QB in three weeks on Sunday. Of course, our QB was out due to a hit last week, our starting TE came and played after lighting himself on fire.
Browns have a bye week, so I’m going to have to hate watch the Ravens/Stillers game and hope for SMOD.
Have you considered rooting for the Giants and Jets like Old George RR ?
*blink*
*blink*
No.
Kenny Pickett is not good. I have no idea why there is still so much hype around him.
Mitch Trubisky though, lol.
But Pickett was so good in the preseason!
/looks at DTR’s first start on Sunday
Shellyne Rodriguez, 46, will dodge jail time and won’t even have a criminal record if she makes it through as little as six months in therapy under the terms of her sweetheart deal with Bronx prosecutors.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/02/nyc-college-professor-who-threatened-post-reporter-gets-off-with-counseling-in-plea-deal/
equal protection under the law.
Dems w/ machetes telling reporters they will chop off their fucking heads are not a serious threat…
Some asshat with a MAGA hat however is a domestic terrorist..
How is that not attempted murder?
I’m shocked to see she has blue hair.
SHOCKED.
Three men reportedly held guns to Cuellar’s head as they took his phone and vehicle, which was parked on the street, according to the group chat.
An MPD crime alert on the incident says police are on the lookout for “three black males wearing all black clothing” who made off with the congressman’s white Honda with Texas tags.
MAGA Country!
The Blaq face of white supremacy.
Theresa May
@theresa_may
Net Zero isn’t a cost to be minimised – it’s the growth opportunity of the century, worth £1 trillion to British business by the end of the decade.
A pleasure to be in Manchester speaking to @Conservatives
members at
https://twitter.com/theresa_may/status/1709116969943744642
and off course that money comes form the Luminiferous aether not from other places
The crooks that make bank peddling the climate shit do not care if other people get screwed over and enormous amounts of GDP is destroyed. After al, they made serious bank, and they had no chance to do so without this racket.
Today in 1990, the German Democratic Republic was annexed by the Federal Republic of Germany. The reunification marked the beginning of a neoliberal disaster for East German workers as the West German elite began plundering the East.
The GDR, located in the eastern part of the country, identified itself as a “workers and peasants state” until 1990, when it was dismantled and transformed into a neoliberal experiment, primarily influenced by economist Hans Willgerodt.
Willgerodt advocated for deregulation and favored letting the integration of the GDR into the capitalist West German state unfold through “the market.” The GDR constitution and currency were abolished, while the Treuhand law of June 1990 contained a directive in its first paragraph: “Privatize the people’s owned property.”
https://twitter.com/redstreamnet/status/1709155699928732101
Have I mentioned I hate commies ?
Happy German Unity Day! 🇩🇪🎆🇩🇪🎆
A day best celebrated through the cold, hard facts.
https://twitter.com/Szabadsag1956/status/1709161080327479554
“Have I mentioned I hate commies ?”
Concur. And if there ever was a sign to me that the devil is real, it is communism and what it wrought on mankind.
There was time when the fall of the Soviet Union and the release of Eastern Europe was known to be a good thing.
still is if you are not a tankie
I’m starting to think the piss hooker dossier wasn’t fabricated. Washington, like Hollywood, isn’t clever enough to write their own material. They took something from Hunter’s files and just did a rewrite casting Trump in Hunter’s place in the document.
Or from Hillary’s files. She could have been on either end of the stream.
eeeew
You Son of a Bitch.
Democrats always accuse others of what they are doing…
There’s this trope about Democrats accusing people of the things they’re actually doing, so this fits.
I need a break/a drink/a vacation/something.
Me: *files routine form with HR regarding direct report*
Anonymous HR Mailbox: Every field needs a narrative
Me: The instructions indicate narratives are only required when [cases which do not apply]
AHRM: Our Deputy Director says every field needs a narrative.
I am desperately trying not to respond with “You and your deputy director can go fuck yourselves with a rusty tire iron, I don’t give a rat’s ass what they think.”
These forms are tedium incarnate at the best of times without wasting time writing pointless HR narratives That aren’t even applicable!
Have you considered winning the lottery?
So far, that plan has not managed to come to fruition.
Get in line, buddy…
But did you place a new cover on your TPS report?
I don’t do TPS reports, and even if I did, HR would not be involved in that workflow.
Years ago, at a previous job, a co-worker described to me her attempt to order a Beef & Cheddar on a plain bun at Arby’s:
CW: I’d like a Beef & Cheddar, but I want it on a plain bun, please.
Arby’s clerk: Beef & Cheddar comes on an onion bun.
CW: I know, but the onion bun disagrees with me, so I need it on a plain bun.
AC: But Beef & Cheddar comes on an onion bun….
I later mentioned this encounter to my current boss, and to this day, whenever we run into this sort of mindless rigidity of routine, we say “Beef & Cheddar comes on an onion bun.”
I can just picture Isabella Rossellini saying “But I love my Big Beef and Cheddar!, Damn you Jack!”
Boy, did I have to dig to figure out that reference! 😄
Only time I went to a Quizno’s
Me: Can a get a ham and swiss?
Them: It’s not on the menu.
Me: *Pointing at ingredient case* Is that ham?
Them: Yes.
Me: Is that swiss cheese?
Them: Yes.
Me: Can I get a ham sub?
Them: Yes.
Me: Can I put swiss on a sub?
Them: Yes.
Me: Can you put the swiss cheese on the ham sub?
Them: No.
Me: *Turns around and leaves*
Me: I’d like a patty melt.
Them: We don’t have that sir.
Me: Can I have a cheeseburger?
Them: Sure. What kind of bread.
Me: Rye.
Them: Any toppings?
Me: Grilled onions.
Them: Anything else.
Me: No.
How about just writing “Narrative” in every field?
They’ll reject it for being insufficiently relevant.
Begin each entry with “Once upon a time…”
Insert random paragraphs of Subaru Horror Theater?
Hunter Biden was suspected of hiring prostitutes from ‘Eastern European sex trafficking ring’
Because he probably was. It’s even on camera.
Ain’t it funny how when it is democrat criminality, it is always presented as suspected or as if there is no evidence (which is true when you don’t look or turn a blind eye to it like they do), but event the flimsiest and obviously false piece of bullshit, with no evidence whatsoever or even evidence to the contrary, that can be used to negatively impact enemies of the democrat cabal, that they go out of their way to convince idiots that it is true shit?
There’s no proof they were from Eastern Europe.
Well, I did hear a “journolist” say that Russians are Asian, and veritably Mongoliod and subhuman.”
Leftist journalist who downplayed violent crime gunned down in his Philly home
Just a little ironic.
Like being murdered when you say crime is down.
It’s a crime we let historians teach the Great Depression.
https://twitter.com/C_Harwick/status/1708864302512316628
“Income Inequality” LMFAO
Marxist ticked off that facts hurt marxist propaganda?
ehm what?
At a time when China threatens Taiwan regularly with military action for even contemplating independence, it’s unusual that members of the island’s most important industry may be helping US-sanctioned Huawei develop semiconductors to effectively break an American blockade.
Do you want to see my shocked face?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-03/taiwan-tech-companies-are-helping-huawei-build-a-secret-network-of-chip-plants
Danegeld…
Remember that we spent the last 3 decades making excuses for doing business with the CCP while they stole our IP, fucked over our blue collar middle class, kept the wealth created in China, and in general made fools and servants of the American money, political, and bureaucratic class. And even today, when it is clearly obvious we did exactly what Lenin predicted and sold the CCP crooks the very rope to hang us with, those that feel they stand to lose from admitting this truth and getting tough as the correct course of action, keep trying to buy favor by selling out more.
Stockholm syndrome is a real thing and it affects individuals and groups.
Wasn’t the CHIPS act passed more than a year ago. We should have semiconductor plants all over the place by now.
Reminder to change the notification settings on your phone.
This is weird, regardless.
All of my alerts are already turned off.
Just checked to make sure mine are off. Apparently national alerts are locked in. Thats disturbing.
https://imgur.com/gallery/R7SJhtk
My iPhone doesn’t have anything like that locked, so I can turn off everything.
Same here on my iPhone, which I just updated to the latest iOS. The “Government Alerts” were on, and I turned them off. No Amber alerts, no nothing turned on.
Hmm, I don’t have a ‘national alerts’ (LineageOS 20). Wonder if that’s built into Google Android, but not the re-spins? I have ‘extreme’, ‘severe’, ‘amber’, ‘public safety’, ‘state and local’, but no national. All are in the disabled state. We’ll see tomorrow I guess.
Nope. I have a OnePlus running the latest Android and mine may all be disabled. Extreme, Severe, AMBER, Public safety messages, State and local tests.
No National Alerts
Looks like the NSA needs you to click something to update their spyware…
For 30 minutes? That has to be a typo
30 minute window.
Yeah, I remember all the shoppers’ phones going off simultaneously one day in the Trump admin.
Oh yeah, and: in Canada apparently one can’t turn off Amber alerts. 😡
My understand is that the majority of amber alerts are triggered by one or the other party in a nasty custody battle. IE, Dad is 10 minutes late bringing the kid back after his scheduled time with the kid and vindictive mom calls the cops to get a talking point in the next custody hearing or vis versa.
One night years ago at about 11 i had every phone in the house and the tv blaring a fucking Amber Alert for some parent child custody argument and I immediately went and changed all the phones settings to turn off all emergency alerts. It will be interesting to see if they bypass that with this bullshit. I would be okay with getting real, actual emergency alerts, but there is no way I can see to separate them from the needless ones.
Is this where the 5G causes all the vaxed to have nosebleeds and die?
I hear they also jogged and bathed.
Did you know that returning women to a role of wife and mother was a major facet of Nazi policy in the Third Reich?
Can’t help but notice the Ukrainian flag in the bio…
Did you know that Hitler was a vegetarian and hated smoking?
And he loved his dog more than his girlfriend… probably in the biblical sense as well.
Why is she trying to sell me on fascism?
Did you know that Hitler owned a dog?
So just like Mitt Romney, then?
Mrs. TOK is on jury duty this week. She got selected yesterday. But it’s not too bad, they doubled the pay to $80 a day and that’s more than she gets for her normal babysitting gig.
Of course I looked up the case. Looks interesting, a guy was accused of breaking in a woman’s apartment, beating, and raping her. But he says he was just there to help her with something, and he fell asleep there and the woman went crazy because she found out he was married.
We all know that if she changes her mind after the fact it is rape, but not really rape-rape, right?
If she went through a rape-kit, I’m going to believe until proven otherwise. If it is one of those – I never reported it but I was raped (by this now famous person), then I’ll be more skeptical.
Yeah. I understand women have reasons for not wanting to report the crime, and I truly sympathize with them. But for me, it’s going to be extremely difficult to meet the burden of proof for reasonable reasonable doubt if it wasn’t reported and investigated immediately. Anything else is grossly unfair to the defendant.
“Listen, child. I’m basically illiterate. Isn’t that crazy?”
Whoopi argues that Bowman just pressed a random button because you need to break glass to activate ALL fire alarms.
And despite them showing a picture of the alarm he pulled, Whoopi claims “It just looks like a button. I can’t see the button.”
My 4 year old daughter can recognize a firm alarm and knows not to pull it. I guess I should put her up for a congressional bid. All in favor of candy for dinner say Aye.
Has anyone attempted to explain how this emergency exit is usually open, but wasn’t open on that day? What then, is the point of an emergency exit?
I thought emergency exits were usually closed but have a crash bar that unlocks them.
Right, but still not necessarily a door to go through because it is the closest exit.
We know the fucker’s lying.
He knows we know he’s lying.
Absolutely, I was just curious how everyone accepted the idea that going through the emergency exit was reasonable, but pulling the fire alarm is not. Don’t do either one, unless emergency.
Marjorie Taylor Greene did a video showing the door and the alarm. She said the door is open weekdays and locked weekends or something like that. The video was far more informative than anything any reporter has done.
Ain’t it funny that these crooks feel fine claiming to be absolute morons when they are in a pickle, especially a legal pickle, and we are supposed/expected to still think they should be kept in whatever public sector job they are in?
Maybe Bowman thought pulling the lever marked ‘FIRE’ would set the door on fire, and once it burned out he could walk through. Ever think of that, MAGA morons??!!
All of my alerts are already turned off.
I don’t think you can turn this one off. It’s for MAgA insurrection warnings.
Alex Tabarrok 🛡️
@ATabarrok
When some Alzheimer’s papers appeared to be fabricated people took notice and changed their research.
But what of importance has changed from hundreds of failed replications in social psychology? Nothing, because so much of it was fluff anyway.
https://twitter.com/ATabarrok/status/1708868947167322500
Alzheimer’s research is still not what it should be
All this woke crap came from sociology which is nothing but unprovable assertions.
Bastiat was French…
The European Union gave the country $172 million to destroy 80 million gallons of wine in June 2023, and the French recently announced they had scraped together the remainder of the money needed.
Mind you the original paywalled WP article doesn’t conflate “climate change” with surplus the way Yahoo does below.
https://news.yahoo.com/france-set-destroy-enough-wine-180000316.html
A dramatically changing climate also plays a big role in the French wine industry. The above-average temperatures in its wine-growing regions, like Bordeaux, paired with more frequent droughts and storms, are changing how fast the grapes ripen.
France is experiencing a wine crisis. Consumption of the beverage has plummeted significantly in the country since its peak in 1926, when the average Frenchperson consumed about 36 gallons every year. Now, that amount hovers around 10.5 gallons.
Markets, How do they work?
Above average temperatures happen about 50% of the time.
You could just, you know, ramp down production. Either find something else to do with the grapes, or change the land usage.
Paging SugarFree.
Dr. Curtis Crane describes installing an artificial vagina on a man, while retaining his penis—creating a bizarre, multiple-genital hybrid.
“[She] always wanted a vagina but got sexual gratification from her phallus … We did the surgery and she healed great.”
Curious…
Go fuck Yourself
OK
Sex change operation to Hermaphrodite? Okay.
It’s the logical conclusion to being gender fluid. I think they should do this all of us at birth. Then we can choose our gender daily and ultimately there will be no gender. Finally, the solution to the bathroom wars!
Spider Robinson had a short story (that I can’t find the name of) about a doctor who invented a cure for cancer. The drug had one side effect, it changed the gender of the person who took it. The story talked about the recreational uses and societal backlash against it. It included people who could tell when someone had flipped genders, clubs that had “original gender” nights, crime against those who were “tricked”, and the inventor of the drug dying of cancer.
He also wants to nuke defiant citizens. Totally stable.
Fang Fang’s boyfriend insinuates that being in a picture with a gun makes you unstable.
Remember this the next time he promotes red flag laws.
Good thing we spent 20 years bringing democracy and freedom to this bunch.
We should have been there less than a year, because it should have been a punitive expedition: Kill all their leaders, break all their stuff, and then leave with the warning we would return do do it again if they ever fucked with us again.
But of course that doesn’t line pockets with loads of graft.
I figure just issuing a letter of marque and reprisal against Al queda’s leadership would have done the trick. Been a hell of a lot cheaper too.
The reason Bin Laden escaped the Tora Bora cave – the 101st Airborne general didn’t want the locals collecting the bounty.
the Ministry of Vice and Virtue
Don’t give the proggies any ideas.
According to California law, to be eligible for a Senate bid, a person must be a U.S. citizen, a resident of California, and a registered voter in the state.
Was wondering when somebody was going to actually research that. But we all know that laws don’t apply when inconvenient.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-lawmaker-issa-demands-answers-newsom-senate-leaders-laphonza-butlers-maryland-residency
Um, rules don’t apply to Democrats.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-10-02/ukraines-parliament-taunts-elon-musk-after-meme-mocking-zelenskiy
It is best to not bite the hand that feeds
So we’re ready to fight a provoked and unnecessary two front war.
Pentagon is warning Congress that it is running low on money to replace weapons the U.S. has sent to Ukraine and has already been forced to slow down resupplying some troops – AP
Also 20% below recruitment goals. But let’s do it anyway.
Chaos and disruption
Although the high court case centers on a never-enforced payday-lending rule, the impact is potentially far broader. In urging the justices to take up the case, the bureau said the ruling from the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals cast a legal cloud over every action the agency has taken since its creation, providing an argument for re-opening even long-finalized rules and enforcement cases.
That’s a worry shared in part by the mortgage-banking industry, which filed a brief urging the court to limit any ruling against the CFPB. The bureau has issued dozens of rules affecting consumer mortgages and the industry has invested billions of dollars toward compliance, according to three trade groups led by the Mortgage Bankers Association.
A decision calling those rules into question “could set off a wave of challenges and the housing market could descend into chaos, to the detriment of all mortgage borrowers,” the groups argued.
The payday-lending trade group pressing the challenge, the Community Financial Services Association, calls those concerns overblown. Judges have a variety of tools to prevent disruption of the mortgage market, including the six-year statute of limitations that applies to CFPB rules, the group says.
“Lacking any viable legal argument, the bureau resorts to fear-mongering about significant disruption if all the CFPB’s past actions are vacated,” the trade group argued. “But the bureau grossly exaggerates the effects and implications of setting aside this rule.”
We all know how much the federal bureaucracy hates disruption in the markets.
“Long finalized rules.”
They were illegal from the start. Fuck you, cut spending and regulation.
the housing market could descend into chaos, to the detriment of all mortgage borrowers
Can we just go ahead and get it over with? Some people would like to buy a house at an affordable cost.
You keep using that word…
“We’ll have to see about that. The point that I’m making about Ukraine is that it’s similar to the CR in the fact that you’ve got a very large majority, including every leader up there, both in the House and Senate, supporting the funding for Ukraine. And you’ve got a murderous regime that is actively doing what they’re doing in Ukraine, and it’s clear we have to support that funding, again, a widely shared view in Congress. And we can’t let a small group of extreme Republicans block this critically important geopolitical investment in, not just security for Ukraine, but for all free nations.”
Ukraine is not free. Europe is not free. The US can barely be considered free. What are you playing at?
“Investment”? Exactly what ROI are “we” getting there? (And I don’t mean the kickbacks and graft for the ruling class)
a resident of California, and a registered voter in the state.
I’m sure the folks in Sacramento can expedite the paperwork. As long as it’s on file when she takes the oath, I see no reason for concern.
3D printer people – I recently tried out “Vase Mode” (turning on “Spiralize outer contour”) to print out a small watering can. This did a single continuous print line, but I found on both the inside and outside of the print a bunch of fine threads of plastic that were barely connected or not connected at all. I’d previously seen similar threads, but had assumed they’d been left behind a moving print head not actively printing.
What causes these threads to form and what needs adjusting to make it stop?
So are you getting incomplete adhesion between the layers or is it what is commonly called “stringing”?
https://www.simplify3d.com/resources/print-quality-troubleshooting/stringing-or-oozing/
Stringing.
As far as I can tell, the layers are properly connected.
The 5th Circuit ruling marked the first time a federal appeals court had ever used the appropriations clause to strike down part of a federal statute. The Supreme Court has never interpreted the clause as a check on Congress, so far invoking it only as a limitation on the executive branch.
The case is part of a Supreme Court term that could put new constraints on federal administrative agencies. The justices are also considering restricting the use of in-house judges to handle cases at the Securities and Exchange Commission. And the court has agreed to revisit an important 1984 ruling that gives agencies latitude in interpreting ambiguous federal statutes.
Perhaps the actions of the administrative state have grown increasingly flagrant in their disregard of Constitutional guardrails.
Not sure these cases will have the pricing I desire, but I am hopeful they may pare back parts of the admin state.
Did you know that Hitler owned a dog?
I’ll bet Hitler’s dog never bit any Gestapo officers.
Blondie was gay but still bit Wolf’s protective detail. Soldier was promptly sent to the Russian front when he called the dog a “son of a bitch.”
Totally not xenophobia
The state Land Department on Monday canceled one of the controversial leases of state land to a company that has been growing alfalfa for export to Saudi Arabia.
An aide to Gov. Katie Hobbs said the legal reason for the cancellation has nothing to do with Fondomonte Arizona pumping of the water from beneath the land, an action that nearby landowners have complained is drying up their own wells. Instead, he said, it is based on the failure of the company to correct a violation dealing with how fuel is stored on site.
And Christian Slater said the move is not a pretext to allow his boss to deal with an unpopular situation of having Arizona groundwater pumped to feed cattle in Saudi Arabia, a country that does not allow that crop to be grown there because of its high water use.
“It was clear that we found significant default on their lease,” he told Capitol Media Services, a problem he said actually dates back to 2016.
In ur desert, stealin ur water.
They won’t be able to pump up the volume.
Christian Slater is an aide to Katie Hobbs, now? Wow, the actor’s strike has really been tough on those poor people.
Peter Hague PhD
@peterrhague
Russia has plans to build interplanetary nuclear spacecraft. But, then again, so do I and half my Twitter followers.
https://twitter.com/peterrhague/status/1709185393373884512
Branko Milanovic
@BrankoMilan
A Nobel Laureate Offers a Biting Critique of Economics
Angus Deaton says Larry Summers and other great minds in the profession have lost sight of its most important mission: Improving people’s lives.
https://twitter.com/BrankoMilan/status/1708863731931738155
No, the mission is to report on reality. Just the fact ma’am.
I assumed they were just in it for themselves.
“Tragically”
DISINFORMATION!
Dis or mis?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cJN6wLW7WU&ab_channel=BenDesorden
https://twitter.com/TuckerPhantasm/status/1709115919178383395/photo/1
I…. I believe it.
I swear, these people are only semi-literate. When you say “tragically, it remains the deadliest mass shooting”, you are saying it’s a damn shame we haven’t had a worse one.
‘Leftist journalist who downplayed violent crime gunned down in his Philly home’
You hate to see it.
Kellanova (K), which kept the old Kellogg trading symbol “K,” is the home of the company’s global snacking, international cereal and noodles, and North America frozen foods products, including Pringles and Pop-Tarts. WK Kellogg (KLG) houses the traditional Kellogg cereal brands, such as Corn Flakes and Fruit Loops. It trades under the symbol “KLG.”</em.
So Kellanova is where they hope they get growth and WK Kellogg is the growthless. Market doesn't seem impressed by rearranging the deck chairs on the Titantic.
https://www.investopedia.com/kellogg-splits-into-two-firms-and-shares-of-both-tumble-in-first-session-after-separation-8304251
Are stocks finally taking the nosedive they should have taken a year ago?
Can’t wait to see Brandon’s ad spins: “He punished the greedy Wall Streeters and created lower cost buy in opportunities for workers and middle class Americans.”