I have no idea if this is real or not. Other hot takes include El Presidentè DudeBro joining in the mockery.
“Now say it without crying.” No event like this is complete without the classic NPC meme:
…or cringe boomer art:
Okay…now for enlaces!
The reaction to Milei from their stock market is a 20% jump.
The reaction from Mexico is predictable. AMLO calls this an “own goal.” This after he ordered railways to prioritize passenger service over freight. They just love their railroads.
Guatemalan deep state presses charges on their new president-elect.
The worlds most perfect woman settles her Spanish back taxes. Personally, I would just do what Ronaldo did and never go back to Spain again.
This seems like a perfectly cromulent tune for today. ¡Viva la libertad carajo!
There should be an anti-Kramer fund.
There is: SJIM.
Looks like it closed.
…because the NYSE market is closed.
I assume everyone who got in early is filthy rich.
20% is huge.
It’s now woth $1.20, dump it and buy something else.
“Guatemalan deep state presses charges on their new president-elect.”
Same link as choo choo.
Don’t want to go second on the train.
Fixed
In other Latin American news..
“Bizarre moment naked woman on magic mushrooms wraps her leg around a passenger and slaps a cop in wild rampage at Chilean airport”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/woman-dubbed-female-terminator-after-31492011
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12776325/Naked-woman-Chile-airport-passengers-police-assault-drugs.html
Can I put an Argentine flag in my yard if I fly it at half mast?
Something tells me they’ll add that to the list right after “Goes to church”.
Maybe fly it upside down instead.
You’re a funny guy, you know that.
Fortunately looks aren’t everything.
OMG if I lived next door to one of those
UkrainePalestine fans, I would absolutely put up an Argentina flag just to fuck with them.As long as its not Quebec. Those assholes are starting to show up around here.
There are plenty of people in the US that want railroads to prioritize passengers over freight regardless of how many trucks that would put on the roads … maybe it’s because it would put so many trucks on roads.
The northeast corridor is already passenger only.
Anywhere else it’s easy to share. Or should be – I was delayed in upstate NY or Ohio or some place by freight once.
Come to Virginia. The Washington-Fredericksburg corridor is freight heavy.
No event like this is complete without the classic NPC meme:
Needs more slots. What do they call that, an expansion card?
“Congress is closing in on an effective ban of a China-based genomics company accused of stealing Americans’ DNA and exploiting Covid to collect genetic data.
The Beijing Genomics Institute, now known as BGI Group, is one of the largest genomic sequencing companies in the world and is listed by the Pentagon as a ‘Chinese military company.’
Republicans in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Congress’ must-pass legislation that sets military policy for the year, launched an effort to ban the firm from doing business with any company that takes U.S. government contracts in what could be a major jolt to the global biotech market.
The sweeping congressional action would jolt an over $25 billion market and could reshape the current geopolitical posture between the world’s two superpowers.
The Shenzhen-based company, known as BGI Group, has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party – and is legally required to share the data it collects with the CCP.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12773019/Congress-charges-forward-proposed-BAN-Chinese-Communist-Party-linked-biotech-company-believed-stealing-DNA-Americans.html
Yet most people bought into the cootie bug bullshit and lined up to be shorn. They are still TikToking, still buying from Temu blah blah blah.
Fuck ’em.
*Daughter in law’s 14 yo niece (fully boosted) was playing volley ball this past weekend. She fell on her chest but partially caught herself. She did not land hard then collapsed before she could regain her feet. The child is dead now.
Jesus. Condolences.
Thank you Evan but I did not know her. It has caused no end of shock and grief for the family.
Damn, I missed that. Sorry to read condolences.
Yikes! 14? That’s bad. Sorry 🙁
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/dead-last-cato-ranks-new-york-the-least-free-state-in-america-for-the-23rd-straight-year/
Quite the streak.
Considering it’s you, I first read that as “Quite the steak.”
🙂
Gettin’ what they voted for.
looky looky brother: Texas is 16th! Whoohoo the great freedom-loving cowboy fest….giddy up: go there!
** keeps Tennessee for himself **
I think that is a few notches up. Yes, nothing to write home about. I will read it later.
I posted this last night to a bit of derision. A TAle of two industries. A full presentation from Ben from UnchartedX arguing that there was an older, more sophisticated technology behind the Egyptian artifacts attributed to the ancient Egyptians. his most startling claim, based on analysis of artifacts, is that the geometrical precision in these artifacts was only possible with the use of advanced manufacturing and probably only with computers of some kind.
It’s a lot to take in, but I’ve yet to hear a convincing counter argument. It’s more just…empty derision. It doesn’t prove Atlantis, but the argument here is that ancient Egyptians didn’t even have access to iron or the wheel. They’d be using stone tools, yet this stuff is perfect even by today’s standards.
yet this stuff is perfect even by today’s standards.
The pyramids are not perfect, in fact there are plenty of mistakes, including ones that were found and fixed later. One was impossible to finish with a true pyramid shape, so they reduced the angle past a certain point, and it’s now known as the “bent pyramid” because of it. As far as needing computers, that’s just silly. Look at some of the marvelous engineering and construction that happened long before computers, from the massive building projects of Rome, to the medieval cathedrals of Europe.
It is just more Chariots of the Gods type BS. Erich Von Daniken has a lot to answer for.
Last night I said Leonard Nimoy covered it but I like your answer better.
LOL my mom had that (didn’t everyone in the 70s?) and even 8-year-old me knew it was bullshit.
The video isn’t about the pyramids, though there’s completely different arguments to be had there mainly that we see a regression in the newer pyramids compared to those that everyone admits are older. The question of how old some of this stuff is is up for serious debate.
He’s analyzing artifacts like vases and boxes, and using the opinions of actual engineers who try and produce this stuff today. He’s analyzing it with modern technology for the first time.
I think the larger point is that archaeologists who have never made anything are probably not the be all end all when they try to tell us how these things were made based on flimsy at best source material.
The thing about the pyramids that is similar is that we see a degradation in the artifacts, as well. The earlier stuff is more advanced and more precise, and there really isn’t a good method to date much of it. Archaeologists really do go with a rather stupid way of dating it and it’s all to fit these artifacts into their preferred narrative.
The archaeologists and historians also cherry pick what source material they want to use and throw out evidence that would seriously challenge their narratives simply because they can’t explain things.
We already know about this. They made a movie out of it staring James Spader.
Question for you Zwak – you have no problem recognizing that modern so called experts are often full of shit when it comes to a number of things.
Why its it so unbelievable to think that archaeologists (who are influenced by political pressures, as well) aren’t?
Everything in archaeology and history is getting pushed back further and further. There’s a shit ton we don’t know and it’s becoming really clear that there were, in fact, cataclysmic events that correspond exactly to when Plato said there were cataclysmic events that wiped out a great civilization. That is at a minimum a hell of a coincidence. Plato was really lucky in picking the exact date that corresponds to what was likely a major impact on the Earth.
It isn’t. But, over the last 200 years or so, no even remotely credible evidence of aliens has been presented. Going from the idea of bad dating to space men coming and doing all of your math is a bit of jump.
Atlantis is more likely than the missing link being Bob from Geddi Prime swinging by in his Millennial Falcon to help with the homework.
Who was arguing for aliens? I certainly wasn’t. Nor is UnchartedX.
There were hundreds of thousands of years for anatomically modern humans to do things that we have no clue about. But the preferred narrative is that it took until about roughly 50,000 years ago for us to develop culture. And then you tens of thousands of years more before we did much of note.
How much of our civilization would survive a major cataclysm and be there ten thousand years later? How deep would people have to dig? How many parts of he plant have been left unexplored or are barely touched?
An absence of evidence does not mean it does not exist, and you can’t take the evidence that does exist and contradict the narrative and just shrug it off as nothing. That’s not science.
Quite a lot actually.
The main strike against advanced ancient tech is that they surpassed us not only in what they supposedly achieved, but also in how they did it. Where’s the industrial base? The population needed to support such a thing? The tooth-to-tail ratio is always off.
We are finding evidence of massive cities that existed in the Amazon that we never even knew about. Stuff that was written about, but which wasn’t really believed and the size and scope of which is being proven right now.
You have, as Graham Hancock rightly states, a shit ton of the best real estate that would have existed on the planet at the time under water today.
There was a massive population bottleneck. We know a great number of people died off along with the mega fauna in places like North America with the Younger Dryas.
Then there’s the assumption about what people believe. No one knows how advanced any ancient civilization may have been. I haven’t argued we can prove they existed in the first place, only that there’s legitimate reasons to ask such questions. And just because some have speculated as to what they were capable of, doesn’t mean that everyone is assuming that.
There’s a lot of things the modern paradigm can’t explain, but how often do those so critical of the Graham Hancock’s of the world ask archaeology to explain those things?
If you were leaning to Atlantis, that’s worse than aliens.
What did the ancients know? It was all just an allegory that just happened to coincide with the exact date of a massive die off of the human species that Plato would have had no way of knowing of.!
Gah, comment eaten twice.
Look, I will readily admit that I read into it the standard “But Aliens!” on my own, other than that the idea that we might have come across an even older civilization is kinda banal. Of course we are discovering things all the time, and adding to the historical timeline. Of course every historian who has staked his or her reputation on the current interpretation is going to fight this tooth and nail. As they say, science (and history) advances one death at a time.
Could be be looking at the remnants of Mu or Atlantis? Sure, why not.
Yeah, I’m on the side of “we just don’t know yet”.
Ice age peaked. Warming trend melted ice, raising sea levels. There have been many cataclysmic events and we have a very good idea of when and where they occurred.
Yeah, stuff happened that we know about and some stuff we dont know about. Flood stories and sinking civilizations are really no surprise.
As for aliens, magic, lost flying cars etc etc, that stuff is kinda silly. Speculating is fun, of course, but that is all it is: speculation.
Conversation with my father about my grandfather – “There was something about the culture he grew up in that was completely opposed to anything new. The first time he and his brother saw an automobile it scared the shit out of them. They ran home and hid under the bed for three days.”
Subtle cultural differences make people do things we dont often understand. I bring this up because one of the cultural differences of the past we rarely take into account is the concept of time. People in the past did not see time the way we do. To say, and I have heard people say this, it would take too long for people to build the pyramids with crude tools is nonsense. They did not think of time like we do. Maybe they thought if it takes 1000 years to carve one rock at a time, so what? We dont know how they saw things.
There’s a lot of random bits of evidence that go beyond speculation. Evidence that people traveled and interacted more than we ever thought possible. Ancient Greek in the Polynesian islands, aboriginal DNA in the Amazon, maybe tobacco in ancient Egypt etc. There’s a lot of shit we don’t know.
I’m not at the stage of speculating that there were flying cards int he past let alone alien interactions, but the idea that civilizations may have existed that rivaled ours in their own ways or were more advanced than even say the ancient Romans is not the stuff of cookery.
There’s a lot of shit we don’t know.
Very true, and the tendency to make up bullshit stories to explain it all is also deeply, deeply, human. Humanity cowers in the face of chaos. Absolutely terrifies us, just as death does – so we have to make up explanations no matter how out-of-bounds they are, rather than face that reality.
This is exactly why I read Nietzsche.
Oh, sure JI, make it all about you!
/goes over to shelf, dusts off copy of Camus.
Goddamit. I spent 15 mins carefully ty ping out a bunch of BS and the squirrels ate it. Greedy little bastards ate every pixel.
They got two of mine, I say we form a defensive line, arm ourselves with .22mags!
The Egyptians were remarkably good mathematicians. And they had a ton of human labor. Aliens have no interest in sharing advanced technologies with monkeys. When they do come to Earth, it’s for poker and martinis on the Vegas strip.
No wheels? I could have sworn chariots were involved.
Take it from an astrologer, “precision” is the easiest thing to game there is.
The oldest garment found by archaeologists is 5,000 years old. It was preserved well in a desert cave. The earliest needles are about 60,000 years old. Yet there is evidence that people were wearing clothes long before that. Why? Because there are two kinds of lice that are adapted to different environments: Head lice live where the name says, and body lice live on the body and clothes.
So people were wearing clothes for longer than they were making cave paintings. Speaking of those, if those people had more advanced technology than previously thought, why didn’t they write in addition to drawing pictures?
Writing comes before just about every other kind of technology. Find evidence of writing from more than 6,000 years ago, and you’ll become the most famous archaeologist ever.
Stop! I can’t take any more back channel pestering from you Glibs!
I’ll give you what you so desperately want: Information on how you can live stream Minnesoda’s State Emblems Redesign Commission meeting where they will be winnowing down to the top 5 designs for our new state flag!
All you people from other states jelly?
Why change the flag?
We had a live indian on our current one? I guess in MAGA country that is unacceptable and the settler should have shot him.
No one will admit it, but I’m sure the fact that we have an Indian on our flag is the reason. It is like a sword of Wokales hanging over our heads. How long before Pitchfork Nation decides that the flag is officially “problematic”?
‘We had a live indian on our current one? I guess in MAGA country that is unacceptable and the settler should have shot him.’
Well, Land o Lakes butter removed the Indian and kept the land, why not the Land o Lakes’ state legislator?
Dang, great minds think alike!
Are they taking suggestions? If so, bring up the fact that the Land O’ Lakes girl needs a job, what with the last round of proggies getting her removed from the butter boxes.
Only if you can fold the flag so it looks like her boobs.
Fold the flag so it displays her boobs
+ Mad fold-in
“sword of Wokales”
If you think I am not stealing that you are nuts.
I too have filed that away for later.
If the goal is to make sure we treat native Americans with respect and reverence, wiping them off the flag (and butter) sure seems to be a strange way of accomplishing that goal.
Instead we confess our sin of stealing their land.
Woke can DIAF.
If it comes down to it someday, for whatever reason, do think the US isn’t going to conquer some handy area again? That goes for every other country, of course.
How did the 7th Cavalry show “respect” for the Indians who massacred them at Little Big Horn?
They put a fully-headressed Plains Indian chief on their coat of arms. Along with a Phoenix rising from the ashes.
live indian
better than a good indian, I reckon
my native MS managed this: replaced the stars and bars with the magnolia which I’ve heard all my life is a symbol of slavers and featured heavily in the state’s first flag which it debuted to celebrate secession
It’s “problematic” donchaknow?
It’s racist, of course! Now, I don’t actually know anything about it. But I guarantee that it’s been deemed racist.
Funny how any acknowledgment at all of people other than whites is verboten among the foam at the mouth racist-as-fuck anti-racists.
An Injun on a butter package? That is the racistest racist shit ever.
Stop pointing out that there are people other than whites in the world!
I expect a redesign of the Virginia flag as soon as Democrats feel comfortably in control.
To be fair, I prefer geometric patterns to drawerings. My state’s flag looks like it was drawn by a toddler.
Baked mushroom and cheese in the oven.
We’ll see how it turns out. I’m sure it will be edible, but I don’t know if it will be a good idea.
It came out as cheese and mushroom soup.
We’ll see if it sets up as it cools.
Mushrooms are something like 2/3 water at least. Keep that in mind as you cook with them.
They’ll add to the slop.
That requires bread crumbs, as you’ve discovered.
Everyone who left comments on my post earlier, thank you! I didn’t know it was going live today so I was late to my own party 😅
(Gender Traitor, I commented on that thread, but if you don’t see it and you’re in here, let me know which book is missing from B&N because they should all be there, so there’s a squirrel that needs catching…)
Do you have plans to come back around every now and again?
I need to more often! It’s a combination of time zones meaning I usually miss the active comments and the Discord lifeboat tricking me into thinking I’m here even though I’m not ever on the site 😅
We night owls have your back.
Ill be one of you for a couple weeks starting December 4th.
Goin’ back to Cali….
I see it now – thanks! The source of my confusion was that the list you linked on Amazon had Different Worlds appearing to be fourth in the series, but when I sorted the ones at B&N by Newest to Oldest or by Oldest to Newest, it wasn’t showing as newest, so I thought it wasn’t up there yet. B&N, too, calls it “#4 in series” in the list of ALL your books but calls it “#1.5” in the list of just the books in the series. So….in what order should one read them?
It is indeed Book 1.5 but retailers do not like that at all. Since it’s a novella (just shy of 200 pages) rather than a full novel, they don’t know what to do with it. It goes in between Fourth World and New World.
👍
I suspect the optimism regarding Argentina is misplaced.
Despite the irrational, unexplained hatred for Trump he did one thing that put the lie to every leftist policy. Energy independence.
Cheap energy cannot be understated as the primary driver of wealth and prosperity.
All of my life I have been hearing “If only we had energy independence. If only we could be free of the evil regimes in the ME. We are trying so hard but we dont have energy independence.”
The whole trope has been a lie, of course. How long did it take Trump to achieve it? How long before the evil scum in office now un-did it?
Even if Milei can manage to make progress the commies with take a wrecking ball to it.
The fight against the commie scum is a never-ending battle, true. But this is a huge win nonetheless. Hopefully some good will come of it, and it some of it sticks long term, even better.
I’m looking forward to nuclear fusion.
The boxes should be arriving for Xmas!
I concur.
You think they are bitching about the autonomy cheap energy provides for individuals now?
Nuclear fusion will cause them to lose their fucking minds. Given their level of lunacy now I would not be surprised if it started a shooting war.
I fully expect nuclear fusion will somehow be even more of a contributor to KlYmUt ChAyNjE than fossil fuels.
Ask yourself: would you expect the same outcome under Milei as if the voters had chosen the ruinous status quo instead?
I’d say the question is how much improvement to expect, not whether there will be no improvement.
If he can get dollarization, nothing else will matter, that will be a huge win for Argentina.
They have over a 100 year history of being unable to keep their damn hands off the printing press.
I agree, undoing over a century of Peronism is not going to be easy, but something about eating elephants.
I’m really intrigued by this. He does seem to have some sort of plan.
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. That will be the next phase.
Mike Tyson, a philosopher for our times.
Rampant flagrant Islamophobia
Two years ago, Samah Abou Shhadeh graduated from college and landed a coveted job as an economist at an Israeli financial services company in a skyscraper in downtown Tel Aviv.
Abou Shhadeh’s hiring broke barriers.
“I was the first Arab to come to this company, with all Jewish colleagues. I felt like I had to work extra hard,” she tells NPR.
She commuted daily from her home in Jaffa, an ancient Arab quarter of what is now Tel Aviv, where her family has lived for centuries. At work, she kept her head down, and avoided talk about politics. Instead, she’d regale her colleagues with talk about her upcoming wedding.
“All of them were my friends, before the war,” she says.
But everything changed on Oct. 7, when Hamas militants attacked multiple locations in Israel, killing around 1,200 people and kidnapping about 240, according to the Israeli government. Israel has responded with fierce bombardment of Gaza that has killed more than 12,000, Palestinian health officials say.
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At least 20% of Israelis identify as Arab or Palestinian, like Abou Shhadeh. Most of them are descendants of the people who weren’t killed, expelled or compelled to flee when Israel was created.
Many say they’ve long felt like second-class citizens. But human rights advocates say this Gaza war has unleashed a wave of mistreatment, abuse and further discrimination.
This month, three Palestinian doctors in Israel penned an open letter decrying “racism, militarism and hypocrisy” in the Israeli medical system, where they say their Jewish colleagues have been “cheering for the killing of innocent Palestinian civilians.”
War is Hell.
I .*might* have some sympathy if the Palestinian people at large weren’t cheering on Hamas, Hezbollah, and other officially militant pali groups.
If the majority of Palestinian people weren’t cheering on Hamas, Hamas wouldn’t be in power.
Dunno. How many elections to test this alleged overwhelming sympathy since Hamas won one election?
Zero.
[Democrats stare wistfully]
No elections but there has been polling. Over three quarters of Gazans support Hamas’ attack on Israel.
Do you think that if the Iraqis had managed to kill American civilians in, say, 2005 on the American soil they would have been completely justified? Right after the American people re-elected W.
To be fair, the person quoted first above was allegedly fired for, on a private social media account, posting a clip, without comment, from an Israeli documentary film.
This is the sort of wartime censorship that most libertarians would oppose in any country at war – infamously, Oliver Wendall Holmes and his bullshit “shouting fire in a crowded theater” analogy.
All right, I RTFA.
Employer is an asshole, but my US employer could and likely would do exactly the same if I posted a video that it didn’t like. Part of the hazard of working financial services which this woman did as well. And they gave her an out.
This is what happens in war. Am I supposed to cry?
yes.
/prog
And how many Jews were expelled from the countries Israel?
One-sided “journalism” is one-sided.
I agree, undoing over a century of Peronism is not going to be easy, but something about eating elephants.
Unfortunately, Peronism is based largely on vote buying, and a lot of oxen are going to get gored. The press will be all too happy to publish hundreds of anecdotal sob stories about the cruel brutality of Milei’s austerity program.
TMITE, and it may be that a large number of Argentinians understand that.
The ancient spacemen were fastidious about packing out their trash. That’s why we haven’t found any of their stuff buried in the jungle.
I decided to cheer myself up by reading the Senate voting record of Joe Biden. Holy hell, it’s a comedy gold mine.
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From Jan 1973 to Jan 2009, Biden missed 1,781 of 14,556 roll call votes, which is 12.2%. This is much worse than the median of 2.0%
He played a key role in passing the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, which was controversial for several “tough-on-crime” provisions. He later expressed regret over this. Biden voted to ban homosexuals from serving in the military and to bar the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages.
He voted against authorizing the First Gulf War, saying the US was bearing almost all the burden in the anti-Iraq coalition.
As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he assembled witnesses who grossly misrepresented Saddam Hussein, his government and claimed possession of WMDs. Later he regretted his support for the Iraq War.
In 1984, he was a Democratic floor manager for the successful passage of the Comprehensive Crime Control Act. Over time, the law’s tough-on-crime provisions became controversial on the left and among criminal justice reform proponents, and in 2019 Biden called his role in passing the legislation a “big mistake”.
In 1993, Biden voted in favor of 10 U.S.C. §654, a section of a broader federally mandated policy that deemed homosexuality incompatible with military life thereby banning gay Americans from serving in the United States armed forces in any capacity without exception.
In 1996, Biden voted in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act (1 U.S.C. §7), which prohibited the federal government from recognizing any same-sex marriage, barring individuals in such marriages from equal protection under federal law, and allowing states to do the same.
Biden spoke to the auditorium and said his position on school busing was evolving, emphasizing that busing in Delaware was in his opinion beyond court restrictions. The crowd was unconvinced, and heckled him until he yielded the microphone.
In the Thomas hearings, Biden’s questions on constitutional issues were often long and convoluted, to the point that Thomas sometimes forgot the question being asked.[79] Biden’s style annoyed many viewers.
Biden was critical of the actions of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr during the 1990s Whitewater controversy and Lewinsky scandal investigations, and said, “it’s going to be a cold day in hell” before another Independent Counsel would be granted the same powers.
As chairman of the International Narcotics Control Caucus, Biden wrote the laws that created the U.S. “Drug Czar”, who oversees and coordinates national drug control policy.
Once the Bosnian War broke out, Biden was among the first to call for the “lift and strike” policy of lifting the arms embargo, training Bosnian Muslims and supporting them with NATO air strikes…
In 1998, Congressional Quarterly named Biden one of “Twelve Who Made a Difference” for playing a lead role in several foreign policy matters, including NATO enlargement…
As head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden said in 2002 that Saddam Hussein was a threat to national security and there was no option but to “eliminate” that threat.[112] In October 2002, he voted in favor of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq, approving the U.S. invasion of Iraq.[96] More significantly, as chair of the committee, he assembled a series of witnesses to testify in favor of the authorization. They gave testimony misrepresenting the intent, history and status of Saddam and his Sunni government, which was an openly avowed enemy of al-Qaida, and touting Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction.[113]
While he eventually became a critic of the war and viewed his vote and role as a “mistake”, he did not push for U.S. withdrawal.
Biden instead advocated dividing Iraq into a loose federation of three ethnic states.
Iraq’s political leadership denounced the resolution as de facto partitioning of the country, and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad issued a statement distancing itself from it.
In May 2008, Biden sharply criticized President George W. Bush for his speech to Israel’s Knesset, where he suggested some Democrats were acting the way some Western leaders did when they appeased Hitler in the run-up to World War II. Biden said, “This is bullshit. This is malarkey. This is outrageous. Outrageous for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, sit in the Knesset … and make this kind of ridiculous statement…
He allowed an amendment to the bill to increase the homestead exemption for homeowners declaring bankruptcy and fought for an amendment to forbid anti-abortion felons from using bankruptcy to discharge fines;
Biden held up trade agreements with Russia when that country stopped importing U.S. chickens. The downstate Sussex County region is the nation’s top chicken-producing area.
The New York Times wrote that Biden’s “weak filters make him capable of blurting out pretty much anything”
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Jesus H tap-dancing, titty-fucking Christ in a goddamn chicken bucket. What a shithead!
“From Jan 1973 to Jan 2009, Biden missed 1,781 of 14,556 roll call votes, which is 12.2%. This is much worse than the median of 2.0%”
Not surprising at all. Have you ever looked at Amtrak’s “on time” performance?
Just sounds like a thoroughly undistinguished Democrat who shared most of the positions with other Democrats of that era – you know, before the country lost its fucking marbles.
Yeah, but he’s also really corrupt, has a crackhead son, has been caught on camera multiple times molesting women and girls, presided over the worst military disaster in 50 years, and has nearly started WW3 through his incompetence.
Did I mention that he’s also senile?
Doesn’t that describe most of TEAM BLUE?
I’m impressed that you found a way to make my rant even more bleak.
Ted played BlackPill today and scored in the top 2% for nihilism.
Country I am nostalgic for but have never been to … is asshoe.
Mexico’s been run by commy scum since George Burns was learning to shave. The good news is their national pastime is bribery.
Mexico?
No, Spain.
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The tax rates for income tax in Spain are 19% for the first EUR 6,000 of taxable income, 21% for the following EUR 6,000 to EUR 50,000 of taxable income, 23% for the following EUR 50,000 to EUR 200,000 of taxable income, and 27% for the following EUR 200,000 to EUR 300,000 of taxable income
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Wah?
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There are seven [US] federal income tax brackets, ranging from 10% to 37%
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1 for you, 19 for me indeed!
???? Did we read the same article? For tax purposes, you have to be a resident of Spain for 6 months. Shakira had not actually established residence in Spain and they still fined her millions of euros. She was dating a Spanish citizen and she was out of the country most of the time.
My bad. I forgot about the FYTW clause written in invisible ink. For the public’s convenience, the document is stored in the last drawer of a locked filing cabinet which is stashed in the bathroom of an abandoned building with a sign on the door that says “BEWARE OF THE LEOPARD”.
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Lindgren scandalously bore a child out of wedlock. She published Pippi Longstocking when she was nearly 40. And when she discovered she would be taxed at a rate of 102 percent, Lindgren published a satirical essay that sparked an uproar, effectively changed tax laws, and brought about the demise of the reigning government.
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In 1976, Lindgren learned that because of tax laws requiring her to pay both income tax and employer’s fees, she would effectively be taxed at a rate of 102 percent. Though she was generally a supporter of the principles of socialism, paying more than she actually earned appalled her. And so she published a satirical fairytale, “Pomperipossa in Monismania,” about a children’s book author forced to pay exorbitant taxes, in the Stockholm tabloid Expressen. The satire ignited a furious debate over both the tax laws and the reigning Social Democratic Party. Because of her popularity, people listened to Lindgren. Later that year, the Social Democratic party lost the election, giving up power for the first time in 44 years.
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In Ireland, artists, writers, and musicians are exempt for taxes. They want to encourage anyone who keeps Irish culture alive.
Lindgren was a supporter of socialist policies but appalled by their application?
Yep, they are idiots.
Yeah, don’t start reading about their civil war. neither side looks good once you get past the propaganda.
I try to keep my flamenco-red glasses firmly on my nose.
To this day I have no fuckin’ clue what that war was about – what little I’ve read does not clarify matters at all.
But IIRC it led to today’s rivalry between Real Madrid *spit* and FC Barcelona so it has that going for it.
They also had a town named “Jew-Killer Camp”:
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The town was originally named Castrillo Motajudíos (“Jew hill camp”) in 1035 when Jews fleeing from a nearby pogrom settled there; it was changed to Castrillo Matajudíos (“Jew-killer camp”) in 1627 during a period of religious persecution of non-Christians in Spain (the Jews had been expelled from Spain in 1492 during the Spanish Inquisition).[4] In June 2015 the name was changed back to Castrillo Mota de Judíos following a campaign led by mayor Lorenzo Rodríguez leading to a vote among the villagers in May 2014.[4][5]
There have been several anti-Jewish incidents since the name change.[6]
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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday called Argentina’s election of Javier Milei as its new president an “own goal”, even as he said that he respected the decision that voters had taken in the South American country.
Huh. Sounds like one of these things is not like the other…
Mexican Sharpshooter, I received a bottle of this beer today. Tomorrow or Thanksgiving day I’ll try it out.
I guess I sort of read it as saying the voters will get what they voted for good and hard. He’s just expecting it to be worse than it already is.
I .*might* have some sympathy if the Palestinian people at large weren’t cheering on Hamas, Hezbollah, and other officially militant pali groups.
“This ditch is full of dead people. Why did you bring me here?”
Today’s Two Minutes Musk Hate: https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/20/tech/elon-musk-boosting-pizzagate-conspiracy-theory/index.html
“In a post Monday, an X user attempted to link the founder of Media Matters …to the owner of the ‘Pizzagate restaurant.’ Musk replied: ‘Weird.’ ”
So what did the Twitter post that Musk replied to say? “David Brock was the Boyfriend of James Alefantis, owner of Comet Ping Pong Pizza, yes the Pizzagate restaurant. Alefantis, a pizza shop owner at that time, was on GQ’s 50 Most Powerful People in DC list.”
All of which is true. The poster wasn’t “attempting” to link Brock to the Pizzagate guy. He was stating facts. Even the guy’s Wikipedia page says so.
Crazy evening, last. Went to a dark place. No real worries, though. Almost called outpatient to check on me. Instead I called my parents. Not a great idea. I have to explain that in about 10 min.
Tomorrow is my I-9 short meeting to finalize work. I got a surprise call this morn about confirming that and Nov 27 as my start date. Gig is likely going to be monstrously easy for me. Perfect timing, great everything for the moment.
I hit a big nadir and immediately got a Pick-Me-Up phone call confirming most of what I already knew. Onward. Upward. Always.
To be fair, the person quoted first above was allegedly fired for, on a private social media account, posting a clip, without comment, from an Israeli documentary film.
Those people were her friends, until they weren’t. Apparently, deep down, tribalism and belief in blood guilt are impossible to stamp out.
MS the world’s most perfect women are in your gif.
Thank you Bee
FBI Releases Special Edition Jan 6 Footage DVD With Director’s Commentary
Snake oil
Anti-woke libertarian Javier Milei’s landslide win in Argentina’s presidential election poses not only a worrying question for my country’s fragile 40-year-old democracy, but could also embolden other extreme libertarians in the US and Europe in their own anti-woke wars.
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Milei’s proposed dollarisation of the economy, a long-cherished business establishment dream, unexpectedly gained traction with the public during the campaign. Milei won nearly 56% of the vote in a country where 40% of the population live in poverty, even though his policies reflect the typical obsessions of billionaires everywhere. Tax is “theft”, social justice is an “aberration”, and public health, public education and social welfare need to be abolished. The climate crisis is “a socialist lie”.
Und so weiter, blah blah blah.
It’s not like those Argentine voters haven’t seen with their own eyes the failure of Peronist social justice.
Elections that don’t go the way we want are bad for democracy.
Why aren’t poor people happy with 140% inflation? It’s a mystery.
It’s almost like they ran out of other people’s money.
“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.”
― Frederic Bastiat
Stop, I can only get so hard.
Today I learned that basking sharks can jump:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJgon0C3bbs
Why do native americans hate snow?
Its white and settles on their land.
*narrows gaze*
Thanks!
“You love me! You really really love me!”
RIP Willie Hernandez, star closer on the 1984 World Series champions. He was a closer in a different era. Some of his stats from 1984:
80 games pitched
140.1 innings pitched
32 saves
9 wins
3 losses
1.92 ERA
MVP Award
Cy Young award
I was a young journalist during the dictatorship, working at the Buenos Aires Herald, a small English-language community newspaper that reported on crimes against human rights. Part of my job was translating the speeches of the generals, full of references to “cultural Marxism” – a genocidal conspiracy theory that Milei chillingly resurrected for his campaign.
The generals had studied the works of Italian Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci, who argued that the revolutionary left would need to obtain cultural hegemony to achieve its ends. From this seed, the generals developed a conspiracy theory, not unlike the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, that Marxists had infiltrated universities, Hollywood and the Catholic church, to undermine “our western and Christian way of life”. The “cultural Marxism” conspiracy theory can be heard in the US and the UK today.
Complete fiction. Nobody serious believes it.
There are no Marxists in the universities or in Hollywood. That’s just crazy talk.
That is some serious LOL shit right there.
It’s like trying to reason with someone from another planet.
Pay no attention to the man behind the iron curtain…
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Georg Lukacs believed that for a new Marxist culture to emerge, the existing culture must be destroyed. He said, “I saw the revolutionary destruction of society as the one and only solution to the cultural contradictions of the epoch…. Such a worldwide overturning of values cannot take place without the annihilation of the old values and the creation of new ones by the revolutionaries.”
In 1923, Lukacs and other Marxist intellectuals associated with the Communist Party of Germany founded the Institute of Social Research at Frankfurt University in Frankfurt, Germany. The Institute, which became known as the Frankfurt School, was modeled after the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow. In 1933, when Nazis came to power in Germany, the members of the Frankfurt School fled. Most came to the United States and many became influential in American universities. The Frankfurt School’s studies combined Marxist analysis with Freudian psychoanalysis to form the basis of what became known as “Critical Theory.”
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https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/other/political-correctness-cultural-marxism/
I forgot the money shot:
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Critical Theory was essentially destructive criticism of the main elements of Western culture, including Christianity, capitalism, authority, the family, patriarchy, hierarchy, morality, tradition, sexual restraint, loyalty, patriotism, nationalism, heredity, ethnocentrism, convention and conservatism.
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I think Dylan Mulvaney by himself covers most of those. He’s practically BLM’s MVP.
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.
Everyone has a plan until they get an ear bitten off.
Relevant-
Libertarian Pilgrims Set Sail For Argentina In Search Of A Better Life
I played https://squaredle.com 11/21:
*25/25 words (+8 bonus words)
📖 In the top 2% by bonus words
I needed help in both rounds.
I played https://squaredle.com 11/21:
25/25 words (+2 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 25% by accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 82
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Uranium is the feed-stock for nuclear power. It is also the material necessary to make nuclear bombs and making isotopes for medicinal and industrial uses.
The United States has 245,000 tons of Uranium reserves recoverable at less than $100 per kilogram, 1.9% of the world total. The price of uranium oxide is today about $80 per kilogram. This is about 12.5 years worth of domestic production, and as the great conservationist Sarah Palin used to quip, “when it is gone, it’s gone.”
The United States has, as of 2019, mined 444,500 tons of Uranium, or about 13% of the world total.
The United States consumed in 2019 19,570 tons of Uranium, about 23% of the world total, about 99.6% of which was imported. This is a great strategic vulnerability.
Which brings up the following question: Why did the Obama administration sell 20% of our proven reserves of this strategically important material to Russia?
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Because *Trump* is the Putin puppet, you nitwit! You’d know that if you watched real news.