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 beautiful day and the links!
Republicans May Retake Virginia State Senate After All
GOP still pretending that there is a Primary election
Gavin Newsom’s “Shadow” Presidential Campaign Ridiculed
IRS whistleblowers in Hunter Biden tax case vindicated by witness testimony
Appeals Court Orders Louisiana to Draw New Congressional Map
NJ Teachers Union Calls For Ending Basic Skills Test Requirement
Washington DC CVS only shows pictures of toilet paper products on shelves due to rising theft
‘QAnon shaman’ Jacob Chansley running for Congress as Libertarian to represent Arizona
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Republicans May Retake Virginia State Senate After All – but do they really want it?
If all they do when they retake the Senate is stop the democrats from implementing more DEI/CRT shit, it will be of value.
The margins are already too narrow to over-ride any veto by Youngkin, so they’re looking at gridlock for a couple of more years.
Yeah, as I remember it — best case here is a tied senate with the Lt. Gov being able to do the tie-breaking-vote thing. So roadblock mostly.
but after that
“Republicans May Retake Virginia State Senate After All”
They won’t. First, the out-of-district Senator hasn’t been disqualified yet. Second, it’s a pretty deep blue district. Third, VA election security is crap so any re-vote will be fortified.
Are state legislature requirements different than federal? Spanberger doesn’t live in her Congressional district.
GOP still pretending that there is a Primary election – pretending is crucial to Save Our Democracy (TM)
I blame the RINOs and especially, that McDaniels cunte, for this charade. They want to go back to the old arrangement where the RINOs are the bottom/losers in the incestuous government machine that is driving America over the cliff, so they can safely make money off idiots that donate while they do nothing to fix the destruction and havoc foisted on society and humanity by progressivism.
To be fair to them, they’ve been doing that rather well for years now — even when they were technically in the majority (2018 and onwards). So you can’t blame them for thinking they can keep it up.
And in an interesting plot twist, the Donkeys are pretending that Biden is the unchallenged nominee.
Seems a lot of them wish there was an alternative.
Hence RFK.
On a side note, I saw a Marianne Williamson sign down the street on one of the “In this house…” houses.
🙄
I heard the democrats are furious that the usual idiot republicans in congress have not done their dirty work for them by impeaching Biden so they could replace him with Newsom on the 2024 ticket.
I don’t think the majority of Democrats outside of California are all that enthusiastic for Gav.
But, that is like 1/4 of all Dems, right?
Few people were enthusiastic for Biden, either. I agree that it doesn’t matter. The “Blue No Matter Who” vote gets you 95% of the way there, and additional ballots can easily be counted as needed.
That plus all he has to do is yap about abortion.
And remember, the other nominee is going to be Donald.
But…but…Biden got more votes than any other presidential candy-date ever (including the much loved Obama)!!!!!!!
A lot of people voted against Trump more than for Biden.
A lot of those absentee ballot votes they counted for Biden didn’t come from any people “voting” either.
It’s not about enthusiasm: it is about being able to lie that there was more support for Newsom when they “fortify” the 2024 election. Nobody would buy Biden winning again.
It would do all of you some good to read a bit outside the bubble.
The bubble?
I read plenty of the fiction written by the usual suspects that pass for media. I just know better than to take any of it as anything but bullshit.
LOL, good one.
JFC, are you serious that you don’t think we are a bubble here?
The notion that nobody would buy Biden winning substantially. He will defeat Trump handily and there will be no outcry outside of Red State and maybe The Federalist.
Here’s an example of what is outside the bubble.
JI is right, this place is a bubble. And while I like this bubble, it does a body good to check out something like The Liberal Patriot, read all the articles at RCP, sniff around the comments section of Freddy DeBoer’s joint, and so on. I know I probably spend too much on Substacks and I am willing to bet there are other places to get a good feel for PMC and UMC opinions, but those three will give you a good idea of what is actually being thought, and it isn’t just “first we steal all the money” that often gets passed off as received wisdom around here.
They believe their own Bullshit just as much as we do.
I think that’s a pretty big maybe. I know the Stupid Party guy thinks he can just get the other candidate disqualified and hence he “ran unopposed” — but I think it is much, much more likely they’ll just call a special election. And that district was explicitly gerrymanded to be deep, deep blue…. so I expect an Evil Party member (that actually lives there) to pick it up.
Morning, Banjos — like the fluffball, unsurprisingly.
Maybe they will fly in a hand picked replacement from CA. Gavin sets the tone now.
Hamas Commander Believed to Have Kept 1,000 Gazans Hostage In Hospital Killed While Hiding In A School – so you are telling me Israel is attacking schools?
That’s the good news, in my mind. The Israelis aren’t kowtowing to the “international community” by hamstringing their war against Hamas. Which, technically, is a war against Gaza, let’s not forget, since Hamas is the government of Gaza. One of the features of warfare in the modern era since, say, Napoleon, is that governments don’t go to war against other governments, they go to war against the entire country.
No other country in the world would allow a corrupt and criminal entity like the UN or EU tell them they are not allowed to retaliate against any neighboring state that sanctioned and cheered on a bunch of barbarians that raped and murdered the violated country’s citizens. None. Why Israel even listens to these fucks baffles me. You can’t negotiate with people that want to exterminate you. Why does the world demand Israel do so?
The social media propaganda machine is out in full force on the Hamas side.
Isn’t Israel the government of Gaza? Or is it more like an Indian reservation type of deal?
Nope. Israel withdrew long ago. Gaza elected its own government, and picked Hamas (in a fine example of streetcar democracy, the kind where one you arrive at your destination by electing the “right” people, no further voting is needed).
To be fair, I haven’t checked the technicalities.
Your assessment is correct. What would also add some more details/color is that Hamas upon taking over promptly funneled all aid to Gaza to the crooks running things that promptly either stole or allocated the majority of those funds to terrorist efforts. Shit, they even dug up and destroyed infrastructure that was built while Israel ran Gaza to make weapons of it, leaving the people double fucked.
Hamas followed the sterling example of the National Socialists of Germany – once in power hold no further elections.
Sounds more like CHAZ from the summer of love. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think any government recognizes Gaza as a sovereign nation, even if Israel abdicated their own territory and supported Hamas’ rise to power.
Much of the world with the exception of ‘the west’ recognize them.
Tacitly, if not on paper.
Good to see that someone else recognizes Israel’s earlier support of Hamas in order to create a governmental entity so odious that the rest of the world would refuse to partner with them. What we’ve seen this past month is classic blowback and that goes for both sides.
Yeah, it is odd that most everyone is avoiding the obvious here.
If you decide to go to war, go to war. Everything is fair game. Sucks to be a civilian, but maybe don’t elect jackasses who send murder squads into your powerful neighbor’s country to kill women and children.
War means that there will be tons of dead people. If you can’t handle that, don’t go to war.
Some people, both R’s and D’s, still think it is gonna be squares of dudes in red and blue shirts heading out to a field to take pot shots at each other.
Worse, they think that the smart bombs will only kill the “bad guys” and that any civilian casualties could have been avoided entirely. So if women and children are harmed at all, it must be due to evil people.
I’d say it predates Napoleon. Medieval villages were put to the torch, Carthage was burned to the ground, countless empires grew by killing all men of fighting age, raping and enslaving the women and children, and leaving the elderly to die of starvation.
If you do not fight to break the enemy’s will to fight and destroy his society, you are going to lose any conflict. That is why the last war the US won was WWII. We stopped fighting to win.
To be fair, we haven’t declared war on any country since WWII.
^This^
We seem to have forgotten that to win, you need to leave you foes with no doubt as to who won. You do this by reducing their cities to rubble and killing gobs and gobs of people.
I’m not saying we should do this, but if you want to win, that is what needs to happen. That is why we shouldn’t be fighting all these half-assed “wars”. We aren’t serious about winning.
governments don’t go to war against other governments, they go to war against the entire country
The national economy supports the war effort, thus the economy is a military target. Civilians are the economy. You can argue that raping and kidnapping concert goers crosses some line, but a large fraction of “civilian” activities and infrastructure are perfectly valid military targets. If your first priority is winning the war, that is.
Washington DC CVS only shows pictures of toilet paper products on shelves due to rising theft – leave extra coarse toilet paper to punish thieves
Swap out for sandpaper.
Something like this?
lol
‘QAnon shaman’ Jacob Chansley running for Congress as Libertarian to represent Arizona – a buffalo hat in every garage
I thought the only pot libertarians worried about was the kind you could smoke?
Before President He-Who-Hides-In-Basement’s campaign I would have laughed and thought he doesn’t have a chance anyway… he’s only “popular” in California as a one-party state, after all… and his record only inspires deep loathing. Bringing the policies he’s championed to a national level should sink him.
But given the current level of the machine combined with extreme tribalism (vote blue even if a brain dead corpse!), any Dem they can wheel out seems to have a pretty good chance. So given the trajectory of stupidity, I’m sure he’ll run now or next cycle and win and we’ll continue further into hell. Yay.
He’s basically Hillary except she had a lot more infamy among the average voter. I’d be willing to bet a lot of people have no idea who he is or why he’s such a snake.
NJ Teachers Union Calls For Ending Basic Skills Test Requirement – I mean if students are not expected to learn math and basic literacy, why should the teachers? Seems inconsistent.
The dumbing down of American education is by design. Instead of creating intelligent people that can be self sufficient, they have basically pivoted to create a couple of generations of activist morons that couldn’t think their way out of a paper bag. But that is the sort of citizenry the progressive movement values… Think about that.
Do we breed domestic cattle to rebel on us? These are the same people that are pretty clear they want to “reduce the surplus population” after all. They certainly don’t want to make that harder on themselves.
What is odd to me is that the article cited a new York case where the courts determined that testing literacy is discriminatory and illegal because it has no relationship to the job (of teaching literacy).
I mean, that is facially false on both counts.
Post-factual world, indeed.
In other words, rAcIsT.
This country is doomed if we can’t get past this shit.
DEI/CRT is neo marxism’s way of basically attacking the expectation of competency and producing successful results. It’s not an accident that being competent and being able to do things successfully is now labeled “acting white”.
Why do you think one of the biggest circuses against the Trump is being done in NY?
All together now, everybody…. “AND NOTHING ELSE HAPPENED.”
Oh, wait… at least in the FBI’s case something else happened… they got a new mega headquarters and for all I know slobbering blowjobs in the Congressional offices.
libertarians should oppose the IRS
I just had this precise conversation with an idiot lib this weekend. When they told me they knew Trump was a crook, I asked for specific examples. All examples given were debunked bullshit that anyone not on the left knew was bullshit. Then I pointed out all the criminal activity by the deep state and the democrats. The answer I got was that it could not be bad at all if the justice system didn’t prosecute, and besides, even if it was terrible criminal shit, it was done to fight Nazi-Hitler crook Trump!
There is no saving us from the criminal cabal in D.C. It needs to be burned down to the ground.
Only to be replaced by the people that currently run the various state govts. Good luck with that.
Rinse repeat…
At some point we should be able to clean these crooks out of the gene pool.
Or terrify them into actually following the laws and their oaths.
Certainly we can all think of lots of issues — but the one that should cross the aisle is conspiracy and collusion to violate the First Amendment rights of the entire country (the collusion with social media and journalists to “combat disinformation” or “shape the narrative” or whatever they want to dress it up as). About as clear of an explicit violation as you can get, every one of them should be tried and put in prison (at least), which from the sounds of it would empty out half the Fed, especially the ICs right there.
A start.
Sure, except for the large portion of the country that is GOOD with censorship, and the even larger portion that just doesn’t give a shit because it hasn’t hurt them yet.
I think there is a big slice of the country who is still ignorant of the propaganda/censorship machine we are living under.
If you are just an average person and you get your news from Good Morning America with your breakfast waffles and coffee, and maybe you listen to the radio on the way home from work, you would have no idea.
Not only would you have no idea, but you would believe a whole bunch of evil lies about who the bad guys are.
Similarly, the machine is extremely effective. Shellenberger had a response to a series of attack articles saying coverage of the censorship regime was a sophisticated right wing plot to destroy the protection we have built against foreign disinformation.
I tried to booster his point by linking to his coverage of the Stanford Internet Observatory that demonstrates that it is a CIA operation (along with several other foreign intelligence agencies.. how is that for irony). If you search for his article on Google, you will only get SIO articles and other supportive media coverage. Even when I specifically put his name and CIA funding… No joy.
Duck Duck Go found it though.
You do not realize how pervasive the censorship is until you try to push up against something they are censoring.
It is sophisticated enough that you cannot see it from a single person’s perspective. Your post on Instagram looks fine, and your close associates can see it. But nobody else ever will.
Conservative and other anti establishment YouTubers are reporting that thousands of their subscribers are getting pruned on a regular basis. Subscribers are reporting that they are randomly being unsubscribed.
It is a massive array of techniques to prevent anyone from challenging the official story.
Look at Crowder reporting the Nashville Shooter manifesto. If you are not one of us, you never saw it. And now it is gone.
They blocked sharing the story on every big platform except X. They even blocked sharing the images on Instagram.
Orwell truly is here.
“You do not realize how pervasive the censorship is until you try to push up against something they are censoring.”
People should familiarize themselves with SERE (search engine manipulation effect). Google’s most important function for the deep state is its ability to feed normal people bullshit and hide the truth from them despite the fact it is out there to be found.
People who want power are a permanent feature of the human species, as much because of their own quirk as because of people wanting someone to be in charge (but not themselves). You want that out of the gene pool? You want a bigger genocide than the most wild-eyed leftie can dream of.
Well put, I was just going to say “Then we all die” cause it is us as a species.
Yup. The Welfare State is basically a murder-suicide pact.
Also, it’s probably more likely the Incans et al expired because they erected welfare states than of any viral or weather disaster.
Guess who would be running a genocide allegedly killing off people who want power?
People who want power.
Good luck creating Aryan ubermensch or New Soviet Man or any other dystopian breed of man.
Just because jailing one gang of criminals won’t end crime doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be jailed.
Louisiana, so very long history of machine politics so entirely possible the map was overly biased (as maps made by political entities tend to be) — but funny how this always only seems to go one way. Seriously getting to the points where the Courts seem to believe they’re in charge of the states instead of the state governments.
The difficulty is that the black populations here are highly concentrated in urban areas around the state. They aren’t connected to each other in any geographical way. The rural areas, the vast majority of the state, are overwhelmingly white, conservative.
It’s the same in most states. IIRC it’s only Miss. and Ala. that have significant populations of rural blacks. Maybe Ga.?
So yeah, that’s how you so often wind up with a “district” that is two or three urban blobs connected by roads. And somehow that is not supposed to be gerrymandering.
I fail to find the article of the constitution that requires a guarantee of racial representation in a district.
IIRC, it’s in the penumbras and emanations of the Voting Rights Act.
Yes, a law that requires racial gerrymandering.
And woe unto you if you suggest what an unconstitutional POS that law is.
Will Tim Scott get his own Bee bit?
No, I guess not.
Never? Sure, he won’t be president next year but who knows what 2028+ holds.
Newsome/Harris.
*shudder*
Jesus…. I know Education degree programs are a cakewalk compared to STEM, but not even having to have the teachers have anybasic skills seems excessive….
😉
Marxist activist tend to not be good at anything but marxist activism. Any kind of additional bar to show sills would drastically impact the pool of evil indoctrinators..
Besides, why do you need people that have skills to teach anything, when all you are doing is indoctrinating kids and dumbing their asses down as well.
It’s NJ. Do you want to see my shocked face.
OTH, other teacher qualifications are designed to restrict entry for the benefit of the union. You can’t have just anybody teach.
Yea, I was briefly an education/history major in college. I took the certification exams that are required. Basically a competency test for reading/writing and then whatever subject you wanted to be certified in (for me, history). The difficulty was a little lower than what I had done a few years prior for my AP courses in high school. This was in Massachusetts,l by the way, apparently one of the more difficult states to get certified in. I was appalled by how many of my classmates failed and had to re take the exams numerous times. These were the ones who stuck with the program and are now teaching. My life took a different course and now I’m welding making a third of what a Boston public school teacher makes.
Next thing you will tell me is you work more than 200 days out of the year.
I work closer to 360 days a year since i needed a weekend job to supplement our income while I get settled in my new welding career. Hope to be making enough soon to quit my second job.
My roommate at Memphis State was an education major. He asked me to proofread a paper he wrote for class once and it was the worst thing I had ever “read”. Sometimes his sentences didn’t even have a verb. One of those deals, where if you change anything you’d be there forever. So I corrected a couple of misspellings and gave it back to him.
I worried for a couple weeks about what he would say when he got it back and failed. Then one day he thanked me for my help because he had gotten a B+ on the paper. Unbelievable.
The only solace was that he wanted to be a music teacher and he was a very talented musician. Hopefully he got a chance to teach music. Heaven help us if he ended up trying to teach any other subject.
Overheard in a grocery store recently –
Woman #1: “Hey Shaquesha! I have not seen. you in a long time? How are you? What are you doing now?”
Shaquesha: “I is fine. I teaches English.”
Me: *facepalm, makes a U-turn with buggy to get out of earshot”
“our physics teacher had a baby and is on leave for the rest of the year. You’re teaching physics now. You’ll figure it out.”
This happened to me in high school, except they at least tapped a math teacher to teach physics, but it was pretty clear she had little understanding of the material.
Physics is just applied calculus…which is the general problem with HS physics, as you can’t assume a calculus basis to work from.
Its why my college physics classes had a calculus pre-requisite.
When I went back to college, I was taking my math and physics at the same time. I loved the physics classes because they made the math understandable (for me). The only problem was that I was taking them at the same time. The saving grace was I had taken Calc in high school so I had a bit of understanding of it.
Yeah, physics was only taught to students that had already taken trigonometry (basically pre calculus).
Can confirm. Trig, physics, no calculus (it wasn’t offered except to the one student they thought could actually do it) (VERY small school).
I was the one student in my school who took calculus junior year instead of senior year. If I could have made it work, I was going to only do a 1/2 day senior year and other 1/2 day take more calc at a local college, but the schedules didnt work out.
I think I could have done it if I were not an unserious student. I was coasting through all those higher-level classes I did to get into BYU (where our valedictorian took music), everybody knew it. I did the bare minimum I could to get Bs, and didn’t really put in the work to really understand it. Got my Bs, though.
Honestly, I’m not sure I really COULD have understood it. At some point, somebody said, “Here’s the formula. Plug numbers in.”
Also, I was never taught the order of operations (IIRC).
In short, I have never really had to try very hard, to my detriment.
But physics really needs differential and integral calculus.
My first college physics course had calculus II as a prereq.
HS Physics the motion of an object formula is just something you have to memorize that makes no sense. But if you understand that position is the second integral of acceleration, it makes perfect sense. You don’t have to memorize a stupid formula, you just start with d2s/dt2 = a and integrate twice to get the formula for s.
I’m a mean old reactionary at heart — but it did run through my mind this morning that while the ’40s and ’50s had their issues (race relations being the most obvious), this sure as hell doesn’t seem like progress when you compare things.
I know, I know… destabilize society to bring on the marxist dictatorship… it just seems that the non-true believers in socialism should be waking up by now.
How are race relations doing these days?
They sure are working hard to destabilize that.
Over a decade into the program, it finally seems to be having an effect.
So… more 14th Amendment lawsuits incoming?
Isn’t running on the Libertarian label disqualification enough?
Ok, I laughed. 😉
Today the world marks 105 years since the end of WWI.
Map shows the % of populations killed during the conflict.
https://twitter.com/xruiztru/status/1723266882164211820
Romania no 3 it seems…
as % of population I mean
Generations of men dead for absolutely nothing.
It wasn’t for nothing. The winners got to carve up the losers. Hooray for empires!
And set the stage for even more catastrophe.
Christ, what a horror show. No matter how many times I see the numbers, photos and descriptions it is still hard to comprehend.
Check out the movie They Shall Not Grow Old if you want a thoroughly depressing and interesting movie about WWI.
Thx. It’s on Netflix. I missed it at the theater. Watching it tonight.
The interview with Peter Jackson at the end of the movie is also fascinating. Make sure to watch it.
Absolutely.
I remember a teacher in history class trying to explain what caused WWI. Some archduke got assassinated, then … stuff. It made no fucking sense.
It wasn’t until I broke free of the statist language used … Germany did this, Russia did that … and realized that individuals start wars, not semi-fictional entities like nations … that it made sense.
WW2 started because one guy, Hitler, seized control of the police and military, and decided to try to take over the world.
WWI happened because a handful of rulers — literally 5 or less — decided they could easily defeat Germany and carve up their empire.
The U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was caused by some Presidents deciding to send troops there.
In all three cases, the individuals who started it were out of touch with how it would turn out.
Football supporters passing the Cenotaph on their way to the Cup Final between Huddersfield and Preston 101 years ago.
https://twitter.com/northumbriana/status/1723655469108023697
The same Cenotaph they fenced off the other day in order to keep away the Antifa rabble.
Progress!
Target Tries to Find Its Mark After Year of Misfires
Look at the stock chart in the middle of the article. I wonder what happened in Mid May?
Oh… never mind.
Target’s ‘tuck-friendly’ swimwear for kids sparks outcry: ‘Bud Light 2.0’
I was seriously curious how well it tracked to the PRIDE debacle, but didn’t expect this level of correlation. Look at the date on the NYP article.
I’ve visited my new Target three times since September. Was pleasantly surprised at how well maintained the shelves are and that the products are pretty nice, at least for housewares which was my main reason for visiting. The Target in Brooklyn was such a complete dump I never went back after my single visit about ten years ago.
It would not even occur to me to buy groceries there, or WalMart for that matter. Not when there is a Wegmans that is closer to my home.
Target is marginally higher priced than WalMart hence the “Tar jay” nickname.
My wife still shops there, but the woke crap made her make similar purchases elsewhere if possible.
I had actually forgotten about that – there was no evidence visible during my trips.
I did consulting work for a smallish company that sold their products at Home Depot, Walmart, Target and other big box stores. For all the hate that Walmart gets on shafting their suppliers, the other ones would do the same underhanded stuff.
But suburban soccer moms with their yoga pants and Starbucks latte shop at Target, while toothless inbred hicks shop at Walmart, according to the soccer moms. So it doesn’t matter that they shaft their suppliers or most of the shit comes from China, etc. Walmart gets the hate because of cultural bigotry.
Massie’s amendment to defund the vehicle kill switch mandate has failed thanks to 19 Republicans.
Kean (NJ)
That’s my rep! God bless him and his RINO dad.
That said, while the camel’s nose is well under the tent it’s not as cut and dried as Massie presents it in terms of activation criteria and driver interaction to negate it. I still think it is God awful, so don’t put me down as a supporter.
“But we just have to vote for Republicans to stop the regulatory overreach of the Democrats!”
/makes jack-off motion
Asshole.
His amendment got AOC’s vote? That’s a red flag.
Yeah, very strange. How are people supposed to run over Burn Loot Murder protestors blocking the roads if their cars have kill switches in them?
More kids and old ladies got run over in that Christmas parade.
This seems to be along the same lines as revoking bank accounts and credit cards of people with wrong-think. Now they’ll have a bricked car parked in the driveway of the house they can no longer pay for.
Yeah, this, just wait until AI allows a much more granular data analysis on individuals with better integration. One wrong word and your car won’t start, the credit card won’t work, and the bank will confiscate your accounts a la Canada-quite a dystopian world we’re heading into.
Well, we are remaking the world. In a fresh world we will need a lot of courage.
Some group is running an ad on heavy rotation about Massie. Its quite funny actually.
https://jewishinsider.com/2023/11/united-democracy-project-super-pac-targets-lee-bowman-massie-over-anti-israel-votes/
“In 2021, the pro-Israel lobbying group ran attack ads against Massie over his vote against legislation to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome missile-defense system during the last major flare-up of violence with Hamas. “How is THIS not foreign interference in our elections?” Massie responded on Twitter at the time, drawing accusations of antisemitism.”
Best Representative since Ron Paul.
How is that not foreign meddling in our elections?
Imaging pro-Russia big money donors targeting members of Congress.
Not wanting to give Israel a blank check so they can bomb a population back to the Stone Age is antisemitic.
They said it better 😉
Why not a policy of selling arms to whoever shows up with a case of cash?
Seems pretty greedy to demand free weapons to blow up people.
OFFS.
something something content of their character
They all vote alike you know.
Black people all look, I mean, vote the same.
We shall see.
Polling apparently has Trump winning black men. Not “doing better than normal”…. Winning.
When it comes time to vote, that polling usually doesn’t hold up.
It could provide an interesting measuring stick…. Watch biden win 90% of the black male vote in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania…. And then lose 55-45 in South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi….
“When it comes time to vote, that polling usually doesn’t hold up.”
You can count on some event that will be sensationalized to allow the democrats to make the claim that republicans are racists and want to put blacks back in chains, as happens every freaking election cycle to make sure these people stay on the plantation…
You can count on black people to reflexively pull the lever for Team Blue. A Republican route would get 12 instead of the usual 8 percent of the black vote.
“Polling apparently has Trump winning black men. Not “doing better than normal”…. Winning.”
Link? I got this:
“Across five high-quality polls that have broken out non-White voters in the past month, Trump is averaging 20 percent of Black voters and 42 percent of Hispanic voters.”
Even if you assumed 100% of black women would vote for Biden, that would give you 60% of black men voting for Biden. Which I’m having a hard time believing.
Lyndon Johnson’s ethnic voting pattern forecast is still holding up pretty well.
If only there was a party that would actually oppose the Uniparty but as JI so eloquently put:
So for now we have Massie and Paul and maybe a handful scattered around the state and local level that are just there to scream at the wall in hopes it crumbles.
Did you ever notice how your regulators do exactly what they excuse those they regulate of doing?
Strip Clubs, Lewd Photos and a Boozy Hotel: The Toxic Atmosphere at Bank Regulator FDIC
Toxic? Sounds awesome!
So much for bankers being stodgy!
I can tell you about my starting jobs in insurance and Wall St in NYC…
Go on….
I saw Boozy Hotel open for Horton Heat back in ‘98. Great show…
Daily Ray of Sunshine
If you want to have a real hard laugh, slog through this shitshow….
Cry me a river. The feminists shouldn’t have much trouble finding someone else to discredit them.
This is for Cyto:
Wife got a positive response to Ketamine within 3 treatments. About 69 mg infusions with Mg.
Done in Dallas Tx.
Wow. 2 months in… I would say she just isn’t responding.
The inhaler stuff “Eskatamine” has no effect on her.
I will pass that along. That could be the key.
She is in pretty bad shape. Has been for a couple of decades. Hence, the desperation.
Hey Cyto, shout me an email
robodruid100@gmail.com
https://twitter.com/crazyclipsonly/status/1723783973057499220
I..um..where can I get one for my own “research”?
Their original grant proposal to create a toy to fuck was rejected. Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
Language first, blowjobs later
That is really pathetic, to be honest.
I remember similar coverage back in the 80s. All they have is some vowel sounds? They had all the vowels back when Omni magazine was still a thing.
Yeah… something doesn’t add up.
Good Lord she’s got 1.3m subs. I’m not a big fan of the attractive gal and car channel scene, but some of them do focus on the car and not the gal. No idea in her case. There is definitely a need for younger people to pick up the cause so good for her.
Rare Racer Runs Again Under Actress’s Direction
I am enjoying the Tavarish chanel rebuilding a hurricane flooded McLaren.
He isn’t very attractive, but it has sufficient “regular folk wrenching” vibes.
He’s a little over the top for me, but I respect him and his channel. He’s a real car guy.
A quick perusal of her YouTube channel tells me I’m going to have to check it out but I’ll be chafed the next morning. Whatever gets clicks I reckon.
In today’s “1.5 stars, my ass…” results. Or I started too early (did it like 2 hours ago) before my brain woke up. Or I just suck. I suspect the last one. Oh, but fuck you — “June” is a perfectly acceptable word, assholes.
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 11/13:
*20/20 words
🎯 In the top 17% by accuracy
I played https://squaredle.com 11/13:
*21/21 words (+2 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 17% by accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 105
I played https://squaredle.com 11/13:
21/21 words (+4 bonus words)
🎯 Perfect accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 12
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 11/13:
20/20 words (+1 bonus word)
🎯 In the top 33% by accuracy
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 11/13:
*20/20 words (+4 bonus words)
📖 In the top 23% by bonus words
I played https://squaredle.com 11/13:
21/21 words
Never tried this before
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 11/13:
*20/20 words (+4 bonus words)
📖 In the top 23% by bonus words
The main one took me FAR longer and with more errors than it should have:
I played https://squaredle.com 11/13:
*21/21 words (+1 bonus word)
🎯 In the top 17% by accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 24
Did OK on the express:
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 11/13:
*20/20 words (+2 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 9% by accuracy
Yeah, June fucked me too. But to be fair, they do say no proper nouns.
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 11/13:
*20/20 words (+4 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 10% by accuracy
I played https://squaredle.com 11/13:
*21/21 words (+2 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 4% by accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 74
I have this vague recollection that when I first started playing they would just give you a pop-up saying the word was a proper noun. But now it’s just wrong.
I don’t think I have seen that.
I do see a popup on certain badthought words.
I played https://squaredle.com/?puzzle=medical:
211/211 words (+81 bonus words)
Ha I put that one on the back burner a few weeks ago.
I played https://squaredle.com/?puzzle=medical:
143/211 words (+57 bonus words)
Did you try the Halloween one? I gave that up after about 10 minutes.
Yeah, I just copied all the letters into Notepad.
Why do these people tell jokes that often immediately, and practically always with time, end up reflecting reality?
No idea in her case.
I stumbled across Squeemelia Hartford a while back. Based on the videos, I rate this article as “mostly self promoting bullshit”. However it does somewhat confirm one thing I have been wondering, which is “I hope she’s not as dumb in real life as she is on youtube.” I’d say the videos are about 90% staged and scripted. As for her personal mechanical abilities, I am doubtful. Most of what I have seen is basic youtube idiot culture bolting on expensive off the shelf parts and “THOUSAND HORSEPOWER!” motors.
The GT40 replicar is cool.
Any time YouTube recommends an auto channel to me where the still image has more breasts in the frame than car is an automatic “don’t recommend” from me.
Gay….
Sometimes you want a hamburger sometimes you want ice cream. Do you put ketchup on your ice cream?
Just mayonnaise on his keyboard….
What you talking about, Willis?
Fuck, I had a friend in high screwl that LOVED double chocolate ice cream with Ketchup and mustard. I have a pretty hard stomach, but trying that made me almost hurl.
You tried it?!
I was wondering if I was missing out on something I would later discover was a delicacy. Taught me a lesson, though. I didn’t need to try it to know I was not going to like it…
All about the Benjamins?
So these poor, poor laid off chaplains won’t help sick people unless they are getting paid is what I’m reading.
Democrats comment on someone they labeled an Uncle Tom exiting the presidential campaign..
I’m honestly surprised it wasn’t something to the effect of “See how racist those Republicans are that a black man couldn’t succeed in their primary!” (Now that he’s a preferred version of Republican… a loser).
That song is so moody. Love it. It comes up every few days on Pandora.
Any time YouTube recommends an auto channel to me where the still image has more breasts in the frame than car is an automatic “don’t recommend” from me.
I got sucked in by the “ABANDONED Shelby Daytona Coupe” clickbait. Which was, of course, neither abandoned nor a Shelby. It was a stalled out kit car project (I forget what brand in a guy’s back yard. All the hard work was already done.
I have a strong suspicion that whatever work gets done on “her” cars is carried out by a group of people who never appear on camera.
Welcome to Jersey City. The lawbreaking scooters are a post COVID addition.
I must be doing something wrong, right?
Red car thought the ambulance was there to give them an escort, I guess.
And that person knows the minute a brain fart occurs and does a minor moving infraction it will be they who will be pulled over.
I’ll take scooters over kick sleds
I am enjoying the Tavarish chanel rebuilding a hurricane flooded McLaren.
I’m not really a fan of the modern supercars, so I don’t watch tavarish. He does his own work, though, and he ain’t afraid to just start ripping things apart.
Having assisted a high school friend in rebuilding a super beetle, I appreciate that aspect.
We were a couple of 16 year old idiots, assisted by his 19 year old brother who had successfully done 2 beetles.
My favorite memory is cracking the block… We worked on it for hours and hours. We just couldn’t get it apart.
Finally, we found the bolt we had missed, buried deep in a depression.
Fast forward to putting it all back together. Excitement in the air, we went to crank it up….. Immediately all of the oil came spilling out.
We had buggered up the seals trying to pry the block apart and had to get them machined.
Live and learn.
It ended up being a thing of beauty. High ratio rockers, bored out for new pistons, dual Webber carbs… This thing has more carb barrels than cylinders… Custom exhaust… Boosted from 47 hp to over 100 hp at the wheels. It doesn’t sound like much by today’s standards, but t completed with the muscle cars of the day, being light enough for 4 guys to carry.
The high school football team used to randomly move Nikki ***********’s Yugo to completely different parking lots. She never knew where her car was after school.
Just as long as Finnegan is safe
Secret Service agents protecting President Joe Biden’s granddaughter opened fire after three people tried to break into an unmarked Secret Service vehicle in the nation’s capital, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
The agents, assigned to protect Naomi Biden, were out with her in the Georgetown neighborhood late Sunday night when they saw the three people breaking a window of the parked and unoccupied SUV, the official said. The official could not discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke to the AP on Monday on the condition of anonymity.
One of the agents opened fire, but no one was struck by the gunfire, the Secret Service said in a statement. The three people were seen fleeing in a red car, and the Secret Service said it put out a regional bulletin to Metropolitan Police to be on the lookout for it.
Sounds like they need more range time.
Damn it.
https://nypost.com/2023/11/13/news/secret-service-agents-protecting-bidens-granddaughter-open-fire-after-3-people-try-to-break-into-suv/
*pew*
*pew*
*pew*
*crickets*
Wow the worm really turned for that stripper’s kid. Not only is Biden acknowledging her, but the Secret Service is shooting at people for her now?
Different granddaughter
Not bad looking, how do they keep Joe from huffing her in public I wonder?
This leads me to expect great things from Sugarfree’s next submission.
LOL. Same here.
Well Buffalo Shaman guy is campaigning in Arizona, so we know it wasn’t him.
What happens to a “civilian” that open fire on someone breaking into their car?
It’s not nothing.
If you want some good news….
Omar has to fight off a decent primary challenger. Her challenger this year barely lost to her last time. Don Samuels is actually a pretty decent guy. Any objective person would agree that the district would be way better off with him.
The proggy who wrote the article makes sure to point out that Samuels is supported by (((them))).
It’s going to be an uphill battle. The Dems love to keep the same people in office for decades (same with the Repubs), but they also love someone flashy who can be a good distraction.
Per the teaching discussion above…. My high school chemistry teacher was one of those “you are all we’ve got” forced into it situations. She had never even had a chemistry class.
Needless to say, it was a shit show.
And, being a libertarian type, I began to push back after a while. Finally, she made an entire 9 weeks grade “sit here and wrote out the entire orbital shell structure for the entire periodic table.
Not just the outer shell… All of them. And in 3 different notations, including drawings.
Nope.
I could not bring myself to do it. Stupid busy work.. I ain’t doing it.
Freshman chemistry was a struggle, thanks to that class.
Sounds familiar. A coach for football taught my chemistry class. I never caught up again.
chemistry is just a vibe man
The campus debate on the #IsraelHamasWar is also Humanities vs. STEM + Econ.
@Columbia
faculty issued two open letters, one defending and one condemning students’ defense of Hamas. Here are their affiliations.
https://twitter.com/RamFishman/status/1722258229668057429
Not surprising. A big chunk of the humanities is completely useless.
Just a big chunk? Maybe 20 years ago. These days it is pretty much all of it. Especially at the price people pay for it.
It ended up being a thing of beauty. High ratio rockers, bored out for new pistons, dual Webber carbs… This thing has more carb barrels than cylinders… Custom exhaust… Boosted from 47 hp to over 100 hp at the wheels. It doesn’t sound like much by today’s standards, but t completed with the muscle cars of the day, being light enough for 4 guys to carry.
Nice. Those old beetles could be made pretty lively, with a little rubbing. Now people stick Subarus in them.
It was fairly unsafe with that engine in it. It shredded the transmission and he had to get a junkyard Porsche transmission wedged in there. I cannot imagine a 300hp turbo Subaru 4 pot in that thing. Probably flip right over when you hit the gas.
With all the associated complexity of the water cooling unfortunately.
Incredible thread.
Prog is upset that a stewardess doesn’t throw her job away by making some futile protest against laws being enforced … but also doesn’t make a futile protest herself, because she’s really looking forward to her vacation.
https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1724041545895039048
Darn. Threadreader no longer allows me to read the whole thing.
Thank God for editors.
I assume that is an Ohm – meter.
Joey Jones takes viewers inside Hamas’ newly uncovered weapons arsenal
Still what school age child doesn’t want to play with a grenade and kill Israelis?
Loathsome swamp creature (ex CIA) Abigail Spanberger leaving congress to run for Governor of Virginia. Most likely she’ll be running against current Lt Gov Winsome Sears since Virginia Governors can’t serve consecutive terms.
https://twitter.com/memecrashes/status/1723476179284369783
heh
Shocking
Plastic waste is everywhere. Each year, around 400 million metric tons of it end up in landfills and places like oceans, rivers and shorelines. The trash breaks down into tiny pieces called microplastics that have made their way into every corner of the environment and even into human bodies.
The problem is getting worse. So last year the United Nations set out to write a legally binding agreement to deal with the issue. That decision by U.N. member states “will clearly take us towards a future with no plastic pollution,” Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Japan’s then-environment minister, said at the time.
This week, negotiators from around 150 countries are gathering in Kenya to start hashing out the treaty’s details. Outside groups are there too, trying to influence the talks, including public health advocates, human rights activists, environmentalists and the oil and gas industry.
Almost every piece of plastic is made from chemicals derived from fossil fuels. Now, there’s growing concern among those who want deep cuts in plastic waste that plastic producers and some consumer goods companies could weaken the treaty.
Purge the heretics and unbelievers. Flay them. Burn them at the stake.
eigenrobot
@eigenrobot
heres how biden wins
1. border wall
2. debt relief for grads if they work building the wall
3. all misdemeanors punishable by one year wall building
4. drug dealing? immurement, you guessed it, in the wall
5. climate? wall solar panels
6. houses built into the wall (YIMBY)
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1724040001791410465
Wall woody.
That’s like saying Biden wins by eliminating “urban camping” or fixing some other problem that Democrats are actively working on making worse.
Biden can win by doing the opposite of what he’s doing now, which is mostly what Trump would do.
houses built into the wall (YIMBY)
That idea occurred to me. They are building sections of wall with shipping containers. Let people live in them. It doubles as 24 hour security.
With gun slits facing south?
But years of research and investigations, including by NPR, have shown that recycling is failing to rein in plastic waste. Reducing how much new plastic gets made in the first place is a “prerequisite” to getting pollution under control, says Carsten Wachholz, who works at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and co-leads the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty.
Leave it in the ground! Just think of the health benefits of returning to butcher paper and brown paper bags for food packaging.
Re-usable medical instruments and packing will help more than that.
The Rock of Guatapé in Colombia has been towering into the clouds for about 65million years, almost smooth but with one long crack down one side into which is wedged a staircase with over 700 steps
https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1724059615938187340
Meta-analysis of field studies on gender bias in hiring: Three key findings
1. In male-dominated/gender-balanced fields, male applicants were favoured before 2009, but since then, there’s been no consistent bias or even a weak pro-female bias.
2. In female-dominated fields, female applicants are favoured
People vastly overestimate gender bias in hiring decisions: They overestimate how much gender bias women face in male-dominated and gender-balanced fields, and they overestimate how much gender bias men face in female-dominated fields.
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1723489459604472269
So men are screwed regardless. What a surprise.
“weak” yeah OK. I wonder how they define bias.
The only bias – which I might define as “companies tripping over themselves in a feeding frenzy over a limited selection” – more favorable than the one towards women is the one towards blacks.
I recently had a chat with some ladies where I pointed out to them that societal decay and the fact all that all these government entities they believe will solve all humanities problems are all failing, and it was not that life and issues had gotten more complex. They were at first incurious until one of them asked me – suspiciously – what I meant. I pointed out that when you actively undermined and destroyed meritocratic systems and instead of picking the best candidate just put someone there to right some wrong, you should not be surprised they are ill prepared to deal with though problems. They got mad at me. I asked them where the error in logic was with my explanation, because if they had a logical counter argument, I was all ears. After all, I was a man, and to me the real value is in solving problems, not whining about unfairness/injustice. Their response was that both had to be possible. I told them good luck with the new world their preference for compassion and fixing injustices would create, because no amount of wishful thinking was going to change the basic laws of economics, physics, biology, chemistry, and human nature, and putting unqualified people in charge of fixing things was a recipe for disaster.
I got accused of lacking compassion and empathy.
Women…
Who hurt you?
Good gravy, you’re tedious.
You do know that line you quoted about me being a man was said in sarcasm because their attitude was I simply was to dense to be nuanced enough to know things because I was a man, right?
Yes. THIS time. In times past, not so much. Or at all. You’ve often been quite serious about it.
Serious about out? That modern day feminists, the big government college women that see government as their sugar daddy, lack grounding in reality? If so, yes, guilty as charged.
I can see your points. However, you have expressed utter contempt for women in general. I have never seen you say one nice thing/redeeming quality about any woman, not even ones you’ve been in relationships with.
Mojeaux, if you have come to believe I have contempt for women, then the fault is mine. I love women.
Contrary to popular belief, I have a mother whom I loved and miss since she passed. I have a ton of lady friends. But I have nothing but contempt for women that tell me men are the problem when they are sucking at the government teat (and I work with too many of these) as they support people that are destroying our society (and causing the most harm to young men AND women in general), just like I have a problem with any man that hates women.
As a divorced guy, unfortunately, most of the women I meet tend to be the ones nobody wanted because they were not playing with a full deck (same for the guys, including myself, btw). Some of the crazy and lack of basic lack of logic I have dealt with might have jaded me, but there is nothing like a good woman.
I was gonna close with a joke about needing a sammich, but I worry the humor might be misinterpreted, so I will say that you have got me wrong.
My husband has been married to one woman for 21 years. I may be batshit crazy, but I’m his kind of batshit crazy. I’m grateful he can put up with me, and he’s grateful I can put up with him (although he really has nothing to put up with).
So, as some of the dudes here have pointed out before, your woman-picker may be broken.
But Lau of the Pew Charitable Trusts worries the credits could deprive governments of badly needed funding.
Neil Tangri, science and policy director at the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, an environmental justice group, says he’s concerned that Verra is trying to privatize things that are supposed to be handled by governments negotiating the treaty.
Privatized solutions?
The thorror.
The HORROR.
what if … gasp… someone makes profit?
“But Lau of the Pew Charitable Trusts worries the credits could deprive governments of badly needed funding.”
My gosh, but the rabidly free market founders of the Pew Charitable Trust must be spinning in their graves. Maybe we can hook them, and Ford, and a few other captains of industry who founded trusts, to electric generators and do away with fossil fuels?
Collective intelligence can help reduce medical misdiagnoses
https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/press-releases/collective-intelligence-in-medicine
The researchers tested their solution on 1,333 medical cases provided by The Human Diagnosis Project (Human Dx), each of which was independently diagnosed by 10 diagnosticians. The collective solution substantially increased diagnostic accuracy: Single diagnosticians achieved 46% accuracy, whereas pooling the decisions of 10 diagnosticians increased accuracy to 76%. Improvements occurred across medical specialties, chief complaints, and diagnosticians’ tenure levels. “Our results show the life-saving potential of tapping into the collective intelligence,” says first author Ralf Kurvers. He is a senior research scientist at the Center for Adaptive Rationality of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and his research focuses on social and collective decision making in humans and animals.
That idiot might think her injury means there is no God, but to me, that is a sure sign there is one…
Even the existence of God revolves around her. Wow.
See, I would think that her injury would be proof to a lot of people that God does exist.
Skeptics like myself would probably be more inclined to believe in a deity because of this injury. I’d sign up for any church that could call down an actual lightning bold on her whiny, entitled ass.
Racist America-firsters in the mist
“This country was built on immigration. I’m fine with that,” Silvas said. “But not like this. This is ridiculous.”
Two years ago, Silvas bought 78-acres of land on the Southern California border with Mexico, about 75 miles east of San Diego. His land is marked by hills and large boulders. The border wall ends a few feet into his property, leaving only the rocky desert terrain and a modest razor wire fence as a barrier.
“If I had the money, I would build my own wall right here!” Silvas said.
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“(My trees) are all gone. They chop them up and put them in the fire,” said Jerry Shuster, who alleges one group of migrants broke a wood fence on his property to fuel their fire.
The Shusters have lived in Jacumba Hot Springs for more than 40 years. Jerry emigrated from the former Yugoslavia. Maria is from Mexico.
“The government should do something (to) stop this illegal immigration,” Maria Shuster said. “Stop it because (the migrants aren’t) helping us; they’re destroying us.”
Selfish bastards.
From what I’m seeing all that pushback in the cities isn’t that we should close the border, it’s that they should all stay in Texas.
For years, migrants who crossed illegally into the United States would often run away from law enforcement, but now once reaching the US most run to authorities, according to observers. They’re eager to be processed, knowing that they will likely be released in a few days to await court dates that could be years away.
The San Diego Border Patrol Sector has reported more than 230,000 encounters during the fiscal year that ended in September – a level of activity the agency has not seen in over two decades.
Most of the migrants entering San Diego County appear familiar with the process, as though they’ve been prepared by others who’ve successfully arrived before them. They gather at various spots on the US side and await CBP officials, who then line them up, give them a tag for their one carry-on bag, and use a smartphone app to photograph the migrants as they hold up their documents. The men are then handcuffed to each other before boarding buses.
More likely, they have been coached by the NGO and non profit parasites who encouraged them to come.
I think both are just as likely. Most of ’em have family here already. Hell, entire villages sometimes arrive at once.
the rabidly free market founders of the Pew Charitable Trust must be spinning in their graves. Maybe we can hook them, and Ford, and a few other captains of industry who founded trusts, to electric generators and do away with fossil fuels?
Rockefeller should be good for a few gigawatts.
The Shusters are frustrated and feel helpless.
“The migrants have more rights than we do,” Maria Shuster said, alleging that Border Patrol and the local sheriff’s department have told them they’re not allowed to force the migrants off their property.
A senior CBP official told CNN, “Stopping people from entering private property or arresting people for trespassing, that’s a local law enforcement responsibility.”
In a statement to CNN, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said, “Given the nature of trespassing the offenders would likely be cited and released a short distance away. This would scatter asylum seekers across the communities… and further complicate CBP’s response efforts to process, identify, screen, and ultimately transport the asylum seekers out of the area.”
Oh, no, we wouldn’t want that. Why do those private land owners want to make life difficult for Joe’s welcoming committees/ We need to collect those migrants and give them a warm and generous path to the Promised Land.
Hand out flyers, in Espanol, telling the trespassers that they need to report to the San Diego County Sheriff’s office where they will directed to rooming in a top San Diego hotel, 3 hot meals per day, $100/day walking around money, and placement in a $25/hr. job sitting at a desk and watching tv shows.
What’s missing in this story?