Nothing much going in the sports world aside from the Watson injury so I’m moving straight to…the links!
Worthless
You have no power here. This whole impotent money-grab organization needs to go.
No good deed goes unpunished. I see them pulling out all the stops here. Yet no mention of the two other guys, on black, who were also involved. Curious.
Useless
What a shitshow. There’s no money. They’re not stopping anything. They’re just kicking the can down the road a bit longer.
Please be true. Please be true. Please be true. I love shit like this when the woketards embrace people who made bullshit claims.
Sounds like a weird zoning scheme. Why can’t they reparcel the land? And how can someone sell shares in a parcel without the approval of other shareholders? A weird situation.
Fight! Fight! Fight! Let em all go at it. They made their bed, they can sleep in it.
Meaningless
Pardon my skepticism. But I believe absolutely none of this will actually happen in a way that helps Americans.
Awesome. Keep it up, boys. Keep. It. Up.
A knee-slapping good tune. I sure love hearing these guys. This one’s a bit slow getting going, but once it does, look out. What a great song. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.
Are you having to suffer that movie on repeat for your girls or something, Sloopy? (I was lucky enough my son wanted to see it in the theater but he hasn’t bugged me since… since I thought it was “tolerable at best”, I’m very thankful…)
Mornin’. Mornin’ all the rest of ya reprobates and probable domestic insurrectionists or something.
Look, if you want movies to make you suffer….
I already have an uncontested favorite when it comes to that.
You don’t have to be neurotic to enjoy his films, but it probably helps – a lot.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S08E06/277993
I once thought I was neurotic… but I talked myself out of it. Of course, I could be wrong….
Still haven’t seen it. I just felt like being in a Mario mood this week.
It’s not bad. Not a masterpiece by any means, but it was fun for the 6 year old and I enjoyed myself as much as one can expect to at such movies. It played with the “modern audiences” tropes, but thankfully without going full Disney and neutering the main character.
Yeah Peach was a little girl bossy, but a solid kid’s movie otherwise.
At this point with the rabid Anti-Israel sentiments emanating from PPP’s administration (regardless of what they say through their puppet figurehead), I’m just a little glad we didn’t explicitly vote for it.
But yeah, the UN, maybe moreso than NATO — but it is a close call, is a useless organization of moochers that should go live in Brussels or Geneva with all the support we gave the League of Nations.
Let Daniel Penny go and just ban him from New York. This is bullshit.
Responded to the wrong SDF-7 comment…
“No, peasants — you have no right to defend yourselves!” does seem to be their overriding theme. All part of the “give all power to government and beg them to save you” motif, I suppose… I’m so much not a city person I can’t imagine living in any urban area, especially New York — but given this stuff, I really, really don’t understand it.
Shane McGowan is hospitalized (-ised) with encephalitis.
He was just in a couple months back I seem to recall as well. I’m disappointed in myself that I never took the few opportunities I had to see him sing.
I’m shocked he’s made it this long.
What a tough (self-induced) life he’s had.
Born with a great thirst…
“Cocaine and sex addict stops buying Ferrari to crash into walls for fun for a moment, looks up from ass of hooker with the lines on it to raise his own credit card limit to even more than he’ll ever make in his lifetime… film at 11.”
Starring Jordan Belfort as the Senate.
Yeah… I expect that to be as impactful as the prosecution of those idiot lawyers who threw Molotovs at cop cars in New York City or whatnot. Arrested… let go without charges or prosecution.
Or maybe She-Who-Gobbles-On-Her-Knees can get them a Thanksgiving pardon.
Those protestors dared to protest outside of democrat run meetings. They will never be heard from again.
Yeah? I more imagine it going down like this.
Since they let woke mobs burn/tear down problematic statues of people tied to slavery, shouldn’t the DNC also be fair game?
The parties switched!
Whaaaat?!? Joe Biden — who
knew nothing aboutnever discussedokay, discussed but only the weatherwas hip deep in the bribery of his son by the CCP might just be the well-bought politician? Well, I do declare you’re trying to give me the vapors, sir!No vaping!
How many more military secrets can Democrats sell to China? We’ve got to be almost out of them by now.
Pardon my skepticism. But I believe absolutely none of this will actually happen in a way that helps Americans. – they are not tying to help Americans
Of course not. We must merely throw our money at the good socialists and shut up. Our betters don’t care what the average American thinks.
No good deed goes unpunished.
He’s going to be railroaded.
no mention of the two other guys
Wrong skin pigment.
The president is expected to sign the bill, which will fund the government through early next year to buy time for spending negotiations.
To negotiate how much more to spend in an endless effort to debase the currency?
none of this will actually happen in a way that helps Americans.
It will help some Americans, like the Bidens.
Why, yes – a typical day does involve being trapped in close quarters with aggressive and incoherent randos.
Your point?
But yeah, the guy is a gift handed to the establishment on a plate. They are going to make-an-example the fuck out of him.
Bonfire of the Vanities, part II?
Somebody upthread mentioned movies that made him suffer.
You’ve just reminded me of mine. Thanks a lot.
The book is a keeper, however.
The book was so good and the movie so bad.
The book is absolutely wonderful. I could read it once a year and enjoy it for the rest of my life.
A Man in Full is even better.
The 5th Column covered this back when it happened. Matt and Michael were both like “yeah, when crazy guy is on the subway, you keep your head down, don’t make eye contact, don’t interact, get off at the next station and get on the next train”.
Never actually went that far. All the rest – many, many times.
Jeez, you really wonder why everyone in the country doesn’t want to live there, huh? So enticing.
Ah, a morning with the Pogues is a fine morning indeed.
For years, experts have thrown cold water on Miller’s movement, saying that secession is patently illegal and unconstitutional
Actually the federal government was not given the authority to prevent any state from leaving the union for any reason.
would be economically catastrophic for the United States and Texas alike.
Maybe bad for the US but not for TX.
Yeah, given the whole Declaration and all – suggesting that ratifying the Constitution locked the states into an irrevocable contract seems ludicrous.
It is, but consider:
(1) This has already been settled, around 160 years ago.
(2) Nobody who matters cares what the Constitution says. Not really. Sure, they’ll wave it around as a pretext when it’s temporarily useful to them, but that’s it.
This has already been settled, around 160 years ago.
One military failure does not settle anything.
One military defeat has settled a lot of things, historically. Especially when the defeat precedes unconditional surrender.
It does set a baseline for the kind of reaction any secessionists can expect from the Federals.
The Declaration eh? With its contemporary the Articles of Confederation – which was quite explicit about the nature of the union being perpetual.
Yeah, when you set the principle that the people can dissolve their State Governments, it doesn’t matter what past states agreed to.
And contemporary? There was at least a decade between them, wasn’t there? (Yes, I’m too lazy to bother looking right at the moment).
The AoC was the constitution until 1787 – when the reform convention performed its bloodless coup.
It’s only a coup if anyone was really of the mind that sticking with the existing system was worth keeping.
It was a do-over, not a coup.
And that’s what the Southern States said in 1860.
That stated a goal, not a power. And the articles were dissolved.
Just pointing out that at the time the Declaration was issued, the charter to govern included no off-ramp. So only the malcontents in our history – starting with the dying Federalists of New England in 1812 have ever talked secession.
16 November 1963: The Kino International in East Berlin at night (via Bundesarchiv)
https://twitter.com/GermanAtPompey/status/1725095758058131740
French train passenger uses his national health card to make himself a foie gras and baguette sandwich.
What a country.
https://twitter.com/jonhenley/status/1724835985114943732
I like the cut of his jib.
Hmm… so is Swiss a fan of foie gras because that means at least one less Hate Bird, The Bird That Hates — or against it because we’re presumably raising more of them….
“Since the land where Woodson’s home sits isn’t divided into parcels but rather by percentage ownership – under a scheme called ‘tenants in common’ – when one owner wants to sell, everyone must sell.”
Which doesn’t match the rest of the story at all, since they describe several, but not all, of the tenants selling their interests.
I, too, am mystified by how you can build on a parcel based on a partial undivided interest in the parcel. All tenants in common have the right to use the entire parcel. How you can square that with what looks like de facto subdividing, much less houses, I have no clue.
My guess – the journalizmist just got it wrong.
I don’t know how it works in real estate, but in jointly owned patents, it’s a bit of a free-for-all (at least in the US… Europe is different) . You want to encumber it? Nothing the other guy can do about it. Needless to say, we try to avoid such situations.
British journalist whining about the scourge of so-called “McMansions” (a loaded value judgment term if ever there was one). I’d bet on the writer getting it wrong.
I looked at the neighborhoods around there. I think the “McMansions” quip is the only part of the article that I DON’T think feels off. The rest of it is very poorly explained.
I could describe for you the culture, feelings and decisions that originally got them started down this terrible joint-tenancy path. I frankly have a lot of sympathy for those feelings, but the outcome is pretty much always ruin. But you’d all tell me I’m a racist for understanding it.
Joint tenancy is distinct from tenancy in common. The rabbit hole, for those interested:
https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/joint-tenancy-vs-tenants-in-common
Without going down that rabbit hole (since I’m supposed to be working AND cooking now), I happily concede on the terminology.
Whatever it is, in cases like this it was done for deeply emotional reasons generations ago, but it doesn’t work. A few days ago one of these threads had something like “if I won the lottery…”. Well, one of my answers has always been trying to do title resolution on things like this. It’s totally Quixotic and would fail. But somebody has to try.
1L PTSD intensifies…
Aside, my property professor used to give us exams that were were T/F with the optional choice to explain your reasoning for more points with the caveat that if your reasoning was wrong you got points deducted in addition to getting the T/F part wrong even if you were right.
It says the developer bought up 49 percent of the farm. It doesn’t take a majority to force a sale?
They also say that 4.1 acres is 15% of 40.1 acres, so let’s just take it all with a grain of salt.
Eh, sounds like they’re all about to get PAID, not a terrible result whatever the plan might have been.
Property law is complicated enough without it being interpreted by a journalist.
They explained it poorly. I presume Alabama has a law allowing a tenant in common to force the sale of the entire parcel when they can’t realize value from their fractional ownership. There doesn’t seem to be anything more than that happening.
Not sure how it works in Alabama, but my wife has some land in a similar arrangement in Europe. A developer wants to buy the land and if they get the agreement of 50% of the shares the sale goes through.
“As one witness put it, ‘for me, it was like another day typically in New York. That’s what I’m used to seeing. I wasn’t really looking at it if I was going to be threatened or anything to that nature, but it was a little different because, you know, you don’t really hear anybody saying anything like that.'”
That’s the prosecutor’s case?
It’s so bad some people didn’t even mind the threats that much! I guess a new Yorker doesn’t count as a reasonable person.
The prosecution’s case seems to be
(A) This happens all the time in NYC, but that’s OK because:
(B) Nobody ever gets hurt.
You would think their case would fall down on (B).
This could well end up with a hung jury, and more process punishment at a minimum. I have a hard time seeing NYCers, so many of whom appear to be broken people, actually acquitting him outright.
Probably not, at the same time, it sounds like plenty see this stuff as a problem and wouldn’t vote to convict, so there is that.
a new Yorker doesn’t count as a reasonable person
See Woody Allen references above.
Joe Biden Faces a Deep State Revolt
I was unaware the signatories were anonyomous. Stunning and brave. I'm sure the number has also be verified.
Sir Robin bravely ran away.
https://youtu.be/BZwuTo7zKM8
“The signatories are bravely anonymous.”
Haywood Jablomie? Like that?
Thor Buttucks
Keith Mybut
Curtis Interruptis
Heywood is living a decent life in Fargo and would never do something as shameful as working for the FedGov.
Love the conflation of
with the demand that Israel unilaterally stand down when Hamas has explicitly said they’ll just be reloading if it happens.
I don’t want the US drawn into another costly and senseless war (anywhere). I also think Israel is more than capable of dealing with it on its own and we should stay out of it other than stating we think they’re right (and kicking out the UN) to give them diplomatic support. Funny how that’s a possibility, hmm?
‘we should stay out of it other than stating we think they’re right ‘
You should feel free to say that, I don’t see why our government should. We don’t have any particular treaty with Israel, they’re not an ally, however much I might sympathize with their cause.
Meh… on some level you’re right. But honestly, as part of foreign policy our government should have positions. And calling out support for a friendly nation against a regime that’s explicitly said they want to wipe them out and who just raped and murdered a bunch of civilians doesn’t seem too much to ask of them.
Have to give the State Department a little bit of work, after all.
Are they friendly?
They’re certainly happy to accidentally bomb our Navy, take our money and get us into all sorts of trouble.
That’s the kind of ‘friend’ that’s not really on your side.
Still cool with us vetoing anything dumb coming out of the UN… But I am skeptical that the Israelis see us as anything more than a cash cow.
Israel is a vassal state of the US. Friendly has nothing to do with it. The US uses Israel as a base to project force in the Middle East.
It’s the same situation with South Korea and Japan for projecting force in Asia.
SSD – yes. Can we get out of there too?
Also does Germany count?
And Israel as as useful an ally as Ukraine: zero bases, zero times assisting in conflicts, and frequently partnering with states that the US dubs “bad guys”.
Japan and South Korea have American bases, have assisted the US in conflicts, and break relations with the “bad guys”. Japan has no beef with Russia, but they’re sanctioning them along with us. Israel is doing no such thing.
I don’t think the comparison works
They are a different kind of vassal. We pump Israel full of weapons and keep them on leash. Do you think the State Dept wants peace in the Middle East? The constant war is the desired state and they launder money through weapon sales to Israel (similar to Ukraine). If shit ever really popped off though, our military would have unconditional use of Israel to project force from. Same as Japan and South Korea. And yes, Germany.
Likely a variety of the Hamas sympathizers who are staging protests in U.S. cities these days pretending to be principled noninterventionists who want to avoid foreign entanglements.
I have a letter with eleventy-million anonymous signatories demanding that the Biden administration collectively poop rainbows.
Little America Firsters?
I know it sounds crazy but how about the US does not get drawn into it AND does not lecture Israel on how to conduct it.
I support your ideas and would subscribe to your anonymously signed newsletter.
“In 2019, the FDIC’s No. 2 legal official left a ranting, cursing voicemail for an employee criticizing her work. The federal bank regulator paid that employee a $100,000 settlement because of it, former officials said.”
That’s the typical rules for thee, but not for me in FedGov.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/fdic-chairman-martin-gruenberg-workplace-harassment-5cae85bc?st=flcphr4ydlejrd1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Oh no, not a sharply worded letter.
“The prosecutor investigating why classified documents ended up at President Biden’s home and former office is preparing a report that is expected to be sharply critical of how he and his longtime aides handled the material, but the probe isn’t likely to result in a criminal case, according to people familiar with the matter.”
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/biden-expected-to-face-harsh-criticism-in-classified-document-probe-39c3c27f?st=tsz8k9fqeqv24sl&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They are probably struggling to find the hairs they can split to let Biden off the hook while prosecuting Trump.
I’ve no doubt your profession will find just such a hair.
They’ll invent one, if needed.
They willingly gave them up; he didn’t know they were there; Trump had nuclear secrets; Biden’s not compromised by the Russians; etc-take your pick.
Technically, they can’t bring charges – at least while he is in office. That would be the House’s job.
Completely OT — but was watching Captain America: Civil War for the first time in a while last night (so sue me… I think Winter Soldier and Civil War are oddly enough the most “Stand for what you think is right even if the government/world is against you” films certainly in the MCU and frankly in most of modern cinema in a while… which makes them refreshing…). It hit me (and yes, should have seen it right off) that it wasn’t an excuse to load an Avengers plot line into the Cap and Bucky storyline — Bucky’s history and what he did under Hydra’s control to Tony’s parents speak directly to the theme in ways I didn’t appreciate on earlier watches.
Bucky is a pawn of Hydra, he has no choice (being brainwashed) — but he must live with the consequences (Tony’s “I don’t care — he killed my mom!” drives this home a bit…. even he in that moment recognizes there’s some validity to Bucky being the weapon, not the murderer… but Bucky is there and Hydra is not).
This is exactly the argument Steve made against signing the Sokovia Accords. Those who signed, who gave up their ability to choose to an arbitrary UN “panel” would then be told where to go, what to do and where they could not go. While they wouldn’t be brainwashed, the coercion / force Ross implies would be coming otherwise effectively would enslave them just as much.
Which of course directly parallels the draft and the questions of morality there. The stakes are lower when you aren’t talking “walking tactical nukes”, and there may be times when the community is legitimately at stake — but is it right for the mob to enslave someone for their own protection? A much younger me likely would have said “Yes” without thinking much about it… older me is inherently repelled by the idea.
So sorry for the OT ramblings — but thought it was at least mildly interesting for this crowd. Plus I think I can safely say y’all have been a bad influence on me, apparently! 😉
Speaking of movies, I saw a couple recently:
The Voices, Ryan Reynolds and Anna Kendrick. Amazon calls it a “dark comedy”, and it is that (*really* dark) but it’s also a window into how a schizophrenic might see themselves and the world around them, with enough comedy to save it from being just depressing. Be sure to stick around for the closing credits.
Cold Pursuit, Liam Neeson. I put this on to avoid another night of Christmas movies, expecting a brainless revenge piece like so many of Neeson’s movies. It turned out to be a dark comedy of the Coen Brothers variety, and I rather enjoyed it.
Yeah, I actually enjoyed The Voices as well. Not something I’m going to watch a lot (being pretty dark), but pretty good for what it is.
I’ll keep an eye out for Cold Pursuit… thanks for the recommendation.
On Cold Pursuit, from IMDB:
“Trivia
In early 2017, the film was refused a permit to shoot in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. The explanation given was that Parks Canada objected to the antagonist of the film being an aboriginal Canadian. Even the actor playing the role, popular aboriginal Canadian Tom Jackson, could not sway the government agency’s opinion, and the production was moved out of the park.”
There’s a reason the Captain America series is generally considered the best in the MCU.
the best in the MCU
Tallest midget?
you cant say midget
The First Avenger was a solid WW2 action film, Winter Soldier was a really good modern spy/conspiracy story, Civil War was amazing for bringing conflict between the characters that (for the most part) makes a lot of sense. Hell, I’ve even said that Falcon and Winter Soldier has been my favorite of the Disney+ MCU shows (with the exception of one really ham handed scene).
I always have to laugh to myself when Tony recruits Spider-Man, though.
Steve Rogers: “If I see a situation going south, I have to step in. I sometimes wish I didn’t, but I do.” (“No you don’t.”… “No…. I don’t.”)
Peter Parker: “When people have these abilities, and they don’t use them — and the bad things happen. That’s on them.”
Which of course is why Peter should be fighting on Cap’s side (and if he wasn’t 15 and just starting out and starstruck by Iron Man I suspect he would have been, like in the comics where he waffled and then eventually flipped… but the comics were more ludicrous with the crap the “Submit!” side was pulling). I like to think that it was in the back of Tony’s brain and why he flipped so quickly once he realized Steve was right about Zemo (when the body was found in Berlin), but who knows… Sure would have been nice to consider flipping before destroying millions of marks of airport in a stupid battle and almost getting his best friend killed because Vision can’t control himself around Wanda, though…
Yeah. It makes sense why Spidey would throw in with his idol (who also gave him a huge suit upgrade from the sweatsuit he was wearing before). I’m glad they didn’t go to the ludicrous levels of the comics (I mean… putting Osborne in charge of… well… ANYTHING).
I was surprised at the establishment theme of that movie. Having popular characters who would rather go home or even sit in a cell rather than submit to globalists was pretty surprising.
Yup.. hence, refreshing. 😉 Winter Soldier was less surprising because it could easily be seen as pushback against the Patriot Act, War on Terror, etc. bullshit (albeit a few years behind the curve… but, Hollywood)… still good, but not as surprising of a stand at that point.
“Bucky is a pawn of Hydra, he has no choice (being brainwashed) — but he must live with the consequences”
Sounds similar to the Garibaldi character line in Season 4 of B5.
Similar, but Bucky was kept in stasis except when he was brought out and sent on a mission. So he didn’t have the time to poison relationships with his friends. There was also more than one “Winter Soldier”.
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A. The closer Israel gets to accomplishing their goal the more gnashing of teeth and louder the calls for them to let up will be.
Fuck em. Time for talking and pausing is over. They should have thought of that before Oct 7
B.The state desperately wants the citizenry unable or unwilling to defend themselves. In case anyone is wondering that is a clue.
C. Sick of hearing the state bleating about needing more more more more. If it were up to me the lot of them would be giving $5 blowjobs in back alleys for cigarette money.
D. ‘Pretendian’. I love that. This is what happens when special privileges are created. Have E. Warren weighed in on this yet?
E. In Louisiana undivided ownership is resolved through a partition sale. Land is put up for auction and the largest stakeholder wins because they are essentially paying themselves.
F. If only someone would write a novel warning about the creation of monsters and how they tend to get out of control.
G. This doddering dunce makes Jimmy Carter look like George Washington.
H. Texas aint the only one. I wonder what that means.
Property law is a distant memory, but I do recall that Louisiana is an outlier in American jurisprudence, as it is a “Code” state, meaning that the roots of its laws go back to the Napoleonic Code/European jurisprudence, while the other states are “Common Law”, meaning their roots go back to English common law.
Now, as a practical matter, the common law (law based on judicial decisions) has largely been replaced by statute just about everywhere, with courts now mostly in the business of applying statutes and much less in the business of creating/evolving common law judicial cases.
So, I wouldn’t be surprised if tenancy in common works differently in Louisiana than elsewhere, but I really don’t know.
Buffy Saint-Marie: So what, swarthy Italian?
French Canadian?
Blocked and Reported just covered this. She was born in Massachusetts.
Yeah, but with that last name, and trying to tie herself to a Canadian reservation, I am going with parents from Canada of French extraction. Then again, maybe being a Canadian Indian is the liberal female version of the ‘girlfriend who lives in Canada’.
Canadian-Indian or Canadian First People?
Canadian South Asian?
Feather not dot.
Not even close.
Johnny, tell Stinky what he’s won!
‘The president is expected to sign the bill, which will fund the government through early next year to buy time for spending negotiations.’
Authorizing more spending is already a capitulation. I can guess how the ‘negotiations’ will go. The Democrats will tell the Republicans how much money to spend, and then they’ll add a few billion on top for their pet projects.
“Because of bipartisan cooperation, we are keeping the government open without any poison pills or harmful cuts to vital programs — a great outcome for the American people,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said before the vote.
No harmful cuts to vital programs. That’s what we like to hear.
Of course, also no beneficial cuts to bad programs, either.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12756355/Joan-Naydich-Brendan-Depa-florida-teacher-beaten.html
How is this teacher/teacher’s aide on UNPAID leave? It seems to me that if a teachers union ever does any good, it would be to support this teacher financially.
I get that she is trying to get worker’s comp, but why shpuld that put her on unpaid leave? Is it retaliation for not quietly taking a beating?
was she a member of the union?
She’s an aide. Maybe non-union and/or third party provider.
They don’t want you to know that the moon is actually made of bone
https://twitter.com/goth600/status/1725093636071694418
A little girl teaches her puppy to use a slide.
https://twitter.com/Yoda4ever/status/1724964250555470094
That’s a ray of sunshine.
Related
An old retarded friend: The suicide of a gender non-conforming GOP mayor reveals the incoherence of the right’s culture wars
The article continues to blame Libs of Tik Tok, who has never posted anything about this guy.
It’s a rather insane article, especially since I think his predatory behavior with children online was a bigger scandal than “that guy wears lady clothes”. Just like we can excuse any crime committed with our money abroad, so long as our side waves the pride flag or has a transgender spokesperson, we’re quickly approaching the point where pedophilia will be excused with the right alphabet soup reference.
‘approaching’?
Sounds like that’s what they are doing, and have been doing.
I hadn’t heard about the pedo shit, just that he wrote fantasies about killing one of his constituents and assuming her identity. Also I think he uploaded other people’s photos to porn sites without their consent.
Otherwise, sounds like a nice enough guy.
Now let’s see them excuse a Catholic priest-pedophile.
That’s Pope Francis’ job. See Cupich, McElroy, McCarrick, etc. And the media defended them when former nuncio Vigano accused the Pope of promoting men who were intricate in covering up McCarrick’s crimes. Remember, Cupich, McElroy, and McCarrick were and are extremely fashionable among people who hate Christians. They are soft on abortion, gay marriage, and McElroy even demanded that bishops release a statement insisting on further funding of the Ukraine War (morally bankrupt).
I would say excusing away pedophilia for gay marriage and abortion started in the church.
The funniest part is that the courts dropped all charges against McCarrick because of his poor mental state and age. Bullshit. This from the same courts that have gladly executed mentally challenged people.
I saw at least one headline that called the publishing of the crossdressing pics “inhumane” as outing someone. I seem to recall quite a few left leaning media sources gleefully pulling people out of the closet against their wishes.
What is most important isn’t what happens to the person, it is how the Narrative is served.
Also when you start posting things online, you are out.
The fact that both parties have people who need mental help is no surprise. Power attracts psychotics.
Democrats can’t understand why Republicans don’t go to the mats over their corrupt, disgusting politicians? Must be because they hate gays.
Lee Kuan Yew visits London just after the War and remarks on the high level of social trust – and vows to bring it to Singapore
https://twitter.com/kunley_drukpa/status/1724819969534304657
Video shows the moment Antony Blinken winces after Biden calls China’s Xi a dictator, upending months of careful diplomacy
TW – Business Insider w/no Blodget.
https://www.businessinsider.com/watch-blinken-wince-biden-calls-xi-dictator-apec-meeting-china-2023-11
While I find Blinken to be the kind of typical neo-cons globalist I despise, hard not to sympathize. Imagine spending weeks setting up a diplomatic agreement then watching a doddering old fool destroy it in seconds by going off script in a dementia rage.
Thankfully [I guess?] the Deep State is mostly on autopilot.
I have no trouble at all not sympathizing with Blinken. Or Biden. Or any of them, really.
I’m actually feeling a little warmer towards Uncle Joe this morning. It’s the kind of stunt I would pull if I were in the office. Invite Xi here with all the commiefornia fanfare, then put the screws to him.
Tonight, he will feel the plastic pull away and he will take his first breath. Naked, staggering into the world and covered with amniotic fluid. But why so old?
“Joe. Your name is Joe.” The man in the doctor’s coat says.
He/Joe watches as a withered corpse is dropped into a bloody woodchipper. Why did that corpse look so familiar?
“Do what we say, or you’ll be next.” The doctor stated. His voice was flat like he had said that a hundred times…
You seem to be channeling SugarFree. ::shudders::
Yesterday, my appeal to upgrade my discharge from the Army from general to honorable was rejected. The reason? I neglected to sign the block which was mislabeled. All this 2+ years after I started the process and wrote to my congress critter for help. Oh well. At least they didn’t reject it on Veterans Day.
Thank you for your fucking service.
One of the perks of working for NSA is that you find out what really happened on 9/11. If the American people knew the truth, they sure as hell wouldn’t be shelling out for new stealth bombers. An angry mob would burn down the Pentagon and lynch every general and admiral they could get their hands on.
If the American people knew the truth
Isn’t that how most conspiracy theories go?
A whole bunch of Saudi nationals committed the attack, so we had to invade Afghanistan, and then Iraq. Everyone knows this, but almost no one questions it.
There’s more to it than that.
You’re violating your NDA even hinting at that. If you’re going to go, go big.
On FBI visit this year was enough.
You’re saying you signed a NDA upon joining the NSA that allows you to say the official narrative of 9/11 is an infuriating lie that utterly implicates the DoD in malfeasance, but you go to jail if you give any specifics?
Seems like a curiously loose NDA.
What it’s like to be me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3poKUuvtyM
I remember the NSA guys I worked with that used to say they wished it was like that.
Thanks to the proliferation of smartphones, NSA doesn’t need white surveillance vans anymore.
Public service is his life
DeSantis is currently in his second and final term as governor. He can’t run again because Florida has term limits.
“I think that’s part of the reason why he did run,” Fine explained. “He wanted to run for president as the governor of Florida and not as the former governor of Florida.”
DeSantis has already served as a member of Congress and Fine said a U.S. Senate bid is a longshot.
“I mean, Rick Scott is our senator,” he said. “Marco Rubio is our senator. I don’t see either of them going anywhere. And so there’s no kind of obvious off ramp for him to go when his term as governor is finished.”
Leave politics and get a real job? That would be a tragedy.
The private sector?
Please. He could go take Nikki Haley’s seat on the Boeing board, or work for some other MIC supplier.
And look how that’s boosted Nikki’s political future!
Nikki is the worst.
50/50 she’s Trump’s vp nominee.
Is that a career enhancing move?
Aryeh Kontorovich
@aryehazan
I used to be a libertarian but now am not. I still very much like freedom. What’s changed? I’ve gained the following insight: Individual freedom within a group is contingent upon careful vetting of new members.
https://twitter.com/aryehazan/status/1724854144840691843
I mean, he’s not wrong. History is proving this out, whether your members are new adults or immigrants it still holds.
Yep, the conceit of this being universal and not very specific to a culture and legal tradition, that’s that Enlightenment idealism.
I am pleased to hear that these upstanding gentlemen have been freed without bail to go forth and
commit more violent feloniesturn their lives around.I expect both of them will fall down the stairs shortly. And nobody will be around to see it.
That’s got to be a real motivator for the police.
The “no bail” fad is killing departments everywhere it goes into effect.
Wasn’t someone saying yesterday that they expected the book to be thrown at the culprits?
Guess we know how bad it’s getting in NY now, even the kings men aren’t safe.
*raises hand*
I remember when “no bail” was just for property crimes and non-violent crimes.
Now it’s for assault, and not just any assault, assault of a cop.
Well, when NYCers have had enough, I guess they can stop it.
All I can think is how bad it got before the pendulum swung back in favor of the law-abiding. Like, 70s and 80s bad.
Like David Dinkins bad.
Speaking of fake Injuns, I learned that Jimi Hendrix’s estate donated stage costumes to the National Museum of the American Indian because he claimed his grandmother was 1/4 Cherokee or something. I’d love for Henry Louis Gates Jr. to do a Finding Your Roots episode on that!*
*HLG debunks a lot of fake native American claims on his show, especially among black folks
But I do wonder how many Mandan Sioux have African ancestry because apparently they really loved Louis & Clark’s slave that came with them on their journey
Are you saying that A Boy Named Sioux was a real person?
York had his fun, I’m sure. But there were 40 other guys competing for the loose Mandan and Hidatsa chicks. There are still some red-haired, blue eyed Nez Perce who claim descent from William Clark. And by “loose” I recall that it was a custom for tribesmen (in some tribes) to give their wives and daughters to important visitors thereby gaining the strength and wisdom and “magic” such visitors possessed.
WTF is it with the Cherokee – these must be the most fertile people on Earth, especially given how they were persecuted and then decimated during the relocation Trail of Tears. Now everybody is at least 1/8 Cherokee.
My great-great grandfather c is missing from family records. He was apparently the blacksheep of the family. His 2nd wife is in the records however.
From piecing together comments from my grandfather and from research from my aunt, my head canon has always been:
Guy “marries” Indian (Cherokee?, hence my comment being placed here), has kids, divorce/death, marries white chick, he “dies”, she raises kids as her own. Scare quotes because you can think of other possibilities. Second wife is accepted as part of family in way their own son wasnt.
Anyway, gene testing says the story is BS, I am 0% cherokee. I am about 1% sub-saharan african, so that opens up other possibilities.
I remember when I moved to Memphis and every southern white person claimed some sort of Cherokee ancestor. I commented that those drops along the trail weren’t tears, but drops of cum given how much fucking those indians were doing.
Growing up next to a rez, it was utterly perplexing to me that anyone would voluntarily admit to indian ancestors. (This was pre-casino times).
I am 0% American Indian (any tribe). It’s all Germano-Celtic blend (Northwest Europe, British Isles). Surprisingly I don’t recall even having had any Scandinavian, and those guys were a bit rapey throughout the Isles.
So your great-great-great-gramma was either ugly or fast?
But he also welcomes whites folks with a drop of black blood to “the brotherhood.” Never heard him proclaim a 25% white blood Black guest to the “supremacy” however.
Dave Smith had a debate with Laura Loomer about the Israeli- Palestinian conflict on Zerohedge last night. It was pretty good and Loomer is somehow less insane than your average Ben Shapiro conservative when it comes to American foreign policy.
She’s shrill and Smith beat her like she owed him money.
Agreed. I was trying to be polite
I mostly like Dave Smith, but he seems to believe in a New Soviet Man world when it comes to wars. The New Soviet Man being a society where no one wants fight and everyone abhors war.
Somehow he thinks that we won’t be tribal. And our entire history of warring between tribes can be wished away.
If all else fails
The ECRA also raised the bar for objecting to electoral ballots. Instead of needing just one representative and one senator in each house, the law now requires one-fifth of each house to sign on, or 20 senators and 87 representatives. It’s not hard to imagine that many Democrats’ being willing to do so if we reach the end of 2024 without a firm answer one way or another. The House and the Senate would then split off to debate the question for two hours, then hold a vote. If a majority of both houses agreed to the objection, it would stand, and those votes would be set aside. That process would then, in theory, be repeated for however many states’ electors voted for Trump.
Bear in mind that this would be taking place in a world where Trump has won not only the GOP nomination but also the general election. While many of the pending cases may hope to reach the Supreme Court for a ruling ahead of the election, it’s possible that the conservative justices would also punt while citing the “political question” doctrine. If that’s the case, it’s difficult to see this as not being one of the biggest questions for members of Congress on the campaign trail leading up to 2024: “Will you vote to disqualify Donald Trump on Jan. 6?”
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And yet, in a very real sense, it can’t be ignored that disqualifying Trump this way would be Congress’ doing exactly what Trump has, in his projection, accused Democrats of doing: trying to reverse the results of an election. The fact that Trump was most likely never eligible wouldn’t matter. The Republican Party, in allowing him to run and making him its nominee, will have known this was a possibility but will still support his cries that the whole system is rigged. And if we are forced to spend the next 14 months in suspense, it will only increase the chances that, when faced with this monumental decision, Congress will falter.
To be sure, overturning the results of a free and fair election may very well be suboptimal, but if that is what will be required to save democracy, then that is what must be done.
Why not just have the CIA croak him? It will save a lot of pointless destruction, in the long and short run.
If RFKjr pulls 15% or so of the popular vote, then neither Trump nor Biden will win a popular vote majority but one of them will win the EC. If it’s Biden, you can bet the Democrats will STFU about the popular vote.
I’d give it about 15 minutes past inauguration. Some new threat to mob rule will emerge.
Its basically a Perot 1992 situation, he pulled 19%. Clinton won with about 42%. Bush didnt break 40, IIRC.
Exact numbers:
Clinton 43.01%
Bush 37.45%
Perot 18.91%
Marrou 0.28% — lowpoint for LP?
Other 0.36%
Perot finished 2nd in Maine and Utah.
Bo Gritz got 0.1% nationwide, but 3.8% in Utah.
For those who forget, Perot was so obnoxious that GM paid him a couple of billion dollars to go away and leave them alone. I think it was more than they paid for EDS in the first place, but it has been a long time and memories fade.
I did some work (contract basis, not as an employee) for Perot Systems before they were bought out by Dell. it was founded shortly after EDS was sold.
An RFK/Perot situation just emphasized the need for ranked choice voting.
Of course, using 1992 as an example, Perot gets way more than 19% if you don’t have to worry about “throwing away your vote”.
And, yes, I know, before you reply, that ranked choice can be gamed also. But less so.
RCV may make sense for a single office. The problem is it doesn’t do anything for legislative bodies, which will always have a majority and a minority.
For Senate, I favor returning the vote back to state legislature.
For House, I favor single transferrable vote to elect Reps. No districts means no gerrymandering. It might be crazy for CA, but thats okay, CA should be electing crazies. You would need less than 2% of the vote to be a Rep from CA. Even the LP could pull that off.
Yeah, the irony is the district-based system benefits the party that gets elected from low-turnout districts. CA has a bunch of those and they tend to stay in one column, election after election. I’m sure this is true elsewhere.
Mr president we surely cannot get a better 2024 slogan than this
https://twitter.com/__femb0t/status/1725150421109412159
I mean, that’s an accurate statement. I would also go Peron or Franco over Hitler.
Biden calls China’s Xi a dictator
Envy is not a good look, Joe.
Sanjuan | Spring Summer 2024 | Full Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYyIwM6-zeQ
One of the most fascinating aspects of the Woke Era is the radicalization of affluent white female liberals
https://twitter.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/1724995936458350745
Those are the woke people. Your average wokester is a childless, typically property-less, college educated, well paid, single white woman.
And it makes sense why they fixate on the education of children and the like, despite them having none. No matter what we tell ourselves, nature is eternal. A woman in her 30s, without children, is going to subconsciously realize that something is missing. While their schooling has taught them anti-natalism, nature tells them otherwise. They are naturally drawn to other people’s children because they have none. All they are going to show for their lives when they die alone is some ridiculous spreadsheet job. These are empty people. All they have is this bizarre rich man faith that they were taught in college.
TLDR: Show me a woke white woman and I’ll show you a woman with an empty life
Apparently they also want to be hijab’d, barefoot and pregnant given crap like this.
I’m sure a lot of the “suspiciously similar scripts” are effectively paid actors, but sheesh…. the CCP wouldn’t put it out there if it wasn’t working.
Or some schmuck trying to get in her panties.
A helpful Jedi mind trick to remember – These aren’t the panties you are looking for.
I don’t even know how young men can date in this world outside of closed gardens like a church. Any woman you’d meet on the street or in a bar could end up a raving psychopath who accuses you of rape for saying hello, or stalks you for years and calls you the devil. No wonder the birth rate is plummeting.
Meanwhile, it seems that every young (relative to me) woman at my church has 4 kids.
I notice a stark difference in amount of children among my religious (3+ children) and non-religious friends (1- children).
Yup, we’re an outlier with only 2
We are a strong outlier with only 1.
I was trying once to figure out what percent of kids the church has to “retain” to grow internally.
Its actually a smallish problem, because church attendance dynamics are so weird. Any kind of change can cause a significant fraction of the membership to move away. Sometimes its almost unnoticeable because the influx from the change is large enough to balance it out.
Example, when my church in Bowling Green, KY went from renting the seventh day adventist building to owning our own building, the effect after a few months was slightly positive on attendance. But about 50% of the people were different. We got a lot from the neighborhood we moved into, but lost a lot of others too. There was a “core” group that stayed the same, but there was a lot of turnover too from the change. And some of the new people quickly became part of the core.
When we are back and visit, there is that same core, both from pre-building and post, and then a lot of new faces. Some of that is natural turnover, but some is due to other changes (the pastor changed just before we left town, for example).
You want a smart woman, but she shouldn’t be corrupted by college. It’s tough.
I think the major and the school gives away a lot
The answer is a college-educated woman from Eastern Europe.
Yup. Also, there are all sorts of ‘warning signs’ you might look for. Usually they’re pretty upfront about their ideology because most can’t conceive that anyone would disagree (besides literally Hitler).
You left off “and a confirmed zealous Democrat Party voter.”
Not a lotta grip
I thought it was going to be a link about Winston’s Mom.
Well the dressing is in the oven so I’m back with one more definitely-spitballing-it comment on the Alabama property thing.
The (bad) article shows a snapshot of an evidently-never-filed plat cut into 10 parcels. But the Lee County property map shows the whole 40.7 as one piece, so I’m guessing the planned parcels were never really done. I didn’t try to zoom in for details or anything, but I’d bet you a Coke that grandpa tried to do the pretty-much-right thing and actually parcel it out into 10 equal spots, but didn’t actually get the will changed and/or any retitling done so it still passed into the tenancy-in-common thing.
Well pseudo back to the office has arrived. Three days in mandatory (Mon-Wed) and plus two preferred… It’s actually worse than pre-Covid. It is actually nice to see and hang out w/ some of my co workers and hit some of the old lunch spots. It seems like a lot of ceos are reading a lot of the same ceo magazine articles.
Working remote is great… for me. However, if I was a youngster starting out, it would totally suck.
There really isn’t any substitute for being in the office and shadowing more experienced people to learn how to really be good at your job. At least in my field of software development.
As a green bean, you can watch the successful devs and see how much they work, how they work and other stuff that you can’t see when everyone is remote.
Since I already know all that stuff, remote work is fine by me. I think our team would be better off if the green beans were in the same physical space for some amount of time. They could do with some learning by example.
I also think remote work environments lead to more meetings.
The first factor is that the people who love going to meetings in the first place, don’t feel as satisfied with video meetings so they schedule more to make up for it. The second factor is that people who hate meetings don’t push back as hard because they can turn off their camera and mute their mic and work while half listening.
If everyone had to go back to physically going to a meeting room, there would be a lot less meetings. Probably mostly because the non-meeting people would mutiny.
Oh, I totally agree. I do it infrastructure (sysad, dba, storage) for a statewide health care org, so we have people spread out all over the place, but I think it would have been difficult even with a lot of previous experience to come in cold and figure everything out w/o a fair amount of seat time with someone else.
It’s just a pain after 3.5 years of working remote. That includes spending a month at the parents here , a month at the beach there, a week in the mountains, etc. That’s a bit of a luxury but it sure was nice and is pretty much impossible under the new in the office regime. Immediately pre-Covid we were 2 days in the office and it was pretty flexible, our boss wanted at least one person per functional team in the office so other teams / helpdesk could grab a body if needed and we were moving to a true hoteling setup.
Agree. I love the freedom to change where my “remote” is. I have done working vacations to South Carlina for almost two months. Just got back from a month in Japan and Korea.
But a lot of strange institutional knowledge never gets transmitted when everyone is remote.
I also miss the stupid fun things that happen when people are working in an office together. From my “King of the Hackers” crown I made when I found an insanely huge flaw in the way one of our clients handled check payments, to another friend creating an “additional brain” out of a styrofoam box and wearing it at his computer when he was deep into coding and didn’t want to be bothered, and a coworker who literally had a wooden soap box in his cube and would actually stand on it when he was pontificating.
Another of my “trade marks” in the office was to leave orange peels like this on coworkers desks. Not that they would be offended, but in hopes it would get them in trouble with one of their neighbors in the cubes.
Ouch. How did you do with the large time difference?
It wasn’t too bad. I was 14+ hours ahead of my usual time. So I would work from 10 to midnight or 1 to overlap with colleagues. Then I would fill in the rest of the time during the day.
It was awesome getting 6 or so hours of uninterrupted coding time. No meetings, no emergencies.
I’m working on a proposal to move back to Japan for a year. This time no overlap on a daily basis. I’m trying to pitch that I’d be a “special projects”/Night Operations guy. The alternative? I
quitretire.When kei cars attack!
Car rams barricade near Israel embassy in Tokyo, driver detained
https://nypost.com/2023/11/16/news/car-rams-barricade-near-israel-embassy-in-tokyo-man-detained/
Asian drivers, what can you do?
Completely unexpected
A man died after being stabbed outside the Golden 1 Center in downtown Sacramento, police said Tuesday evening, and a suspect has now been arrested.
The Sacramento County Coroner’s Office has identified the victim as 22-year-old Laronn Derose Wilson II.
Malik Wilson, 23, was identified by authorities as the suspect in the homicide. The Sacramento Police Department said Wednesday night detectives had arrested him at around 5 p.m. near Marconi Avenue and Calderwood Lane after a “relentless” search.
Despite having the same last name, police said there was no familial relation between the suspect and the victim. Police also said both men were experiencing homelessness.
“Experiencing homelessness”
That makes it sound like an adventurous vacation.
It’s a new Outward Bound program.
::ponders pitching “Naked and Afraid: Sacramento” to the Discovery Channel::
actual LOL
Daily Ray of Sunshine
He could be a Glibster, then he wouldn’t be sitting on the porch being lonely.
Hell, I’d take him fishing and hunting but he’d have to learn to sit still and be quiet.
I have everything I need to start trying to make sausages.
I just need to actually get moving. Yet, I sit here in front of the computer doing nothing.
That’s just the wurst.
I never sausage a bad pun!
Sometimes you just have to grind through the trimmings.
Because the puns are all linked together
Will accept both U’s and your puns, but the judges were looking for “I never mett such a brat.”
Yeah, once this video ends, I’m going to get the hardware prepped.
Well, it’s all washed and I got the grinder parts in the fridge to chill.
You’d have to be a wiener to drop the case.
I was going to say “weiner, weiner chicken dinner!” but you stole my pun word
I don’t think we want to see that.
Wild, we were just talking about sausage. Amazon decided that I needed to see food grinders and sausage attachments so we started talking about how grandma had the giant hand cranked food grinder and they used to make their own sausage (and other things, like pimento and cheese).
It has evolved such that when I was younger, mostly hunters made sausage with their venison, rather than everyone.
Sometime about 20 years ago, services making sausage for hunters became common and relatively cheap, so people moved to using that service. Making sausage at home just isn’t that common anymore.
Weird, because we are only a generation removed from everyone having a food grinder mount in the kitchen.
Speaking of Amazon deciding… When I was visiting the son, wife and grandson, I was perusing ESPN soccer news on my phone and I was fed a baby-stuff ad. I wasn’t on the wifi in the house, so Google/Android had me so physically spotted that it matched what stuff was being bought from that location.
I’m not amused. When I’m done with my volunteer fire company, the smart phone is gone.
Yeah…. it was benign commerce when Google had “don’t be evil” as a motto.
Now that “usher in a progressive society by any means necessary” is their new motto, it really takes on a different and more ominous tone.
I’ve apoparently managed to cripple the system which creates those suggestions. I don’t see this kind of behavior. My efforts at avoiding ads and removing unwanted ‘features’ is paying off.
I never knew anyone who made sausages growing up. My reason for starting up is the paucity of options in the market. If I can make my own, I open up far more opportunities.
You should make friends in thr northern Midwest. Up in the Duluth area, my assumption is any sausage I am served at a private residence is some form of venison.
Usually a pork/venison mix… perhaps with beef or chicken… to hide the gamey flavor.
Everyone uses one of the local game processors. Bring them your carcass and they will return wrapped up cuts, sausages, fake bacon… all to order.
You got your hands on a politician?
At the DNC headquarters protest, I notice that police are suddenly empowered to do something.
Meanwhile, if the same mob takes over a main street and blocks traffic, pounding on cars and terrorizing commuters, they do nothing….
Well, they do nothing unless people try to defend themselves or get the mob to move. Then police will happily step forward to arrest you.
I saw a video from the last week or so of a bunch of Palestinian flag waving antifa types blocking roads… they were using cars to form a barricade so nobody could escape. One old man tried to get out to tell them to move and the mob attacked him, trying to pull him out as he retreated to his car, also maybe hitting him with pepper spray. They attacked his car with 2x2s used as flagpoles abs weapons, and he was eventually able to sneak his way through the blockade…. only to be stopped at the next light by blockade of cars parked across the road to block traffic.
The crowd chased him down, and he had to escape the crowd again…. super dangerous for everyone involved.
Why do I bring this up?
This is in the context of prosecutions for self defense, prosecutions of good Samaritans, the New York mayor saying that firing a warning shot to scare off a guy mugging a young lady is dangerous, and people should just let the police do their job…
Which raises the question…. who is stopping the police from doing their job? The guy trying to flee a mob? The guy who grabs a dangerously psychotic guy and calls for police help which doesn’t arrive for over 15 minutes? The guy who scares off a mugger?
Or the mayor, city council, prosecutor who tell the police to let the protesters burn the FBI building without consequence, burn used car lots in Kenosha and try to kill a kid who is protecting the property the police won’t protect.. ..
In this environment, suddenly police are pulling protesters away from the DNC headquarters and arresting them for obstructing the entrance.
That is worth noticing.
We need vigilance commitees again. Do something about the criminals that the other criminals won’t take care of.
Sounds like something an insurrectionist would say
Palestinian protesters have received half of the boot that the state throws at non-Leftist protesters. I saw some vile group harassed some Jewish groups on a college campus and the dean sent out an email about how the college supports free speech and opposes disruptions and intimidation. Literally was never true when anyone to the right of Stalin has shown up on a college campus.
It is amazing to me how many can’t see this.
Greenwald has been all over the reverse side of this…. that some on the right are suddenly going full proggie authoritarian on speech about Israel. But very few on the left have noticed how subjective their side’s commitment to liberty is….. my supposition being that they know full well they only use words to justify their own side and to grab power for their side.
‘my supposition being that they know full well they only use words to justify their own side and to grab power for their side.’
I’ve come to believe this more and more. At least the smarter ones are probably self aware on this point.
Remember when we used to think the media was “biased”? Ah, a simpler time.
The reason why Leftist speech, except Palestinian speech, is acceptable on campus, while anything to the Right is chased off campus, is the same reason why Joe Biden’s son has a better chance of getting into Harvard then some twelve-year old prodigy. Money.
If rich Palestinian donors, instead of rich pro-Israel donors, threatened to withhold money from colleges if pro-Israel protests were allowed, you’d better believe Israelis would get the boot.
The reality stands that if the Rothschilds had backed Palestine in 1900, rather than Israel, their roles would be completely reversed right now.
That’s not to knock Israel or Israelis or Jews or to defend Palestinians or Arabs or their cause. I’m just stating reality that people don’t seem to want to accept.
Another radical anti Semite here, he believes money matters. (Jk)
I always explain it to people like this, the IRA was primarily funded by Americans. Why did the US look the other way while Americans were funding a group that was killing its closest ally the British? Not only that, the president would invite Sinn Fein over on St. Patrick’s Day, a political party closely alligned with the IRA. Because there are a lot of Irish in America that supported the IRA.
There are a lot of people (Christian and Jew) who support Israel. That accounts for a lot of what we do overseas.
“They’re defiling a sacred space!”
Less than 30 seconds after the chokehold started, the train arrived at the Broadway-Lafayette Station, prosecutors said. “Passengers who had felt fearful on account of being trapped on the train were now free to exit the train,” Steinglass said. “The defendant continued holding Mr. Neely around the neck.”
Nobody forced those people to ride on that subway car. Perry should have jumped up and run away. That’s what civilized people do.
‘Nobody forced those people to ride on that subway car.’
… Yet /Democrats
“Do you think congress can make a law requiring you to buy broccoli?”
That the answer to this was not disqualifying was a clear sign of the death of the republic.
If they wanted the cops to show up on the double, they should have called 911 with a report of an unmasked vax denier wearing a MAGA hat.
Umpteen attempts to post. My internet’s gone screwy again for some inexplicable reason.
It’s the FBI clogging the site up again.
Too many foreign posts here. The FBI called in the CIA long ago.
You should post more about 9/11, specifically Tower 3
That was a joke. I believe everything the government has taught me
Meh, according to my former squad leader, my SIGINT work was meaningless, so whatever.
Of course, that guy is a liar, a moron, and a pussy, so choose your own adventure.
I have a lovely post about some recent Army derp, but it the server squirrels are fighting it tooth and nail.
The AI is really good at spotting life-altering prose and deleting it.
I know I have penned the perfect treatise several times only to lose it to the AI squirrels. It can spot divine inspiration a mile away.
I find this song soothing and have been listening to it a lot lately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsocZrEcp0Y
presented without comment
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In the world we live in today, a 30-second video can do a lot of good or bad as soon as it gets to viewers. Unfortunately, the latter was the general public’s reaction to a video posted by the U.S. Army on November 7, 2023.
The video, posted on the social media platform X (Formerly Twitter), went viral for all negative reasons shortly after the account posted it. X users took to the quotes and comment section to express their displeasure at the ad, claiming it wasn’t promoting inclusivity.
The “Anti-Woke” Ad
The advertisement video that sparked public outrage on X was a 30-second ad that was supposed to promote the army in a good light. The ad depicts a group of soldiers jumping from a Chinook helicopter and parachuting to the ground with smiles.
The video also included the captions “Your greatest victories are never achieved alone” and “Be all you can be.”
The Public’s Interpretation of the Ad
On paper, this ad sounds like a regular video to encourage people to join the force. However, that was different from how the public interpreted it. This is because the ad featured predominantly white males, excluding women and people of color.
As the U.S. army does not consist only of white males, it is easy to understand the need for representation across all boards.
The Public’s Outrage
The video went viral on X, with 13.1 million views and counting. In its comments section and quotes, several users were mocking the ad for its lack of diversity.
For example, an X user, Carl Benjamin (@sargon_of_akkad), commented, “Where is the diversity?” along with a confused duck meme. His comment racked up over 176,000 likes and 137 replies agreeing with him.
Racism Came Into Play
Surprisingly, another take on the video was that it was racist towards white people.
An X account (@BIPOCracism) wrote: “Y’all really think you could treat us (White men) like garbage, enforce diversity quotas, put black women in positions of authority because they’re black women, and expect us to look kindly upon you?
The U.S. Army is a trash organization that needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.”
Conservative Activists’ Opinions
According to some conservative activists, this video only “reinforced their anger” at the army and its recruitment process. To them, the recent recruitment videos were insufficiently macho and somewhat degrading.
Many also referenced a previous ad featuring Corporal Emma Malonelord, who talked about how she was “raised by two moms” and had “marched for equality.”
Some People Had Unexpected Reactions
While most people had strong opinions about the video, a select few reacted unexpectedly. They found the video “funny” and an opportunity to share various memes.
A user @JoelWBerry commented, “Don’t fall for it, boys,” with a “Star Wars” meme. Another user commented, “just here for the ratio,” with a laughing emoji suggesting he was only there to enjoy the backlash.
Two People of Color Appeared in the Video
Despite the uproar caused by the video, there were two non-white soldiers present in the ad. However, deliberately or not, the two people of color were barely visible in the ad, so most people didn’t notice.
The primary focus in the video was the white males, and one has to watch the video with great intent to notice the other races in it.
The Negative Impact of the Video
Without a doubt, the video has already done a lot of damage to society. Its comment section is filled with users complaining about the lack of diversity and opting out of enrolling in the army.
A user commented, “It’s too late for this marketing campaign to work,” while another wrote, “We’re not fighting your Zionist wars.”
Media Publications Critisized the Video
The conservative publication “The American Mind” also criticized the video.
A representative of the team wrote: “The U.S. Army’s new recruitment ad is so cynical. After 15 years of relentless progressive brainwashing and doing a literal ‘stand down’ to root out “extremists” (i.e., white conservatives), they are now facing an existential recruiting crisis and must return again to seducing the children of said ‘extremists’ into fighting for their country. A country that no longer exists.”
Army Veterans Also Had Something To Say
Army veterans also had their opinions on the matter. Patrick Fox, a military analyst, and U.S. Air Force veteran, suggested the new ad was a result of the army’s widely reported recruitment problems.
He wrote: “This is the recruiting ad equivalent of the U.S. Army hitting the panic button. They were 25% short of recruiting goal targets this year.”
The Recruitment Problem in the Army
It is not news that the army is facing a considerable recruitment problem. For the past two years and counting, they have fallen short of your recruitment goals due to a shortage of applicants.
In the past year, the army fell 10,000 short of its goal to recruit 65,000 troops after missing out on its target of 60,000 soldiers the previous year by 15,000.
Solutions to the Recruitment Problem
The top officials in the force are aware of this problem and eager to take steps to fix it.
At a press briefing discussing the issue, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said: “It was evident we were going to have to make more transformative changes…The job market has changed significantly over the past 20 years, but we as the Army haven’t changed very much.”
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