Good morning one and all to another wonderful day and to the morning links!
Three American Troops Killed in Attack on Jordan Base Near Syria Border
House Republicans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas on two articles
Trucker Convoy Heading to Border States
Soros Pours Millions Into Texas in Hopes of Turning State Blue
Biden Admin Rolls Out Record-Shattering Border Report in Friday Afternoon News Dump
Mexico ‘increasingly concerned that they’re getting invaded’ by world’s immigrants
Judge in Trump-Carroll Case Was Mentor to E. Jean Carroll’s Lawyer
Trump Lawyer Says ‘Experts Were Denied’ by New York Judge
Haley committing full political suicide
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
What are we doing there in the first place?
The question nobody will ask the administration.
I had no idea we had people in Jordan.
And I strongly suspect just about every country on Earth but China, Russia and Iran at this point. Ludicrous.
Not going to rant again – I still think the best way to handle Iran is to get the price of oil down again (and stop giving them billions on top of it there, PPP).
The current admin, Obama 3.0 has still not given up on their ludicrous belief they can sign a nuclear agreement with Iran, which is why we are where we are today. Iran has the Houthis firing on commercial shipping to drive the cost of oil and insurance up to hurt commerce in the west (as revenge for the sanctions they had imposed on them as well as help Russia and with it’s oil sanctions).
Note that all we need to do is tell the Saudis that we will not give them shit for dealing with these fucks, and the whole thing would grind to a halt quickly.
The Saudis don’t really have any people. They would lose the war of attrition. Their only hope would be that a large scale war results in a collapse of the regime to internal forces.
The Saudis were using special forces and and air campaign quite effectively against the Houthis before they were forced to stop by protests from the Eu and the US…
The Houthis are more of a guerilla war situation. I’m implying a scenario where Iran commits its full conventional might.
The Houthis today can lob missiles into the gulf at will because nobody is bombing them when they try to put together the infrastructure to do so long before they can get there (and more importantly, preventing Iran from shipping them hardware, like the Saudis effectively did for years). I also want to point out that we just let Iran launch a third imaging satellite to help locate targets this past week. You will forgive me if I get the feeling we want this shit to happen.
We got the Iraqis and Iranians to kill each other in huge numbers in the 80’s. I doubt the Iraqis are going to agree to that again.
Is there some reason you think this admin wants to ‘handle’ Iran?
If they were pro-Iran, anti-American what would they do differently?
Not be so blatantly pro-Iran and anti-American?
part of the forever war
There are 195 countries in the world. U.S. troops are stationed in 178 of them. Including Cuba (Guantanamo Bay).
Far too many, but in how many of those countries is the presence just the Marine embassy guards and a military attache?
According to World Population review.com –
about 50 countries with over 100 troops.
about 15 with over 1,000, counting our own.
Curiously, Syria and Iraq say zero and Ukraine and Somalia say 18, but we know that has to be BS.
This must be the website that the DOD gave Trump when he told them to get out of Syria.
FWIW, if it wasn’t the US, it would be some other country.
“I had no idea we had people in Jordan.”
We have people in places you have never heard of doing shit that never hits the propaganda mills.
Provoking Syrians, some of who may like Iran better than Saudi.
I’m not going to be outraged over their deaths. They signed on, they accepted those orders and they served the purpose the political players wanted.
GDIAF
XY#1 is a Georgia Army National Guard E4 and his unit’s out West working up for a 9-mo (?) move to the Middle East in about 5 weeks. None of their leadership can explain any rationale to them (’cause there ain’t one), none of them are going to bail, and none of them are at all crazy about the political players.
Your response is exactly why I never seriously considered signing up.
Hope they stay safe, Pine_Tree. Sincerely wish our government would treat them like the precious commodity their sacrifice represents. (Yes, history shows they never do.. I know. It sucks.)
Sorry, but my response is tell the leadership to fuck right off about going there.
When they are court-martialed for refusing to follow an illegit order, I’ll back them 100%.
What are we doing there in the first place?
Posting public service announcement videos about setting your baseplate.
Oh. You mean about the Middle East? Well, the Military Industrial Complex won’t pay itself just like Bill Clinton’s cock won’t suck itself.
Big Ben, this is the Rubber Duck?
“Pig Pen” man… he was haulin’ hogs (it came up repeatedly… the smell was — daunting.)
My bad.
No worries. Just one of my guilty pleasure songs, so I know it pretty well. 😉
“In defense, Biden claimed his decision was aligned with his policies to “tackle the climate crisis at home and abroad. While MAGA Republicans willfully deny the urgency of the climate crisis, condemning the American people to a dangerous future, my Administration will not be complacent.”
CWAA
I bet the shivvering Europeans will greatly appreciate Biden’s concern for the climate.
That LNG stop the Obama 3.0 admin just put into action was neither to help the climate nor to do anything good, but specifically to cause economic harm to Texas for fucking up the invasion the cabal has been sponsoring to corrupt the voting going forward in their favor.
Feel free to seal your borders there, Mexico. Should be even easier for y’all than us given how much shorter it is down the Central American way and all.
And morning, all — morning, Banjos — hope you and Sloopy had a great anniversary weekend.
That would explain the links sleeping in a little.
Wait… what the flaming pile of dog crap on the lawn of the country?
I’m no Harvard lawyer (or any lawyer) — but that does scream “Conflict of interest, should recuse in the first place”.
With all the kangaroo courts, I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised they’re all working to prop up a Joey.
That’s just nuts.
The judge ruled that Trump could not assert the most basic defense against defamation charges. He ruled that Trump could not assert that he told the truth. He said that they had to start deliberations assuming the defendant was guilty.
So, yeah, a kangaroo trial.
So, the judge has proven so ethically compromished they need to be removed from the bench, disbarred, and blocked from every practicing law in any capacity ever again.
This is not the first or only time the kangaroo courts in team blue strongholds have told team Trump, we say your guilty, so what follows is just a fuck you shitshow. Even the banana republics would do some amount of pretending to actually reach the conclusion the person they wanted to screw over was guilty before the execution.
A potential juror with this kind of conflict would be dismissed in voir dire.
Yeah, this is Fani Willis levels of COI.
“Join Fox News for access to this content”
No.
Ditto the Epoch Times.
The Epoch Times has started putting up billboards in my area. “#1 Trusted News Source!”
That wasn’t paywalled for me.
—“Join Fox News for access to this content”—
This seems to have started around the first of the year. First, it was just a few articles, but then they upped the number of articles that asked for your e-mail. Now it seems to include the “Headline” article. As a site to get an overview of some issues that I would research further, it is useless. Too bad.
As far as the normies go, that many of the popular not left-leaning sites (eg. Fox, Twitter, etc.) are now paywalled isn’t good.
Huh. I would have thought that this is the most libertarian response to something being offered. You need to pay for services, but it seems everyone wants something for free.
There is no money involved. They want your identity.
Correct. If you’re not paying, you’re the product.
Ha I accurately called the Superbowl teams last week.
But did they take your call — and how bad are international rates these days?
you know what I mean
Yeah — but since I don’t know when the Superbowl happens (wasn’t sure if it was this past weekend, in fact) – who’s playing or anything else because I stopped caring about the NFL long, long ago — snark is all I have to give, Pie.
I am with you SDF-7, couldn’t bother to care about the NFL anymore.
But did you accurately predict a QB would catch his own pass?
I was rooting against Taylor Swift, and for the Lions. Oh, well.
That was the only game I’ve watched all year. It was getting more and more difficult to root for the Chefs every time they zoomed to the overrated pop tart.
Kinda glad the Lions didn’t get to the Super Bowl. Car commercials are already awful. Can you imagine how overbearing they would be with Detroit in the Super Bowl? *Cue montage of blue collar workers in hard hats* “you thought Detroit was down. But we’re still here, making trucks for America”. Ugh
Now if you can pick the teams for next years Superbowl, that could get you some money.
Hell, I can’t even pick last year’s teams.
Chiefs vs. Lions.
It seriously looks to me like Haley is playing the GOPe strategy of the lawfare working enough to force Trump out by the convention. Then she’s the “only other candidate still in the race” and they think they can run her, lose politely and go back to tea and crumpets with all the fundraising emails howling about how they just need MOAR MONEY to get around to doing something for their base.
It might even work (assuming they’re fine with the losing part). And Nikki will doubtless be rewarded with a nice board position with Raytheon or something.
She’s just going to hang around until they take out Trump.
I wasn’t planning on it, but I may actually vote in the SC primary. Not because I particularly like Trump – just to vote against her. I want her to lose her home state in a landslide.
What a dishonest cunte.
The Republican party is now so fully a Trump party that when Trump asked them to just get rid of the primaries they obliged. Then when the optics looked bad for trump he went ahead and rejected it. As he’s going to beat Haley anyway.
Trump is completely in control. If he’s in prison for shooting someone in the head, he’s still your Republican candidate.
Yes. Why people keep denying this is beyond me. And unless:
1.) The party completely reforms to a populist party or
2.) He finds a suitable strong (wo)man populist replacement to continue after he’s done
The Republican party will be dead. The Republican party base hates their own party as much as they hate Democrats. The only thing keeping it alive is Orange Man.
“Judge in Trump-Carroll Case Was Mentor to E. Jean Carroll’s Lawyer”
From want I’ve read “mentor” is a bit of a stretch. Anyway, that’s far from the worst thing about that case.
Can I just accuse people of crimes without evidence, then collect a huge check when they say it isn’t true?
If you have the right political affiliation and venue shop properly, I’d have to say “Yes, yes you can” based on the evidence.
I’d like to go on record right now – “I have never met Common Tater. Never.”
We’ll keep a couple of eyes on you and Tater.
Yes, if you cause an 80 year old to lose $18MM in future earnings by doing so.
They worked together so long ago that it is hard to determine if he was a mentor to her or not.
Kind of like Carroll’s accusation.
Trump attorney Alina Habba told the New York Post she was previously unaware that Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan, who presided over the case, worked with Roberta Kaplan, Carroll’s attorney, at the Paul Weiss Rifkin, Wharton & Garrison law firm in the early 1990s.
Even if true, it won’t matter — the whole thing was kangaroo kabuki theater from the get-go, based on a claim so absurd that it wouldn’t have passed the giggle test anywhere but a deep-blue echo chamber like Manhattan.
Well now you’ve put this in my head for the reaction in other venues…. Thanks!
Mornin’, all. Had a long Off-Day yesterday. My brain was not communicating with itself properly. No seizure nor Red Flags thrown. I was just lost. I couldn’t do simple arithmetic. Being awake for your insanity is not comforting. I think being nervous about today started it. I leave for Group in an hour. Last Wed everyone there openly thanked me. Said I was a, even THE, reason they came. Was taken back and deeply moved. Neither happen frequently. Then I go to glorified daycare for work. Then I have CPR and other training. I doubt I’ll learn anything, as I hiiiighly doubt this is actually about learning. The last training sure wasn’t. But it’ll look good. Having requirements is good for me.
My fifty pushup warmup is done. I really should shower. Haven’t in a several days. Today will be rough, and that’s mostly ok. Who ever said Life was supposed to be easy? Eat or be eaten. I am no good for myself being comfy. Sigh. I’m no good for myself. That’s simple enough.
Sorry. I’m quite a chipper person, actually. Perhaps shockingly so. I’m not sure if that’s good for me either. But I know y’all are, no sarc. Kick ass today.
This is a leap year, but why have an extra day in winter when you could have a extra day of summer instead? Please sign my petition to move February 29th to June 31st. There isn’t much time.
https://twitter.com/cjsnowdon/status/1751694207230648423
Oh hell no — I can just imagine how much work that would make for some poor bunch of IT contractors and the hell it would cause when companies that didn’t bother found out the old COBOL mainframe programs didn’t like it. Leave the damned calendar alone.
How stupid do you have to be to not realize that the whole purpose of a leap day is to make sure the seasons don’t drift all over the calendar because the orbit isn’t divided evently by rotations.
But we can have more sunlight by fucking around with the clocks.
No, no we can’t. That travesty needs to die already.
/tard: SCIENCE DENIER!
Did you know milk comes from the grocery store? And would you like to buy a bridge in Brooklyn?
Of course all food and drink comes from the store… Just like electricity comes from the wall socket, you fools!
Leap year sounds tiring. Cab we just leap for 30 minutes a day?
I have advocated for sideral time-based shiftwork so that everyone gets day and night shifts.
Fun fact, if you’re hanging out over the plane of the ecliptic and count the number of Earth rotations in a year, you’ll get 366.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUHkTs-Ipfg
Biologically, we’re coded around a cycle between the times when our spot on the surface points towards the sun, not a fixed 360 degree rotational period. Which means any calendar that doesn’t reflect this is doomed.
Weren’t you the guy that was advocating for everyone to go on Zulu time?
No. I was advocating you all use whatever time I’m in.
Some other nutter wanted GMT.
But those are still days that run noon to noon.
I believe it’s Julian time that’s noon to noon.
I’ve suggested everyone use UTC, but that’s mostly jokingly. (If you have a meeting with people in a bunch of time zones, telling everyone what time it us in UTC and letting them convert to their own time is no worse than having to do all the conversions yourself.)
Yes, that’s the difference between solar days and sidereal days.
Three American Troops Killed in Attack on Jordan Base Near Syria Border
“Better send a couple more billion dollars to Iran. That oughta solve it” – Adults in Charge
Once you pay the Persiangeld…
You need to nuke the mullahs out of existance?
House Republicans plan to impeach President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on two articles in a historic committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday, the Washington Examiner has learned.
The House Homeland Security Committee will take up articles of impeachment for Willful and Systemic Refusal to Comply with the Law and Breach of the Public Trust against Mayorkas, according to the committee.
The Senate will then take the Articles of Impeachment and drown them like a litter of inbred kittens, and nothing else will happen — except the continued stream of
illiterate third-worldersa New Democratic Constituency will continue unabated.Leave Biden alone, yo… Why are we doing the work of those team blue asshats that want to replace the Crypt Keeper for them?
BFD. Even if the House impeaches it’ll be along a party line vote. No Dem in the Senate will vote to convict, and with Mittens around they probably won’t get 100% of the GOP. PPP won’t ask for a resignation because Mayorkas is doing exactly the job he was appointed to do.
Yeah I also think people don’t realize how difficult it is to remove someone. Both parties have to largely ageee they are a problem. Even if one party is a huge minority.
So impeachment is always symbolism. I grow tired of it. It’s just fake
“The jury of seven men and two women, whose members were kept anonymous, awarded Ms. Carroll $18.3 million in compensatory damages, including $11 million for harm to her reputation.”
Her reputation as a total fruitcake?
“She also was awarded $65 million in punitive damages, which she said was needed to stop President Trump from continuing to defame her.”
Good luck with that.
Fortunately she has found a well, she can go back to repeatedly.
That’s not going to stop Trump from “defaming” her.
For those of you looking to upgrade your Apple IIs:
https://www.e-basteln.de/computing/65f02/65f02/
*Picks up lance
*Calls Rocinante
Speaking of Apple IIs, I’ve got a functioning Apple IIe Enhanced w/ duo disk and color display I’d love to re-home. Interested parties can email thecow at [ my screen name ] dot com.
I’m trying really hard to not just send it to recycling, but I really have to start unloading crap that I will never use.
Oh wow. That was my first real computer. I would love to re-home it, but I am eliminating such things and getting ready to transition to a smaller house.
A while ago I found out my mom threw away my Tandy 1000, but kept all the disks. So if anybody wants a DOS 2.11 disk or a stack of Big Blue Disks….
You could inquire about donating it here.
We took our son there for his birthday day. It was a pleasant walk down memory lane. I wish I still had my Atari 800. They only had a 400.
That is a good suggestion, but it looks like maybe they don’t want my IIe:
https://www.computermuseumofamerica.org/donate-artifacts/
I’ll ask anyway, maybe they can suggest other options. I did post it for sale on a Vintage Computer forum, but, so far, crickets.
I don’t understand why they wouldn’t take it. They have a small area with still functioning artifacts. They could put it there.
I asked the TRS-80 if it wanted to play a game. It didn’t. Wrong computer.
One, they’re worth a decent amount on Ebay. If you’d rather not bother, I suppose I can take it. I’ll pass it on to the Dallas Retro computing group. Same goes for any other retrocomputing items.
If you have Texas Instruments Professional Computer related items, I collect them. (Not the TI 99/4a, although I do have one). There’s very little software that survives for those – I’m trying to archive as much as I can.
“Further, Federal District Judge Lewis Kaplan is overseeing the process and has connections to Carroll’s other attorney, Shawn Crowley. She was actually a law clerk for Judge Kaplan, and he officiated her wedding.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/27/15-facts-about-e-jean-carrolls-allegations-against-trump-media-dont-want-you-know/
11. Carroll made a joke associating sex with Bergdorf Goodman in a November 1993 edition of Elle, which was before the alleged Trump attack took place.
That was a new one for me.
Don’t hand me no lines, and keep your
handsindex fingers to yourselfA new study has found that digital rectal examination alone or in combination with a blood test does not improve prostate cancer detection compared to the blood test alone. The findings suggest that digital exams are less effective than thought and could be omitted from prostate cancer screening in men who don’t have clinical signs and symptoms.
The go-to methods for screening and detecting prostate cancer are a digital rectal examination (DRE) and a blood test to measure prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels. PSA is a protein produced by both cancerous and non-cancerous prostate tissue so that elevated levels can indicate either cancer or a benign enlarged prostate. DRE requires no further explanation; it’s often used in combination with PSA as a diagnostic tool.
Any doc who disagrees is obviously a shill for Big Prostate.
🥳
I’m much more comfortable with the idea of blood tests.
How very homophobic
Last time I got a prostate exam, I found it odd the doctor had both his hands on my shoulders.
My doctor only uses the blood test now. I told him that was a win-win situation.
Well, looks like it’s time to start looking towards next year being the first year of the Browns/Lions Superbowl.
put 1k on that should be decent odds
Even betting with house money I generally don’t make wagers that large.
the pros and cons of life in japan
https://twitter.com/Dogen/status/1751891339246186938
Best thing about Japan is all the whiney moaning the ladies do during your workout with them.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/36fa443f-b811-4a9c-9463-ffa9032513af
“X is forced to ban ALL searches for Taylor Swift five days after vile sexually graphic AI pictures emerged on the platform
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the fake images ‘alarming’ on Friday, and said social media companies have a responsibility to prevent the spread of such misinformation.
Jean-Pierre said at a news briefing that lax enforcement against false images, possibly created by artificial intelligence (AI), disproportionately affects women.
A source close to Swift said: ‘Whether or not legal action will be taken is being decided but there is one thing that is clear: these fake AI generated images are abusive, offensive, exploitative, and done without Taylor’s consent and knowledge…
‘The door needs to be shut on this. Legislation needs to be passed to prevent this and laws must be enacted.’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13018407/X-taylor-swift-search-banned-ai.html
Oh, fuck off. People have been making celebrity fakes since before Photoshop was created.
“In a poll conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies for Newsweek, 18 percent of voters say they’re ‘more likely’ or ‘significantly more likely’ to vote for a candidate endorsed by Taylor Swift….
However, 17 percent said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate backed by Swift – which could bode badly for Democrat Joe Biden.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13016529/Taylor-Swift-election-new-poll.html
So 35% of voters are retarded?
Well, 50% have IQs less than 100.
35% seems a low estimate.
All voters are retarded.
Proof:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKxq-sVlsb8
How long until somebody AIs KJP getting railed by Hunter?
Hunter is going lesbian?
I guess we have to wait until Wednesday?
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New NPR CEO decides she needs to be a bit more discreet:
https://nypost.com/2024/01/25/business/nprs-new-ceo-katherine-maher-scrubs-partisan-posts-trump-is-a-racist/
““Donald Trump is a racist,” the former chief executive of the Wikimedia Foundation — the nonprofit behind the online encyclopedia — posted on Twitter in 2018, according to a snapshot of the tweet on the site Archive.Today.”
I guess that’s one reason why Wikipedia sucks.
I would like to extend my appreciation to all Glibs for opening the site to new commenters. I noticed last night that “Jackdaw” had also registered. There was at least a little interest in joining this fine community.
I use “community” because that is what I have seen here. Supporting other commenters when they need it, and more importantly, accepting the support of others. I enjoy the various threads about food, movies, music, guns and all of the others. The exchange of ideas and interests that do not involve politics.
I am a strong believer in personal freedom while accepting the responsibilities that come with that. I don’t blame others when my plans go awry, I look at my plan and make the necessary changes.
All of that said “Thank you for letting me participate.”
Hell, they let me post here. That should let you know how low the bar is. 🙂
Hell, they even print my articles.
Talk about lack of standards. 😛
Same.
I asked the California lurkers to join post-Tuesday site re-do. Also I told Bethannica what was up and said she should start posting again.
I would like to extend my appreciation to all Glibs for opening the site to new commenters.
It was previously closed off?
SP had the keys to the kingdom and it took a while to get a locksmith to update things. During that time, we couldn’t approve new commenters.
Ah, how many newbs did we get over the weekend?
I’ve seen three or so. Not sure, I wasn’t focused on the site, since I had soldering to do.
Making a bomb?
An Arduino Uno.
This Project, here.
Well, good to see it isn’t SMD. Are you building the synth topper?
16 Feds and 37 Tulpas
We are all Tulpa.
—“It was previously closed off?”—
It was closed off to me at least. Over the last four years, I have tried multiple times to register. Then I read about the keys to the kingdom being locked up. I even contemplated sending an e-mail when commenters would say “e-mail me at XXXX @ XXX.com, but felt it would be inappropriate. When I saw Spuds comment that registration was open, I signed up right away.
“And now you know the rest of the story.”
Welcome. Don’t blow all of your hot takes right away.
You’re not his supervisor!
I am confused, I have seen these comments the last few days, but seem to be missing context.
Was new signups banned, either de facto or de jure?
Weird.
I know early on the ban hammer was harsh (harsher than I thought it should be), but had no idea we weren’t adding commenters.
There were technical problems that have since been fixed.
The problem was SP had the passwords. There was backend work that needed to be done to make the necessary adjustments.
Fuck off, Tulpa.
Kidding. Seriously, welcome aboard.
And for you and any other N00bs who haven’t seen it: https://www.glibertarians.com/2019/10/a-noob-guide-to-glibertarians-com/
Would recommend.
Speaking of which, has anyone heard from Heroic Mulatto recently?
He stuck his nose in last week or so.
Since no one else commented, I see what you did there.
I’m certain I don’t know what you’re referring to.
*looks innocent*
Since no one else commented, I see what you did there.
I don’t blame others
Welcome to the rare birds club.
For Rhywun:
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/26/tesla-dojo-supercomputer-buffalo-factory-500-million/
Translation – After we scared off all the real businesses there’s a bunch of empty buildings, and not all of the unemployed people have managed to flee yet.
Didn’t he learn his lesson after leaving California?
“I’ve got this white elephant property I can’t offload – lets see if I can get some tax incentives for vaporware.”
Probably some climate credits to gain from Niagara Falls power (slowly he turned!)
*shrug*
Wish them well.
Mammary Monday is here again!
https://archive.is/GYJG9
Has this bit of Fetterlumpery been linked yet?
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/01/defiant-john-fetterman-waves-israeli-flag-from-rooftop-in-face-of-pro-hamas-protesters-at-his-home/
There are tons of (((their))) money given to Democratic candidates in the Keystone State. Not that this would influence Sen. Fetterlump or anything.
I saw Mojeaux talking about when she joined Glibs. I remember I joined just before The Great Purge, where all the inactive accounts were going to be removed. Maybe it was 2020? 2019? Can’t remember exactly. I joined up so I wouldn’t miss a chance to be a part of the community. About six months later I answered the call for content with a movie post that linked out to legal free-streaming movies. And I am still doing it.
The Great Purge?
Yes, there was a post about the fact that there were tons of commenter handles which had not been used for a very long time, and those were going to be removed. Whether that actually happened or not is unknown.
Bill Maher slams ‘partisan’ ‘Family Guy’ creator Seth MacFarlane for saying he’s doing ‘exactly what Donald Trump wants’
When I want to hear about trust, I go right to Adam Schiff.
This is the new “I have a black friend!”
Seth is one of those guys that you think it’d probably be okay to have a beer with — as long as you stayed far the hell away from politics.
And yeah — “Bolton’s book”.. That’s right up there with — “I supported Liz Cheney! What do you want from me!”
We had to maintain our purity
Believe all jurors?
Weren’t their identities hidden better than the jurors in a mob boss trial?
All links: Still the same mendacity and dumbfuckery out there.
The Halley bit did get a chuckle. No one in the country, her included, believe this law fare against Trump is anything but kangaroo court bullshit, a complete sham.
Clueless and tonedeaf taken to new heights: https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1751976859527504291?t=_bXi_XGSflK6PPrJiwRn8Q&s=19
Nobody, not even a die hard democrat, is willing to die for Joe Biden.
I was told these people would be the adults..
Can we get the guy that did the mean tweets back? He was far less idiotic and more entertaining…
She said the quiet part out loud about how the elites view cops and soldiers (cops and soldiers are the personal security forces for politicians and other elites)
I get the impression Nikki Haley…doesn’t understand politics
Why would she need to understand it to stomp on the faces of the subjects?
She needs to understand she’s not going to get enough Democrat votes to make her the GOP nominee. She clearly doesn’t get it.
Does she not get it, or is she just doing what the handlers financing and controlling her want her to as they hope something happens to Trump?
Yesterday I saw Cunctator, Jackdaw, and I saw a Bones this morning, whom I don’t remember from before.
So, welcome!
Euphemisms? I am lost Mojeaux and need more context.
We haz n00bs
I’m hoping the newbies are into Honey Harvest, not that there is anything wrong with…I’d better think on that.
I have talked about my AARP/Democrat parents before. Somehow they raised 3 Republicans and a Glibertarian. Today Mom hung up on my sister because they were talking about the border, and Dad chimed in and said Trump was going to be a dictator, and Trump is preventing them from closing the border. I continue to be amazed at how well brainwashing and propaganda work.
If it didn’t work, the people doing it wouldn’t basically switch completely from trying to do a good job at anything to keep support, to just brainwashing people into believing they are…
I can’t pinpoint the date, but at some point that happened.
When Obama’s people started weaponizing the deep state. And as I like to remind people, if you think the Steele Dossier spying on the Trump campaign was the first time Obama sanctioned shit like this from his cabal, then you were not paying attention. They did this shit constantly, including to Romney’s campaign as well, only that cuck just rolled over for them, like others did. Every three letter agency was used by Obama to handicap their political enemies and the American people. The focus went from doing their jobs, to gaslighting the people into believing they were doing their jobs.
The democrats are making the case that republicans are blocking the border bill, hence they are keeping the border open. Just a coincidence that the border bill also contains funding for Israel and Ukraine also. And who knows what else is hidden in there. It’s easy to make the other side look like bad guys.
No one who is informed is buying this schtick since Biden ended the border emergency and remain in Mexico policy in day one.
And existing law plainly states that illegal immigrants all be detained.
But will it work against the masses?
Republicans would actually be dumb to sign any border deal with strings whatsoever. The law is fine now. The president simply doesn’t enforce it. Why assume he would enforce a new law?
A smart and not corrupt Republican party would only propose a bill that asserts that the executive branch do its job.
“No one who is informed is buying this schtick”
That’s the whole problem. How many people are informed out there? 9%? 11%? Not many. All the masses hear is that the republicans are blocking a border bill. Bad!
I mean the media has been playing this game for my entire life.
At least now the fewest number of people I’ve ever seen buy it.
But yes they will keep playing it because it works for millions.
It’s never been played so brazenly in my life. I am in awe at the shamelessness.
Any Democrat proposal is going to make it easier to process people who cross the border and to give them some kind of payments. These people are predictable in their dishonesty.
With no further adieu…
https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/how-to-curb-illegal-immigrationand
There is a set of headlines on the google news braying about how Trump’s cash stockpile will be gobbled up by the Carroll verdict and the New York fraud case.
He’ll be living in a cardboard box under an overpass when they’re done with him.
It’s more like Republican funds. He’s drained his party’s money hiring the world’s most inept legal people because his lawyer has a nice rack.
Morning routine:
Wake up
Turn heat on
Place slippers in front of floor vent
Take dog for walk
Return home to preheated slippers
Similar.
Also, curse the cold and look forward to cursing the hot weather.
She said the quiet part out loud about how the elites view cops and soldiers (cops and soldiers are the personal security forces for politicians and other elites)
Didn’t Bloomberg call the NYPD his personal army?
If we are getting new commenters, I should write another Single Land Tax piece to rile them up.
🙄
LOL.
Did you write something about government policy and car culture or did I imagine that? Car dependency is only possible through big government, but libertarians react negatively to any ideas to use less automotive transportation (source: me).
It’s probably because you are the Strong Towns guy that I made this association.
I would like an article on that. Sounds like a fun debate in the comments.
If I get a chance, I will whip it up this week, will probably mix in a small bit of the SLT too, to maximize hate.
My first SLT article was declared the most hated article in the history of glibs.com, so I have a title to defend.
Wow! This should be fun!
Ive written the title!
SF Should Look Like Manhattan; Manhattan Should Look Like SF.
The first SF is San Francisco, the latter is Science Fiction.
Awesome, I’ve found my calling here, telling other people what to write.
Looking forward to it though!
I didnt, but, yeah, I agree.
If infrastructure was charged properly, a new equilibrium would form.
I think that equilibrium would piss off the new urbanists and the libertarians you speak of. But it is what a free market would result in, so I support it.
it’ll work…
E Jean Carroll vows to do something good with the money.
Like give it all to the DNC?
Buy a fleet of electric cars.
Expand her rape-fantasy articles into a book?
We’re already well into the Profit! step.
I am NOT linking this to bitch about the horrible mother, or the excessively generous welfare state, nor even the six week lag time between reporting and authorities doing something about it.
I am doing it in praise of the 7 year old that can “adult” better than many 30 year olds.
https://archive.is/8R8Zy
Anarchy might be possible if humans in general were like that.
The mother is still better than my POS SIL who turned all 4 of her kids over to the state so she could still be a total slut.
To TPTB. I tried to donate through the link, and it (PAYPAL?) would not let me enter a PO Box as the billing address for my CC. Is there another way to contribute online, or is there a mailing address I can use.
I think if you really want to donate and impress, they take kidneys as long as you put it in enough cooling to survive the shipping experience…
You don’t want my kidneys. I did the google-fu and found out that PayPal does not allow P.O. Box addresses for billing address.
“mailing address” Okay Ted K.
Actually, I expected several commenters to claim to be the “Official” recipient of contributions and just send contributions to them.
And deal with the paperwork?
Send gold in unmarked boxes.
Nice try, Fed. You’re not getting my address.
Paypal has become increasingly ridiculous.
Yes. I am going to get rid of it as soon as I get off my duff and change every billing practice I’ve got over to Square (which actually isn’t much better).
The Mann v. Steyn trial is finally happening. Hopefully Mann continues to be humiliated.
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-1-27-some-notes-on-the-trial-of-mann-v-steyn
You really think the media will report that Mann is a lying scumbag?
Like I have asked so many climate cultists: why is it that you can clearly see that if a company with an interest in the whole fossil fuel industry finances research there might be bias, but think research financed by government – which spends magnitudes more money than the fossil fuel industry in research grants – won’t result in even more bias?
MSM will report he lost on a technicality – the truth.
Government is just a word for things we do together.
Not that it will matter. Farmers and even backyard gardeners are going to be targeted by climate police.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-01-27/climate-changetm-roundup-backyard-gardens-crosshairs
Who needs food really?
We have to pass it to find out what’s in it
The emergency defense supplemental bill would include more than $14 billion to secure the border in addition to reforming asylum policy and giving the president enhanced authority to detain and deport migrants.
Senate Republicans who support a package funding Ukraine and reforming the nation’s asylum laws feel let down by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who has consulted with Trump frequently on the border crisis, and warned colleagues in a letter Friday that the Senate bill — unless dramatically changed — wouldn’t even get a vote in the House.
“If rumors about the contents of the draft proposal are true, it would have been dead on arrival in the House anyway,” Johnson said in the letter.
Those stupid Republicans don’t even know what it says. We don’t either, but we trust Biden to fill in the blanks later.
The rent seeking crooks want to continue to finance the terrorists….
Professor Devi Sridhar, the high profile adviser to then-Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, has admitted she was wrong to call for zero-Covid and the elimination of the virus.
https://twitter.com/toadmeister/status/1751927883096785005
no. shit.
Did she also resign and ask for people that did this to be blocked from ever being allowed to participate in this sort of decision making? Cause if not, she needs to go to jail to make sure she is rehabilitated properly.
Joe Biden wants to control the border, but the Republicans won’t let him.
From cutting your risk of cancer to protecting you from dementia, journalist and medical author TONY EDWARDS shares the must-know evidence on the supposed health benefits of wine…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12982411/author-shares-know-evidence-benefits-wine.html
Cool. Now do bourbon.
They should have started finding better ways to reform around Louis XIV, but didn’t really see the mess they needed to address.
Touché.
Tata: Steelworkers’ Port Talbot protest over cuts plan
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-68109600
when ever I hear Port Talbot it reminds me of a dialogue in The Trip
Rob Brydon : [reading a newspaper] Listen to this, it’s about Warren Beatty, right – “Peter Biskin, Beatty’s new biographer, estimates that the famously seductive star of Bonnie and Clyde has notched up 12,775 sexual conquests. He slept with an average of 246 women a year.”
Steve Coogan : Well, 365 days a year, that’s about 120 days a year off. That’s every weekend off. If he does it every weekday, he gets his weekends off. It’s achievable.
Rob Brydon : Well, Port Talbot has a population of 30,000 people, that means he’s slept with half the women in Port Talbot.
Steve Coogan : Well, no, half the population are men, so…
Rob Brydon : So he’s slept with all the women in Port Talbot. Which I wouldn’t wish on anybody.
After weeks of painstaking negotiations, Lankford said he is very close to a bipartisan deal that he thinks can secure the support of half the Senate Republican Conference. But now Johnson, who is in close touch with Trump, is declaring it dead in the House based on the details that have leaked out.
One of those “leaked details” I read about over the weekend is a proposal to streamline the asylum process by accepting applicants’ claims of political oppression at face value and rubber stamping their applications for refugee status.
#BelieveAllEmigrantsFromMexico
You mean “#AllEmigrantsThatMexicoWontAllow
“female patients randomly assigned a female doctor rather than a male doctor are 5.2% more likely to be evaluated as disabled and receive 8.6% more subsequent cash benefits on average. There is no analogous gender-match effect for male patients.”
https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1751995495407575250
I have seen the videos of how they convince the male doctors of their disability!
Daily ray of sunshine:
90-year-old New Zealand man celebrates by climbing 8,000 foot volcano
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/507868/taranaki-maunga-pensioner-s-playground-even-at-90
Texas is going to turn blue with or without Soros’s help – it is inevitable when you’re packing in that many people.
So what you’re saying is City dwellers can’t be trusted with governance.
Agreed. Urban areas need to be reduced to territorial status and lose the ability to set policy outside their immediate boundaries.
Hear! Hear!