Good morning one and all to another amazing day! Let’s take on today with a fresh set of links and a saucy attitude.
Trump’s Hush Money Payment Trial Gets Underway
At Least 90% of TV News Fails to Identify Trump Prosecutors as Democrats
Supreme Court to debate ‘sleeper’ case that could affect Trump federal prosecution
House rejects last-ditch effort by hard-line Republicans to block FISA reauthorization
Left-Wing Outlet Heads Toward Bankruptcy
Pro-Palestinian protesters block traffic in major cities a day after Iran strikes Israel
Biden Expands Supposedly Temporary Amnesty to 1.2 Million Foreign Nationals
Supreme Court Allows Idaho to Enforce Law Blocking Sex-Change Procedures for Minors
Biden Admin to Provide Samsung With Over $6 Billion to Make Computer Chips in Texas
Olympic torch is lit in ancient Olympia to mark 100-day countdown until Paris 2024 Games
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
THE SLEEPER MUST AWAKEN!
That’s what your alarm clock plays every morning, isn’t it?
I wish.
Oh, so it’s This instead
It’s actually NPR, so I can spring out of bed in a rage, ready to beat the ever-loving shit out of the day.
Speaking of NPR and the sun rising in the east.
How DARE he air out our dirty laundry!
I predict a move to The Free Press, or maybe a successful Substack, in his future.
Think about it…
The people that told us all through the Trump presidency how incredibly important whistleblowers were that they needed to protect them, are not punishing whistleblowers just because they exposed the criminality on the left…
What is he being suspended for? Being a tattletale?
Unauthorized journalism. I am not making that up.
Yes indeed
Libertarians are “hard-line” Republicans now?
Libertarians are whatever boogeyman the establishment wants them to be.
Libertarians are all SUPER-DUPER-MAGA!
If you are not part of the cult you are a Hitler.
Anyone who thinks the government needs a warrant to conduct surveillance on its citizens is a crazy hard-liner.
That’s because all those citizens are government hating domestic terrorists.
Obviously. True, patriotic Republicans like John McCain certainly wouldn’t add to the burdens of our heroes in blue by requiring silly red tape.
What exactly would a hardline Republican be? I guess a Republican, which means compromise to advance the leftist agenda, only more so, which I suppose means, compromise even harder?
I feel like I’m missing something here.
They’re talking about the boogeyman Republicans in their head, you know the ones who cut government spending, roll back taxes, and remove the protections of the benevolent government from the poor working
prolespeople.Somebody had a story about the pro-pali protestors blocking traffic. In the O’Hare case, they had the assistance of the PD — police vehicles in front and behind to prevent people trying to make their flights from dragging the protestors away.
In such a case it is fully justifiable to shoot to kill CPD and protester alike. Shove the cars off the road and stake out the bodies as a warning not to interfere with matters above their perview.
These cops are behaving as their leadership demands…
People should be going after the city’s leadership. They don’t believe cops are needed to protect anyone else but themselves anyway.
“These cops are behaving as their leadership demands…”
So? I don’t think that excuses their actions.
Why waste time with the middleman?
Because the middleman is part of the problem, too? You can’t occupy a country with a few generals, or run your prison camp without guards.
Yeah, but this only stops after you deal with the ones giving the orders. No effort against the middlemen will put an end to this.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!”
Again: unless the leadership is taken down you are fighting a losing battle.
Por que no los dos?
Traditionally, it’s very hard to get to the generals without going through the footsoldiers. Or do you think Our Masters can voted or shamed out of power?
Even if you manage to decapitate the leadership without laying a glove on the footsoldiers, there’s always somebody lined up to step in. How many “senior terrorist leaders” have been vaporized in the ME, without shutting down, or slowing down much if at all, the terrorism industry?
There’s always going to be plenty of cannon fodder available for recruitment, especially when the economy collapses to the point that all the generals have to do is offer three hots and a cot (and all the loot you can loot.) I think that Solzhenitsyn underestimated how much violence would be necessary to counter those kind of incentives.
See the other Alex’s (Solzhewhatshisname’s) “how we burned in the camps” piece.
Danggit.
This makes it look like SFPD (maybe Oakland?) is also assisting:
https://twitter.com/abc7newsbayarea/status/1779958395308761231
So I’m wondering what the procedure is to get the SFPD to assist you in shutting down the golden Gate bridge. Surely that’s a right of anyone, not just “pro-pali” activists, right?
I’m conused.
There’s people left in San Fransisco with a car? Shouldn’t they have bailed long ago?
Have you seen the price of gas out there?
Be part of a potential voting bloc that might just not go along with the Dems if they don’t get their way?
Surely these cities passed cease fire resolutions. Shouldn’t these protests be in Bakersfield?
These cities learned nothing from the BLM riots – a resolution/sign of support/etc does not contain the mob.
I saw a story about Florida – they tried this shit there and the cops took care of it.
That’s because the leaders in Florida made that the law of the land.
But if an old church lady prays in front of an abortion clinic, she’ll do a decade in prison.
Just put up an abortion clinic at the end of the bridge, they’ll turn the whole thing into express lanes.
*golf clap*
A YouTuber I sub to had a great way to get this sort of thing, make the idjits doing road cone impressions civilly and/or criminally liable for damages individually. Someone misses a flight, a boneheaded protestor pays; someone dies en route to a hospital, protester ends up in an orange jumpsuit for some flavor of manslaughter.
Undoubtedly that’s part of why masks are part of the uniform.
I enjoyed Milei charging the organizers for police overtime.
Why is that chimp not flinging poo? Everyone knows real chimps fling poo!
It must be constipated.
California: the beacon of our coming future.
Want your business to leave the city? Well you will have to ask daddy if its okay.
6-month lead time…what a joke.
They are not building a wall to keep people out, but a virtual wall to keep them in…
Anyone remember what other evil entity build a wall back in the 20th century to keep people in and why?
“We aren’t closed, but we reduced hours, staff, and inventory to near zero.”
Customer: “The only thing on your shelves is spam, and not a lot of it”
Employee: “Technically we still have to offer product for sale. Spam lasts.”
Supervisor: “You’re supposed to say we’re specializing in Hawaiian food!”
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz1JWzyvv8A
I DON’T LIKE SPAM!!!
too obvious I guess
Well, there’s spam, egg, sausage, and spam: that’s not got much spam in it.
I saw vegetarian spam in a grocery flyer recently. 🤦🏻♀️
…???
Does not compute.
“Processed food product”.
How long can that closing date be extended? I’d just fille the paperwork immediately upon opening a business there. Or at least when there would be six months left on my lease.
“Left-Wing Outlet Heads Toward Bankruptcy”
Soros has not bought them yet for the CIA to use to peddle evil shit?
You know what I didn’t see in that article?
Any indication that the Intercept would ever get to break-even and be self-supporting. And a lot of resentment against their benefactor for not being willing to write them checks forever. If I realized I was expected to support whiny, ungrateful little shits in perpetuity, I’d probably pull the plug, too.
I could be wrong, but I thought they were stable before the current powers that be took over and kicked out Greenwald.
“hard line Republicans”
Practically Nazis, amirite?
the socialism part in national socialism especially
I’ve been told they meant a different kind of socialist. The one that makes them right wingers.
Since Pie has been scarce:
https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1779886483886752119
I was away on a longer business trip, though I may be busier than usual in the coming weeks overall.
You know that you don’t have to charter a ship to visit Carfax Abbey, just hop a night flight and have Renfield pick you up at the airport.
“Cheeldren of the night: shut up!”
So defund the agency, fire them all, and demolish their headquarters.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/04/16/mike-garcia-tells-fbi-director-chris-wray-his-agency-has-ideologically-inverted-and-now-represents-the-usa-equivalent-of-the-soviet-secret-police/
When they mention “our democracy” they do not mean the ability for the American people to pick their leaders and those leader’s policies. What they mean is the institutions and power system they make up and it’s ability to keep doing whatever they want, the American people be damned.
Some irony there, one feels.
It’s an insult at this point. Did anyone vote for so much spending that we’re $34 trillion in debt and borrowing $80k a second?
Who voted for open borders and benefits for illegals?
Tranny story hour and all the other ways they groom and indoctrinate our children?
Everytime they say it, we’re being mocked.
Maybe they’ll stop behaving like authoritarian twats once Trump builds them that new headquarters building (or was that the CIA? whatever, same thing anyway).
was this covered?
Socialist professor explains how to get a PS5 under socialism.
https://twitter.com/DylanMAllman/status/1776649146675712146
“Absolutely. You’d have to struggle a little bit for it, you’d have to talk to your fellow workers, you’d have to talk about the distribution of income. You’d have to compare your desire for a Playstation against all the other interests of all the other people. It wouldn’t be something you worked out on your own with your particular boss, ah, in any way. It would have to be a democratic decision. You’d have to come to terms with that, the way you do with democratic decisions now in our society, to the extent that we have them.”
So – You go to the black market, assuming there’s still a capitalist Japan making PlayStations.
Then they will take it and give it to the kid of one of the nomenklatura, and you will be sent to a camp where you will be playing lots of live action games digging and filling holes or making little rocks out of big ones… But you will get a meal with some 1200-1400 calories each day in that system!
You overestimate the competence and omnipresence of the secret police.
And what the original author was decribing was half a tick away from just asking around to find the guy with the connections to get the bootlegged console to you.
“You overestimate the competence and omnipresence of the secret police.”
Their incompetence has nothing to do with this. The system will encourage snitching. Your neighbor will turn you in for the extra food.
That didn’t even work for long where it was implemented.
It ends up in the “everybody does it” category.
If the snitches and informants were anywhere near as effective and or pervasive as you assert they would be – then o such nation would have had a black market to begin with, and we know this not to be the case.
That works incredibly well if everyone is so scared and always working to cover their own asses for the people on top…
So, never?
You should talk to people that lived under that system…
It worked well to keep them all compliant.
What I’ve heard of occupied France in WWII suggests otherwise.
Talk to some East Germans, Russians, or Chinese…
Snitching in East Germany is well documented. Neighbors spied on each other for the Stasi, usually without rewards for doing so.
snitches get stitches
The East German model does not work every where with every culture.
Don’t underestimate the role AI will play in future totalitarianism. It’s going to be a gamechanger in everything from simple internet observation to precrime analysis.
Don’t overestimate it either.
No, now I’ll get sent to the camp not because of what I’ve done but because Captain Wrongthink lives on 123 Avenue and not 123 Street and the AI fucked up.
Is your last name Buttle?
Does it explain where the socialist country would get PS5s? Obviously they’d import them, but in exchange for what?
In exchange for art, music, poetry and papers about oppression. I know this because they always say that in a socialist society, people only work for their fulfilment, not for greed.
Ideals?
the way you do with democratic decisions now in our society, to the extent that we have them
Not exactly a ringing endorsement of the institution of democratic politicking.
That’s an awful long way to say “You can’t have one.”
I’d be happy to confer with him and my fellow workers though after they all blow me.
This is a great example of how capitalism isn’t an economic system – it’s a description of objective reality.
Under Anglofuturism, low-earth orbit will be populated by thatched pubs. Because sound does not carry across the void of space, there will be no reason for restrictive licensing laws, and visitors will be able to drink for as long as they wish to
https://twitter.com/tomough/status/1779807391317438493
Little-St. Albans-upon-Sark Forever!
or
We wuz marquises ‘n shiet.
Yeah, my bet is it will be more like this, because that is the quality of our leadership.
I like the clearly AI generated signs: they want to be real words, but not quite.
You’d think if they can program an “AI” to show black female SS officers, they could program it to make signs that weren’t gibberish.
Legible text is very much a different way of processing the data than image processing. You’d pretty much have to run two systems in parallel at this point. In the future, there might be an engine that merges the capability, but I suspect the name Gemini alludes to having two engines running side by side, engaging one or the other depending on the request. What needs to be added is a mechanism for the image generator to tag the text engine to come up with something to put on signs.
No, no I don’t think that. They are part and parcel.
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 04/16:
*26/26 words (+9 bonus words)
📖 In the top 2% by bonus words
I played https://squaredle.com 04/16:
*27/27 words (+13 bonus words)
📖 In the top 6% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 256
Can barely even today
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📖 In the top 36% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 5
I see Trump’s hush money trial is under way. A couple of things I’ve seen:
The trial is expected to last 6 – 8 weeks. WTF? We’re having a high-profile and contested murder trial here in Tucson that is going to take 3 weeks. What they hell do they need 6 – 8 weeks for, on a case that is essentially about misreporting the payment?
The judge has ordered Trump to be in court every day of the trial, coming as close as he can to barring Trump from campaigning until sometime in June.
What happens if he just doesn’t show up? Good luck arresting him.
You answered your own question.
They have decided they will waste 6-8 weeks of his time on a federal misdemeanor they somehow have turned into a felony in NY state. Think about that.
At this time I am hoping more Americans start realizing our legal system is not to be trusted and that they are better off fighting the system than complying.
He started an insurrection!!!111!!
But best we can do is hush money trial.
They are throwing shit at the wall and hoping it sticks, because if they just go out and assassinate him, the people will no longer have the ability to pretend the country is run by a crime syndicate. It will get real when they are cornered and are looking at losing their grip on things.
Where the Fuck are the Red State judges and why are they not arresting democrats on similar bullshit.
Oh, that’s right, stupid party.
Soundbites, keep Trump in ‘trial’ news, make sure they end when other cases start so he is perpetually in trail until November, give an air of validity to a charge they magically up ticked from a misdemeanor to a felony for only one person and no one else, etc, etc.
Novel legal theories take a lot of time to explain.
“Atlantic City mayor and his wife are charged with abusing their 16-year-old daughter just days after dragging her out at humiliating press conference to deny claims he beat her so bad she miscarried”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13312585/Atlantic-City-mayor-wife-abusing-teen-daughter.html
Those matching suits are ridiculous.
Atlantic City crime was so much classier back when Nucky Thompson ran things.
What the hell is an “earth slam”?
I think it’s a special fatality from some fighting game.
You mean, like, roosters?
Wait, DIY abortions are bad now?
The judge has ordered Trump to be in court every day of the trial, coming as close as he can to barring Trump from campaigning until sometime in June.
Obviously hoping he will do or say something which will allow them to have him removed from the courtroom in shackles.
They want to keep him from campaigning and from showing up for the other trials….
The game is for someone to get some excuse to lock him up so they can “Epstein” his ass..
This along with a few strategic but bullshit gag orders could be effective. Then again, the more Trump is victimized and the less he speaks the better he does in the polls.
Why do you think the usual suspects brainwashing leftards on old legacy media are having the vapors about Trump’s popularity going up despite all these efforts to tarnish him as a criminal?
I’m slightly ashamed to admit it but seeing those assholes’ heads explode like an egg in the microwave if he gets reelected is going to be the best part.
He seems to have a better team this time. Hell, have Vivek do all the talking.
Wouldn’t secret service have to share a jail cell with him? It’s there job to protect him, isn’t it? If they are genuinely stupid enough to lock him up with the real goal of preventing him from campaigning, my guess is house arrest and using his secret service detail as the excuse.
“Transgender woman, 35, who identifies as a VAMPIRE is convicted of sexually assaulting mentally disabled teen while under investigation for strangling death of man at her home”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13313071/Transgender-vampire-mentally-disabled-teen-hetke.html
The media needs to stop going along with this self-ID nonsense.
Insert Austin Powers “THAT’S A MAN, BABY” meme here…
The stubble kind of gives it away.
How does it feel to live in a world where instead of calling out people with serious mental disorders and trying to get them help, we are forced to play along with their mental disorder to reinforce it? And if you do not comply, you will be punished.
That isn’t the issue here. It’s criminals lying, as criminals do.
anyone can be a transvampire
And let us all Transpire.
I booted a guy from my D&D game for that.
Was he also a multiclassed 50th level Paladin/Assassin that wielded Excalibur in one hand and Odin’s spear in the other while riding Thor’s chariot?
Speaking of the Trial of the Millennium, I believe I saw something about the cartoon villain nodding off during the proceedings, proving not only his lack of respect for the court but also his physical decrepitude and unfitness for the Presidency.
“Trial of the Millennium”
First OJ got railroaded and now this…
Day 2 of Mark Cuban having the worst takes on taxes:
He’s still under the assumption that most of our tax money goes to useful things and not every kind of grift you can imagine.
Or he’s a large beneficiary of said grift.
👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆
Did the asshat take the standard deduction or fill out his own return?
What? He hired a top flight accounting firm to prepare his returns and do tax planning?
Fuck off.
KPMG is headquartered in the Netherlands. Patriotism?
Which of the two is voluntary?
Fuck off you fucking asshole sanctimonious prick. Goddamn the man’s really an idiot.
He is something worse than stupid: he is evil.
I’m glad he’s proud to give.
Taxes got nothin’ to do with “give”, though. Idiot.
I dedthreded it yesterday but I wanted to point out that Marc would have been significantly wealthier if he had just dumped the $1 billion he got from those fools at Yahoo for broadcast.com into an index fund. He’d be at about the same point if he went for a more conservative 60/40 split on equities & bonds (he’s worth about $5.2B now).
https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&sl=CrjM87ZLeiEixGXyse8OJ
Mr. Radio On The Internet is not a great businessman.
The numbers would be even further apart save for the $2B he got last year for selling most of the Mavericks.
Radio on Internet:
https://youtu.be/BzAdXyPYKQo
Exactly. Except Russ was hilarious .
His character was amazing. I especially liked how he knew Erlich was a BS artist like him and straight up just ignores him.
Loosing hundreds of millions of bitcoin in a thumb drive and paying people to search the dump for it.
“No, not an actual thumb, a thumb drive!!”
I need to rewatch that show.
I assumed that storyline was based in part on https://nypost.com/2021/01/15/man-who-lost-password-to-220m-worth-of-bitcoin-says-hes-made-peace/
Masterclass in how to run a whole season just to tell a dick joke. I really wonder where it would have went if Christopher Evan Welch hadn’t passed away.
“Thank you… Florida”
He was so great. Tragic early death, just as he was finally getting a high-profile role.
My cynical take is that he’s making empty protestations of loyalty to the regime. Same as you see wealthy people do in any country where that wealth is at risk of being seized for disloyalty.
Not idiocy but rather a sign of the times we live in.
That’s the kindest interpretation.
Alternatively, he’s a true believer.
I think he’s signaling too. He responded to someone that he is doing his part to reduce taxes with his cost plus drugs company. That’s the point Mark, despite you being a very unimpressive billionaire, you can still do more good than the government.
But is that worse than being a true believer?
Did Cuban ever serve? Tax payments are due when the income is earned, the quarterly deadlines are merely grace periods. A real patriot would wiring the money daily.
I watched an old historical extravaganza called The Buccaneer last night, about the Pirate Lafitte and the defense of New Orleans (among other things). At the beginning, there were a few references to the British capturing Washington and burning the Capitol and the White House. It brought a wistful tear to my eye.
After military service, paying your taxes is the most patriotic thing we can do
He should just give pallets of cash to poor people so they can burn it for heat.
What are the chances people who “confess” to being unable to judge Trump impartially just don’t want to be a part of that three ring media circus?
Anybody who doesn’t try to wriggle off the hook should be dismissed.
Journalism
It’s a jarring new reality for Trump, who has been accustomed to setting the agenda for most of his adult life — and, in the years since his presidency, has bounced between his sunny Florida resort and political rallies brimming with adoring fans. But this spring, he’ll have to spend most weekdays in a drab 15th floor county courtroom in a city with very little MAGA.
This sort of person would have been throwing rotten vegetables and horse turds at people climbing the steps of the guillotine. Classy.
Do these morons not realize he has to spend time in court every year for various lawsuits? That is par for the course for any rich business man.
Laugh it up while NYC circles the drain you assholes.
Let’s see . . .
Imagine a Republican DA in a deeply Republican state files felony charges against Joe Biden for money laundering.
A Republican judge orders Joe Biden to attend trial every day. The judge further prohibits Biden from making any statements regarding the trial in public.
The jury pool is from an overwhelmingly Republican district that as voted Republican for president for the last several decades.
We would all recognized that this is perfectly legitimate and that politics plays no part in the process . . . . . right?
The mistake is assuming they care to be seen as even handed. Equal justice is a slogan not a core principle, of the left. They can’t be shamed by these counterfactuals because their base is beyond feeling shame for such things.
Yeah, this is wildly corrupt and sets us down a particularly slippery slope. And there are millions of women out there who will enthusiastically vote for more of it because of “grab her by the pussy” and their desire for thw proliferation of Molech centers.
And the slight difference that Biden clearly did benefit and participate in money laundering, unlike Trump’s bullshit charges.
Hillary, still as repellent as ever…
But the real meat is…
Democracy – fuck yeah!
Years ago I found out that even during those “throw the bums out” elections, close to 90% of incumbents won re-election. They figured out how to game the system and they did. This was also why I opposed campaign finance reform. Why would we trust corrupt people to make it harder for themselves to keep their jobs?
“Throwing the bums out” means “Bring in the new clowns”. It’s bums and clowns all the way down. Somehow we’ve been brainwashed at home (for some, not all), started having elections about second grade, by graduation time we’ve been taught that’s the best way to get people to take your money is to vote for them. We never even thought to ask why we need someone to force- ably take our money without giving us something in return, like the convenience store.
It also means throw your bums out, I’m keeping my bums.
Thank goodness! Now NPR can get back to doing good for the public!
In presenting Berliner’s suspension Thursday afternoon, the organization told the editor he had failed to secure its approval for outside work for other news outlets, as is required of NPR journalists. It called the letter a “final warning,” saying Berliner would be fired if he violated NPR’s policy again. Berliner is a dues-paying member of NPR’s newsroom union but says he is not appealing the punishment.
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1244962042/npr-editor-uri-berliner-suspended-essay
We are an open and nonbiased media organization with rigorous internal accountability processes, now if you criticize us again we’ll fire your ass.
It’s truly pathetic. NPR delenda est.
I stopped listening to them back in 2009 when it went all bullshit ass sucking for Obama. Trump might have caused them to show their hand but they had gone evil long before him.
Nothing says they were right like punishing the person pointing out your institution is a shit sammich…
Yellow Peril strikes again
Specifically, researchers found companies making fentanyl precursors and analogues could apply for state tax rebates and other financial benefits after exporting the product.
Street fentanyl has driven a devastating surge in fatal overdoses, killing tens of thousands of people in the U.S every year.
The Biden administration and drug policy experts say China is the primary source of precursor chemicals used by Mexican drug gangs to manufacture the powerful street opioid.
Killing tens of thousands, every year? They’re selling us the dope to poison ourselves with! I can’t help assuming this story is 90% bullshit. For some reason, I suspect those “precursors” can be used for a wide variety of end products.
My son and I shared the conclusion that this is just payback for the Opium War, which also plays to the long view of Chinese culture.
For a culture supposedly known for taking the long view, they are sure big on eating up stagnant dead ends for their society.
Eating up, setting up, whatever.
I was _just_ thinking about their ghost cities, constructed of wet cardboard and mud, that they sold to each other to the tune of trillions of yuan.
Were we involved in the Opium War? I don’t think it’s payback, but they are using the same strategy.
With more than 110,000 drug overdose deaths every year in the U.S., fentanyl has become a major flashpoint in the 2024 presidential campaign.
110,000 people snuffing it every year on fentanyl? Seems as if the homeless problem is well on its way to solving itself.
Unless, of course, that number is a giant fabrication.
I love that they have to tell Joe when to pause as he stumbles through reading his cue cards.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/15/us-news/biden-cheat-sheet-for-iraq-pm-meeting-caught-on-camera-including-instructions-to-pause/
These instructions are pretty much standard for the top guy. The sign something is horribly wrong is how often Biden gets it wrong even with the instructions…
Like Iran’s attack, its all scripted. They are just playing their parts
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
I grew up during the Watergate error having Woodstein as the public face of journalism. Maybe it was all a charade back then, but it is depressing to see the modern media system totally in the bag for the DNC and the deep state at this point.
Boils down to culture and a populace that would forget about it in 15 minutes anyway so politicians learned: give me softballs or Ill just ignore you all together and the public will set their gaze on the next thing.
Even better, the absolute impotence they have in bringing down Trump.
I think it was mostly a charade back then, too. They went after Nixon, the Repub, but turned a blind eye to the well known shenanigans of the Dem Kennedy, and even further back, covered up for the Dem FDR’s disability and even his increasing frailty and incompetence going into his last election. If anything has changed, I suppose that if there were non-Dem Op major media outlets back then, there aren’t any now.
Woodstein made their bank on a disgruntled deep stater being unhappy at passed over. If he hadn’t been, no deep throat.
In a statement Monday about the messages she had posted, Maher praised the integrity of NPR’s journalists and underscored the independence of their reporting.
“In America everyone is entitled to free speech as a private citizen,” she said. “What matters is NPR’s work and my commitment as its CEO: public service, editorial independence, and the mission to serve all of the American public. NPR is independent, beholden to no party, and without commercial interests.”
Defend the hive!
Taibbi ripped her a new one – just going through her old holiday-oriented tweets.
I am convinced. where can I subscribe to support public service journalism?
Don’t worry. I’m sure that when the GOP holds all three branches of govt they will cut off all funding for NPR!
How many people go to church weekly?
Surveys say it’s about 1 in 5 Americans.
Cell phone tracker data say it’s actually closer to 1 in 20 Americans.
Fascinating new working paper!
https://twitter.com/JohnHolbein1/status/1779887244414738501
Maybe they are turning off their phone in church?
Bad datasets lead to bad proclamations; who would have thought?
I thought about that too. Although I’d imagine most turn them off in the parking lot.
I’d like to know more about the cellular data and how he controls it.
My phone stays in the car – which is usually in a public garage across the street.
Wouldn’t that matter only if they turned the phone off at home and then did not turn it back on until they arrived back?
In rebuking Berliner, NPR said he had also publicly released proprietary information about audience demographics, which it considers confidential. He said those figures “were essentially marketing material. If they had been really good, they probably would have distributed them and sent them out to the world.”
Nobody knows who listens to NPR. It’s a closely guarded secret.
Why should audience demographics be confidential at a publicly funded outlet?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Sorry, Jimbo, I tried that in front of the Log Cabin with the smokers and got threatened. Not taking your advice again.
Even better, the absolute impotence they have in bringing down Trump.
And then, one day, the wolf really did come. The boy screamed his lungs out, and begged for assistance. But no one came. The wolf ripped the little boy limb from limb, and ate him.
And there was much rejoicing, and they all lived happily ever after.
His essay and subsequent public remarks stirred deep anger and dismay within NPR. Colleagues contend Berliner cherry-picked examples to fit his arguments and challenge the accuracy of his accounts. They also note he did not seek comment from the journalists involved in the work he cited.
“No clothes, you say? Running around naked, while the peasants laugh at us behind our backs? That’s preposterous!”
Fuck Microsoft Teams.
I had to do the monthly password change at work today, and it’s booted me from Teams. Even logging all the way out and back in again hasn’t helped.
Oh, no! Can’t get into a Teams call? Don’t throw me in that briar patch!
We use it as our chat software.
Legit LOL. Will Pepperidge Farms be next?
In a statement with unusual candor, the brand says that the name Milano “is banned by law” in Italy. While Alfa “[believes] that the name meets all legal requirements, and that there are issues much more important than the name of a new car,” the company is choosing to re-badge the Milano as the Junior before its official sale “in the spirit of promoting mutual understanding.”
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a60500074/alfa-romeo-changes-milano-name-after-italian-government-ban/
They should ban Alyssa Milano.
Uffda. Three office towers may be demolished in downtown Minneapolis.
Don’t worry. The state legislature is considering a bill to give office buildings tax credits to convert to apartments. In other words a bailout.
The Ameriprise building that they were talking about in this story was built in the late ’90s so it isn’t some old decrepit building that needs lots of upgrades.
When they were building it, they had to spend a lot of money fighting to rip down the Minnegasco Building that was already there. Historical preservationists kept suing because the Minnegasco was some important example of some architectural style. (It is the shorter glass building on the right).
I worked right across the street from it and got to watch them raze it all. Endlessly entertaining.
It’s really difficult to convert modern office towers into residential space. The interiors including elevators and plumbing are difficult to rearrange.
It sounds good in theory, but it might really be cheaper to tear down and start again.
Street people seem to have no problem with elevators or plumbing. I see a solution to two problems
Italian Fascists gained votes in the 1921 election thanks to socialist voters switching to the Fascist party.
https://twitter.com/unes33501870/status/1778965487222685777
I think we have had a few healthy discussions on this before. The difference between fascists and socialists in only a matter of degrees, they are both illnesses of the left. That makes it really easy to jump from fascism to socialism.
Vice versa. Dangit.
NPR Investigative reporter Chiara Eisner wrote in a comment for this story: “Minorities do not all think the same and do not report the same. Good reporters and editors should know that by now. It’s embarrassing to me as a reporter at NPR that a senior editor here missed that point in 2024.”
Just not the ones you hire, which is the whole point.
That NPR article should come with a laugh track.
“Look different, think the same”
Reporting and thinking are based on the color of their skin? Who’s the racist, now?
“Nashville students stage school walkout to protest bill allowing teachers to carry guns in classrooms one year after trans school shooting”
https://thepostmillennial.com/nashville-students-stage-school-walkout-to-protest-bill-allowing-teachers-to-carry-guns-in-classrooms-one-year-after-trans-school-shooting
Ban teacher’s unions.
They fail classes for the day and get unexcused absences.
Who gives a fuck what children think?
The point of school is to get them to not think.
re-badge the Milano as the Junior
That thing is too big and heavy to be a junior.
No green colors, but there is always hope for a special mint colored edition.
“A fight in a girl’s bathroom at a public high school in Seattle ended up with a girl being knocked unconscious. No one intervened because they were too busy recording the altercation on their cell phones.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/exclusive-washington-state-girl-knocked-unconscious-in-school-bathroom-fight-while-students-recorded
It seems like there are more girls fighting than boys.
Schools are basically jail for children. We shouldn’t be surprised to see prison behavior from the inmates…
I’m shocked at the fenced in look, even for rural schools. The fence was mostly to keep kids from running directly into the road after a loose ball. Or a delineation from surrounding property.
Many/most public schools were built on existing ones for jail/prison systems. Govt buildings of containment, honestly what IS the functional difference?
That used to be true ’round here, at least. It actually makes perfect design/cost sense. Hilariously, they got far more out of that rep than they put in.
You’ve come a long way baby!
The point of school is to get them to not think.
No thinking allowed, just belief.
State police here did the escort and protection of the Pali supporters. After they “stopped” it and made arrest, guess what? At least one of the supporters was armed. Seen it with the show of force occupation marches in Portland, antifa and other leftists are prepared and ready to use force against anyone who attempted to drive through their protest. And their masters in office would defend the use of “self defense” and prosecute anyone else, just like in Texas.
At SEA, one of the airport flacks gushed about how they planned for such an event and were fully prepared, yada yada. Took over an hour for the first vehicle to start to be towed away. Bullshit, take a tug out of the secured area, hook a drag chain and pull those fuckers to the side. Faster than Dominos back in the day. Or a D9 from their forever ongoing construction projects. This isn’t AAA, fuck their vehicles, and fuck the Pali supporters.
At SEA, one of the airport flacks gushed about how they planned for such an event and were fully prepared, yada yada. Took over an hour for the first vehicle to start to be towed away. Bullshit, take a tug out of the secured area, hook a drag chain and pull those fuckers to the side. Faster than Dominos back in the day. Or a D9 from their forever ongoing construction projects. This isn’t AAA, fuck their vehicles, and fuck the Pali supporters.
Don’t airports have water cannons for fighting fires?
The deicers were available yesterday morning.
Sure, why not.
Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128640/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-ads-app-recommendations
Fuck No.
You can turn it off.
For now…
Hello Linux