Good morning one and all to another fantastic day!
Texas squeaks out a win in double over time against my Sun Devils at the Peach Bowl
THE Ohio State University Buckeyes tore Oregon a new asshole at the Rose Bowl
Sugar Bowl delayed a day due to New Orleans terrorist attack
What we know about the New Orleans New Years’ terrorist suspect
Las Vegas bomber served at the same military base as New Orleans mass killer Jabbar
Justice Department Asks Supreme Court to Reinstate Beneficial Ownership Reporting Rule
H-1B visas have an undeniable fraud problem
Higher Education Leaders Finally Start To Realize Their Entire Industry Is Worthless
‘X Money’ payment system to launch in 2025: X CEO
These restaurant chains closed locations in 2024
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
If we had more H-1Bs this wouldn’t have happened!
Other articles showed that post second divorce he’s been living in a mobile home, very heavy Islamic immigrant community (like the neighbors they found only speak Urdu level) after losing a lot in his realty business.
Have to wonder if he hit hard times, went to the wrong mosque / followed youtube channels and got radicalized (the equivalent of “born again” but with the unfortunate side of “kill all infidels” unlike “rail at college coeds”) or got radicalized and that broke up his marriage / tanked his business. I have to suspect living close to the mosque in a more likely hard core Islamic neighborhood was no coincidence… it was where he was now comfortable.
I’m rather skeptical of the other NOLA explosive devices (at least one was an actual nail/pipe bomb, right?) and the other 4 people “having nothing to do with it”… sorry, FBI — you’ve burned all your credibility over the last several years, especially with Agent “This is not a Terrorist Event” yesterday.
And yes, that the FBI/DOJ worked extra extra hard to make sure abortion clinics were safe from 70 year old grandmothers singing hymns over the last 4 years sure doesn’t escape notice at this point. “I did that!” sticker merited on some level here….
“like the neighbors they found only speak Urdu”
Or they didn’t want to talk to the press and were using that as a barrier.
Fair enough, Tonio — fair enough.
He was a nice guy looking to turn his life around.
@rhywun – an astute religious scholar even.
I got born again and my motto became “rail all college coeds”.
“rail all college coeds”
I used to subscribe to that bible, but the internet put it out of business.
Of all the gin joints…
Watch the FBI come out and say both were on their radar, but..
Like this?
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/747/604/f81.jpeg
Regarding the Vegas bomber, a couple things jump out at me:
– 19 years in the Army, 18 in SF. I could be wrong or out of date here, but being accepted to Q school with only a year in seems unusual. A little resume inflation?
– Looking at the ‘after’ photos of the Cybertruck, I’m a little surprised that the conflagration killed him. If I were the medical examiner, I’d be checking very carefully for needle marks on what’s left of the body…
One lungful of air that hot and you’re dead. Your blood pressure bottoms out and you’re done. On top of that is massive burn injuries he would have sustained.
Shouldn’t call him a bomber, since fireworks and gas is not a bomb. At best/worst, this was an incendiary device.
If he was actually SF, and not “ash and trash” like Jabbar, he would know the difference.
I would be surprised if the two attacks turn out to be linked. Islamic terrorists seem to be much more competent, plus the flavor-of-the-month Trump+Musk seems more antifa than ISIS.
Yeah, we sure stuck it to those corporate pigs with that ironic combination amirite comrades?
Is it technically a “problem” if the entire program is designed from the ground up to facilitate it? I remember reading about H-1B consulting farms and their slimy practices clear the fuck back in 2006 when I was deep-diving immigration policy for a college class. Among other things, they juke wage data, and, at least back in 2006, were allowed to use their own internal market estimates to set wage levels (the H-1B program specifies that the employer has to have at least courted a citizen for the job, and pay the immigrant the prevailing market wage for the job).
Given who has the lobbying money to sneak the appropriate verbiage in — no, I don’t seriously think any of the current operation beyond “the visa limits are too low! we want more indentured servants!” is unintended.
Do they do the same as government agencies that must publicly advertise for openings – include requirements that only their target can meet?
That or a job listing that’s flat out impossible (all the “7 years experience [on a product only available in the last 2 years]”) and lie, I believe.
Very much so.
This. Seems to be working exactly as designed. Countless examples over the past week of companies firing thousands of employees and replacing them with H1Bs.
Which is exactly why this is a tempest in a teapot distraction.
Of all the problems with our immigration policy, this isn’t the most pressing.
Yes, Americans are being fucked over by all aspects of immigration policy, not just this one.
But this one is in the news because of the MAGA Cripple Fight factor.
It is the most pressing if you majored in Computer Science and no longer have a career.
Perfect Drake – that distills it all done to ME – what’s in it for ME! And that is exactly why our entire govt fucking dysfunctions and not just on this policy.
And that is exactly why our entire govt fucking dysfunctions and not just on this policy.
A Republic if you can keep it… This is exactly what is meant by the old fashioned idea that a Republic requires virtuous electors. The primary virtue in question is the willingness to put the long term good of the Republic ahead of personal, including familial, interest. I’m not sure that virtue has ever been widespread, but then our Republic has been in trouble since the very beginning.
Of course the people affected the most are the most concerned.
They also happen to be people highly active on social media who called out the gaslighting bullshit the tech bros were spewing.
The guy who set himself up as the savior of America got mad when he was caught firing thousands of Americans in favor of cheap Indians. It was a mask drop moment that cost him and Vivek a lot of trust and credibility.
People who were most affected are going to vote in their best interest, not what you tell them is there best interest. And, the opposition is going to highlight every minor thing that they think will give them the best chance of getting back in the cat-bird seat.
That is how the whole thing works.
“Outlook unclear — ask again in 3 weeks when your boss changes.”
And that is how it should be. The people voted for regime change, and along with that a lot of political questions being decidedly pulled off the table.
Hmm… I’m “X rich” or “X funded” isn’t really a winning turn of the phrase there, guys…. might want to rethink that marketing plan.
Stop this. It has been more than a year.
I was reminded of this media style convention last month in an article about “mpox”. Oddly the hive has retired the “formerly known as” phrase in that case.
Dude never got over his original X.com ambitions.
I half expecting him to start throwing a bunch of money at open source foundations so he can bring Wayland back into the X.org server and make an X OS (not to be confused with OS X, of course).
Wayland is the display protocol of the future, and presumably always will be…
Fusion-powered dippin’ dots are the future.
Will there be a way to triple your X money? Make it XXX money?
Asking for an onlyfriend.
Musk is supposed to be the smartest man in the world – but he literally had a temper-tantrum, banning and de-monetizing people on X, during this announcement. I think I’ll keep my money in a bank.
Musk is supposed to be the smartest man in the world – ehm no?
What, not trust an industry with such stellar successes like Paypal when it comes to not taking your money and giving you no recourse?
Gasp!
Sob!
Yeah, he’s a businessman. Maybe someone he hired is the “smartest person in the world” but I wouldn’t bet on it.
He’s not that smart, I could be as successful as him if I wanted to.
Archive link to the Beneficial Ownership Reporting Rule article, to bypass paywall.
https://archive.fo/liOwg
Thank you. I can’t afford those fines, so we filled out the form. It’s quite intrusive.
When will Congress pass a law criminalizing avoiding reporting by staying under the thresholds?
The Ohio States tears Oregon a new asshole at the Rose Bowl
well this is the last time I considers seeing ducks on the lake as an omen
there goes 10 bucks
The future isn’t all it is quacked up to be, that’s for sure.
Breaking out that old canard, are we?
Ohio State is headed to the Cotton Bowl – how is that not racist in 2025
Would it be more racist, and also fascist, than the orange bowl? I mean the evil orange guy has a bowl for himself!!!
I’m just glad Ritz hasn’t decided to sponsor one — Alabama versus Georgia at the Cracker Bowl would be too much.
*strongly narrows gaze at SDF-7*
SDF-7:
Not Cracker Barrel?
Cracker football team, and NOT mentioning BYU?
Samoans are cookies, not crackers.
I’m just glad Ritz hasn’t decided to sponsor one — Alabama versus Georgia at the Cracker Bowl would be too much.
Georgia v Grambling
Neph — I considered it, but “Cracker Barrel Bowl” just doesn’t work as well.
And sorry, NA — too many years at UGA / Tech not to think of the South when it comes to cracker jokes. If we get a Milquetoast Bowl — that’ll be BYU. 😉 (I keeed, I keeed…)
STEVE SMITH APPRECIATE DUCKS!
You don’t know the term sitting duck?
This what happens when you break the PAC you made.
“Higher Education Leaders Finally Start To Realize Their Entire Industry Is Worthless”
I would agree with the fact the entire industry is worthless these days, more focused with indoctrinating and marxifying the lemmings in the program while actually preventing them from gaining any skills that would teach them how to learn valuable skills, but I will vehemently disagree that the education leaders see it as such. The system is doing EXACTLY what the education leaders want: turn out activist, marxist lemmings unable to think themselves out of a paper bag.
It was failing before the quasi-Marxists got hold of it. There is a logical fallacy in everyone getting an elite education even if you removed every taint of progressive dogma.
Worked for me back some 40 years or so ago. Maybe the fact that I chose to study engineering and attended non standard institutions made a difference, but I was encouraged to develop curiosity and the skills to be a better learner. And they didn’t promote marxist shit. What I see now is just frighteningly stupid.
It sorta worked and not in the way the idiots then or now want it to. You completed a rigorous technical training program, nothing more, nothing less. That’s not the point I was making.
If you didn’t notice any frightening stupidity back then, you must’ve had your nose buried in your studies.
The university system was literally started by priests. It was about “professors” and “professions,” in a time when “medicine” meant Galen and Theology was the “queen of the sciences.”
All of the classic academic fields are the reason “academic” gets used as a pejorative. There is a reason Polytechnic institutions and Agricultural and Mechanical colleges came into being — they were focused on something completely different than Universities.
University presidents are there to make money for the institution. If it becomes more profitable to end the woke shit, the woke shit will end.
This. As long as states are OK with this, and as long as doners at private unis keep giving money, all of this will keep going on.
The Texas/ASU game was just crazy entertaining.
The OSU/Oregon game, I turned off before the half.
which had the hotter cheerleaders?
Knowing not that much about the US of A wimminz, my general assumption would be that the talent is better at Texas/ASU than OSU/Oregon
And you would be correct. Honestly, I would probably rank the Texas squad above the ASU squad.
If there are any fans more annoying than OSU fans, it would be Texas fans, so both the teams I was rooting for lost.
Well, at least one annoying fanbase will be eliminated next week.
If there are any fans more annoying than OSU fans, it would be Texas fans
More annoying than all the SEC school fans?
SEC is wisely not talking too loud right now, knowing that Georgia is no shoe-in tonight, and Alabama further embarrassed the conference.
R C Dean:
Iggles fans?
Ravens fans?
Raiders fans?
I was thinking college fans.
R C Dean:
Objection withdrawn then. I don’t follow college sports so have nothing to comment on there (other than up here in Cleveland, the default is weak tOSU fandom).
Me neither. Nobody gave a shit about college sports in western NY growing up. Now I am in central NY and people seem to be interested in “Orange”.
Growing up in Oklahoma, college sports is what we had.
That’s not what Lou Gossett, Jr. said.
Same. Was hoping for an all Pac-12 championship without caring much.
The OSU/Oregon game, I turned off before the half.
Then you lasted a quarter longer than the Oregon secondary did.
Yeah, right now the playoffs are proving you didn’t need more than 8 teams to start.
The playoffs were never about determining which is the best college football team. Mo’ games, mo’ moneez.
The OSU/Oregon game was back in October.
The Buckholes and Schmucks played yesterday.
I expected the people shot in Queens to also make the links.
Just now hit my RSS feed. Apparently the journo class is still hung over from New Year’s.
No deaths and probably just everyday gang shit.
Even the NYC press is barely interested.
“four people walk up to a group standing outside a club, open fire, kill no one” ticks the wrong boxes to become a national story.
You could almost see the alternate headline: “NYC gun laws hit target as often as NYC shooters”
As predicted by someone I know for the last two decades at least…The early 21st century will be seen as a dark age for science and academia in general.
Yeah, they asked for it. Time for a purge.
Nothing caused more damage to scientific research as politicized government funding of specialties that allowed the government to then use the findings to peddle oppressive marxism. From climate change to social science, we live in a world where evil fucking cuntes get to demand we believe some of the most blatantly dumb and obvious lies possible or face expulsion from society. The ole KGB machine would be proud of this shit.
– Theodore Dalrymple
Thanks for sharing that well spoken path, Pat.
I know and have spoken with many people that fled the old Soviet republics after the fall of the U.S.S.R. and to a man (and woman) they all told me the same thing. They knew their news was pure bullshit and lies, but they all pretended to go along with it because of the consequences of standing out for questioning things. And they all felt humiliated being put in that position.
Alex: Margaret Mead, Rachel Carson, Paul Erlicht, …these guys told us to our face ‘We need a fake global crisis. we have to get the scientific community on board with it and we can do that through government grants. I remember that debate a bit after The Population Bomb came out. Of course they were all Malthusians and their goal is to get rid of half or more of the human race.
The Climate scammers are the current batch of them.
I agree that reducing the population might be an improvement but I dont think murder and poverty is the way to do it. That is just evil. If you want to ‘save the earth’, which they dont, and reduce population the way to do it is through prosperity. Prosperous societies have orders of magnitude better environments and reproduce at a replacement or less than replacement rate.
Of course those fuckers dont really care about any of that. They want power.
Commie spies and funding got the ball rolling on fake “climate” and “peace” activism in the West well before the turn of the century but yeah, we’re carrying it along just fine without them nowadays.
rhy, speaking of KGB funded jollies, have you ever seen this: The Baader Meinhof Komplex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rokR8g113yQ
Looks interesting. I had “Deutschland 83” in mind, mining similar territory.
I wonder where is the American film or TV production honestly pointing out commie infiltration in our politics?
The Baader Meinhof Komplex
I’m pretty sure that’s been repeatedly recommended on The Fifth Column.
Butherface dies?
What is that?
I had seen pictures before, but never paid attention.
She was quite pretty in her youth.
I saw a plastic face in the airport, they are quite jarring in real life.
As usual, the Twighlight Zone nailed it.
Biden to give Presidential Citizens Medal to 20, including former Rep. Liz Cheney
Lol
This confirms we are in a simulation. There is no way 330 million people want this petty childish school ground governance is there?
Not that it matters to Daughter of Darth Cheney, but those medals will go down as well as “peace in our time” did.
As Clune notes, nearly every professor, administrator, academic journal, and institution now tries to justify their work on political grounds. Valid, rigorous, and worthwhile intellectual work is that which relates in some way to identifying injustice and enacting political change — invariably of a left-wing, often neo-Marxist character.
This isn’t a problem as much in non-STEM, since everybody’s realized that those majors are pretty much a waste of everyone’s time now (okay, it sucks that every Basic College Girl who’s too plain to make the MRS degree work out turns into a shrieking lefty), but it’s a big problem when Social Justice becomes the primary, or even a secondary point of something like engineering or medicine.
It is the desire of the incompetent to assure that the system does not select for competence.
If we continue to cede control of the humanities to the Marxists we end up living in a Marxist culture. STEM is wonderful and does great things for our material wellbeing, but the humanities shape the culture. The majors you dismiss as a waste of time are the people driving the woke corporate culture, making hiring choices, sponsoring drag queen storytime etc. And even STEM students have to take general humanities classes to graduate.
I was too late to reply to JI’s quip….yesterday?….about discussing things over and over until we are like the old men referring to jokes by number. My reply is: What happens when those old men stop doing that?
In every ‘Quest for the lost treasure’ adventure there is a guardian of the lost treasure. Someone’s gotta do it.
Yep, we have to root that shit out of every field. Salt the earth, etc.
What percentage of your so-called uber technical, uber rational STEM majors believe climate change is going to kill us all? What about all the STEM folks running places like Wikipedia, Reddit, Youtube, Google, Facebook, and Twitter (X is better)? How about those steely eyed science types that were supporting masks, quarantines, and vax mandates for the masses?
Bill Gates – wonderful fucking STEM guy. Unfortunately, when he steps out of his lane, we get some of the worst policy proposals getting foisted on the public. Other STEM guys like Tony Fauci – just gorram wonderful, right?
Enough of STEM majors do not question it as it doesn’t come directly under what they are learning, and is just the air they breath in at this point.
And the ones who do swim in it are working from a model, which is a baseline assumption and not questioned.
The problem is that we have a whole generation who got MRS degrees from very expensive finishing schools, and they are weighing down a large part of gov’t and business.
“Las Vegas bomber served at the same military base as New Orleans mass killer Jabbar” – considering the jobs each had…no chance they knew each other. This is trying to stitch together something that just ain’t there.
I’d believe the IT/personnel soldier to be an SFO before someone who tells the world they were/are a SFO though
SFO that can’t turn a truck into an effective bomb, even with them being there to detonate it himself?
Tim McVeigh is rolling on his spit in hell. But I guess he would be in any case.
I thought so too but then it is not necessary for them to know each other for the incidences to be connected
As I said earlier, 19.5 years of service with 18 in Special Forces? I don’t think it exactly works that way.
I knew a guy years ago who claimed to be ‘retired naval special warfare.’ The clear implication was that he was a retired SEAL, but the fact was he did four years active as some kind of communications specialist, then did his reserve bit in a Special Boat Unit. Not nothing, but not even close to a SEAL. I wonder if we’re seeing something similar here?
Look I trained along side of Air Combat Controllers and PJs when learning radar…I must be able to put down my SF quals now!
There’s been an 18X enlistment option since 9/11. That said, work buddy was in a non-18X MOS and got assigned to SF support for his active duty career. Media would call him in Special Forces.
There are no coincidences.
*adjusts tin foil hat*
NPR was saying that NO guy also did a stint in HR. I wonder if that’s where he learned about oppression?
Certainly about running people over without a care.
stitch together something
MOAR STRING AND THUMBTACKS!!!
Right! I left out the crazy eyes, and you can’t leave those out.
Same base, both used Turo and both used EVs. I know that’s not conclusive by any means, but that’s 3 small coincidences just hours apart.
BAN EV’s!
I think you’d need an ideological connection otherwise random events that happen to line up.
Of course, I believe with a shift of political alliances occurring, it isn’t as black and white anymore. Many overlapping means to radicalize someone
I read last night a memory holed article from ABC they both used the same car rental service!
Wait for it, it was – Turo.
JFC.
RIP OJ. Avis needs to try even harder.
Mrs. TOK has used Turo a number of times. It’s a popular app and there seems to be less rigorous checking than a big rental company.
Las Vegas bomber served at the same military
basepostJohn Carter over at the Postcards from Barsoom substack has a (quite lengthy) piece on the Republicans’ H1b kerfuffle.
Pretty much preaching to the choir at this place, but there’s a lot of good information to be gleaned.
I read that piece and thought about posting it here. I think there’s a fair contingent here who fall into the homo economicus camp, based on discussions about some of my previous musings on New Libertarian Man, the blind spot libertarians have for community, and transactions v relationships.
In any case, this is a good discussion to be having at the levels it is being had at right now. Previously, it was just swept under the table, and now it is out in the open.
Don’t worry — not wanting companies to fuck us right up the ass with the help of the government is the root of all our government problems according to JI above.
Who knew?
Good article until his bootcamp mills solution. Lifetime employment isn’t going to make a return and the flip side of locked in employment is employers will need to make the same guarantee.
Why is that a bad option? It seems like he is suggesting government provide initial funding for the solution which I would object to, but not sure why I would be opposed otherwise.
The quality coming out of bootcamp mills is unlikely to be high. I remember when ITT Tech, DeVry, and other were churning out people. Those hires were almost uniformly poor. Coupled with government funding so even more likely to be split between grifting nonprofits and out of date/wrong curriculum.
Most American tech workers aren’t looking for their 30 years and a pension. They just don’t want their wages artificially depressed through the use of visa workers.
The irony is that Musk keeps telling people they aren’t having enough kids – while participating in the destabilization of the employment market that prevents young people from having kids.
The lack of employer training is a combination of cost cutting and mercenary employment model (which goes right to the top).
Gustave Lytton:
Ahh… the days of the paper MCSEs. I remember some credential chasing twit who included his MSP (MicroSoft Professional) cert in his signature… he had an MS Office certification.
I was in a dry dock security office and the secretary had her required annual training certs framed and hung up behind her desk.
Hey! I’m proud of my ATC Towers and Fire Prevention certification!
I’m weary of this issue already. As always, just follow the money.
Or maybe it’s this.
This happened over on 𝕏 yesterday, so I sent it to my client, Bart Kosko, who is not on Twitter, who thought it was very interesting and told me a little story and then sent me an article he wrote. I asked him if he would consider joining us here in Glibtown and maybe contributing a little, but he declined because he doesn’t like social media (even blogs). He did say I could post it though.
Did you tell him we’re not very social here?
Hell we’ll even tell him to fuck off upon arrival!
Yes. I said,
He said,
Explain to him that we are a social club for antisocial curmudgeons. Who could say no to that?
The right invention in the wrong cultural framework won’t produce the same result. The obvious go to example here is China having gunpowder, paper production and printing long before Europe. In a static cultural setting like Confucian China you get pretty kites and fireworks for the Imperial court to enjoy. In a non-static setting as existed in Europe post black death you get the Reformation, 30 Years War, Renaissance, colonial exploration of the globe, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, Nietzschean Death of God, Rise of secular ideologies, Global War, and on and on.
This was discussed in the comments on that tweet I linked, but they’re hard to fine. Like here, and especially here.
Daily ray of sunshine
https://youtu.be/7F1Xz20B4vU
Against all common sense, we are picking up a corgi pup a week from tomorrow. Just in time for the ass-biting cold to hit. Potty time should extra fun in single digit temps.
God, they are so adorable. My dog is sitting here with the full head tilt going, listening to the pups.
As I read this: the Trump administration has said it will take a scalpel to higher education.
I immediately thought of this:
Well, Dan got happy and he started raving
He pulled out a razor, but he wasn’t shaving
And all the cats knew to jump and hop
‘Cause he was born and raised in a butcher shop
A scalpel is not what is needed here.
That depends on which part you are throwing away, the part you cut off or everything but.
Am I correct in assuming “ban car share apps” is the most important lesson to be learned here?
Or the very least they should be forbidden from being able to rent large extremely powerful heavy trucks.
You don’t need something that big and powerful to get from point a to point b.
Only four cylinder compact cars with limited range should be permitted.
Nono, they just need to check against the No-fly lists.
“These restaurant chains closed locations in 2024”
I maintain that the economy is much worse than our government is admitting to. In talking to our fellow business owners here, we’re finding that all of us struggled a LOT last year.
I didn’t buy any firearms in 2024.
>.>
Whoa!
I sold guns in 2024. Net loss.
I’ve reluctantly come to the conclusion that I really only need eight guns. My carry gun, my game gun, my shorty AR, and my long range AR, plus an identical copy of each one as a backup.
I got three!
All in fudd calibers (.22LR, .45ACP, 12ga).
That’s actually my philosophy, but I play multiple games. Hence my acquisition of a L10 Major gun.
Bought an inexpensive “normal” 16″ AR.
Everyone already needed a shotgun. Now militaries will be buying more to shoot at drones.
I bought two and a suppressor.
Expect the economics data to, erm, return to closer alignment with reality early next year. Why, I woudn’t be a bit surprised to discover that we are in a recession. A Trump recession, to be precise.
That is a good point. It would be fairly easy to wait two or three months, then report on how bad the economy is *right now* while pretending the last 4 years never existed. I think we’ve seen that movie before.
I’ve noticed (at least locally) Google Maps can no longer be trusted at all to see if a place is still open or not. Things that I’ve flagged as permanently closed keep getting flipped back to temporarily closed or (even worse) open.
Yes. It is annoying.
Eating out has returned to being the luxury that it was when I was a kid. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Eating out has returned to being the luxury that it was when I was a kid. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The war on women is getting out of hand!
We would get $5 in McDonald’s gift slips in our stockings every Christmas.
Never forget
President Joe Biden is bestowing the second highest civilian medal on Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, leaders of the congressional investigation into the Capitol riot who Donald Trump has said should be jailed for their roles in the inquiry.
Biden will award the Presidential Citizens Medal to 20 people in a ceremony Thursday at the White House, including Americans who fought for marriage equality, a pioneer in treating wounded soldiers, and two of the president’s longtime friends, former Sens. Ted Kaufman, D-Del., and Chris Dodd, D-Conn.
“President Biden believes these Americans are bonded by their common decency and commitment to serving others,” the White House said in a statement. “The country is better because of their dedication and sacrifice.”
Biden last year honored people who were involved in defending the Capitol from a mob of angry Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, or who helped safeguard the will of American voters during the 2020 presidential election, when Trump tried and failed to overturn the results.
Cheney, a former Wyoming congresswoman, and Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, led the House committee that investigated the insurrection. The committee’s final report asserted that Trump criminally engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the lawful results of the election he lost to Biden and failed to act to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol. Thompson wrote that Trump “lit that fire.”
Keep those gaslights burning.
Well, if Joe Biden says then what else do you need?
What the fuck happened to that link? I blame wordpress.
Maybe if you threaded properly and read links, this wouldn’t have happened.
THICC Thursday welcomes the New Year with top quality T&A.
https://archive.is/S7dug
Checks notes..it was those dastardly Libertarians!
What a putz
I read that as sarcasm, but I don’t know who Jack Poso is, so maybe he’s being serious?
In which case, that’s retarded.
It was his dig against open borders, when the reporting was the truck come from the border.
“And they promised that following libertarian principles would prevent any bad thing from ever happening!” 😭
Today, in irrelevant hokum
Financial giants Citigroup and Bank of America (BofA) have decided to exit the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), a UN-backed coalition of banks dedicated to advancing global net zero goals through their financing activities, marking an acceleration in departures from the group, following similar recent announcements from Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo.
Launched in 2021 – with Citi and BofA as founding members – the Net-Zero Banking Alliance is a coalition of more than 140 banks spanning 44 countries. Members of the NZBA commit to transitioning operational and attributable greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their financing activities to align with net zero pathways by 2050, and to set 2030 financed emissions targets, initially focused on key emissions intensive sectors.
The NZBA forms part of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), a UN-backed umbrella group of net zero-focused financial sector coalitions, which also includes the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (NZAM), Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA), Net Zero Financial Service Providers Alliance (NZFSPA), the Net Zero Investment Consultants Initiative (NZICI), the Paris Aligned Asset Owners (PAAO), the Venture Climate Alliance (VCA), and the Net-Zero Export Credit Agencies Alliance (NZECA).
After rapid expansion in the early years of the decade, members of the various GFANZ groups have come under significant pressure, particularly from Republican politicians in the U.S., who have been warning financial institutions including banks, insurers, asset owners and investors of potential legal violations from their participation in climate-focused alliances and of plans to exclude the companies from state business, as part of a broader anti-ESG political campaign.
Those darn anti-ESG buttinskis are wrecking our sweet scam.
FTFY
Funny how Trump getting elected seems to have been a catalyst for a lot of these houses of cards to start collapsing.
It’s unreal.
Almost as if they were waiting for this moment, knowing the game they were playing was bullshit all along.
Maybe if you threaded properly and read links, this wouldn’t have happened.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
As a former regular returning after a significant absence I find your constancy in rebelling against the social rules of posting refreshing!
I like it. It revives conversation that may have been lost.
@OMWC looked at me like I was crazy when I said that some time ago.
If they can do it, so can we
Nine out of ten new cars sold in Norway last year were powered by battery only, registration data showed on Thursday, placing the country within reach of its target of only adding cars that are electric on the road by 2025.
Fully electric vehicles accounted for 88.9% of new cars sold in 2024, up from 82.4% in 2023, data from the Norwegian Road Federation (OFV) showed.
Top-selling brands were Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab, followed by Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE), opens new tab and Toyota (7203.T), opens new tab. Chinese EVs now account for almost 10% of new car sales.
“Norway will be the first country in the world to pretty much erase petrol and diesel engine cars from the new car market,” said Christina Bu, head of the Norwegian EV association.
Easy peasy. There is nothing particularly unique about Norway which might skew the model.
A country that got stinking rich on oil.
lol Do these people even listen to themselves?
Football is shaping up to another tOSU v. tPSU contest so Coach Franklin can lose his 9th in a row to tBuckeyes.
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Daily Star must get kickbacks from OnlyFans.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/im-41-year-old-gran-34372227
Oil-producing Norway penalises petrol and diesel cars with high taxes, while exempting EVs from import and value-added taxes to make them more attractive, although some levies were reintroduced in 2023.
The policy has worked because it has been consistent over time, maintained by governments of various political persuasion, experts said.
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Having incentives, rather than banning petrol and diesel cars, was crucial too, said Bu. “That would (have) made people angry. People don’t like being told what to do,” she said.
Not even when it’s for their own good?
“We didn’t ban those alternatives. We merely made them ruinously expensive. That’s how you do it.”
Money ain’t for nuthin and the chicks are free
Remember that kid that jumped off of the HS gym roof with a tablecloth over his shoulders? I remember him. He was yelling “I’m flying! I’m flying!” all the way down.
“having sex incorrectly”
https://www.themirror.com/lifestyle/couple-desperate-baby-told-theyre-879077
“Incorrectly” is a matter of perspective here.
No bacon?
A. Made up story
B. If true I would have told them to just keep trying. Really, who wants them reproducing?
Didn’t the same story make the rounds a year or two ago?
Very cool.
1973 – a high school received a shooting threat. Teachers and students got their guns out of their cars and guarded the doors.
https://x.com/USPast1776/status/1874837322505797710
That is not the population the pols want. They want a population easily commanded and controlled. A population dispirited and fearful.
Such people make soft targets. Shooters also go after soft targets.
Pols want soft targets. Pols want school shootings.
Speaking of grifts getting shut down;
I’ve mentioned before that the ActBlue headquarters is down the street – or it was; the office has been emptied out.
Likely purest coincidence – probably moving somewhere bigger – but I had a moment of hope.
The roaches may scurry out of the light, but they’re still there, just waiting it out until the bulb burns out.
All in fudd calibers (.22LR, .45ACP, 12ga).
What’s a non-Fudd caliber? .357 Sig? 9mm Makarov?
Five-seveN and 6.5 creedmor
155mm howitzer?
AK calibers.
9×19, 5.56×45, 7.62×39, 7.62×51….
This.
I wrote about this six years ago.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/30/demons-must-be-delighted-at-how-badly-americans-have-butchered-marriage/
A bit of shameless self-promotion:
https://www.glibertarians2018.link/2018/02/16/sex-wars-episode-1-aka-what-about-our-family-friendly-rating-aka-8d-i/
Religious connotations aside, you’re not putting the toothpaste back in the tube. Federalist is doing the equivalent of lamenting the suburbs and saying we need to stop using cars so they go away. Ain’t gonna happen. Hormonal birth control and abortion are here to stay, no matter what people think. Not to say we can’t improve relations between the sexes but the rules of the game have changed permanently. Adapt or die.
Not for lack of trying in the various parts of the world that are outbreeding us now. Some of their top-down schemes are making their way to “western” countries, too.
And some of those countries used to embrace Western style modernism 50 years ago.
You were right – and ahead of most of the “trad wife” stuff.
On 𝕏, there is a tremendous movement back toward church, manly men who follow God’s word, marry “traditional” women if they can find them, have (lots of) children they homeschool or tightly control the flow of disgustingness from the schools, and have either tight-ship suburban homes or homesteads. These men do not want body counts or tattoos.
At some point, when hedonism is what must be rebelled against, and it’s been rebelled against, at least amongst my tweeple.
In addition, amongst my lefty tweeple, there is a surge of bemoanment amongst mid-30s women who can’t find a dude to marry whom they want to have children with. Mind you, these are not the same women going, “Must be over six feet and bring in six figures.” They’re past that. Their biological clock is ticking, where they never thought it would ever tick and indeed, did not want them to, and all the good men are taken. Or they’re not looking in the right place. The logical answer is, of course, “Go to church,” but even my daughter doesn’t want to hear that (she thinks she’s gone through religious trauma 🙄, so I don’t push).
So I keep my peace and sit smug in the knowledge that hey, I got mine! It wasn’t for want of looking, either, but I had to change myself drastically if I wanted to get married and have children, so I did. I was 35 when I had my first child and 37 when I had my second. They were both difficult, so I knew that #3 would kill me. I wanted to have one more, but I couldn’t abandon the two I had for the one I didn’t, so hubby got snipped.
My 26 year old son has trouble finding women his age to date.
He says any time he has liked a girl, the more they talk the more he loses interest.
I told him he might be being too picky, but he says they are all vapid.
I also told him it might be my fault for stressing that it was important to find the right person and not marry the wrong one, but he says that’s not the problem.
I don’t have any good advice to give him, because at that age I was a married father of 2, I don’t have a lot of grownup dating experience.
The Bee did it better.
https://babylonbee.com/video/satan-asks-democrats-to-tone-down-all-the-evil
bad kitty explains America:
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-american-order
that article in two words: culture matters
Not all heroes wear capes.
Business owner gives cars a hosing down for parking in his driveway
The tax man needs our help
After two years of delays, the IRS is finally implementing a tax reporting change, which requires third-party payment apps like PayPal, Venmo and Cash App to issue a 1099-K for anyone who earns self-employment income over a certain amount through these apps each year. For last year, if you earned $5,000 or more on a third-party app, you can expect to receive this tax form.
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This isn’t a new tax rule-you’re required to report your freelance or self-employment income whether you receive a tax form or not. It’s a tax reporting change that switches the reporting requirement to payment apps so the IRS can keep better tabs on income earnings that might otherwise go unreported.
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Although the IRS will be able to keep a closer eye on freelance earnings, the tax agency isn’t interested in the money you’re sending to your family and friends. If you pay your roommate your portion of rent through Venmo, for example, these transactions are not considered taxable.
Stop stealing from the government.
If you pay your roommate your portion of rent through Venmo, for example, these transactions are not considered taxable. but you’ll have to prove it.
That was my question: how does the IRS know its self-employment income?
Oh, that’s right – they don’t. They just assume it is, and you get to argue with them about it. Good luck!
Get rid of the income tax.
Yup. It’s the Total State camel’s nose under the tent of all your financial doings.
This! Income tax by definition makes every economic interaction the business of the state and effectively criminalizes privacy. It’s entirely inconsistent with the concept of private life.
“This kid is at least 46 and on his second divorce.”
🙂
the snow has started
☠️☠️☠️ OMG
XY is going to the Restaurant Depot today and asked me if I wanted something. Well, sure. I want a gyro cone. But I don’t want a rotisserie to cook it on. Can’t find instructions for cooking a non-pre-cooked cone without a rotisserie.