Good morning one and all to another jocular day!
Elon Musk reveals DOGE’s new target — members of Congress who got ‘strangely wealthy’
After weeks of anticipation, the White House is ready to unveil Trump’s reciprocal tariff plans
Trump administration delays plans to ban foreign nationals traveling to the US from 43 countries
Proposal Aims To Bypass Impeachment, Remove Judge Who Blocked Trump’s Use Of Deportation Flights
GOP-led states remove hundreds of thousands from voter rolls, finding non-citizens had registered
Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Nears Record-Breaking $100M with Balance of Power up for Grabs
WHO Admits ‘No Choice’ But to Cut Jobs After Trump’s Defunding
Multi-Billion Dollar Federal ‘Job Corps’ Is A Breeding Ground For Rape And Crime, Data Show
Moaning federal workers make disgusting discoveries as they return to office after Trump ended WFH
Tesla Firebombing Suspect Hit With Federal Charges
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Well… if true — that certainly does lead to the “Expected consequences aren’t accidental” thought. Who designed this cluster-f — Scott Weiner?
Morning, Banjos — morning all.
“The program is a bonanza for contractors, such as Management & Training Corp. of Utah, which has raked in $200 million, Adams and Associates Inc. of Nevada, which took in $158 million, and Career Systems Development Corp. of New York, which earned $82 million.
A source with knowledge of the situation said the Trump administration is closely examining the program, suggesting the $1.8 billion program’s 50-year run could be nearing an end, though contractors are likely to lobby to preserve the revenue stream.”
This is why I’m against private prisons.
It looks like the perfect ‘worst of all solutions’ because it is.
Kill it.
“China, with 1.4 billion people, we have 350 … nobody knows what we have because so many people came in illegally. But, let’s say we have 325, they have 1.4 billion, they were paying $39 million, we were paying $500 million.”
So won’t get fooled again?
Whaddya mean the new boss ain’t the same as the old boss.
I tend to believe that China has been overstating its population. Maybe by not as much as some estimates, and it’s really hard to get good data from commies, but I don’t think there are (nearly) that many Chinee.
While they could be deliberately lying, the U.S. Census isn’t all that accurate either.
AND THAT MEANS I HAVE A 141 and 2/3 CHANCE AT BEATING SAMOA JOE!
Gasp!
Hell, I share office space with DMV, Civil Service, OGS, etcetera, etcetera… and we’re not even on a push to save money.
“even forced” lol
The poor dears.
I won’t go in an office again but well, Donald isn’t my boss.
This is why I am glad I do what I do and require an office.
How do you do that thing that you do?
Awww…. can’t get more honeypots from the Pooh Bear, WHO? Too bad.. so sad….
Here’s hoping we turn off the money spigot across the board and let all these parasitic leeches find new hosts or real jobs.
Related Maryland faces $418M ‘catastrophic’ loss in pandemic-era relief funds
States are still relying on COVID funds years later.
It’s so stupid. These people knew that the spigot would eventually be turned off but yet still spent like drunken sailors on shore leave.
Ed:
Why are you in favor of draconian budget cuts that will hurt our children?
FFS, we can’t even get to a budget size close to pre-pandemic size.
Well, Covid “emergency” spending is still the new baseline in FedGov.
Mr Ilium, your children should be picking up shifts at the local factory, not parasitising off the government.
I’ve read a lot about transit agencies scrambling since the helicopter money is running out. Transit fetishists are making the usual demands for more dedicated funding. The local rail agency is even considering expanding service even though ridership is only about half of pre-COVID.
The local rail agency is even considering expanding service even though ridership is only about half of pre-COVID.
They’ll make it up in volume?
Part of why POSes like Andrew Cuomo tried to keep covid measures going: wait long enough for Trump to be out of office and get bailouts in the FedGov aid package.
“These people knew that the spigot would eventually be turned off”
I dunno. Betting that the funding would continue at that level indefinitely would have been the winning bet, absent Trump and DOGE.
Agree with RC. Harris would have continued the bailouts if not expand them.
When did SugarFree start writing DailyFail headlines?
Oh the huge manatee! (From the article)
Oh noes!!! Not having to work with other agencies present and having noisy workspace that makes it difficult to VIDEO CONFERENCE! The horror!
Fucking welcome to 2016 and the rise of fucking Open Office plans with no designated seating, you prima donna princess and the pea wannabe worker lazy bastards. Sheesh.
And I obviously would say “get rid of the rats” (the actual small furry rodents who aren’t on trains or impeccably monocled), but “Waaah… we’re in a spending freeze and have to escalate to management to get toilet paper!” is again… welcome to what the private sector has been doing for ages. Spoiled brats.
The company I was with in 2015 went to an open office plan and I couldn’t stand it so I left for a different company that still had offices.
Having a noisy workspace makes it difficult to, well, work.
Fuck that.
Why are office supplies being bought on credit card and not part of central purchasing? Those cards are primarily for travel, not for general office supplies.
About 80% of it just sounds like middle and upper management is incompetent, to me, or (like the RIFs) it’s just no different than what private sector employees have to deal with routinely. If they’re expecting any sympathy from the rank and file out in the real economy, they ain’t gonna get it.
With that title, I was expecting this as the music link.
Nah… Banjos is not foolin’.
The best foolin’.
Not https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qKYQNtF11eg
?
Gads no. This is more up my alley.
I’d have thought something like this would be more up your alley:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qf8BoWKeHow
Ted S.:
Nah, I’ll let Disco Dave explain it.
No ship
Yay! A “fool” song chain!
I’m sure everybody can think of one!
No, seriously – everybody! 😁
My favorite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2nCugGQZO0
Awww yeah
There it is.
Thousands of federal employees who were forced to return to their offices in recent weeks have made some disgusting discoveries – including a lack of toilet paper and rodents.
Lack of rodents is disgusting?
Do you hang your rodents flap side in or flap side out?
Neither – you stand them upright.
Bruce Wayne is all about flap side in and hanging rodents.
Ever since, federal employees across the country have found themselves in cramped offices where they have been forced to clean toilets and take out the trash, according to the New York Times.
Should have fired the HR team instead of the janitors.
They have proved themselves time and time again!
One Bureau of Land Management employee even detailed to NPR how ‘we have to go to the agency head to ask if we can buy toilet paper’ because the government-issued pay cards they used to use have been capped at $1 under Trump’s spending freeze.
“Do your dirty business at home, people. You want us to come dress you for work, too?”
“No… but we do expect to expand our wardrobe at the airport on our conference trips!” — Sam Brinton
When is it the responsibility of ordinary rank-and-file employees to buy restroom supplies? That should be taken care of by GSA, the government’s property manager, and purveyor of pencils, paper, etc.
Oh, that’s a good one. No, it’s not the signal strength; it’s the bandwidth. But keep discrediting yourself Daily Mail.
Yep.
Toilet paper is disgusting. – Civilized Bidet User.
Remember, we are talking about Lizard People. They are complaining that the snack budget has been cut.
The cricket ration has been increased to half?
A scientist with the agency, who was hired for a remote position, also said she now has to share office space while she works on sensitive and proprietary projects – creating ethical and practical concerns.
“A doctor said that he had to do sensitive medical procedures on unnamed patients while sharing a supply closet with an architect who was designing plans for buildings in a city.”
Oh no, the paperclips might gossip!
What is a PUBLICLY FUNDED scientist doing working on proprietary projects???
“Hi there, I’m Clippy! You look like you’re trying to do some espionage today — how can I help?”
“I’ll take “shit that never happened” for $500, Alex.”
“sensitive”
“A scientist with the agency, who was hired for a remote position”
What was she doing research into? Did she have her own lab, remotely? Does it even need a lab, or is it all BS?
Well, I was hired remotely too and I’d also be pissed if they took that away.
Actually, they did briefly. But then nobody kept up with it so I stopped too.
She’s the one in charge of making the frogs gay.
My first project with Andersen Consulting was an internal one that had no budget from a client, so it was run as lean as possible.
At one point, we were situated on a floor that was being renovated. Our desks were six foot picnic tables and we got our juice from long extension cords run across the bare concrete floors. There were six of us flunkies sitting out there doing various tasks in preparation for the project to kick off.
There was one small closet still left on the floor between the two elevator shafts. All of us wanted to sit in there to have some privacy and quiet, but we could never figure out who “deserved it” so we all were stuck out on the floor.
As we began to ramp up, one of the new people was assigned to sit in the closet. Just a random thing about when she joined and what space was left. Us OG’s were so pissed.
Later she said that she hated it in there because she felt like she wasn’t part of the project.
So, back on American time, eh, Jimbo?
:Fourscore
Yup. This is Day 2 back in Sunny Minnesoda.
The Altar Kids were house sitting and for the most part the place looked good when we got back.
From the Daily Fail,
For Tres:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14557505/Lena-Dunham-rare-appearance-body-shaming.html
“My eyes! The goggles do nothing!”
Not gonna do it!
I see she has gone from pudgy to morbidly obese. So she’s got that going for her.
Well, it looks like her career is starting to really explode.
The new Sally Struthers?
Of course. 🙄🙄
Because there are still people unaware of this after having their bullshit shoved in our faces for years?
Well, I’m unaware that Lena has anything to do with trans. I thought she was just fat and disgusting.
Did you seek out a trans-person to stare at them? Then hater, you were denying them their visibility!
I thought she was just fat and disgusting.
Yes, but she identifies as thin and hot.
I’m trying to identify the best linux distro for a particular purpose.
The box is over ten years old, being a Dual core Celeron 2.6GHz with 2GB RAM, which had sat on a shelf for ages, but I tested the core electronics yesterday. It could POST and load grub, but could not handle the Ubuntu desktop from current year. It does not really need a GUI.
The purpose I plan to put the box to is archiving/creating floppy disks for retro computers as a bridge between my modern machines which don’t support floppies, and old machines I don’t want to put a GoTEK in for aesthetics. (And lets be real, retro computing is mostly about aesthetics. They’re pretty toys.)
I don’t really have a recommendation on particular distro (my gut says Open SuSE maybe — Fedora Server is too volatile), but I’d definitely put a server install instead of a desktop one since it sounds like you will be in runlevel 3 anyway and want to minimize the installation.
At the moment I’m going to see if it can fully boot onto a live USB of the Ubuntu server, because I’ve already got everything in place to try it. But that may be carrying a lot of stuff I don’t need for the role the box is meant to serve.
No particular recommendation either, but I’m partial to the redhat ecosystem (less so with the stream model). RockyLinux does a pretty good job with redhat rebuilds and will have the older releases as long as they are under maintenance from RH.
And “Fedora Server is too volatile” – I just don’t get that. I’ve run fedora on machines (including servers) for a long time and this common refrain has just never manifested for me. Shrug.
Part of me is thinking it would be funny to throw OpenSolaris on there, but I don’t know how well that supports floppy drives.
There’s always The North Korean Linux
🤨
PM — I’m just thinking of the change cadence. Fedora is bleeding edge by design — and they roll versions every 6 months… and they do not hesitate to change stuff.
I’m fine with it personally (I use Fedora both as a dev environment / desktop and for my NAS as server) — but things like “Rip out all the audio and make it pipewire!”, “Change the default filesystem to btrfs!”, “Integrate a bunch of crap into user-mode systemctl!”, “Fiddle with how NetworkManager presents things (like oh… stop using ethX for naming in favor of odd things which can break prior rc scripts / configs))”.
It is all manageable, sure — just compared to things like OpenSuSE and the like especially if you go LTS vesions, you’re going to have a lot longer periods of stable code base (with security patches) is all I meant.
The North Korean Linux
It is a very lean distribution.
“but could not handle the Ubuntu desktop from current year. It does not really need a GUI”
You can use whichever desktop you want. Some of them are very light, but you can run Linux without one.
I know.
/career UNIX admin
Debian is my general go to. If it’s only ten years old, it can probably handle the XFCE environment.
Failing that, any Puppy Linux is very easy on resources.
I don’t know the exact age of the box, I said ten years because I get the impression it’s lived on that shelf for as long as I’ve been in my house, and I only recall it in active use at my apartment. The time frame of the CPU’s release is closer to 15 years ago.
““My resolution, on the other hand, asserts, pursuant to Article III, Section 1, that rogue judges may be removed the same way we confirm them — by a simple majority,” Biggs added.”
What could possibly go wrong?
Yup… Let’s ask Harry Reid how that turned out…
“Pelosi’s wealth largely comes from her and her venture capitalist husband Paul’s lucrative investments in companies like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Netflix.”
Industries that she gets to regulate and have access to information and allowed to make trades based on that information. It’s a big club and we aren’t in it.
I will take “Who benefited from lockdowns” for $200, Alex.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
“A toddler was suspended from nursery after being accused of being transphobic or homophobic, The Telegraph can reveal.
Department for Education (DfE) data show the child, aged either three or four, was suspended from a state school in the 2022-23 academic year for “abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity”.
The school and further details of the case were not disclosed.
But statistics show that 94 pupils at state primary schools were suspended or permanently excluded for transphobia and homophobia in 2022-23.
These included 10 pupils from year one and three from year two, where the maximum age is seven.
One of these included a child of nursery age, the data show.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/31/toddler-kicked-out-of-nursery-for-being-transphobic/
Did anyone here even know what transgender was when they were three?
The UK really is going full Orwell.
That has been in the rearview for some time now.
Yeah, the National Socialists have won after all.
Not knowing what transgender is is transphobia!
What happens when The British Quiltbag crowd runs up against the British Islamic crowd? Something has to give.
The victim stack can only have one highest victim!
Blocked. I was looking for the specific heinous wrongthought committed by the bigoted toddler.
Try reader mode?
The specific thing isn’t in the article.
I did try that and of course they don’t provide needed info.
Repeating it would be hateful! Just take their word that it was something unforgiveable like “Boys have a penis” or “But I don’t want you to cut my dick off”
Another IRS employee who works at an office in Texas also said those without a desk assignment ‘were told to go to the cafeteria and wait for an email, but there’s no WiFi in the cafeteria.’
Perfect!
Wait, the IRS? I’m sure we could put together a simple worksheet and instruction book to allow the IRS workers to identify the correct seat to sit in. We’ll fire the ones who get it wrong.
Perfect. But first OMB has to review it for how much time it will cost to complete.
Ok, but the instruction book and worksheet have to refer to other worksheets and instruction books at least 5 times every 10 lines, and can only refer to them by numbers which are randomly assigned. At least half of the referenced forms should only be available on paper, and only at a single IRS office, which can only be contacted by telegraph. They also have to use entirely illogical formulae to arrive at the final number. For instance if the final number is meant to be 80% of the input, you do not multiply the input by .8, you multiply it by 4, divide by 2, multiply it by 4 again, then divide by 10.
Publication 534T
They just got 87 billion dollars and can’t afford to upgrade their bandwidth?
Waiting for their broadband grant.
That found Model 97 — It had zero bluing (might be old) but not a lot of patina (saw regular care), and a repaired stock (again, maybe old?). I looked up the serial number, and it was made in 1925. And still being used in competition.
If my competition gun makes it to 100 years old, I wonder how many original parts will be in it.
The gun of Theseus.
Whiskey-Drinking Rocker Transforms Into West Africa’s Most Dangerous al Qaeda Leader
https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/iyad-ag-ghali-al-qaeda-leader-west-africa-85afbca0?st=fkAEyU&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I guarantee the US financed him in some way multiple times.
“A Pennsylvania town painted curved road lines down a residential street in a new “traffic calming” initiative officials hope will rein in reckless driving — but many residents were left wondering if police would think they were driving drunk if they followed the new pattern.
Montgomery Township, just outside Philadelphia, has new curvy lines down Grays Lane complete with curb extensions.”
https://nypost.com/2025/03/31/lifestyle/wavy-road-lines-to-curb-speeding-in-pa-township-perplexes-residents-felt-like-a-roller-coaster/
I’m no civil engineer, but that’s retarded.
Poor Sean….
He highlighted that stupidity some time last week.
Idiocracy is coming much sooner than anticipated.
Look around. It is here. Has been for quite some time now.
Perfect excuse for a traffic stop, win win for cops to find ‘something’
Speaking of, when my car broke down a few weeks ago in biting cold, the cop who ‘assisted’ me insisted on seeing my license and even called it in.
That isnt your job asshole while Im stranded. He was an airport cop, so guessing hoping for some random bust
Probably departmental policy to create a record in case you were trying to ambush a cop. Which sounds idiotic except that we live in a bizarre world now.
Perhaps you look like a criminal. 😛
I had that happen on the Kansas turnpike years ago after I ran out of gas and a cop “insisted” on helping after I had already gotten to the gas station. I was half surprised when I wasn’t put in cuffs for the ride back to my car. He was the epitome of officer buzzcut.
Smooth….
They really hate cyclists.
Doesn’t everyone?
WTF:
No. I only hate the critical mass and slow roll assholes.
Ride US Bicycle Route 1 which includes a stretch that is narrow, no-shoulder, 55 mph on a hill.
Drunks will have an easier time navigating that than a sober person.
I pulled you over because you didn’t cross any lines.
“You slowed down and showed hesitation. That’s suspicious.”
“You didn’t slow down for the new traffic pattern. That’s suspicious.”
I’d be more wondering if the line painter was driving drunk.
Never could have seen this coming.
Trump Wants NATO to Spend More. Europe Pitches Redefining Defense to Get There.
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/trump-wants-nato-to-spend-more-europe-pitches-redefining-defense-to-get-there-d99fa2a3?st=Mvjrs2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Let them define it however they want, so long as we are not involved with any of their bullshit. They can defend themselves however they choose without our help.
We need to stop making demands and just make an exit instead.
Since apparently transgender inclusion is crucial to military readiness I can foresee one area of spending they could include.
Yeah, that and “climate change resiliency”.
Remember when the definition of infrastructure was expanded when Congress realized they had an opportunity to spend on their priorities?
There is a bridge over I75 here in Cincinnati, the Western Hills Viaduct. It was built by the WPA and has been crumbling for my entire life. It is the main artery connecting the west side of the city to the rest. Multiple studies over the past 50 years have highlighted the ‘urgent’ need to replace or radically refurbish it. For about 20 years it has had netting beneath it to catch falling chunks of concrete. Again, it passes over I75. If it eventually collapses it will kill people and will close I75 and the main route connecting about 40% of the population with the city for years. Every time there is a State, Federal, or local movement to spend money on infrastructure it gets brought up, and as soon as the money is available it is used for whatever pet project is shiniest, most blatantly the ‘street car’ on which we spent about half a billion dollars, and which connects the gentrified condos and apartments for young professionals with the bars for young professionals, and which no one uses. The viaduct continues to crumble.
Jarflax:
This is all done by design. They know once that bridge falls apart and kills someone, they can ask for however much money they want to fund their bullshit under the guise of public safety.
Imagine a government agency with only two tasks:
(1) building statues of Benedict Arnold, and
(2) providing lifesaving medications to children.
If this agency’s budget were cut, what would it do?
The answer, of course, is that it would cut back on the medications for children.
Why?
Because that would be what was most likely to get the budget cuts restored.
If they cut back on building statues of Benedict Arnold, people might ask why they were building statues of Benedict Arnold in the first place.
Thomas Sowell
Same principle applies, if you fix the actually dangerous thing you lose your selling point for new infrastructure bills.
Redefine it however you want, Europe. My answer remains: “We should be out. Period.” That alliance should have died with the USSR.
That alliance should have died with the USSR.
Yes, and we should have cultivated the Russians as partners of the West, instead of feeding their paranoia by expanding NATO to their doorstep and antagonizing them at every opportunity.
Why you hate the international M I C ???
What WTF says.
Why you hate the international M I C ???
Because it got fat and lazy and stopped competing in any arena except lobbying leading to a bunch of ships, planes and guns that no self respecting teenaged boy would buy a poster of?
THIS
We could have tamed them like we did the Germans and Japanese. Instead we drove them into the arms of every evil dictatorship around the world.
Sounds like the set up for a Black Adder episode
NATO has got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel.
This is why you instead poison the VOA managers in a mysterious ricin outbreak.
At transgender visibility celebration, Gov. Moore called out for lack of action
Blinder addressed Moore directly, recalling how Maine Gov. Janet Mills stood up to Trump over an issue of transgender student-athletes.
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“As people look to you for leadership, are you going to be like Gov. Janet Mills, who stood up and confronted the president’s anti-trans policy with, ‘I’ll see you in court’?” Blinder asked. “Or will you be like the governor of California — he shall not be named — who marched in Pride, posed for photos with his community, put his name on legislation. And when the going got rough, decided that trans people are collateral damage as he eyes national office?”
Blinder closed their remarks with a commitment to keep fighting for trans Marylanders.
“I will do anything to protect us. Shame is not real. No scrap of my dignity can be held back. That is the legacy I intend to leave my people with here in Maryland,” they said. “What about you?”
I like the attempt to shame a politician and then saying shame is not real, to someone who obviously feels no shame.
Blinders full of women.
Women beat up by men.
“transgender student-athletes”
Let’s ignore that very few of them are actually trans.
They may not experience gender dysphoria, but they do experience podium envy.
How do you define “actual trans”?
How do you define “actual trans”?
Mentally damaged enough to really believe they are women, and not just faking it for an unfair advantage?
In regards to biological males, it would be someone making a dedicated, honest, and irreversible effort to present as feminine. That would exclude anyone who still has facial hair. It would also likely exclude anyone drawing attention to the fact they are male, by beating women at sports, as trans women want to be seen as women. I can only think of maybe one — that passable volleyball player. Who I think was also post-op. Because as it was reported, women in the locker room didn’t know she was trans, and only found out later.
LGBTQ is not a thing. It’s a collection of different things vaguely unified by “not being normal.”
Even T or Q is not a thing. It’s a collection of different things vaguely unified by “not being normal even by the standards of the other letters.”
You can say that about any collectivism. Race being the most obvious example.
There was a period of time when, in order to be considered for gender reassignment surgery, one needed to have been living as their desired gender for a full year, as well as having a diagnosis of gender dysphoria from an actual doctor.
Returning to this standard would probably weed out most of the trenders, fetishists, and depressed kids…
EvilSheldon:
Yeah, the fact they dropped the live as the other gender for a year requirement makes zero sense to me. That seems to be a very basic, first step to treatment (one of the F2Ms I worked with started with the company during that period, and was so happy that we in IT didn’t give a shit what first name he used for their e-mail).
While the increase in MTF is alarming. I’m not that concerned about gatekeeping adults, given that the situation with kids is infinitely worse.
Transgenderism is a real thing, or more likely a collection of somewhat related real things. Those things are a subset of mental illnesses, not a factual recognition that one is actually the opposite sex. Intersex people are something else entirely. In all of these cases one should still be treated with basic human dignity because one is human, but basic human dignity includes the right, and in some settings the obligation, to correct falsehoods.
Not to be too pedantic, “Transgenderism” is the name of the political movement. Which unfortunately, is a real thing because Big Gay ran out of political issues, or more generally because pseudo-Marxists are always looking to promote non-economic groups as oppressed victims.
Ok, so what noun should I use to name the phenomenon to please you? I don’t want to use Gender Dysphoria in this context specifically because I don’t intend to limit the discussion to one sub spectrum of the spectrum of mental illness involved.
Democratic refers both to a political party, and a method of governance.
Transgenderism can refer to both a political movement, and a general term for a set of mental illnesses.
I’m not clear that it’s anything more than gender dysphoria.
It’s not to please me, it’s to not make the language problems worse than they already are. It went from “transsexual” to “transgender” because a person can’t change their sex, but then “transgender” expanded into this umbrella term which includes people who would not have been considered “transsexual” in the past. So now there is nonsense like “trans non-binary”.
Yes, not everyone who transitions had gender dysphoria. Look at Brazil. There is a massive amount of MTF that can’t be explained by neurological dimorphism. It’s culture. And they don’t consider themselves to be the opposite sex either.
“Gender transitioning” would cover both instances.
“While the increase in MTF is alarming.”
I meant to write FTM. FTM should be way more rare than MTF.
Why?
Males have way more eccentric brains than females.
Also, historically, there have always been way more MTF than FTM. For a long time, the only FTM people could name was Buck Angel. He’s 60 now.
To a woman who doesn’t play into the MTF bullshit, it all looks like a sexual fetish (autogynephilia) that these men are forcing upon women, and part of the fetish IS to force it on us against our will—and society is sanctioning this, so they get bolder and bolder.
Never mind what is happening to children, because if you’re 18 and you think you’re the opposite sex, you have a mental disorder; if you’re 8 and you think you’re the opposite sex, your mother has a mental disorder.
At this point, true “dysphoria” is irrelevant, because we can’t tell. We can clock most men (I mean, they don’t make much effort), but at some point, we just assume they’re getting off on invading our spaces and forcing us (with society’s sanction) to participate.
Buck Angel’s Twitter bio says “Female who lives as a man.”
And yes, I’ve already been roundly lectured by a man about how misogynistic I am because I don’t accept MTF as women. I can’t begin to follow the loops of logic that led to that conclusion.
Bro1 says, “When did you turn into a radical feminist?”
When men decided to invade women’s spaces to get their rocks off.
The vast majority of MTF are attracted to men.
Having read Bailey and Blanchard, autogynephilia might work as a description for some, but it’s not much of theory.
“Buck Angel’s Twitter bio says “Female who lives as a man.””
Well, he is.
My point is that dysphoria versus autogynephilia is totally irrelevant to women. We can’t tell and we don’t care. Get out of the women’s bathrooms, women’s sports, and schools.
*To be clear, I do not want anyone to become a sponsor of the Baltimore Banner.
I should have guessed Blinder would be wearing a mask.
Gimp mask would’ve worked just as well.
I am going to engage in my favorite activity: preaching to the choir.
This is worth the short time it takes to watch. Also, note that he engages in more than a little bit of it himself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3AN2wY4qAM
In a nutshell: ignore almost everything you see and hear in media. Personally, I am going to go push the mower around a bit. I see that some red wildflowers I transplanted last year are coming back. I am very pleased.
“Seattle City Council committee passes resolution to undo ‘defund the police’ initiatives
In 2020, following the death of George Floyd, protests rocked the Emerald City, and in response, the Seattle City Council began defunding the police in favor of using social workers. While the council was having the vote, a social worker was stabbed to death by her homeless client. Following the council’s efforts to defund the police, over 700 officers left the force, and crime spiked exponentially. Homicides broke all time high records and the department is now operating at staffing levels below those of the 1950s.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-city-council-committee-passes-resolution-to-undo-defund-the-police-initiatives
Who could have predicted that virtue signaling doesn’t solve crime?
I hope my town is paying attention because they are making the same stupid mistake.
What do you have against a world with fewer social workers?
I don’t suppose there was any contrition on the part of the advocates of defunding the police? Any acknowledgment of error at all?
No, no, of course there wouldn’t be.
Nope. It’s all about intentions.
And intentions have very little to do with results.
Everyone could have predicted it and did. That is why they did it.
The stupid thing about even the idea of this shit is that social workers didn’t sign up for this either, and will call the cops every time there is a problem client. So, right there you are back to square one, and now you have cut the number of cops who can even do that.
Sooth move, Exlax.
“Multi-Billion Dollar Federal ‘Job Corps’ Is A Breeding Ground For Rape And Crime, Data Show”
STEVE SMITH WANT JOIN! HIM NO DO CRIME, BUT CAN HELP WITH RAPE.
STEVE SMITH theme song. Loving Every Minute of it
Econ 101
Also likely to disappear from the US market: perhaps millions of the 3.7 million vehicles being imported annually from Asia and European auto factories that current make up a quarter of the US new car market, according to data from S&P Global Mobility.
And the long-ago established economic law of supply and demand means that taking millions of cars out of the supply will drive up prices.
“Those directly imported will face a higher cost, and that will cause a shortage,” said Jeff Schuster, global vice president of automotive research at GlobalData. “When there’s a shortage, it drives those prices up.”
“Yes, cost is a factor. But at the end of day, the price agreed upon is basic economics, supply and demand,” said Ivan Drury, director of insights at Edmunds.com
Maybe I missed something, but demand is not fixed. And what about all those unsold vehicles sitting on dealers’ lots I keep hearing about?
Now do Cash for Clunkers.
Thanks, Obama.
the long-ago established economic law
I don’t care how old it is, repeal it! We must have laws that reflect what we want today, not ancient relics!!! /CNN viewer
I thought prices were determined by judges in NY.
“Obamacare mandate for high-risk sex drugs protects unelected bureaucrats everywhere, SCOTUS hears
Pro-government briefs focus on the merits of the policy rather than the constitutionality of the law. “Nothing bars the President from nominating Task Force members for senatorial confirmation,” Republican AGs note.
A legal fight over free insurance coverage for HIV-prevention drugs and making a self-insured Christian company “complicit in facilitating homosexual behavior” reaches far beyond its Obamacare context, but ordinary Americans wouldn’t know that by reading pro-government friend-of-the-court briefs submitted to the Supreme Court.
Affordable Care Act provisions that force insurers to charge beneficiaries nothing for preventive services on a list determined by a task force – neither appointed by nor answerable to the president – are symbolic of unaccountable bureaucrats throughout the federal government making unconstitutionally unreviewable decisions, newly filed briefs argue.”
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/obamacare-mandate-high-risk-sex-drugs-protects-unelected-bureaucrats
Here’s a crazy idea, make private insurers private.
Will they put an end to all the PrEP ads?
Just like Germany in the ’30s
A professor at Yale University said Monday he would be leaving his post and the country over the Trump administration’s “brutal attack” on free speech.
“The message is that they’re going to do a kind of stochastic terrorism against our country,” Jason Stanley, a professor of philosophy with a focus on fascism, told MSNBC.
“They’re going to target people one by one so that those who are in fear will shut up, essentially,” Stanley added.
President Trump has launched broad ideological attacks on America’s colleges and universities, seeking to ban diversity initiatives, cracking down on transgender athlete policies and threatening the immigration status of multiple foreign-born students and professors.
It doesn’t say what shining beacon of truth and freedom he will flee to. Maybe Cuba would accept him as a political refugee.
Hopefully he can find a safe haven in Europe where they just don’t permit icky right-wingers to run for office.
That word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
They’re going to do a terrorism?
‘Member when being a professor at Yale mean that someone could English?
a professor of philosophy with a focus on fascism
Pro or con?
Are we orienting based on claimed preference or revealed preference?
“It isn’t bad when we do it.”
Well, the position depends on there being as much as possible.
Because saying men can’t compete in women’s sports is exactly the same as banning establishment-disfavored political candidates and arresting people for their tweets.
Surely she’ll go to the land of the latter while decrying the end of democracy in America.
I think it’s Stanley who Moynihan on The Fifth Column bemoans used to be a serious person but has lost their mind/decided to cash in with MSNBC.
*checks*
Sorry, no, a different Yalie who has lost their minds/cashing in with MSNBC, Timothy Snyder.
B-bye!
First they came for the illegal aliens and I said nothing.
Then they came for violent criminals and I said nothing.
Then they didn’t come for me so I became depressed.
Decorum
When comic Amber Ruffin was announced as the featured entertainer at this year’s White House Correspondents Association dinner, the group’s president said she’d be “roasting the most powerful people on all sides of the aisle and the journalists who cover them.”
But after Ruffin referred to the Trump administration as “kind of a bunch of murderers” on a podcast last week, and made clear her focus would largely be on the president, she was out.
Over the weekend, WHCA president Eugene Daniels said his group wanted to refocus the ritzy annual event on journalistic excellence and wouldn’t have a comedian. Daniels, host of an upcoming MSNBC weekend show, made no mention of Ruffin’s comments in a statement and didn’t return a request for comment on Monday.
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Ruffin, a writer for NBC’s Seth Meyers and featured on CNN’s “Have I Got News For You,” told The Daily Beast podcast last week that she was told “you need to be equal and be sure that you give it to both sides and I was like, there’s no way” that’s going to happen.
Ruffin suggested the Trump team lacked a sense of humor. “I think they get their feelings hurt,” she said. “They want that false equivalency that the media does.”
Oh, no, teh censorship! Another strong black woman muzzled for her strong womanly blackness.
Didn’t Trump stiff these assholes the first time around? Why change now?
I vaguely remember that when he didn’t participate in the WHC Dinner, the attendance level dipped. If I was a Republican President, I wouldn’t attend those dinners anyway. It’s one thing to get roasted in good fun, but it’s different when you have to sit there while someone shits on you and misrepresents your views under the guise of comedy. And the journalists and politicians ideally should be antagonistic towards each other, so this dinner is bullshit anyway.
What is it that the r/ kiddies say when someone hurts their feels? Oh yeah, “Humor is supposed to be funny.” Try that out and see how it fits.
Daniels, in his statement on Saturday, said that he’d been planning for a couple of weeks to reimagine the dinner tradition for a couple of weeks. “I want to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division but entirely on awarding our colleagues for their outstanding work and providing scholarship and mentorship to the next generation of journalists.”
Now that’s funny.
Intellectual curiosity ain’t free
More than 1,900 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine signed an open letter warning Americans about the “danger” of the Trump administration’s attacks on science.
The letter comes amid the administration’s relentless assault on US scientific institutions which has included threats to private universities, federal grant cancelations and ideological funding reviews, mass government layoffs, resignations and censorship.
“We see real danger in this moment,” the letter states. “We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united as researchers in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated.”
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“The administration is slashing funding for scientific agencies, terminating grants to scientists, defunding their laboratories, and hampering international scientific collaboration,” the letter states.
Big Science runs on big money, and don’t you forget it. What if all the scientists moved to Portugal?
No funding, no publications and you know what happens next – someone will want real results from us!
Nothing says Independent Scientific Inquiry quite like being dependent on government funding!
Shorter: “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!”
From 1984: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbgTm9JLhtc
“The nation’s scientific enterprise is being annihilated and the silence of too many of our scientific leaders is only making the ongoing catastrophe worse,” said Dr Robert Steinbrook, health research group director at Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group.
“The ‘SOS’ signal from 1,900 scientists must be a wake-up call for our leading scientific and medical organizations to show courage and speak out at this critical moment,” he said. “If scientists and scientific and medical organizations will not forcefully speak out in defense of science and public health, who will? There is no alternative.”
They should go on strike.
I didn’t realize our very own Spartacus was livestreaming.
Cory Booker’s anti-Trump speech on the Senate floor has lasted 16 hours and counting
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347318/cory-booker-senate-speech
Because a politician gasbagging is playing against type.
What a useless gasbag.
I’m baaaaack, after a multi-year absence!
Life gets very busy sometimes, but I miss this old place. I see a lot of the same people with the same avatars, and plenty of new ones too. And I see we’re still clustered around the good ol’ AM and PM links.
How have things been around here??
Welcome back! I just came back a few months ago as well
Welcome back Akira!