Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another amazing day and the links!
Musk Disbands Twitter Board, Appoints Himself ‘Sole Director’
Twitter limits some content moderation tools just days before the midterms
GOP expects Trump to be indicted a couple of months after midterm elections
True the Vote leaders arrested after refusing to reveal confidential informant
At Least 10,000 Fewer Legal Abortions Have Occurred Since Overturn Of Roe
Homebuilders say they’re on the edge of a steeper downturn as buyers pull back
Diesel shortage raises alarm as fuel logistics firm issues ‘code red’ in Southeast
Blaming Conservatives For The Attack On Pelosi Is A Cynical Effort To Chill Speech
Everyone Is Laughing at the Ridiculous Pelosi Big Lie
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Starting in 2020, DHS began meeting with Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia and more monthly to coordinate ‘content moderation’ efforts”
Tthey had to protect democracy – meaning the stolen election and the takeover by the 3rd Obama admin – from the will of the people!
So…privately-owned companies acting on behalf of, and at the direction of, the government to censor political opposition.
I’m pretty sure that is actual fascism.
Yup.
Had a discussion yesterday with some moron complaining about free markets and the damage to society because them. Man, was the moron pissed off when I pointed out that what we have is new fascism. Our government, through regulations and cooperation with massive monopolistic entities, controls the markets, to pick winners & losers, taking credit through their regulations for anything they can sell as a success, while accusing the market of being responsible for failures caused by their regulation. The primary goal of this cabal seems to be to create a permanent and hereditary upper class while allowing that class to control the economic mobility of others (serfdom).
This criminality has now spilled over in all other aspects of government while the corruptocracy – kakistocracy for you, your holiness – expands the fascistic state they accused the guy that was cock blocking their plans of wanting. All to save democracy instead of the republic. I guess democracy means democrat wins to these crooks.
Bonus this AM
Biden Calls for Penalties on Oil-and-Gas Companies’ ‘Windfall’ Profits
Biden just can’t leave things alone. He’s worse than my ex MIL.
This is nothing but more evidence that the state sees the private sector as extensions of their policies, and holds the right to punish any private actor that dares to refuse the state whatever lunatic demands it makes.
It’s funny how people (I don’t mean Brandon in this instance, he damn sure knows this, which is why he’s calling for it) don’t understand that corporations don’t pay taxes, their customers do.
“Starting in 2020, DHS began meeting with Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia and more monthly to coordinate ‘content moderation’ efforts”
Worse than that, DHS got their own portal.
“Docs show Facebook and Twitter closely collaborating w/ Dept of Homeland Security, FBI to police “disinfo.” Plans to expand censorship on topics like withdrawal from Afghanistan, origins of COVID, info that undermines trust in financial institutions.
FBI agent Laura Dehmlow was in communications w Facebook that led to the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 over the false allegation that it was “disinfo.” This year, she met w/ Twitter/DHS to stress “we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.”
Facebook and Twitter created special portals for the government to rapidly request takedowns of content. The portals, along with NGO partners used to censor a wide range of content, including obvious parody accounts and content disagreeing w gov pandemic policy.”
https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1587104660355096576
“Musk Disbands Twitter Board, Appoints Himself ‘Sole Director’”
He is making sure that as his people comb through the shit and find the criminal stuff Twitter was doing, there are no people to obfuscate or hide the findings from him and the public. That last part is key. Showing the corruption of the left’s management of Twatter is key in this fight to make the public aware of the democrat’s agenda to protect their desire for “democracy” through the end of the republic.
He is now the Sole Man.
Maybe he can Cobble something together that works better.
That’s a low bar…
Way to miss the pun I was Shoehorning in.
I wanted to shift the meme towards places that serve alcohol!
There’s always the last guy to get the joke.
He doesn’t seem to mind playing the heel.
Oh you kids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTWH1Fdkjow
Thanks for the Ear Worm…and here I thought you were on my side!
*narrows gaze*
Just wait until Grumbletarian tells you about aglets and their true, sinister purpose.
From the perspective of the left, Musk had made a big heel turn in the last decade or so.
“The study, compiled by the pro-abortion non-profit #WeCount, part of the Society for Family Planning (SFP), noted that 10,570 fewer abortions took place in July and August than estimates from before the overturn of Roe.”
Totally reliable source. Also most abortions are morning after pills, and therefore, impossible to count.
So a pro-abortion activist group has admitted that the ruling has already saved over ten thousand lives?
I suppose the sad part is that we can look at the same datapoint and go “That’s great news!” while they go “That’s terrible!”
I’m not going to address whether the number is even real. I can’t say. As for the morning after, there’s no way to tell if the person taking the pill is even pregnant at the time, so the number of doses administered simply sets an upper bound.
Do you truly consider Plan B and the like “abortions”? It’s not an abortifacient.
Whether I truly consider “emergency contraception” abortion is irrelevant to whether or not other people include it. There are also “medical abortions” which are taking different pills.
Whether I truly consider “emergency contraception” abortion is irrelevant to whether or not other people include it.
Fair enough – are they in this case?
There are also “medical abortions” which are taking different pills.
I’m well aware.
“Fair enough – are they in this case?”
I have no idea. I’d guess they did whatever got them closer to the numbers they wanted.
“Twitter limits some content moderation tools just days before the midterms”
This interference was planned and put in the code months ago. Team blue has known that without cheating, manipulation, and insane appeals to emotion, they have nothing to offer the people anymore, because most people would turn against the globalist anti-humanist agenda that has become the driver of team blue policies.
“GOP expects Trump to be indicted a couple of months after midterm elections”
The charge will be that he is a KGB sleeper agent, right?
“True the Vote leaders arrested after refusing to reveal confidential informant”
From what I have seen/read, the judge in this case has a personal problem and wants to punish these people and prevent anyone else from ever again challenging the corruptocracy at play.
“Senate Report Says Covid ‘More Likely Than Not’ Came From Lab Leak, After Media’s ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Smear”
Despite desperate attempts to hide the truth, too many people now know that the US government paid for this research and that Fauci & Dashek were involved, in both the creation and the subsequent cover up, and the top men involved have decided it’s time to get a couple of fall guys to take the blame so they can stay out of it, so they are admitting the thing was engineered in China.
“Everyone Is Laughing at the Ridiculous Pelosi Big Lie”
The reason that these people empathize more with the criminals in our society than the criminal’s victims, is because they know their proclivities and behavior is downright criminal and way too often past deviant, already. Why can’t they just come out and say Paul likes him some man meat or ass, and his marriage to Nancy is all but a sham, in this day and age where nobody cares, or should care what adults do in their bedroom?
““A far-right white nationalist tried to assassinate the Speaker of the House and almost killed her husband a year after violent insurrectionists tried to find her and kill her in the Capitol, and the Republican Party’s response is to either ignore it or belittle it.””
White nationalist?
YES!
A drug abusing, BLM, supporting, mentally challenged, pro Ukraine war, San Francisco nudist is the typical demographic that supports the end of our democracy!
What, not a white Christian nationalist? I hear they are all the rage.
They based that off the racisty blog sites that are more than likely fakes considering they weren’t in operation until the day after this all happened.
HOW DARE YOU!
Pointing this out and causing trauma to low information voters is how democracy dies!
I thought Democracy Dies in the Darkness when newspapers run propaganda instead of news.
Democracy dies when democrats can’t tell you whatever bullshit they want so you keep voting for them… If democrats don’t win…
IT IS RIGHT THERE IN THE NAME!
RHHHEEEEE!
Okay, now do National Socialism… LOL
I would just copy & paste, then change the name?
Not just any nationalist…Canadian!
Those are the worst!
How whiter can you get?
Aren’t Canadians usually more polite? He must be a hockey player.
Paul was using artificial maple syrup.
High fructose corn syrup is not real syrup!
Irish?
Not just any Canadian, an undocumented one.
The left seems to be conveniently ignoring that little factoid.
The term is “Illegal Alien”. I’m not giving them the benefit of the semantic shift.
No hUmAn Is IlLeGal!
I hear its no fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_61hzuGGJX0
So whycome this Deppape guy was not just let out without bail. I mean, what was different in this case that made the AG that lets all criminals walk decide to actually go all medieval on this guy?
I thought that would be an Eh-llegal Alien if they’re from America’s Hat.
*squints suspiciously*
None of that is true.
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Chessle 262 (Expert) 2/6
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Woo hoo! And its not a line I play!
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Nailed a 50/50 on LL to pull it out.
Black’s 5th was once the most common line. 5.
..a6 is by far the most common now, g6 an e6 are also popular (e6 not so much since White started playing 6. g4 on a regular basis). Well done.
Yeah, weird one. I had *nothing* to work with on BL.
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Daily Duotrigordle #244
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 07:16.03
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Not a great day, but beats chumping.
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I am absolutely NOT surprised that this revelation flustered the idiots that form the core of team blue politics. After all, they are mostly urban females, most of them cat or dog ladies, with delusions of grandeur and idiotic overpaid worthless college degrees, that feel without their help minorities would be hunted and enslaved again by the evil men that don’t want to bed them.
Gee, the demographic that makes up the majority of crime victims doesn’t want police defunded.
What a shocker.
It sure as hell seems to be a shocker to a large swath of people that think government is their sugar daddy and their only loving & caring boyfriend…
That movement is entirely pushed by elites in safe neighborhoods and/or with their own security detail.
You know, like most of the rest of their agenda is pushed by people who are not subject to the results.
Well said.
Government should be required to live by the same rules & conditions it foists on the public. I bet that would be the end of a lot of fucking stupid & evil shit…
And black people that want more police in their community because of violence are wrong too. Self defense and the means to self defense need to be decriminalized, and DAs that go after people protecting themselves or their property need to be thrown out on their asses.
For their part, Twitter employees have pushed back against many of Musk’s initiatives. In response to Musk making mass layoffs, employees circulated an open letter condemning the move.
“A threat of this magnitude is reckless, undermines our users’ and customers’ trust in our platform, and is a transparent act of worker intimidation,” the letter read in a copy obtained by Time.
Personally, it increases my trust in the platform, little as that may be. As far as the “transparent act of worker intimidation” goes: What intimidation? There’s no “Do this, say this, or else”. You’re shitcanned. Deal with it. Happens to people all the time.
In response to Musk making mass layoffs, employees circulated an open letter condemning the move.
How thoughtful of Twitter employees to helpfully provide an accurate list of deadweight to be axed.
My thought exactly.
*Musk forwards letter to HR* “fire all these people”
Though replacing HR leadership should be job #1 at this point.
He can’t trust those people.
Not just the leadership at HR, the whole stack. The leadership picked the rank and file, and they’re as suspect as their management.
Agreed. Those people made the individual personnel decisions that lead Twitter down the commie path. Eliminate them all. HR is where corporations are taken over.
Eh, he can keep the payroll processors, the benefits admins, etc. They’re not the problem, IME plus you want things to keep chugging along for the remaining, worthwhile employees.
the benefits admins
*looks at what passes for “benefits”*
I’m talking 401k, insurance, PTO, etc. admins – the basics. Not fluff like “free” breakfast.
Where does pet insurance fall?
Oh please make this happen.
From what I’ve been seeing, he’s been strategically looking for ways to fire for cause to avoid gratuitously expensive severance payments and deal with elements of California labor law. So however much we’d like to see it, we’re unlikely to see one big axe until after the diminishing returns set in and it’s less expensive to just start mass purging. This will likely be the low level employees at that point.
I think it’s less risky for a company to do mass layoffs rather than single firings. At least it’s more challenging for employees to sue for wrongful termination due to (pick your -ism here) during a mass layoff situation than individual firings for cause. If HR is smart, it takes months of a documented paper trail to protect the company when firing an employee. No such problem during layoffs.
I have no idea.
I haven’t had a real job in fifteen years.
But if fired for cause, they’re not eligible for unemployment comp, right?
At least theoretically. 🙄
There are caps on unemployment payouts. But Parang(sp?) had something like $40m severance in his contract that he would be out of if the for cause termination is upheld. How many more over generous contracts are out there?
Exactly. But worse than deadweight really.
Typical spoiled kids throwing a tantrum – like they were thought at home, then in high school, and later in college, to do to get their way – because they are not getting their way here. Real life lessons like this hopefully will jar these mentally disturbed children into the realities of adulthood.
The fact that they have a 10 to 1 management types to development staff in a company that is basically providing a capability based on code, is telling. But then again, when you need to service your customer requests – that DHS censorship portal – you need lots of top men to drive the occasional work…
I want to see all the white/black lists their algorithms use/used to censor/rig/cancel people. That’s where the big details of how bad this shit got will come from.
Reality is asserting itself and they don’t like it one bit.
Even granting them the most charitable + remotely possible scenario, using your spouse’s skull hammering for political points is a level of evil beyond my understanding.
You really don’t understand psychopaths, then…
I know not to elect them and stay way from cities they dominate.
Look at you being all intellectual, logical, and shit…
Bet you the ladies throw their panties at ya all the time!
Usually with a cry of “Eww, what did you do to it?”
using your spouse’s skull hammering for political points
In fairness, Kamala was quite successful in using her skull hammering to gain political points.
*polite applause*
*Edith Wilson and Nancy Reagan wave hello*
I’m sure this type of thing happens/happened all the time. This one is offensive in its stupidity.
It wasn’t the first time Paul Pelosi got hammered.
These are people who stand on the bodies of the dead, dying and maimed to try to score political points. Why expect anything else of them?
I would say this movement is too late. The public school system, like all the 3 letter government agencies, have so thoroughly been corrupted that they can’t be reformed and will have to be broken up and rebuild from scratch.
Or not, as warranted case-by-case.
Agreed.
Jeebus. Now zee Germans are going even more woke.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/10/30/germany-is-a-world-leader-in-wokeness/
Gender free German language classes, WTF?
It doesn’t stop until the subjects of each realm make it stop.
“A threat of this magnitude is reckless, undermines our users’ and customers’ trust in our platform, and is a transparent act of worker intimidation,” the letter read in a copy obtained by Time.
Shut up and do the work you’re being paid to do or I’ll find somebody else who will,” is the absolute worst form of worker intimidation.
You, you make it sound like…a job.
Decades of “Change the world”, “Live your dreams”, “Love your job”, etc… have created generations of entitled brats.
Employers similarly have embraced the same sort of idiocy and encouraging the above to try to manipulate employees to their ends.
If you can’t beat it out of them, play to their psychopathy?
When HR talks about “belonging”, the hairs on the back of neck start going up.
I avoid HR like the plague. HR is there to protect the company from the employees.
Any employee that thinks HR is on their side or will help them will eventually wake up in a tub full of ice, with both kidneys missing (it they are not lucky all organs will be gone) and their ass stretched so big you could shove a large watermelon into it.
Replying to Alex, I’ve been having fun turning HR against asshole managers at my formerly-full-time and now part time job.
Been there long enough to know the buzz words and corporate speak to weaponize it.
+1 What Color Is Your Parachute?
Brown?
It’s kinda dingy gray and motheaten.
It’s not even that, far as I can tell. He’s basically saying: You’re job is useless. There will be no replacement. Consider the position non existent hence forth.
Maybe I’m wrong, who knows just yet.
Harley-Davidson’s Electric Motorcycles Struggle to Connect With Investors
I’m not sure where you go with HD. Electrics seemed to be the only way they could advance, but the market wouldn’t have it and they spun it out. I’m very much reminded of the V-Rod which was better than anything they produced, but not considered a Harley.
At this point the number of people who want loud pipes and lots of chrome seems to be a declining market. I’m a small guy and I’d have no problem with a smaller simple well made air cooled retro bike. Last thing I want is 650lbs of motorcycle.
Boomers are getting old. The future is trikes.
“Starting in 2020, DHS began meeting with Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia and more monthly to coordinate ‘content moderation’ efforts”
At what point do we get an elected official(s) who go in and tear it all down. We hear about this bullshit year after year and the government only steps up it’s game.
Even granting them the most charitable + remotely possible scenario, using your spouse’s skull hammering for political points is a level of evil beyond my understanding.
Too bad he survived. Just imagine the polirical payoff from blurry close-ups of a weeping Nancy draped across his coffin as it sits on display in the Capitol rotunda under a banner reading “Trump dunnit!”.
Yea, then she’d have to do her insider trading in her name
On that Atlantic article asking for a pandemic amnesty (mostly for the evil statists that tortured and ruined so many people that were not idiots’ lives), I agree with the sentiment “Fuck you, never“.
You want amnesty? Publicly admit to your crimes. Resign from and never again hold any position of public authority or influence.
Fearing that they will be made to forcibly do that perp walk of shame and lose their grip on power is precisely why they are now calling for amnesty. I have no doubt that they feel neither sorry nor bad about what they did, and given the chance to do it again, they would go even harder and focus harder on punishing dissent to get their way. They are just looking for damage control so they don’t have to face consequences for having been evil. Remember that the plan was to use that Kung Flu crisis to reset/reshape things in their favor. Under the guise of medical emergency they enacted all sorts of outright totalitarian and evil shit. And they worked hard to silence dissent and punish anyone that opposed them and their agenda.
If we give them amnesty we just encourage more of that shit they did to come our way. The only right move is to not only hold them accountable, but make sure the lesson learned is that there will be payback so in the future they will think twice about doing this evil shit again.
👆👆👆
I could accept them disappearing from the public realm.
As long as it included damnatio memoriae
I read that the other day and had the same thoughts.
Even from The Atlantic, I was shocked at the hubris of that article.
Can’t we all just forget how wrong those of us on the Left were about COVID, even as we swore that we were correct, and declared that anyone who doubted us was actively in favor of killing grandma.
Please, let’s all just forgive the fact that we claimed we were 100% certain about our actions at the time, insisting that keeping schools closed was the only right choice, because they were “dangerous breeding grounds,” while loudly proclaiming that sending kids back to school was “dangerous and absurd.”
I mean, it was a time of such uncertainty and so many unknowns. Let’s all just agree to forget how much we declared we knew with absolute certainty.
Let’s not bicker and argue about who killed who…
OT – A familiar face will be making an appearance on VSRF (Steve Kirsch’s group) on Thursday.
OT – A familiar face will be making an appearance on VSRF (Steve Kirsch’s group) on Thursday.
The third copy probably went to NSA. Fucking squirrels.
Look at that handsome devil in the uniform there.
What are you talking about, I’m not wearing a uniform…?
I’ve heard of the guy
I don’t trust him. I have it on good authority that he enjoys jazz cigarettes.
She was living in a single room with three other individuals
One of them was male and the other two
Well, the other two were females
God only knows what they were up to in there
And further more Susan, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to learn
That all four of them habitually smoked marijuana cigarettes… reefers!
+2 joints in the morning
+2 joints at night
+2 joints in the afternoon
Makes me feel alright
Bonus source link
You, Sir, have gone too far with this calumny!!
How you doin’, TH?! You still owe me a meetup.
I’ll even bring you “jazz cigarettes” if we can find a time.
*I’m doing well, good sir.
*lies
Yeah, we need to do that someday soon. Maybe bring Mo and company along.
Don’t worry about the lefties, my guy keeps me supplied free of charge.
I’m not sure where you go with HD. Electrics seemed to be the only way they could advance, but the market wouldn’t have it and they spun it out. I’m very much reminded of the V-Rod which was better than anything they produced, but not considered a Harley.
At this point the number of people who want loud pipes and lots of chrome seems to be a declining market. I’m a small guy and I’d have no problem with a smaller simple well made air cooled retro bike. Last thing I want is 650lbs of motorcycle.
Uncle Tony of Uncle Tony’s Garage went on a big rant about Harley dropping the Sportster recently.
They could probably hunker down in their market niche and survive, if hey were private, but being public forces them to chase growth which is realistically never going to happen. They sell a lot of bikes in India, as I recall.
I didn’t know they dropped the Sportster too.
Whats the difference between a Harley-Davidson and a vacuum cleaner?
The location of the dirt bag.
Alt: one sucks on carpet, the other sucks on the road.
/my motorcycle obsessed family loathes HD — I might be a tad biased 😉
My 1st bike was an HD. Didnt take long for me to move to Suzuki & Honda, respectively.
I also dabbled in Ducati.
However, the next bike will be BMW or Triumph.
My Yamaha FZ-1 is the best bike I’ve ever owned.
My Softail Slim was fun for its purposes – as was the Bad Boy I owned before that – but California
highwaysspeedways were made for the CBR954 I bought from a friend while I was living there. (It was the Coors light looking paint scheme – the Silver Bullet!)Uncle Tony of Uncle Tony’s Garage went on a big rant about Harley dropping the Sportster recently.
Wait, really? Not a motorcycle guy, but the Sportster was the entry-level HD of choice for a bunch of guys I knew.
WTF are they thinking?
WAG – low sales and/or low margins.
BREAKING: David Frum Is An Asshole:
“Only the GOP Celebrates Political Violence
Both parties suffer partisan bloodshed. One glorifies it.”
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1586378103982620673
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/pelosi-republicans-partisan-political-violence/671934/
It must really be nice to live in the fantasy land these people live in…
Sounds like a dystopian nightmare to me.
One man’s ghoulish fantasy land is another man’s dystopian something something….
Both parties suffer partisan bloodshed. One glorifies it.
That part of the quote isn’t wrong.
“Both parties suffer partisan bloodshed.”
Could someone provide a list of Democrat officeholders who have been attacked by right-wingers?
Sometimes it’s independents committing the violence.
I’ve seen plenty of lefties celebrating what happened to Pelosi. These people are insane.
The left promotes and commits 99% of political violence these days. But it is the right that we need to worry about*…
*Never mind the fact you would actually know it if the right was committing the violence, having all the guns and being at least half-way competent…
“DOJ makes rare step of weighing in on court case involving armed Arizona groups ‘monitoring’ ballot boxes – warning the vigilantes they will likely be arrested despite federal judge ruling groups CAN camp outside local drop boxes”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11376031/DOJ-weighs-Arizona-vigilante-groups-monitoring-ballot-boxes.html
Why are there drop boxes in the first place?
Because they are needed to fortify elections, DUH!!!
Yes, I’m sure that’s the answer they are giving.
Californication of Arizona at a guess. The Uniparty state got ballot harvesting enshrined in 2018, they’re going to do their best to push it everywhere.
Nice that the DOJ has decided they’re all in on being a political Gestapo, no pretense anymore. If the fortification doesn’t undermine the promised Red Wave, maybe this will get Congress off their asses and chop their funding.
Oh, who am I kidding… regardless of their constituents — I’m sure they expect their Gracious Loser Cocktail Party status to continue, so they won’t do diddly over squat.
We have a Soros SecState, and a proud tradition of ballot harvesting in Maricopa County. Naturally, the gutless Repubs who control the legislature and governor have done bupkiss to fix election security.
“Homebuilders say they’re on the edge of a steeper downturn as buyers pull back”
I am holding off on buying a new place right now, both due to the fact tat i bet prices will come down, and making sure I do it without having to get a mortgage at the current and soon to be increasing rates…
On the Atlantic article.
She can go fuck herself. With a rusty chainsaw that was dipped in sewage from the tuberculosis ward of a Russian maximum security prison.
She claims that people who got it ‘right’ got it right by luck and should be forgiving of those who were unlucky and got it wrong.
If that’s all that happened, yes, by all means I will be forgiving. But that is not what happened is it?
The people who got it wrong used extreme force against those who were getting it right and didn’t want to go along with their plans. They shut down businesses. They jailed pastors and gym owners. They stifled the attempts of the people who got it right to argue them out of their wrong positions. They tried to set family and friends against those who were getting it right. They siezed bank accounts. They were well along the path to replicating the Nazis defenestration of the jews from public life.
And now they want a do over? For people who screamed about the dangers of authoritarianism and fascism, they sure seemed happy to use violence against people whose consciences led them to not go along with the plan.
Fuck her. We won’t forget. We won’t forgive.
If she wants forgiveness, she can always commit Hara Kiri. I have an old chainsaw that I’d be happy to loan her, if it would help.
It’s pretty much, “It turns out our side was wrong, so shut up.”
I might consider some forgiveness for the dupes after some examples pour encourage los outres have been made.
For those who were in charge, never.
Yep. Your friends and neighbors who got caught up in it, I could forgive. But we’ve got a serious lack of accountability for the people on top. I’m still pissed we got “too big to fail” on the financial crisis. Fuck these people.
^This.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/john-fettermans-hometown-newspaper-endorses-dr-oz-pennsylvania-senate-race/
lulz
The best arbiters of a politician’s worth are those that have suffered their machinations. We were constantly told by team Fetterman’s monster how awesome the work he did before was, but the machine never went to that town he destroyed to ask them how great things really were.
To be fair to the Fetterstein cabal, Braddock was also pretty shitty before he was mayor.
I can bet Salena Zito was there at some point.
“Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.”
What does that have to do with you?
Why do assume he is talking about himself (in a bit of a hostile manner, to boot) and not laying out what Fetterlump’s campaign would say…
I wonder how the Lump would phrase that?
Just a little something from TOS to help raise your blood pressure:
https://reason.com/2022/10/28/michigan-court-allows-town-to-use-drones-to-snoop-without-warrants-one-couple-is-suing/
‘Note that this ruling doesn’t indicate that the Maxons’ Fourth Amendment rights weren’t violated. Indeed, Gleicher writes that the court is operating on the assumption that the violation occurred. But, remarkably, the court believes that a violation of a constitutional right is not nearly as important as enforcing zoning rules, and so the illegally acquired evidence may be used.’
Zoning people are scum everywhere. I still remember the zoning gal in my town threatening me for not doing what they wanted and filing a complaint with them that would allow them to fine my neighbor for a shed he asked me if I was OK if he set up too close to my property line and got my agreement on. The bitch was furious that I told her no way and that I had recorded the conversation just to make sure if she did anything to me for not giving her what she wanted, I would have recourse. She didn’t last too long in that job as there were too many others that didn’t take too kindly to her efforts to fine the town back into the black after her political accomplices left us some $80 million in the red with a cash grab public sewage project that went nowhere but to the places her political compatriots could benefit from it and into their own pockets.
“Rights are only for the innocent.”
I’m surprised that no company has stepped forward to offer a satellite and aerial photography analysis subscription service to catch unpermitted construction.
Don’t go giving them ideas.
There are plenty of outfits that offer imagery services. They don’t ask what you will be using it for…
I wish I could find the article about Maryland’s rain tax and efforts to disguise impervious surfaces from aerial photographs.
NPR, as usual, inverts cause and effect
Often the nationalization of politics is cast as bad for voters and democracy as a whole, for a number of reasons. One is that it flattens geographical representation, meaning regional issues like agriculture and economic development get less attention.
Another is that it reduces the importance of candidate quality and qualifications, making party the most important factor; one basic measure of nationalization is the decline of split-ticket voting.
That means elections become referenda on party leadership — for example, Donald Trump or Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi. In fact, the relentless, vitriolic focus within the Republican Party on Pelosi as a villain is now receiving renewed scrutiny in light of the recent violent attack on her husband.
All of these things can come together to feed into increasing partisan sorting and polarization.
But it’s not necessarily unreasonable for voters to latch onto national-level issues. Many Americans are understandably worried about democracy at a time when lies about who won the 2020 presidential election are widespread. Similarly, many do fear — or hope for — a federal abortion ban.
All of which means that candidates have additional reason to feed into the cycle of nationalization.
For decades, Washington has transferred power from the states to the federal government, and expanded their reach into every aspect of life. The voters have no choice but to think in terms of the Big Picture.
“Report: Man Behind Pelosi Hammer Attack Was Radicalized By Gamergate
Alleged posts from David Depape’s now-deleted blog suggest that he was connected to the far-right movement”
https://kotaku.com/nancy-pelosi-hammer-attack-gamergate-david-depape-paul-1849723644
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
They’re trying really hard on this one.
Yea I’d really trust Kotaku to get anything right about Gamergate of all things.
I didn’t know they dropped the Sportster too.
Apparently, in typical business school marketer fashion, they are keeping the name but hanging it on something completely unlike the traditional Sportster.
*Mustang EV waves*
Mitsubushi did this with the eclipse too.
And Nissan with the Pathfinder.
“Eclipse” strikes me as an odd name for a company I associate with the rising sun badge on the Zeroes.
Starting in 2020, DHS began meeting with Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia and more monthly to coordinate ‘content moderation’ efforts
Actual fascism.
Musk Disbands Twitter Board, Appoints Himself ‘Sole Director’
Muh-fascisms!
Good morning, Banjos!
That song brings bak great memories of playing my parents’ Otis records. What a talent.
Homebuilders say they’re on the edge of a steeper downturn as buyers pull back
There is a new development going in across the street. I’ve noticed that work has ground to a halt, but I still see the lots advertised and existing homes are still bringing a ton of dough.
There was a development around me that had been languishing for the past couple of years. Drove by there a couple weeks back and it’s been completed and the houses are for sale. My guess is trying to recoup something instead of eating it if the market does collapse.
“Diesel shortage raises alarm as fuel logistics firm issues ‘code red’ in Southeast”
So what is the over/under that these scumbags will not diagnose the reason for this problem – the left’s absolute hatred of humanity manifested in the green movement – correctly? People that told us all they would destroy the fossil fuel industry as immediately as they can took power, implemented policies to achieve that, but the fault that this resulted in the end of cheap energy in every economic sector, is the evil fossil fuel companies fault?
This has to be more of the shit where people believe the problem with the private sector being in bed with the government regulators can be solved by punishing the private sector and not the people regulating.
Totalitarian Tard Tuesday: Heads We Kill You, Tails You Die
Hmmm…
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1300290897922453504?
Yeah, you prefer to gaslight and lie to keep the masses from becoming aware your team is downright evil.
https://twitter.com/OhMyGOFF/status/1587216923216969731
Doesn’t Tonio live in Virginia?
Yeah, but Tonio’s white.
How can you tell under all that fur?
Fun Fact: Polar bear skin is jet black and black bear skin is light tan.
So polar bears are the white face of black supremacy?
Your fun fact continues to rule him out.
Another fun fact, the structure of polar bear fur helps funnel light to their dark skin so the heat can be absorbed.
Hey now, don’t go assuming light tan skin isn’t being white. We abandoned the whole Spaniards and Italians aren’t white view point decades ago.
Do better, bigot. 😉
Fuck that, If you can’t reach translucency when removed from the sun, you’re not white.
So the Irish are safe, got it.
So the Irish are safe, got it.
Finally, I catch a break.
Whoa, right up the road from me!
I think the only state that doesn’t have some black bear population might be Hawaii… *checks* well, it seems they got driven out of the great plains. Not the best terrain for them anyway.
If only there were a way to easily circulate cheesecake pics worldwide.
https://archive.ph/r5HiS
Titty Tuesday.
2 wins.
Wonder Woman is not a woman.
Those are definitely not transgender boobs.
Why The U.S. Has A Diesel Shortage
“Third, U.S. refinery capacity has fallen in the past few years as several unprofitable refineries were closed. So, that’s a new factor that has appeared in the past couple of years.
But the primary reason is the cutoff of Russian imports”
Hard hitting journalism right there. Care to explain why refining in the US is unprofitable?
DISINFORMATION!
Care to explain why refining in the US is unprofitable?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8E_zMLCRNg
Twitter limits some content moderation tools just days before the midterms
Election meddling!…because Dems cannot control the narrative…
GOP expects Trump to be indicted a couple of months after midterm elections
If you want to inaugurate civil war…
At Least 10,000 Fewer Legal Abortions Have Occurred Since Overturn Of Roe
So ten thousand babies saved – uh – I mean ten thousand women victimized by their reproductive organs and the men that control them, obvs.
We need sensible knife control!
Get your updated vaccine people!
CDC director tests positive for COVID again
Hey kids, sometimes people who take Paxlovid rebound with COVID.
And by sometimes, we mean 99% of the time.
SOMETIMES STEVE SMITH RAPE LOST HIKER AND CAMPER. BY SOMETIMES, MEAN ALWAYS!
How many times is this now?
Not enough it seems
One rebound for her, one rebound for Dr. Jill, one for Pedo Joe and one rebound for Fauci.
But stay away from that horse paste!
L
O
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Are they still running the PCR tests a billion times until a single shred of RNA is dete Ted? Or they are bullshit tests…
Yeah, the CCP is doing team blue’s dirty work, but the problem will always be RUSSIA!
Diesel shortage raises alarm as fuel logistics firm issues ‘code red’ in Southeast
This is fine. It’s not like diesel is necessary for everything in the modern world.
We need more Vin Diesel
Ok this is pretty good as pumpkin carving goes
https://mobile.twitter.com/DontShowYourCat/status/1587106940261376003
Blaming Conservatives For The Attack On Pelosi Is A Cynical Effort To Chill Speech
All political violence is right-wing despite 99% of it being left-wing.
engels: my girlfriend died
marx: that sucks bro i feel you i’ve also been going through it by the way i’m probably gonna need some more cash
https://mobile.twitter.com/lionel_trolling/status/1586859905809629185
Psychopaths gonna psychopath, man…
Whycome Crazy Orange Fraudster no publish tax return?
Trump’s repeated attempts to keep his tax returns private – over years – begs the simple question: Why? And there are several potential reasons that jump to mind:
2) He may not pay (or hasn’t paid) his fair share of taxes, despite his claims that he pays “a lot.” We know, thanks to reporting from The New York Times, that Trump paid zero federal taxes in 11 of the 18 years of returns that the publication was able to obtain. And even in 2017, his first year as president, Trump paid just $750 in federal taxes – a paltry sum for someone as wealthy as he is. The Times estimated that “Trump has paid about $400 million less in combined federal income taxes than a very wealthy person who paid the average for that group each year.”
5) He might not donate much (or anything) to charity. Trump long used his charitable organization to feather his own nest and collect political chits rather than for any philanthropic purposes. (Trump shut down the charity in 2018.) It’s not at all clear how generous (if at all) Trump has been to other charities over the past few decades. While there is no requirement for wealthy individuals to make large charitable donations, many do. And so, it would be a decidedly bad look for Trump if it looked like his repeated claims of largesse donated to charity wound up being false.
Whatever the reason – or reasons – it’s been clear for the last seven years that Trump is absolutely dead set on keeping his returns private. Which makes me wonder what he is hiding – still.
He does his best to minimize his tax bill? Only a racist dfoes that.
Oh, no! He doesn’t engage in Giving Theater like Kindly Old Grandpa Buffett and The Former Missus
BezosWindfall Profits. And stop me if you’ve heard this one before; he used a “charitable foundation” to feather his own nest!The other reasons are just as dumb.
What about that Constitutional Right to Privacy certain parties are so obsessed with? I guess that’s just another prosecutorial discretion issue.
If we’re playing “Where’s the tax return”, how about the Clintons and their Foundation? Charitable organization tax returns aren’t supposed to be private, anyway. Of course, they are also supposed to be filed, so . . . .
Biden has a foundation…
Similar to that Atlantic article above – MSM is aiming for the memory hole.
The Pandemic Generation Goes to College. It Has Not Been Easy.
My son was at UNCSA for the first full year of COVID. They basically locked him in his room and encouraged kids to narc on each other if they didn’t follow the guidelines to a T.
And that’s not mentioning the political insanity you can expect at an arts school.
Mine took the following semester off after living with that insanity.
He will now graduate a semester late.
SMDH
I passed algebra as freshman in high school and I’m a fucking idiot. What were they teaching the kid the two years prior to COVID theater?
Teaching about all the proper pronouns takes up a good part of the school year.
“Who’re you going to trust, the experts or your high school friend who failed Chemistry?”
Anyone remember that one? And now they just want to drop it and we all pretend it never happened. After all, everybody got stuff wrong, right? Yeah, well, no. For simplicity, there were two camps of people who got things wrong (and I’ll use derisive names for each to be fair) – the Branch Covidians who demanded excessively draconian responses and the Covid Deniers who dismissed the seriousness of the virus. But, the thing is, that snarky comment above reveals a real and important reality. The Branch Covidians were the camp that held all the commanding heights of our society. They were the ones who dominated the bureaucracy and the media and academia and the popular culture. They were the ones with all of the institutional power. They were the ones with the ability to bring force of law to their misapprehensions.. They were the ones who could get people banned from the public discussion or outright fired. They were the ones who could mock those who disagreed without even giving them an opportunity to respond. Your “high school friend who failed Chemistry” was, at most, putting a post up on social media and praying he didn’t get banned for it. The Branch Covidians can say “But, we didn’t know.” all they want. But, at the time, they sure as hell acted as if they knew. So much so that they forbid any questions or debate.
And now the Branch Covidians are insisting we should all forgive and forget. But, forgiving and forgetting isn’t a neutral proposition. It leaves those who held institutional power remaining in institutional power. Sure, maybe it restores some of the damage they inflicted on the Covid Deniers who didn’t have much power in the first place. Maybe. But, mostly it leaves them unscathed in their positions of political, economic, social and political authority. It’s like saying you’ll forgive the other guy’s shoplifting if they’ll forgive your multi-million dollar embezzlement. But, the more troubling part is that it leaves them in power. With no pain from being wrong and muzzling the truth. And when the next crisis rolls around (because there’s always a “crisis”) they’ll be in the same positions to do all of the same things.
the Covid Deniers who dismissed the seriousness of the virus
Wait, what? Seriously?
Covid was not a serious threat to most. It’s absurd to pretend otherwise. I’ll once again point out that in Pfizer’s clinical of 44,000 healthy adults, more people in the vaccine group died from heart problems than those in the unvaxed control group died from Covid. Without the media blow-up, it would have been labeled an especially bad flu season and gone unremarked beyond that by 99% of the population.
I’ve never heard of anyone not acknowledging the seriousness of the virus in certain discrete segments of the population, mainly the elderly. There are anecdotal stories of people in other groups dying, and while sad and unfortunate for their families, these are a fraction of a fraction of the healthy population. Most viruses we dismiss as not serious pose a deadly threat to certain groups. The flu takes its share of lives each year.
“The Branch Covidians can say “But, we didn’t know.” all they want.”
It was willful ignorance. We knew by, say, April or May of 2020 pretty much what it was, based on the early breakouts in Italy and on the cruise ships (which could hardly be a better Petri dish for studying a pandemic). They had an agenda from Day Zero, facts be damned. So this “but we didn’t know” doesn’t fly with me.
It also doesn’t fly if you censor any discussion about it.
Also, the Branch Covidians — such as the author — still haven’t admitted they were wrong. That usually comes before asking forgiveness.
Salacious poppycock!
Prominent figures on social media, including some of the loudest voices on the political right, are pushing a salacious and false conspiracy theory about the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, in an apparent attempt to shift the narrative about the assault.
The claim that big names like Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Jr., and Dinesh D’Souza have promoted to millions of their followers: Paul Pelosi and the man who attacked him were gay lovers who had gotten into a fight.
The spurious theory traces back to an incorrect early news report and a handful of pieces of evidence that its proponents have spun wildly out of context. It runs contrary to the explanation police and federal law enforcement have outlined – that the suspect in the attack, David DePape, broke into Pelosi’s house and attacked him.
“There is absolutely no evidence that Mr. Pelosi knew this man,” San Francisco Police Chief William Scott told CNN in an interview. “As a matter of fact, the evidence indicates the exact opposite.”
Wagons were circled.
Um… except for the 911 call.
They’re really going to try to make this fly, aren’t they? Unbelievable.
What 911 call?
There was never a 911 call.
Have you not gotten your latest
talking pointsnews updates?Oh yeah, Officer Friendly was just walking his beat at 2am and heard suspicious goings on.
How silly of me to think otherwise!
The thing is, this is all self-inflicted. If the Dem operatives didn’t have political tourette’s, compelling them to brainlessly blurt out that everything is the fault of the Repubs, this could have been a one-day story, with maybe a follow-up on how Congressholes need better federal security at home blah blah. But no, they just had to blame the deplorables and irredeemables, and now what happened is, in fact, a national story getting a lot of attention.
Which, given the weakness of the Official Story, is the last thing they wanted.
They can’t help themselves. Anything that smells of power must be chased at all costs.
Does anyone have a link to the transcript of the 911 call? Google is not helpful.
“Google is not helpful.”
Funny, that.
No, but here are some quotes
https://nypost.com/2022/10/29/paul-pelosi-made-911-call-from-bathroom-during-break-in/
Thanks!
Audio here:
https://www.tmz.com/2022/10/29/paul-pelosi-911-call-saved-life-hammer-dispatcher-nancy/
(just the dispatcher’s side)
You libertarians sure are helpful despite what the rest of the world tells me.
DAMMIT.
Can’t vouch for completeness…
https://www.tmz.com/2022/10/29/paul-pelosi-911-call-saved-life-hammer-dispatcher-nancy/
Just releasing the relevant home security camera videos would disprove all these conspiracy theories. But…
https://www.wnd.com/2022/11/pelosi-wont-release-home-security-footage-dems-demand-gop-take-blame/
As usual, the media narrative is the craziest conspiracy theory of them all.
A conspiracy linked to Nancy Pelosi, who has long been a lightning rod for conservatives and played a starring role in GOP attack ads, was an especially appealing target for right-wing conspiracists, according to Cynthia Miller-Idriss, an American University professor who studies polarization and extremism.
“We have a population that is unable to discern what is true and what’s not, and this spreading of misinformation from credible sources undermines that,” Miller-Idriss said. “People are willing to accept conspiracy theories when they reinforce the narrative they already hold in their head.”
Thank a teacher!
We do indeed have that, and it is indeed a problem.
Well, I like that we’re finally getting to the root of the problem.
They adopted the zero Covid policy, so it probably follows logically that they would (eventually) adopt the “zero misinformation” policy.
The real problem is that the elites don’t control the rubes’ minds… yet. Fundamentally, that’s what they want.
They can’t stand that there are people who look at the same set of facts as they do and arrive at different conclusions. There is only ONE correct answer to any problem: THEIRS.
Everything else is necessarily incorrect and must be corrected.
I wish we’d just get down to the shooting part and get it over with.
It’s not fact checking. It is narrative checking.
“People are willing to accept conspiracy theories when they reinforce the narrative they already hold in their head.”
I’ll take tautologies for $500, Alex.
When the conspiracy is unfolding right before our eyes in real time and the gaslighting is such obvious bullshit, it doesn’t take much effort.
“We have a population that is unable to discern what is true and what’s not
And we have a political/media class that ensures the population is propagandized and gaslit.
Your performance review is probably going to be more stressful this year. It’s time to rethink the broken system both bosses and employees hate
https://fortune.com/2022/10/31/performance-reviews-more-stressful-pandemic/
For me it is just some bureacracy i dont pay it much mind
No problem. Instead of performance reviews, you’ll bill the customers for your time, and you’ll be paid a percentage of your monthly billing.
Wait, you say that you don’t have any customers?
So, what exactly is it that you do here?
I’M A PEOPLE PERSON!
If you don’t know, I’m not allowed to tell you.
Ford employees on Performance Enhancement Plan can now exit with severance package
“You suck at your job…here is some money to go away.”
“The problem with this little sanctimonious, on-the-verge-of-tears lecture from @oneunderscore__ about how lies and disinformation destroy democracy is — as proven in the next tweet — literally no outlet or venue spreads more lies and disinformation than NBC/MSNBC, his employer:”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1587158723872661505
Typical, just typical.
Gene DePape, the alleged attacker’s stepfather, said it was dismaying to see his stepson turned into a character in a conspiracy theory and used as a political talking point. He told CNN he scrolled through his Facebook news feed for hours over the weekend, where he first saw the posts claiming his estranged stepson had been lovers with Pelosi.
“It’s pretty sick,” he said.
Reality is depressing enough, as it is.
Is he talking about the political talking point that his kid was a MAGA nut bar who was there to kidnap Nancy? That political talking point?
Some conservatives’ embrace of the “gay lover” theory has muddied the waters of a story that had led to bipartisan condemnation and sympathy for Pelosi – and distracted from discussion of how other right-wing conspiracies could have inspired violence.
Miller-Idriss, the American University professor, said that prominent figures carelessly spreading misinformation can lead to wider impacts on society.
“It’s dangerous because it undermines peoples’ sense of truth, it helps them further divorce from reality,” she said. “It is a situation where they spread it further – and they pass it on.”
It’s a flagrant attempt to derail our narrative.
Not everything is political? That’s a rejection of one of the most fundamental presumptions of progressive politics!
Scientists at Exeter University have reconstructed this 3D model of how Moses might have looked.
https://twitter.com/whoelsebutalf/status/1585958638362976258
Hold up.
What data source did they use? We don’t have a skeleton.
They had to guess here and there
Pfft, a model?
I can show you a picture
That is funny.
Hulk Hogan? Really?
really
LOL
WHATCHA GONNA DO WHEN GOD’S WRATH RUNS WILD ON YOU????
Let my people go brother!
I like getting dragged in to updating a drawing from a different department and realizing that everything thing having to do with the issue I was merely supposed to be updating is actually wrong and an hour of work has to turn into a couple days (maybe) of work…
“The United States Constitution is very bad, and should be replaced with a system where US leaders are chosen in free and fair elections.”
https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1587077243041468416
CWAA
Why it is almost like the States are supposed to pick the president of the states united.
for various definitions of fair.
Or you could move to the country of your choosing that has a “better” one.
It was willful ignorance. We knew by, say, April or May of 2020 pretty much what it was, based on the early breakouts in Italy and on the cruise ships (which could hardly be a better Petri dish for studying a pandemic). They had an agenda from Day Zero, facts be damned. So this “but we didn’t know” doesn’t fly with me.
Yes. As I have said previously, this was all based on models which were rapidly shown to be egregiously wrong. If they had been wrong by accident, they would have been corrected.
A restaurant in Singapore has imposed a ‘screaming child surcharge’, a $10 fine when children make noise and disturb other customers. Do you support or oppose this idea?
All Brits: Support 47% / Oppose: 45%
25-49 yr olds: 38% / 56%
65+yr olds: 63% / 30%
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1587068146388799490
This has been mentioned before on Glibs. There are some restaurants you take children and some restaurants you don’t.
Fine dining – older and well behaved children are OK. Family restaurants – expect children.
It’s not that difficult, but the current self obsessed phone addled generation only understands – yes or no.
Agree completely with this, but I don’t think restaurants should be fining their customers. I would never accept a fine leveled against me by a private company. This a bit too much like PayPal.
Let the restaurant turn away people at the door. Or provide a warning to families that they will be required to leave if their children don’t behave.
Something something reap the whirlwind.
“There have been more threats against elected officials. It’s been documented that I’ve received a few,” Schumer (D-NY) said during his Spectrum News NY1 debate against Republican rival Joe Pinion.
“We have to calm the rhetoric down,” he said at Union College in Schenectady, “and condemn violence where it occurs.”
CWAA
Fuck him. He provided cover for the ATF and FBI during the Waco hearings.
In some cases, employees will look for jobs as soon as they get alerted to their PEP status because they know their days are numbered.
No frikkin way.
In local news, The General Association of Hunters and Sports Fishermen (AGVPS) lost the right to claim the Sports Fishing part after being sued by the Romanian Federation of Sports Fishermen who according to the law represent sports fishing, because they went through the bureaucratic process to get an official authorization from the Ministry of Sports while the AGVPS did not
Ministry of Sports?
Which Glib is this?
$30 million lottery winner doesn’t tell family fearing they’ll get lazy
glibertarianism is not officially authorized in China
lifeglibness finds a way.None call it a hate-crime.
Stabbing at Proctor HS in Utica, NY
War profiteers
President Joe Biden, little more than a week away from Election Day, presented something of an ultimatum to gas and oil companies: ramp up production or pay a higher tax rate.
“It’s time for these companies to stop war profiteering, meet their responsibilities to this country, give the American people a break and still do very well,” Biden said as he spoke from the White House on Monday afternoon alongside Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.
Biden threatened imposing a higher tax on excess profits and other restrictions if companies don’t increase production and refining capacity to drive down prices at the pump.
He needs to have a tailor whip up some spiffy uniforms for him, with riding boots and jodphurs for when he makes these pronouncements. And some medals and a cool hat to set it all off.
WTF?
We are not at war, you addled fool.
I missed the part where the Executive branch sets tax rates.
We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.