Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another wonderous day and the links!
Meta could begin large-scale layoffs this week, report says
Elon Musk Confirms Twitter Employees Sold Verification Badges ‘Behind the Scenes’
Kathy Griffin suspended from Twitter for mocking Elon Musk
Corporate donors favor Dems in midterms despite party’s stance against ‘dark money’ in politics
Democrats care more about portraying the Right as violent than actual violence
He’s a never ending gift to Republicans
Seniors Feel Cheated as Inflation Dims Their Golden Years
In bankrupt Lebanon, locals mine bitcoin and buy groceries with tether, as $1 is now worth 15 cents
GOP could win key Florida county for the first time in two decades
Houston Astros capture their second World Series title, defeating Philadelphia Phillies
‘Mattress Mack’ scores $75 million payday with Astros’ World Series victory
We are one day away from the Midterms, so let’s get everyone’s final predictions in! Red trickle? Red wave? Red tsunami? I’m trying to contain my enthusiasm, but all the fundamentals point to a tsunami wipeout with some of the fraud holes in 2020 having been plugged (some not all). I see Rs winning at a bare bones minimum 52 senate seats, with easy potential for 54 and maybe even 55 with a big surprise W (once the flood gates are opened, you never know). I see a pick up of at a bare bones minimum 35 seats in the House with the sky being the limit. Let me know what you think, how crazy I am, etc.
I’ll leave you with a song and go nurse a hangover from the Ren Fair yesterday.
“Meta could begin large-scale layoffs this week, report says”
And they are just the beginning.. But it is NOT a recession or stagflation!
Maybe they can learn to drill.
*Polite snicker*
Yeah, now you are just talking cray-cray, Banjos. Energy independence would harm the green movement’s anti-humanist effort to kill between 7-8 billion of the people now on over populated Gaia that is at close to 9 billion. And after all, letting countries with no environmental regulations and hostile to freedom do the drilling is better for the environment. Their political & anti-human environment.
if it is harder to teach astronauts to drill than to teaches drillers to be astronauts, I assume it is not that easy to teach twits
+1 Young Liv Tyler
damn, that’s good. good morning!
“Kathy Griffin suspended from Twitter for mocking Elon Musk”
Pretty sure it was the rule against impersonating people.
She impersonated a comedian.
Kathy Griffin’s dead mother doesn’t think you are funny.
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1589486929854091264
Ah! I missed your response. I just posted the same thing.
Democrats oppose dark money when it goes to their opponents.
They oppose ANY money, and for that matter any win, if it is not theirs. That’s why we keep hearing how “democracy” is at risk in this election – meaning if you don’t vote for them to keep fucking everything over, you will be made to suffer – even though we are a republic…
We couldn’t keep it.
well that is the definition of dark money: those for evil right wingers
“Elon Musk Confirms Twitter Employees Sold Verification Badges ‘Behind the Scenes’”
I bet they only sold them to people that were not part of the woke scam. if you were a politician or left leaning account bent on doing evil shit, they paid you to get verified.
Schadenfreude aside, this is why Twitter sucks, has always sucked, and will continue to suck for as long as it lasts as a going concern.
I can accept this bad. She tried to impersonate someone without making that clear. I get parody. This was not parody. She was trying to fool people to hurt Musk. I want people that do shit like that to be rewarded with a kick in the ass.
Musk has been very clear about eliminating bots from the site. Using your verification status to change yourself to someone else and then pretending to be them would/should? be considered worse than a bot.
I’m not necessarily sure I agree. The thing about parody is that if you make it obvious that it’s parody it loses its impact. In any case, not a great look after the “I’m a free speech absolutist” bit, but also not surprising given the “It’s not ‘anything goes'” walkback to the advertisers.
The thing is that she has a blue check. If you have a blue check you can’t use it to fake an account.
The thing is that Twatter CLEARLY says impersonations are not allowed unless it is absolutely clear it is parody. So do parody at your won risk.
And I remind you that, for example, the Babylon Bee clearly is parody, but they still hit homeruns constantly with everyone knowing that they are parody.
Fact Checkers oppose this logic. The BB is clearly a straight news organization
So you blame those that are not suffering from a mental disorder for not being stupid or idiotic enough to fall for gaslighting from the supposed fact checker crowd of imbecils?
I think he was just making a joke…
It was a parody.
I get that it’s their policy, I just don’t necessarily think it’s a good policy. And while I enjoy rubbing the blue check twits’ noses in the pile of shit they’ve created as much as the next guy, if Twitter turns into Musk’s personal vanity project, that policy is going to end up being abused and the platform is going to be the same old thing with, just with a different caste of untouchables. Which I fully expect to happen.
I am pretty sure the problem here was not that impersonating Musk was cause for dismissal, but that impersonating ANYONE with an account trying to claim to be legit – unless you make it clear it is parody – will be banworthy. That’s awesome.
Even libertarians who believe in free speech are opposed to fraud. There’s nothing satirical or parodical(?) about falsely saying “I’m Elon Musk and I say you should vote for Democrats.”
“I’m Jerry Falwell and I fucked my mother in an outhouse” passed muster. There is at least *some* impetus on the reader to not be a retard.
You are ignoring the original purpose of a a blue check. It makes sense that if you decide to get a blue check to show that it’s really you, then you can’t use to show you are someone else.
Although a bunch of people who did not have blue checks got permabanned for impersonating Trump after he got baleeted. Which I think is bullshit.
The entire thing is B.S. I would rather talk to people in a C.B. radio than deal with twitter.
Yeah, that’s about the size of it for me. I think the whole account verification thing is not really practical on the web. It’s one of the reasons I hate modern social media and have never gotten into it. Anyone I want knowing my real name or anything about my personal life I’ll contact privately. The quasi-anonymous internet was superior in every possibly way.
I am not on Twatter. Have no plans to do it. I am also not on anything else social media related. I think the whole thing is just a mechanism to cause mental disorders and prey on the stupid. But I get that a lot of people are using these things in the world I still have to live in. So, I have a vested interest in making sure these people are not allowed to get all feral and then come after me.
I would rather talk to people in a C.B. radio than deal with twitter.
That’s like talking to people on the phone. No thank you.
“The entire thing is B.S. I would rather talk to people in a C.B. radio than deal with twitter.”
10-4
The issue at hand is whether prohibiting blue checks from impersonating people is good policy.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589401231545741312
Anyone who thinks Elon Musk might support voting for Democrats is a retard? Is that a clinical fact or just your opinion? Or, better yet, did you actually have an answer that might have the slightest chance of addressing and contradicting anything I said?
Considering Musk’s much-ballyhooed conversion to Republican that took up several national news cycles, I don’t think a lot of people would suppose it was a legitimate endorsement from the real Elon Musk. Even if they did, you’d have to find someone who actually changed their vote on that basis before you’d have a case for calling it a NAP-violating instance of fraud, and then you’d have to find a clear line between that and the Hustler v. Falwell example to make a clear distinction where parody ends and fraud begins. I hadn’t intended to contradict what you said, I just don’t agree with your categorical statement. If that doesn’t address anything you said, then I guess we’re all finished.
Who claim Musk converted to a republican? Last I heard, Elon said he voted for a republican because the democrat party had gone batshit insane. That’s why I vote republican these days too. Doesn’t mean I am team red, and I think the same applies to Musk. I mean, there is nothing that team blue stands for that I agree with these days, but I am still weary of team red precisely because they are getting my vote.
Correct, I guess “conversion” is too strong a word, but the point is that he stated publicly he was planning to vote Republican in 2022, and given the state of relentlessly-covered hostility between he and the political left right now, I’d be somewhat surprised if any substantial number of people would be instantly and immediately fooled by a one-off tweet endorsing Democrats under Elon Musk’s name. And of those who were so fooled, I wonder to what extent that’s on them rather than assigning liability for fraud.
Headline is a bit deceiving but point stands that twitter sucks. Though a great medium to get news out fast
Whether or not you love Twatter, Twatters concept is here to stay. And it is the current refinement of social media, in that it is designed to be carried with you on your phone. Instant gratification no matter the location.
Democrats care more about portraying the Right as violent than actual violence – define violence. Misgendering is worse than assault you know
Democrats are all telling us now that the problem is that their message is not effective and positively being received by the people that should be impacted by that….
Because the problem, as team blue lays it out, isn’t their horrible policies and the havoc they cause on normal people’s lives and livelihoods, but that people have too means to avoid the gaslighting efforts to tell them to believe the opposite of what they are experiencing. Even their own people are seeing through this “messaging” shit, and it is going to hurt them.
So now they have to scare people in the hope that “Trump BAD!’ shit drives more turnout for them.
Before retirement, O’Connor served as councilman and mayor for City of Oak Forest.
Boomers bitching about inflation. Unless you’re Ron Paul (or a tiny handful of others that were demonized), eat your cat food and be happy.
Yeah, I try to be sympathetic but pretty much every paragraph of that article pissed me off.
Red tsunami plugged by fortification in key races. Enough that the jackasses keep the Senate. Fulton County water pipes will burst as needed.
Of course, I think one of my cats is about to pass on, so I may just be in a dark mood.
So, you picking team blue? I’m picking team red to pick up both the senate and house despite the shenanigans.
I am with this outcome. And also with us finding out that there was a blatant and outright disgusting attempt to put their fingers on the scale that they will then claim was done to save democracy. This will not result in any serious consequences other than team blue brown shirts rioting again all over those blue cities to punish those people for not voting often and even when dead.
Yes to all that – then the Republicans will take over Congress and… do nothing. A few symbolic hearings to yell at the FBI, then they’ll vote to fully fund it and send more money to the Ukraine.
So much, this. It’s going to be depressing once they actually get a modicum of power and do … Nothing.
Still better than the alternative though.
I feel these will be the second most secure elections in history
Sorry about your cat 🙁
+1
Thank you. I was really hoping / expecting her to have at least 5 more years — I think she’s only 10. She’s one of the sweetest cats I’ve ever known, and actually comes when you call her name. As more of a dog person at heart (contrary to the Cats: 3, Dogs: 0 current score in the house), she’s always struck me as almost a pup in nature. If I’m right, I’m going to miss her a lot.
That’s a shame. We lost one of our cats to intestinal cancer when he was only 9. I still miss him greatly. He could misbehave horribly and do it in a completely innocent way, like when he would casually amble up onto the table mid-dinner and go “so, what are we having tonight?” before proceeding to lick the butter. Some cats know they are being assholes and just don’t care. Hans was totally without guile or ill intent. But over the course of 8 months his weight dropped from 19 lb to 12 lb, and he was miserable.
I’m sorry. It’s the only bad thing about pets.
My condolences SDF. It just sucks losing a pet, and losing one before they should peacefully go is one of the worst pains.
Awww. Sorry about the kitty.
enjoy another wonderous day
Meh. It’s gonna be too warm and sunny here today.
Send it my way then. It is just above freezing here, snowed yesterday, and seems pretty bleak to me.
Follow the narrative. Even the democrats and mainstream news outlets have decided a blue wave is a lost cause. Narrow GOP victories with a few “close races” called in favor of the democrat about 2 weeks from now based on late mail-in ballots and lawsuits. GOP takes house. Senate? Tossup. Republicans spend the next 2 years beclowning themselves, doing absolutely nothing legislatively or tactically, and 2 years from now President Harris is elected in yet another clear public mandate against GOP islamotransogynism. Rinse and repeat.
Nevada will find out what caliber of California moved here in the past two years. My guess is that it is the “hit more more daddy” type and not those who truly were disgusted by California’s politics.
I see ranked choice passing under the lie that people are being denied the ability to vote.
Based on my experience moving back here 5 years after leaving in 2008, I think I know exactly what caliber of California moved here, unfortunately.
They aren’t sending their best and brightest?
My guess is most who moved out lean Republican. Ted Cruz won reelection due to Californians who moved to Texas. They were +14 for Team Red.
Yeah, given they’re started to admit to PPP’s lies, I also expect January 20 (or whatever the magic 2 year line is), the jackasses will rediscover the 25th amendment and we’ll be stuck with President Cackles-On-Her-Knees. Maybe that will help with foreign policy with Putin… I certainly would think the Saudis would prefer it to a handshake.
Absolutely Haram
I have been seeing the Long Knives come out for Puddin’ Head Biden lately. CNN, NYT, they know the big B is a failure, and want that sweet, sweet taste of First Woman!!1111 president by hook or by crook.
Harris might be the only person less likable than Hillary.
Plus HIllary comes across to most people as unlikable, but smart. Harris doesn’t, she just seems fake, and not overly bright.
Sounds about right.
He’s a never ending gift to Republicans – if oil workers lose jobs they can be employed in the solar panel farms. Solar panels are better when hand planted and hand picked so they don’t bruise.
The biggest solar industry business will be the one that will have to be put in action when pollution from people dumping these things start contaminating water tables and killing people all over the place. BTW, I am going out on a limb to say this is a desired outcome from the green movement, and this capability will only be put into action where they want to save people. After all, their goal is to kill off 7 or 8 billion human parasites that are killing poor Gaia.
The thing I notice about the Midterms is that the media is making a huge thing about the Midterms. I don’t remember this wall to wall breathless coverage when GWB or BHO was President.
With all the mail-in early voting, I say narrow wins for the GOP in both houses. They also would have better chances if they ran better candidates. If being insane and running with a football were qualifications, OJ should be in the Senate.
Careful… He might just run as a democrat and win..
I don’t watch the TV….
But on Facebook there is nowhere near the amount of political BS that i saw 2 years ago.
Presidential elections have always been big.
We’ve got Bernie Kosar saying we should vote for Tim Ryan here, because we need a quarterback in the Senate.
I am cynical enough that I think Kosar was paid for his endorsement.
Moring Neph.
Tickets are on sale for This is Not Croydon festival 2023. It’s at the Broken Goblet brewery. Lots of fun this year.
https://www.thisisnotcroydonfest.com/
Fishbone and the Slackers along with a bunch of others.
Unfortunately, that’s the weekend before Viva, so my vacation time is already booked for that time of year.
Was Kosar sober?
Here’s the ad. It doesn’t mention a single policy item, it’s literally vote for Tim Ryan because Kosar said we need another QB in the Senate. As much as there’s a lot of love for the Browns and Kosar here in Cleveland… I don’t think that’s going to sway many people.
I was wondering too.
Dutch to shoot paintball pellets at wolf to scare it away
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-dutch-paintball-pellets-wolf.html
The aim is to teach the animal to keep at least 30 metres (yards) from people, according to local media.
Wolves are protected animals in The Netherlands, meaning that disturbing or hunting them is only possible with special authorisation.
It estimates that there are currently four packs of wolves and 11 lone wolves in the Netherlands.
I’ve seen domestic dogs accidentally shot at paintball fields before and not give two shits. Of course, that’s using guns clocked to ~300 FPS max. Nevertheless, unless they opt for Pepperballs, that’s probably not going to work.
Wat een gellul. Dit is dommer dan deze dieren gewoon shieten.
The layoffs are expected to impact thousands of employees, the report said, and the move would mark the first major headcount reduction in Meta’s history. At the end of September, the company reported that it had more than 87,000 employees.
What, exactly, do you do here?
I get a cup of vanilla mocha and a snack and go to the yoga room to meditated. Then I do Important Work for the company before I head on to the spa section
Good lord.
Yeah, what the hell do they even do?
Hang around the Metaverse, waiting for somebody to show up.
It’s tough impersonating an NPC all day.
Kanye West Bank:
https://twitter.com/Jetskigrizzly/status/1586738101568753666
Actual spit take.
Sorry, about your monitor 🙂
Corporate donors favor Dems in midterms despite party’s stance against ‘dark money’ in politics
Party of the people.
Their stance on ‘dark money’ is that nobody else should have access to it.
Somewhat related.
Blue plays to win.
Stay at home moms are the most based? Honestly didn’t see that coming.
I predict voters will cast votes that should be a red tsunami but blatant dem fraud aided and abetted by the MSM will carry the day, with “final” results taking a week to count.
Mail-in and “early voting” craziness will have to be banished by the Supreme Court if we are ever to have fair elections again.
Again?
^^^THIS^^^
Your elections are not fair when your choices are only deep state approved tools.
Scout manual that said “don’t run the tap to get cold water, keep a bottle of water in the refrigerator instead”.
Incredibly confusing, stuck with me for years. Finally figured out that up north, water gets cold if you run the tap because it’s cold underground.
I’m from Miami.
https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/1589434510730579969
Too many people believe in the one-size-fits-all solution to problem solving. These people tend to be the urban people that want what they think would work for them imposed – by force – on everyone else.
what? dude lighten up
Did you just imply I am Francis?
I thought it was funny. And true. Southern US has warm tap water.
During summer here in southern NV I take my showers with only the “cold” tap open, and it’s still uncomfortably warm.
During my stint in the tropics, I found most people didn’t shower in the early AM nor in the late evening. Most showered between the hours of noon and 6PM…. Cause that’s when the sun warmed up the water, and they didn’t have hot or cold water faucets: you had a water faucet.
I witnessed this in a Texas hotel. I was checking in at the desk and some snowbird was complaining that they must have a faulty sink because the water would not get cold, even after running it for 15 minutes.
Most northern states have ~50F (10C) ground temperatures and pipes that are at least 4 feet below the ground to prevent freezing in the winter. South TX has few freezing days and most water is warm.
Yeah, in fact during the summer I have to let the “cold” tap run for a bit to flush out the hot water in the pipe.
My water pipes are uninsulated copper and run through the attic; it will easily get to 120-130F in summer.
That’s also a problem for homebrewers using immersion chillers to bring the wort down to pitching temperatures. Down south they have to pre-chill the tap water to get the water temp low enough to get the wort down to pitching temperatures.
Yup.I tried the waterhose alone just once, saw I couldnt get below 80 after way too long, and knew ai had to do something different. Now I chill with a stainless coil chiller, fed by a fountain pump and an ice chest full of ice water. Gets me down to pitching temp within 20ish minutes for a 5 gallon batch.
Ive also tried nochill a few times, thats worked well, too, but its risky. Just throw the hot wort directly into the ferm chamber and let it cool overnight before pitching.
The aquifer that College Station draws from is not only foul tasting but unreasonably hot (over 110F). They run it through a cooling tower, which isn’t exactly efficient in a TX summer.
Why not an inverted cooling tower? Bury the sucker
We are one day away from the Midterms, so let’s get everyone’s final predictions in!
The wind-up monkeys will continue to beat their tin drums.
There will be an immediate pivot to shrieking about the ’24 Presidential campaign.
There won’t be an election in 24 if Republicans win in 22!!!
Map of average salary (plus additional pay) of a software engineer around Europe according to Glassdoor
https://twitter.com/nrken19/status/1589279517499043840
I would expect the number to be higher for Romania, if software engineer does not mean any rando dude writing some code. 21k would be 1k per month after tax and that is too low for average, it is more a junior salary. SO I find these number dubious. Also where they get the data, because lots of Romanian data is “IT worker” not software engineer, and these include call center level 1 support, etc
Also I doubt they get payed that much less in Netherlands than Germany
Isn’t 70k minium wage in Norway?
All those look super low to me, but it’s not my field…
e Norway does not have a minimum wage, there is no mandatory minimum rate of pay for workers in Norway. Pay rates must be agreed upon directly with the employer through collective bargaining or other means of negotiating a fair living wage.
“No more drilling. There is no more drilling,” Biden said, speaking to a climate activist as he finished up a rally in New York for Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY). “I haven’t formed any new drilling.”
This is, of course, a perfectly reasonable position if your goal is to end the modern world.
Don’t forget the goal of ridding Gaia of between 7 and 8 billion of the parasites living on it too…
But which time was he lying?
In the linked article he says that oil companies aren’t drilling enough, and that’s why the prices are high.
Then he assures the tree hugger that there will be/ is no new drilling due to his deft handling of the economy.
Somehow he’s lying both times.
Here is something I just noticed today. @Max33Verstappen
now stands at 161 races, the exact same number as Ayrton Senna. Max has 34 wins, 19 poles, 76 podiums, and 2 titles. By contrast, at this point (his death), Senna had 41 wins, 65 poles (!!!!!), 80 podiums, and 3 titles.
https://twitter.com/PeterAttiaMD/status/1588688138016153600
How did he just notice? The Senna comparisons have been discussed all season.
Well, this team blue strategy is now toast….
It will be interesting to see TMITE pundits walk the tightrope between lamenting that a bunch of election deniers will soon be in office and noting all the electoral cheating that must have gotten them there.
They will do this shit without even one hint of irony. In fact, they are already talking about stolen elections, not just this one, but the one in 2024 even, and none of them have been flagged as deniers and banned. So there ya go…
One of the articles I read about Joe’s performance at Hokum’s rally featured some incoherent rambling about how horrible the economy was under Trump.
Other than political consultants, who wouldn’t happily travel back in time to the dark days of 2018?
The song “Almost Paradise” just popped into my head.
@Max33Verstappen
now stands at 161 races, the exact same number as Ayrton Senna. Max has 34 wins, 19 poles, 76 podiums, and 2 titles. By contrast, at this point (his death), Senna had 41 wins, 65 poles (!!!!!), 80 podiums, and 3 titles.
The cars were a little different then. Not so many driver aids.
Democrats care more about portraying the Right as violent than actual violence
Likewise fascism is always descending on the GOP and falling on the Democratic Party.
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I hate Mondays.
Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays
Not bad, not great here
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Daily Duotrigordle #250
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 06:05.35
https://duotrigordle.com/
Not great, but tolerable.
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Not as good as some of you (*cough* Pat *cough*) — but given the words and my usual scores, I’m actually pretty happy with it.
That is better than Pat.
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https://jackli.gg/chessle
Its pretty clear I don’t play this opening, isn’t it. So close, and yet, so far. The one missing move was pretty reasonable, I should have tried it. But the others seemed reasonable too.
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Straight forward this morning.
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I walk the line.
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Probably one of my best Quordles, usually go to chump town or push the high 20’s.
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What a class act.
I just had a great idea for a re-vamp of F1’s rulebook: 1,000 pounds, 1,000 horsepower, on street tires.
So full time Tokyo drift with tire changes after every other lap? Make the tire changers use floor jacks with lug-nuts and 4-ways.
‘…rulebook: 1,000 pounds, 1,000 horsepower, on street tires.’
Sounds like one of Tres’ Craigslist personals ads…
Heh.
I would prefer…Must be bigger than box X and smaller than box Y.
Go.
Like the time the US whipped out a trimaran in the America’s Cup.
The sailing hydrofoils they’re using now are just bananas. Do fast.
I’d love to go for a ride on one but it’s gotta be too dangerous to have passengers
*so
I would love to see crazy experimentation like we used to see. Indy and F1 cars had a period where “unlimited” modifications were the norm. I also remember seeing the napalm like fires at Indy when they used to fill as much of the car as possible with gasoline. So there is a reason we got to where we are today, but mostly it is to allow the big money teams to dominate.
https://www.autoweek.com/racing/indycar/a1843371/58-fiery-crash-claims-two-lives-1964-indy-500/
A hormone produced by muscles during vigorous exercise may one day be used as a drug to treat excessive alcohol use.
The FGF21 hormone, when given as a drug, reduces alcohol consumption by 50% in monkeys.
This underscores how important EXERCISE is for curbing drinking behavior.
https://twitter.com/foundmyfitness/status/1587822152115372032
Work hard. Play harder.
Even when I was working out 7 days a week rather obsessively, I never experienced any of these alleged virtuous feedback cycles that supposedly cure everything. I’m actually drinking less now than when I was exercising regularly.
Lies. Those twelve ounce curls I do all the time don’t seem to help reduce my alcohol consumption at all.
Try faster reps and less time between sets.
Now that’s some thinking outside the box….. the wine box…
“This new workout regiment is great!…When did I get naked?”
Drunk Your Way to Fitness!
How much do monkeys normally drink?
Asking the real question
I assume how much they can get
Well, there isn’t.
BIDEN: “I know you all know there’s no climate problem.”
Seems to me he’s being sarcastic there.
Seems that way. But the statement is true.
*Yawn*
Hunter Biden’s former business partner is ready to testify with thousands of new call recordings, text messages, photos, emails and documents to a congressional probe investigating the First Son – if the Republicans win the House, sources told DailyMail.com.
Whistleblower Tony Bobulinski had a front-row seat to the Biden family’s deal with their Chinese government-linked business partners, and his explosive trove could expose alleged criminal activity by the First Family.
A source close to the congressional investigations shared some of Bobulinski’s unseen cache of documents exclusively with DailyMail.com.
Bobulinski’s evidence includes audio recordings of phone calls and meetings between partners in the Biden family’s multi-million-dollar deal with Chinese oil giant CEFC, WhatsApp and WeChat text messages, emails, contracts, corporation filings and other documents.
Crime is anything that hurts the machine in charge or things done by the serfs. Powerful people abusing power, always in one direction, is totes cool.
Tony Bobulinski did not kill himself. You heard it here first.
Gaslighting liars pissed off their cushy racket to control information for the serfs is no longer solid, accuse the people countering their lies of being the liars. Team blue thinking: we will accuse you of the things we do/believe in cause the idiots will then not pay attention to what we are saying/doing.
The New Left was inculcated on Alinsky:
Good morning, Banjos!
Sorry about the hangover. It happens. The only way I can go to a RenFaire is wasted.
I’ll leave you with a song…
KK will be in her bunk.
Man, I’m gonna be happy when this fucking election is over. I have no clue what’s gonna happen. The Stupid Party should absolutely steamroll the donks, but who knows. Especially with how blatant the cheating has become. Regardless of the outcome: government spending will increase and the agencies will grow.
In happier news, the sun is out and the sky is blue. Good enough for me.
Watch them steamroll – despite the cheating – then go and fuck things all up by shooting themselves in the foot/head. Yeah, we need congress to give team blue some of the abuse they gave everyone else, but after they fucking shut the economy destroying policies down. Normal people want the economy to correct first.
Right there.
Whip Inflation Now
This is not too unlike a controversial idea I buried in the Oct. 26 TKer:
…perhaps it’s time for customers to push back harder and call the bluffs of businesses that are selling them unnecessarily high-priced goods and services.This sort of consumer rebellion may help bring inflation down sooner, which in turn should convince the Federal Reserve to ease up on its growth-destroying, market-unfriendly policies.
To put it more explicitly, consumers could push back by actively cutting back on spending.
I recognize this is the kind of thing that risks sending the economy into recession. But this end result of demand destruction is exactly how the Fed is trying to bring down inflation — the Fed is just aiming to destroy demand by putting people out of work and giving companies more leverage to not raise pay aggressively.
If consumers (it doesn’t have to be everybody) cut back on spending (a little can go a long way), then they can destroy demand on their own terms and not the Fed’s. Rather than having the Fed forcefully taking away some people’s ability to spend, consumers who are able to could voluntarily cut back. (They could start by cutting back at companies who’ve been raising prices while publicly celebrating their resilient profit margins.)
We’re all in this together. That’s why you should stand up to those bastard corporations and refuse to buy that new pair of shoes.
Never mind that the Biden administration is doing all it can to hamstring the supply side of the economy, driving energy and food (not exactly discretionary) sky high.
Is there going to be a Tuesday election Zoom or anything?
There are discussions underway about that.
We have the tickertape and the interactive map, but everyone is insisting the host dress up like Hunter Biden and nobody is volunteering.
I bet there is at least one person that would do that….
Yeah, that’s the least believable part. I bet there would be an argument over who gets to do it.
Yes…details to come.
Hmmm…I’ll have to stream via my drive back from Grand Canyon.
Heh. Quite honestly nobody will release results Tuesday anyway. I put off the post-election GlibFlick post until next week. All the more reason to drink on a weeknight Zoom!
Accuse your opponent of what you are doing, to create confusion and to inculcate voters against evidence of your own guilt
The Republicans believe in winner-take-all politics. They won’t care how slim their margin of victory was, they will immediately impose a one sided radical agenda designed to destroy your rights and enslave you!
I wonder what you call a gathering of shrieking harpies.
With five days to go and polls tightening, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Republican challenger Lee Zeldin are working hard to get their voters to the polls.
On Thursday, Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and state Attorney General Letitia James were rallying for the governor at Barnard College.
It was no coincidence those stumping were all women. The governor’s top goal at the event was to win over female voters.
“The government should not be telling anyone what to do with their own body,” Harris said.
But you have to take this experimental injection.
But that’s different!
Thanks for reminding me that my MIL is coming to visit this weekend and all she cares about is abortion.
She is the definition of a single issue voter, never mind that roving mobs are stripping the Wawa down the street from her bare and Philly is in general a shithole.
Your MIL. Can she even get pregnant? What’s her angle?
I would ask her why women think a sign of their freedom/power is the ability to kill their offspring all so guys can get them bedded easier and with less chance of consequences, and watch how she reacts.
Don’t let women lie to you. They also like sex.
“No man is going to tell me what I can or cannot do with my body.”
I guess you can be on top, babe…
“A cackle of Karens.”
The View
^^^THIS^^^
::applause::
*snicker*
So they are now “women”? Not birthing people?
Chest-feeders.
Since my wife and I are retired, but not old enough for Medicare, we purchase our health insurance through Healthcare.gov (Obamacare). We manage our taxable income so we qualify for a supplement to reduce the monthly rates for the plans. The “open season” for selecting 2023 plans has started and continues to Dec 15th.
Since we’re pretty healthy, we go with the lowest-cost Bronze level of plans. The last two years we selected a bronze plan from Caresource, which is a major insurance provider in Ohio (at least in the Dayton area). But their plans have gone up in price significantly – they’re the most expensive company among the choices.
I see that Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield has a similar bronze plan for literally hundreds of dollars less per month (a savings of thousands for the year). I’ve had Anthem BC/BS for health insurance via past employers and don’t have any bad experiences. And according to the Healthcare.gov website, our doctors are considered “in network” (we’ll be calling to verify this week).
Am I missing something? Is there something else I should check before making the switch? Anyone else using Obamacare for health insurance?
What’s the deductible, Nomad?
I am currently using MediShare, but I haven’t really explored the .gov options.
$9100 individual & $18,200 Family (health & drug combined) for both plans.
Our approximate out-of-pocket costs have averaged about $1000 to $2000 per year – that is for some regular prescriptions (often getting them cheaper than the insurance price by using GoodRx or Amazon), the occasional doctor visit, blood tests/lab work and some physical therapy (Mrs N experienced a “frozen shoulder” this year and is taking some PT). When we have minor ailments, we like to use the telehealth doctor that Caresource provides for free. That’s especially nice when we travel out of state, It looks like Anthem also provides a “virtual doctor” option similar to Caresource’s telehealth.
BTW, I believe there’s a way to check plans in Healthcare.gov without creating an account. I think I did that prior to retiring to get an ide of how much health insurance can cost. I think this is the link: https://www.healthcare.gov/apply-and-enroll/health-insurance-plans-estimator-overview/
Am I missing something? Is there something else I should check before making the switch?
Does the Anthem plan cover Covid boosters and out of state travel for abortions?
Snark aside, you mentioned that your current doctors are in-network under both healthcare plans, what about coverage in other health care systems? Is one plan more restrictive in that regard. Needing unexpected care from a top rated system sounds like a pretty remote risk, but it does happen. A one in hundred-million type stroke struck my pregnant wife in her late 20s when she appeared to be a typical healthy young adult. The local hospital system stabilized her and wanted to treat, but we took her out of there to the second ranked system in the nation for this type of neurosurgery that was fortunately considered in-network.
What about emergency transportation coverage between the two plans? A helicopter ride is $25k and, if not covered by your plan, may not fall within your max out of pocket limit.
Other conditions like cancer and heart disease can strike healthy people suddenly. Make sure your coverage provides care to the best healthcare systems for that and not just local options.
Thanks for the advice. I’ll look into it and discuss with my wife.
I made my Senate prediction the other day: 54 immediately, with 55 coming in GA runoff in December.
House prediction (total WAG): 238 to GOP.
You need to account for the fraud. Agree on the House, but it’s pretty easy for the Dems to fraud the statewide senate elections since they control the densely-populated urban areas where they can manufacture piles of votes.
Fuck.
Well, maybe the election is more meaningless than we thought.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/26/u-s-plans-upgraded-nukes-europe-00063675
Why not? Let’s just get it over with.
They might need a “nucular war” to force the peasants to rally to their cause…
My prediction that something would pop last Friday was wrong. I assumed they would try to scare people off a few days before the election.
Maybe they are saving it for after….
Emergency powers and such to keep the status quo in a time of dire and society ending crisis….
I guess we’re getting belated vengeance for the Cuban missile crisis.
“New York Councilwoman Crystal Hudson (D) had a busy night last night at the Kathy Hochul (D) rally. She held a Lee Zeldin (R) supporter’s arm as another man choked her. No word if Hudson’s picture with Kathy Hochul occurred before or after the assault.”
https://twitter.com/RRHElections/status/1589437923413626880
“This would be breaking news on every major station if this was a Republican man choking a black female Democrat. But it’s not, because the lady being choked is a Republican.@leezeldin supporter.”
https://twitter.com/hodgetwins/status/1589377276910923776
True, although the picture doesn’t tell the whole story, the media would ignore that.
More right wing violence!!
“Abortion protestors marching in the dark outside Amy Coney Barrett’s family home shouting “Illegitimate and unfit” as they bang on drums.
This is against federal law. Still happening.”
https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1589587672582225921
Trans flags flying? Sterilization will take care of any possible abortions.
How can we even be talking about this when only days ago a radical right-wing white male Aryan Brotherhood evangelical Christian Republican Michigan Militia insurrectionist tried to murder Nancy Pelosi and her husband?!?!?!
You mean leftist Canadian illegal immigrant nudist?
This is against federal law. Still happening.
Political intimidation is the voice of the unheard…until it isn’t.
The law is only for protecting the innocent.
Retards are retards, regardless of team color.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2o9B_8U7BQ
I expected better this week, but Despair was pretty good.
Good morning everyone in Gliberland! I hope you have a peaceful day today. I predict tomorrow will be the beginning of a national shit show. I’m not encouraged when our president says “It’s normal to take days to count ballots”, and “Accept the results of the election no matter what happens.” That tells me “We gonna cheat.”
I think there will be a red wave, just not sure how big. The Republicans have momentum in a lot of races (Lake, Masters, Oz) and I think that will be important. I also think Republican turnout will be huge.
I also think R turn out will be big. There’s a lot of pissed off people out there.
Not just the “Rs”, but the Is too….
It’s normal to take days to count ballots
This is the new abnormal.
Living in the state that still has team blue asshats voting for Dickhead Blumenthal, I am absolutely not surprised at this revelation. Team blue is about power, and most of them would have neither remorse nor second thoughts voting for Satan if that gets them power. In fact they would be fine with it because the ends justify the means.
Seniors feel cheated out of their golden years? I feel cheated out of most of my living years, and the foundations for the shit show we’re living through was laid before I was born or old enough to do anything about it, so sorry if I don’t have any sympathy for seniors.
My son is being cheated out of everything.
Our children & grand children will inherit the shitshow boomer fucking assholes that wanted to suck on the government’s teat have left us with.
I don’t think the remaining Boomers and wokesters are going to like their reactions.
Yeah, because boomers are a homogeneous block who all believe and support the same things.
You are welcome. I guess.
I have spent pretty much my entire working life knowing that Social Security and Medicare would go bust during my retirement.
Politicians have said as much out loud since the early 80s. No one, on either side of the aisle, has done anything about it.
So, now at age 65, I am planning to work at least until age 70. I expect I will be forced to continue working past that as well.
Now get the fuck off my lawn.
In the early 90s, one of my college professors told us in very clear terms to save for retirement as of social security doesn’t exist because it wouldn’t by the time we retired. I took his advice to heart.
I suspect what these seniors are saying is that they don’t want to be responsible for voting for scumbags and scumbag policies that now are fucking them over, and want others to – yet again – pay for their ineptitude. The problem, as you mention, is that those policies fucked us all over, but especially the younger generations that will now have to pay for the seniors voting to let the state become a useless and evil bureaucratic monster whose primary interest remained maintaining their own power at any costs, in return for some favoritism that clearly would destroy it all.
The Social Security Act was signed a few months before my 87 year old father was born. So, today’s seniors didn’t have a choice either.
^this
Believe me, I would have loved to have had the option to opt out of SS and invest all of that money myself over the decades, I would have been way ahead of anything I can ever hope to get from SS.
I wonder how much better our monetary policies would have been …
And prevent government from being able to pick winners & losers as well as buy votes? What? Are you some sort of radical?
Only politicians with a D can evolve or change their views…and also politician wannabe reads tea leaves to get elected at 11.
https://dnyuz.com/2022/11/05/in-arizona-kari-lake-worked-in-local-tv-news-now-she-calls-reporters-monsters/
Barry and Hillbot were always for gay marriage dude.
What are the chances of a Lake/Sinema sex tape?
How about Lake/Tudor Dixon instead?
Much better
They’d have my vote.
OK, but I was thinking “Desert Heat: Scissoring Across the Aisle”
“Wow, it sure is hot!”
“I’m hot too.”
“You sure are!”
“Maybe have some water?”
“Ooopsie! I spilled it all over my shirt.”
“Here, let me help you take that off.”
That’s completely consistent. She quit being a newscaster because they were asking her to lie and push the Covid narrative. It follows that the ones who played along would be monsters.
No logic is allowed here
Excellent thread on energy and civilization.
This is why I love Twitter.
I am terrified that the new dark ages are just around the corner.
I think Jesse has the right idea:
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1589623488553553920
That’s genius. They also need to get rid of whatever law let’s presidents declare national monuments.
I think they should sell it to pay off the debt.
Simply put, switch to the green economy and starve.
I’m at the point that I tell people I will fight civilly to preserve our standard of living, but if they ultimately succeed in destroying modern civilization, I will volunteer to join any group that puts the greenies in the ground as fertilizer for crops.
Bring bacon and bourbon.
I will accept salt and barley too
I highly recommend people pick up and read/listen to Fossil Future by Alex Epstein to get a clear picture of the importance of energy, especially fossil fuel, in modern society. I can’t emphasize enough how often young people indoctrinated to believe he green movement shit, when told they would have to give up everything they take for granted to get rid of fossil fuels suddenly lose that stupidity. The big problem is that the green movement anti-humanists have done a great job at convincing these people that somehow green tech (other than nuclear, which they don’t want for obvious reasons, if you understand it is really about killing off most of humanity with these fucking evil assholes) will allow them to keep the standard of living they have today (meaning there would be no sacrifice). When you tell these kids they will lose al electronics, give up on cooling & heating, that they will be lucky to have two or three sets of cloths & one or two pairs of shoes, and then only if we go back to killing and working with animal skins, that obesity will be gone because most of us will spend every day working to get bare minimum sustenance, and that the elites peddling this shit have no intent of being affected in that way, most of them will no longer feel as willing to go with that crap.
I’ll second this. An excellent book.
The challenge is that the true believers hold the power and the vast majority of people are still too comfortable to see what’s happening and – especially – what’s coming.
And that is by design Tundra. I am now convinced that the green movement is downright evil based on their own words and actions. I used to believe it was just a cabal that found a way to scare people into allowing them to rob the productive of trillions of dollars worth of money through government, but these days, after witnessing how their movement clearly doesn’t care about the impact of the money stealing racket, I am sure this goes way beyond just stealing money/freedoms and growing government, global government, more.
Their end goal seems to be to prevent the 60-70% of humanity that currently lacks abundant and reliable energy from ever getting that and to also force the people with abundant and reliable energy today into a state where this is no longer true. In the process, losing modernity, will not only roll back all the medical advances that have allowed mankind to expand our life expectancy through modern medicine, but create a hunger problem that will quickly combine with disease spread to kill billions. Erlich and people like him that started this movement in to 60s clearly told us they though man was a parasitic entity that was harming the world and needed to be culled to save it.
I also can clearly see that the elite have no intention of giving up THEIR modern living standards and energy consumption as they go about wiping out several billion people with this evil movement.
Their end goal seems to be to prevent the 60-70% of humanity that currently lacks abundant and reliable energy from ever getting that and to also force the people with abundant and reliable energy today into a state where this is no longer true.
Over the six months or so, I keep coming back to the below passage from 1984. In 1984, energy was intentionally directed into uses that would prevent the energy from being usefully harnessed. In our real world, the attack is directly on energy production itself. It’s getting more difficult to attribute this coordinated attack on energy as being due to stupidity rather than a purposeful attack on the modern standard of living.
I had my appendix out last week. It was nice that the hospital had a lot of power to help aid that process.
I predict a red trickle. I’m not sure about the fundamentals of the Senate, it’s going to be close maybe 51-seat majority for the Republicans. They will win control of the house.
They are massively underperforming what they ought to be able to do. You’re crazy if you think they end up with 55 Senate seats.
Yep, Senate is a coin toss at best.
House will be a red wave, but it’s sad that a “wave” consists of about 10% of the seats turning over.
That is the real problem, and has been for a long time. Congress’s performance consistently polls very low, and nobody trusts them. Yet even in a “red wave”, 90% of those assholes are reelected.
+1 Congress sucks, except my guy
My guy sucks too.
My state rep ain’t bad, my federal rep sucks ass.
They could have nominated reasonable people and had some slam-dunk wins. Instead we have Oz, Herschel walker, etc.
+1
Trump gave us a lot of those. 🙄
Barnett would be mopping the floor right now with Fetterlump.
Probably, even though the media would be painting her as Aunt Jemima Hitler.
What do you mean by reasonable? As the MSM, Dems, and GOP define it, I think of Mike Pence, Romney, etc. Maybe you get a little crazy with someone like Cruz, who is still part of the establishment party but otherwise considered a serious and reasonable candidate.
Reasonable GOP candidates may be good to the GOP but not to breaking the one-party system. I don’t think there are any GOP candidates with any sort of libertarian leanings that will be considered reasonable in a general election. The closest I can think of is someone like Rand, and he is pretty much considered an embarrassment to the eGOP. A winning GOP is a hollow victory if the winners are just Dems in disguise.
I want candidates that are considered unreasonable by any mainstream standard. It’s not necessarily a losing strategy based on the 2016 outcome, though the eGOP does their best to convince everyone otherwise. Hopefully candidates with a little more class than evidenced so far, but, would they be running as candidates on this level if they had class to begin with?
However, if undecideds break R 2-to-1 they could get there.
Maybe Mattress Mack can finally afford ear-reduction surgery.
the vast majority of people are still too comfortable to see what’s happening and – especially – what’s coming.
And the overwhelming majority of not-insane people are still unable/unwilling to believe the greens could possibly mean exactly what they say. They want to destroy civilization “for the good of the planet”.
I think you are pretty spot on Banjos. I never bought the Dem surge in the summer and I don’t think the vote shenanigans are nearly as high as some claim. Regardless, Team Donkey won’t be able to overcome the voter anger out there. I’d say it’s going to be a Red wave, not quite a tsunami, but likely 53 or maybe even 54 in the Senate, 30-40 in the House, and less than 20 Dem governors come next week. Let the infighting begin with the Donks. And as soon as BOM declares he is in for 24, expect the same for the Elephants. I do predict though that TDog will be out before the primaries really start to kick in.
BOM?
OMB.
The last Mammary Monday before ThA mOsT iMpOrTaNt uHlEkShUn EVAR!!!11!!1
https://archive.ph/4RJIV
I’m on the baby side of Gen-X but if liberty is holding its breath in hopes we as a generation save it, it’s going to die.
https://www.realclearpennsylvania.com/articles/2022/11/01/the_midterms_and_gen-x_super_voters_862450.html
Though here is probably the paragraph that will define this election
“Nearly two-thirds of suburbanites support abortion rights, but the issue does not rank among the top concerns of this midterm cycle. Recognizing that abortion will remain legal in most places, suburbanites have likely tabled the abortion debate; more pressing issues are affecting their families right now”
Gen X is not a big enough generation to move the needle.
Very true. The first few years of the generation were labeled “lost generation” because the birthrate crashed.
Gen-X can favor whatever it wants but political power will skip from Boomers to Millennials.
Yep. Gen-X as a whole will continue to be ignored and ignore society as a whole while the very vocal millennials trounce and usher in our Green Revolution.
They grew up? A poll at the local Univ. just showed that students (whatever the hell this current generation is labelled) calling themselves “conservatives” are only 17% of the student body. Still that’s more than 3,000 kids so they should be able to have a large voice on campus if they only organized.
Muh messaging
Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen on Sunday predicted that Democrats are going to have a “bad night” on Election Day because the party failed to listen to the most urgent needs of voters.
“I’m a loyal Democrat, but I am not happy … we did not listen to voters in this election and I think we are going to have a bad night,” Rosen said during a roundtable discussion on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “When voters tell you over and over and over again that they care mostly about the economy — listen to them.”
“Stop talking about democracy being at stake,” she added. “Democracy is at stake because people are fighting so much about what elections mean.”
Poll after poll has shown that inflation and the economy are the top issues for voters heading into the midterms on Tuesday, but Democrats have offered mixed messaging at best on those concerns for much of the election cycle.
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President Biden has also warned Americans they must vote to save democracy at the polls after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and the assault on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) husband last month.
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Rosen on Sunday said Democrats “have an economic story to tell” and should have focused on the issue.
“People actually like our policies better on the economy,” she said, adding that “we have not been doing it.”
Bullshit. Your economic policies suck. How do you think we got here?
Democrat messaging is always thwarted by FNC and other rightwing arbiters of misinformation.
To be fair, people liking their economic policies is not the same thing as liking the consequences of their economic policies. Most people aren’t particularly economically sophisticated. And it’s not entirely fair to expect them to be. A lot of people find economics complex and sort of boring. And they have other things they worry about. But, that also means they aren’t able to tie the results of lousy policies to those lousy policies.
Last night when I heard that Elon was banning anybody whose account was not clearly marked “parody” I was disappoint because I don’t think that’s a good idea. People need to use their brains. However, I did not know that a blue check was impersonating someone else, which is a different thing entirely.
Yup.
I think blue check=no parody/impersonating makes perfect sense, since that is Twitter vouching for you. Otherwise it should be fair game with no need for disclaimers.
The blue check should only apply to the current display name/username. Change either one one and the checkmark disappears immediately and doesn’t return without reapplying.
I guess I can can see this tomorrow morning while I go to cast a meaningless ballot.
During the early hours of Tuesday, November 8, 2022—Election Day in the U.S.— a total lunar eclipse (also known as a “Blood Moon”) will be visible from North and South America, the Pacific, Asia and Australia.
During the event a full Moon—November’s “Beaver Moon”—will enter the center of Earth’s shadow for a whopping 85 minutes, turning an eery dark copper-reddish color as it does so.
It will be the third total lunar eclipse in 18 months, the second in 2022 and the last until 2025.
What is it with people thinking today is election day? One on Facederp said “I hope I don’t wake up tomorrow to a fascist hellhole” and (IIRC) Fetterman said “only one day left to vote”.
This quote applies as always
‘People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it’
Well… Fetterlump may just be confused. Or have a stutter. Or you’re ableist for pointing out that Election Day is tomorrow.
What is it with people thinking today is election day?
Stupid is as stupid does.
I hope I don’t wake up tomorrow to a fascist hellhole
No matter. The government does not change until January.
You expect people who don’t know election day is tomorrow to know the government doesn’t change hands until January?
Talking to folk voting in Miami County, IN. This was hard to start. Like everything in my life, tearing the band aid off is by far the worst part of it all.
I have a couple stupid stupid quotes. Should try and get more. Will, in my own way. Now may be another way that I purposefully distract myself to I’ll aim.
Will have a decompress smoke, which will actually re-stress me. Oh dear. My oh me. Hrm.
Stop typing ev. Distraction Therapy is far worse.
Final reminder for all of us idiots going to vote tomorrow:
https://www.econlib.org/sorry-your-vote-doesnt-count/
I went on Thursday during TX early in-person voting. I did not want to wait in line for hours on Tuesday.
Does it count? Don’t know. It was a “fuck you” vote, against the status quo instead of a vote of idealism. I hope it helps to fuck the democrats in some small way.
‘I am always surprised to find intelligent people who think that an ordinary voter, by using his single vote, has a significant chance of influencing the outcome and consequences of an election. ‘
Even as a child I understood this concept, but group behavior does matter, so, square that circle. The author just seems to dismiss it.
‘. A voter may also just enjoy whispering his opinion to the winds.’
He really gets me. *Continues posting opinions to the Tulpas here*
As I said in a comment, if I decide to not vote it in no way affects my “group”. Well, it does by one vote.
But that is the point, it is still 1 vote.
So… I got a speeding ticket in OH. I tried to pay it online, but it wasn’t “in the system” yet.
I have received TWO mailers from law firms wanting to represent me about the ticket. Exactly how the fuck much do speeding tickets cost in OH?
I’m more interested in how they sent you a mailer and you aren’t “in the system” yet.
That part doesn’t surprise me at all. I’m sure the Ohio bar has made sufficient campaign donations to get priority on such information.
Generally speaking, if I get a ticket, I’ll just pay the first one. Camera tickets don’t come with points, I don’t believe. But I WILL get a lawyer for the second one, just to keep the points off my license. More expensive, sure, but I’d rather not have the points.
It’s not the ticket that’s the expensive part, it’s the court costs.
If either of them were camera tickets, that’s another story, and don’t have the court costs, but are easier to fight.
What is it with people thinking today is election day?
Every day is election day. Vote early. Vote often.
Neither Zep (the lurker) nor I even saw a deer. There wasn’t much shooting at all, I don’t know why. Weather Sat was perfect, yesterday the wind started at 8 AM and howled all day, we hunted but the deer weren’t moving. Zep went home last night but may be back on the week end. I didn’t even see a squirrel but some swans flew over on Saturday.
Weather is changing tomorrow, rain, then Thursday and Friday snow. I may not be out much. It’s not quite as much fun as it used to be, seems like the ladder is longer, the seat is harder. I took the lawn tractor out but that won’t go through the snow.
I’ll put up the bird feeders today and a couple small jobs but not much else. If a deer walked through the yard I might be tempted.
I won’t be voting tomorrow, conflict of interest. I’ll be getting the same politicians as those that voted. Democracy’s a helluva drug. The problems today were created by the same people that are promising to fix things. Somehow I doubt it. Fool me once…
LOL
Besides an extinct mammal, what’s a mastodon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEubrZV04b0
The new place to circle jerk publicly for Blue Check refugees. Looks like Discord really
Monogamy culture is consumed with ideas about possession and hoarding. It’s romantic capitalism.
Monogamous people are socialized from childhood to believe that affection, care, and concern are all limited resources that can only be directed at someone they want to sleep with or ride the relationship escalator with.
I find that even those folx who believe in freedom for all people or who have read all the Black Feminist books about community and kinship struggle with hoarding affection and care.
https://twitter.com/JennMJacksonPhD/status/1588925188523319296
I read a little of that thread. I can’t suss out wtf “monogamy culture” is to begin with.
you sound like someone hoarding affection
“Hoarding affection.” I am unable to even.
Aw, sounds like Dr. Jenn’s got a bad case of third wheel syndrome.
“I’m a ho”
There were several utopian 19th societies that tried to do away with monogamous relationships. None of them turned out well.
When this one one split the blanket, the joint-stock corporation got the silverware.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneida_Community
Articles about Twatter “re-hiring” people who were laid off. Obviously, none of those serious journalists bothered to read the email telling those people they are still employed but not on active duty.
It kind of sounds, through the static, like maybe some people are being told they can apply to get re-activated.
Reason new cars suck 1,001.
Ford Lightning Instrument Panel Breakdown: A common sense approach to carry over components
Munroe does competitor analysis and costing for the auto industry. They’ve ripped apart multiple instrument panels and shared it. This Ford panel is composed of a ridiculous number of pieces, is awkward to assemble and has got to be an absolute PITA to service.
Buckle up everyone.
The claims of hacking were totally debunked but this time we need to believe them if our team loses….
Woops!
Dems win by even the slightest of margins = mandate and cleanest election evar.
Reps. win by any margin = rigged/stolen and voter suppression.
LOL those hackers were “debunked” but these ones are totes dangerous.
I wonder what has changed. 🙄
Kathy Griffin is now using her dead mother’s account to tweet.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/kathy-griffin-permanently-banned-by-twitter/
Well, at least I’m not the only one who didn’t scroll 🙂
Today in “troubles with vendors,” I received an email from a guy who had dropped off the map saying that covid restrictions kept him offline longer than he thought. He then sent a sketch he had drawn on a hotel notepad… from Shanghai. I’m assuming he won’t be back in the states for a while.
can someone buy a powerball ticket for me? I can send the money in crypto or something . though I have no idea how it works I assume I need to pick some numbers
There is also something called a “quick pick” that generates random numbers.
It would be a legal nightmare to get you any of the money.
I’ll still buy you a ticket and claim the winnings for myself, giving you the annual gift tax exclusion every year (currently a whopping $16k).
I got you Pie. I’ll buy us a ticket when I go.
I just get random #s.
how many numbers? and what range?
the last lottery numbers i had in Romania were 16 26 37 38 47 49
26 37 38 47 49 and 16 🙂
<=
Do you need me to sell you a lottery strategy guide first?
For 5% annual pay out of your winnings I will teach you this one meat trick that the lottery commission doesn’t want you to know!
That’s the sucker way. You need to sell the guide for $20, that way you have a reasonable chance to get some cash in hand.
My way covers accusations that I was peddling snake oil though.
If someone drops off Glibs tomorrow, never to be heard from again, I guess we’ll know why.
Pie, you have to be a US resident to claim a lottery prize winning. That’s to make sure both the Fed gov and the state of residence can get their taxes…
There’d be some reporting requirements, but I think
an LLC or other corporate entity can claim the winnings,
and there’s no prohibition as such for Pie to own all
or part of a US corporate entity.
My research on this consisted of a single DDG search and a 15 second
skim of the first result that seemed at all promising. So, it may
well be wrong in every particular that matters.
Monogamous people are socialized from childhood to believe that affection, care, and concern are all limited resources that can only be directed at someone they want to sleep with or ride the relationship escalator with.
They misspelled “roller coaster”.
This Ford panel is composed of a ridiculous number of pieces, is awkward to assemble and has got to be an absolute PITA to service.
In other words, a triumph of modern industrial design.
I read a little of that thread. I can’t suss out wtf “monogamy culture” is to begin with.
The Book of Mormon strikes again!
Hey, look. One husband is enough for me.
“If you don’t like Twitter anymore, there is awesome site called Masterbatedone”
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589646682710417408
LOLOLOLOL
COP 27 FOOD MENU – Where they will decide you must eat less meat.
Here’s the VIP food menu for today. Very erm… meaty with a dash of dairy obvs
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1589529677701734402
Bill Maher’s “New Rule” segment has been pretty good the last few weeks. Very good actually.
And then he does this:
The video is embedded.
TLDW: Democracy is on the ballot.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Nofuckingthankyou.
Democracy can lead to the end of democracy, which is why we must protect democracy.
You have to vote Democrat so you can vote Republican.
No, actually, in practice it is one wolf and two lambs deciding what to have for dinner. And the one lamb votes with the wolf because he forgets the wolf is going to be hungry again tomorrow.
This guy gets it, even if there are 20 lambs, ad infinitum.
Why are you eating me? I supported you!
Why Repubs didn’t take this and throw it back in their faces that Dems are all about the fear vote makes me shake my head.
Democracy is like a McRib, it’s something you really don’t want, and if you look too closely at it, you’ll see it’s just pork dressed up with some sauce.
Can we really call it pork though?
Mechanically separated edible particles.
“The 2020 presidential election was rife with allegations of voting machine hacks that were later debunked.
Yet there are real risks that hackers could tunnel into voting equipment and other election infrastructure to try to undermine Tuesday’s vote.”
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1589568452699820032
There is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy!
Project harder.
“Democracy will be ending” if Democrats lose the 2022 midterms, Rep. James Clyburn said today.
“I’ve studied history all of my life … what I see here are parallels to what the history was in this world back in the 1930s in Germany.”
He also, in real time r8ght after he said the world will end, denied he said the world will end….what a clown show
You know who else didn’t study 1930s German history…
Stalin?
Mainstreaming of sexual entertainment and inflation?
That dude/chick who draws all the inflation porn most affected?
This is awesome.
Dog sets Frisbee record for longest catch at 109 yards.
Speedy pup!
Trump needs to go away and take his family with him.
2 days before the midterms and he goes on the attack against DeSantis??? And his idiot son proclaims from the podium that Fetterman is “brain dead”???
Not a good look. Donnie, thanks for stomping on Hilldog, but you’ve served your purpose and now your vanity will be your undoing,
Mega dittos.
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1589482165649436673
This was not an attack on DeSantis. This was a warning to everyone else, using DeSantis as a prop, and whom is going to steamroll that asshat Christ in FLA regardless (he is safe), to not run against Trump in 2024.
Pisspoor of him to do this shit, but he was not trying to harm DeSantis like team blue wants people to believe.
I dunno man. He just sounds like a dick, wait until after the election.
Trump will be the reason that Harris wins in 2024.
So there is this tyrannical cunte.
Former Senior Intelligence Service officer at the CIA, Marc Polymeropoulos published a Sunday piece declaring that that techniques once used to fight radical Islam should be turned against the against the right-wing in America.
Polymeropoulos’ piece for NBC News Think warned that propagandists, whether Islamic terrorists or Republicans, should be subject to counterterrorism and counterradicalization techniques.
“I worked in counterterrorism operations for nearly my entire career at the CIA before retiring in 2019. The battle we engaged in with international terrorist groups like Al Qaeda wasn’t just with their legions of foot soldiers but with their highly effective propaganda arms as well,” he wrote. “The U.S. and our allies considered those propagandists fundamental cogs in a terror group’s machinery, and just as culpable as any other terrorist. So we held them accountable when innocent civilians were killed.”
Polymeropoulos suggested that the attack of Paul Pelosi was evidence that the American government needs to take a firmer approach to its own citizenry.
“Marc, you ignorant slut”
Keep pushing, dummies.
Water boarding is now cool with them…keep pushing
Someone is scared shitless there will be a Red Wave tomorrow and is setting the stage for justification by the Left to be the kinds of boogeymen he is claiming reside on the Right.
Sounds like Hammer Time to me.
Just more evidence that the CIA is an unaccountable, megalomaniac organization that should be razed and the earth salted.
The “attack” reportedly carried out by a Canadian here in the US illegally? 🙄
The one where we the people are not allowed to see the numerous recorded feeds about? Cause I am gonna bet there is some real downright sleazy shit that they are trying to hide from us.
You know, I do think someone somewhere should start compiling a list of these bastards. Because, honestly, I’m not 100% sure they’re not going to start trying with tactics like this. And, when things do settle out, if they settle out in any sane way, some of them are going to have to face justice.
And this is why the MSM are sweeping the whole thing under the rug.
A citizen of a foreign nation did this and his response is to go after citizens….
I wonder if the MSM have even reported the Canadian part.
Democracy in tatters
Workers at a Home Depot in Philadelphia overwhelmingly voted against becoming the first store in the chain to be represented by a union.
The National Labor Relations Board, which oversees union elections, reported that only 51 employees voted to join Home Depot Workers United, and 165 voted against it.
Why can’t those people understand what’s in their best interest? Why do they listen to anti-union disinfo?
I get better service at Lowes.
Me at either place.
Now, the Ace hardware up the street is a different story. Plenty of old dudes to help solve problems and even the youngsters know their shit.
A non union job is better than union non-job
Old Man Election Predictions (and if there is a Zoom tomorrow night, I will either gloat of take my lumps):
House- bare majority Team Red.
Senate- Still Team Blue. Red might even lose a net seat.
NY Governor- Not the Jew.
NPR Liberal Girlfriend spent most of yesterday evening on Facebook vacuuming up memes to send me.
NPR Liberal Girlfriend spent most of yesterday evening on Facebook vacuuming up memes to send me.
Why are you doing this to yourself?
I would assume sex is the driving force…as has been since forever
You can only keep doing that for so long and then even the sex will not be enough to put up with the insanity…
It’s that self-loathing Jew thing.
Or to her. I mean, she really doesn’t know enough about his politics to make informed decisions.
Well…. post them so we can laugh or cry….
Please
I think 225 seats GOP, 210 Dem. Senate remains 50/50. And OMWC gets dumped soon.
I’m almost more interested in the propositions.
No less than 3 local props are clearly intended to further the dream of a racist “equity” regime.
“Old Man Election Predictions (and if there is a Zoom tomorrow night, I will either gloat of take my lumps):”
Fetterman euphemism?
Crow on the menu, regardless of the outcome
A moment of silence for the 120-150 million murdered and over 3 billion imprisoned in misery provided by communism. That should be every day, but today is Victims of communism day.
As long as tomorrow isn’t Usher in Communism Day.
Ain’t that the truth.