“Why is political comedy SO bad?” Come for the poorly thought out drivel. Stay for the woman who looks eerily like my ex, when we met in college.
Bag your leaves, ya lazy bums! Or don’t; I’m not your boss.
Freedom; the concept of which, leads to the New York Post clutching pearls and calling for a fainting couch.
NAZIs… even in rural New York, the menace of the NSDAP is never ending. Also, some lady Congresscritter and Trump are to blame.
Today’s music is a trip back to the 1980s DC/Maryland punk scene, and my favorite band from same – Dag Nasty (this song is for the lovely WebDom). And here they are in 2017, still rocking hard.
Easy Reader?
““Today, we light up our economy,” enthused the mayor. Referring to recreational pot sales, he continued: “The regulated adult-use cannabis industry is a once-in-a-generation opportunity … Cannabis NYC will plant the seeds for the economy of tomorrow.””
Good thing Swiss wasn’t there.
“New Orleans, reeling from middle-class population flight and the loss of port-related jobs”
More like government so corrupt it would shock an Italian.
Yep.
Are you implying he’d weed out such language?
I’d leaf it alone, before the above mentioned Swiss rolls in.
Maybe this week we’ll get a ho-ho from him instead.
He’ll stem the tide of these puns. Or at least try to paper them over. He thinks the joint is too classy for them.
That’s putting it bluntly.
Otherwise his ego might take a hit.
“For two reasons, casinos don’t have much of an economic-multiplier effect. First, the house always wins: casinos are extractive entertainment. People who lose money gambling have less to spend at competing attractions, such as restaurants or sports stadiums.”
I didn’t know Krugman wrote for the Post.
Las Vegas and Reno would be to differ. Get enough loot sloshing through the casinos and you can pick up other touristy stuff as people come for the “experience”.
I would think the bigger problem is that the tribal casinos are just about everywhere — I highly doubt it would be easy to get enough mindshare in the market to get that sort of effect. Might as well put the slots in the gas stations and take what you can.
Gorram it… “be” –> “beg to differ”, obviously. Stupid only-see-proof-reading-problems-after-click-submit idiot…
Movie theaters are extractive entertainment, too, I suppose.
“Extractive” is becoming code for “economic activity that the poors are too dumb to know is bad for them.”
“North Dakota State University professors Siew Hoon Lim and Lei Zhang found the benefits of casinos to be “short term and small” and their harm to society “long term and potentially irreversible.””
I’m more surprised two asians found each other in North Dakota.
The Chinese are covering the zone, man.
“short term and small” sounds like the per-man performance in Q’s link from last night.
“A healthy industry needs to grow, which means that the state and city must encourage more people to consume pot regularly.”
Must have missed all those government ads encouraging drinking and smoking.
“We’ll put a big tax on it, that’ll bring in more revenue”
Much smarter would be to have some advertising for tourists that they can buy pot while they’re in town.
“No rational elected official focused on legalization as a powerful engine of jobs and tax-revenue growth in a major global city — a notion not just economically absurd but depressing. The city of finance, media, fashion, tech and medicine is now, to paraphrase its mayor, the “lit” city?”
No one in media and fashion smokes weed.
No one on media or fashion needed it legalized in order to acquire it. The wrong sort of people will now have legal access.
Bingo!
“Many people make decent livings in farming and retail, but the industries are hardly engines of good-paying jobs.”
What?
Look, if you’re not a coke-sniffing Wall Street mutual fund manager, you just don’t count, eh?
You might even live out there in… gasp! flyover country! Shudder…
Decent livings from jobs that don’t pay well? Err, OK.
“The final vice frontier is prostitution. Proponents of openly marketed “sex work” now use the same language that proponents of legal marijuana and casino gambling used over the years to make those activities centerpieces of New York’s economic policy. It’s not hard to imagine, during a future budget crisis, a proposal for a dedicated tax on prostitution that could reap hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Young women (and men) unhappy with their job prospects in the casino-greeter and pot-laced-baked-goods industry may soon find another exciting new career option.”
Twenty dollars is twenty dollars.
“Twenty dollars is twenty dollars.”
Not in Biden’s America.
So, $32.50, same as downtown?
“Why is political comedy SO bad?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
That said, I think the Bee is doing just fine, thank you. Didn’t watch the lunatic harping on, but saw the Bee was in the thumbnails trying to entice me to listen to her blather.
That’s surely got a lot to do with it. Also TDS truly and irreparably broke a lot of people’s brains.
I’ll dive in later today. I’m curious, in the sense of like watching a trainwreck, what problems they have with the Bee.
Well, that Yoel Roth character didn’t find the Bee’s Rachel Levine “Man of the Year” article funny at all, despite a history of joking about trannies in now-deleted tweets. I’m guessing the problem is the Bee is uninterested in kowtowing to the Current Thing.
Wow. I watched that lady do two minutes worth of jokes before I realized she was trying to be funny. She cannot deliver lines or come up with funny material.
Now I have to dive in.
15 seconds. She’s not funny.
Three minute or so mark.
I think I’ll need booze to finish this video.
OK, maybe I’m being a bit harsh. She said something about “If your audience doesn’t find you jokes funny, write funnier jokes.”
Oh boy. Minimum wage! Typical leftist drivel from the host and a friend.
Just about at the end.
Yeah. l0b0t’s “poorly thought out drivel” is correct.
When you remove the sharp edges, which are the things that make comedy funny, from half of the jokes while trying to insert polimics in the other half, you are bound to fail.
Politics and political comedy can be very funny, but when it becomes preaching…
I stand with Betsy Simek.
Need to make Leaf Control a law, require all homeowners/renters to maintain their property properly. A Lawn Height Inspector is also necessary, otherwise some people…
4×20 gets it… political bureaucracy is an “engine of good-paying jobs”.
I jad a buddy in Arlington, TX who had a cop come in through his window because his lawn was too tall. Such things exist.
He didn’t shoot the cop?
This.
I would not have thought that bagging leaves is controversial. Does this town also let you just throw your garbage into piles by the curb?
Apparently shitting on the sidewalk is acceptable behavior in some places.
You know, I don’t come up to Minnesota and tell you how to live your life.
San Francisco waves hello
Front-end loaders?? Our backwards little township out in flyover country has a truck with a big tube that sucks up the piled-up leaves from along the curb. The township is divided into several areas, each of which has two scheduled weeks of leaf pickup each fall/winter, though if you miss your first week (that one always seems to be too early,) it’s common for the truck to come around again on an unscheduled week if they get that week’s section done early. Is that not a thing Back East?
I know of places in southeastern Pennsylvania that do it.
It used to be. So did burning them.
One dude that walks infront of the chute with a rake and another with a broom. They direct the leaves into the chute and it gets sucked up, shredded, and blown into the bed of the dump truck.
Oh yeah, burning too. There was a town not far from where I grew up where burning leaves in the fall was a tradition. Everyone would rake up their leaves in their own back yards, and then light the pile on fire. The town was quite smokey that day.
We do that here, supposedly. Everyone makes a big pile of leaves on the street, about a foot from the curb and then city, again supposedly, comes by with a tractor and a truck to pick them up three times a year. Of course, the last time came and went with no pickup, so half the city still has leaves around and need to take alternate action.
But it works most years…
That harpy supposed comedienne has almost half a million subscribers? We’re doomed…but seriously, comedians attacking what people do and do not find funny sucks.
New York’s new emphasis on pot and poker — even as the city ignores the day-to-day quality-of-life concerns of its core high-paying industries in finance and business and its highest-earning individual taxpayers — comes despite decades’ worth of evidence that vice-oriented cities don’t thrive.
Call me old fashioned (or worse), but as I get older I have kind of swung a bit more toward the view that drugs and gambling are bad for a community AND that the government system of cops, jails, probation officers, mandatory drug treatment, lawyers, etc is obviously also very bad. I think the point the NY Post is making is that wealthy people paying an arm and a leg to have to step over a masturbating junkie on the sidewalk outside their front door will drive people to the suburbs, and they’re probably not wrong. The current NYC regime’s tactic of doing nothing about the real problems and adding more freely available vice might make money in one area and push it away in another, and further the city’s descent into dystopia.
Standard libertarian disclaimer. Not arresting peaceful stoners is good. I take your point that clutching pearls about “vices” which most of us are easily able to manage or avoid altogether is weak. But even pot has negatives and I don’t want to get into TOS territory where they actually promote degeneracy. For example, I don’t think sex work should be illegal but neither should it be glorified (as it is by certain current/former TOS contributors) and I suspect communities would take steps to push it out of certain family friendly areas (or at least out of sight).
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tl;dr version: I have an onion on my belt.
(First sentence is a quote from the article which I formatted incorrectly.)
A vice economy along with non enforcement of the various statutes dealing with vagrancy and other bad public behavior, not to mention the more serious stuff, seems like a recipe for a bit of a hellscape.
Yeah, the government turning to vice seems like a symptom of deep problems to me. It smacks of desperately trying to replace lost tax dollars instead of, you know, fuck you cut spending.
Absolutely though I’ll add those finance jobs will migrate farther than the suburbs. See Ken Griffin moving Citadel to Miami. Chicago managed to lose IL’s single largest taxpayer and everyone who worked for him.
OPWW refers to Operation Werewolf, which is a subsidiary of the Wolves of Vinland – a Virginia-based hate group listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Affiliated with Neo-Völkisch ideology, members of the Wolves of Vinland and other Neo-Völkisch groups use Nazi symbolism and rhetoric and believe that pre-Christian Norse and Germanic religions can only be practiced by people with ancestral roots in those Northern European regions – or, more specifically, white people, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
So, a fringe group of pale nerds. That “hate group” doesn’t sound all that hateful. I bet Nation of Islam is far more overtly racist and responsible for more violence against people of other races.
Kenna was also allegedly illegally wearing body armor.
Ever notice no one says “it’s a free country” anymore?
Pale nerds that don’t even get it right. Neue not neo if they want proper Germanic “stuff”.
If SPLC says they’re a “hate group”, they’re probably not.
I, for one, am glad to see sumptuary laws making a comeback. If we don’t restrict the wearing of body armor to the King’s Men, how will we be able to distinguish our betters from ordinary people?
Or “strong as the dollar.”
Or “Don’t make a federal case out of it.”
I live in Virginia and have never heard of that group. But all it takes is a group of three trailer park rednecks with access to a photocopier to give SPLC the vapors, and a fundraising tool.
Operation Werewolf was a WW2 plan for armed resistance in Germany if the allies won.
2 trailer park rednecks and a glowie.
‘Orning ‘ordles before I go do a F1 race. First round quite good (by my standards)… I think below the Hype line, which is always an extra nice bonus when I can do it.
Main event started promising — then turned into some wild guesses that fortunately paid off early enough not to embarrass me further. But nothing to crow about, either.
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Good morning, l0 (et al)! I hope WebDom is feeling much better than she was yesterday morning (per the Old Man.)
from the sidebar of the white supremacist article, I saw this thumbnail and thought he was Peter Sellers.
Kind of a cross between him and Mike Lindell.
From that same article “Meanwhile, over Thanksgiving week, former President Donald Trump dined with known white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago.”
Now, they may have had a dinner alone, but why no mention of Kanye being there too ?
“known white nationalist Nick Fuentes”
90% of the people writing these articles never heard of Nick Fuentes.
Certain language just attaches itself to some people, you know?
Because then they might have to explain how a black guy is hanging with a “white nationalist”.
It is not illegal to be a white supremacist. But it’s obviously deeply disturbing. The store’s connection to white supremacy was newsworthy, especially considering the business has prominent real estate in downtown Gloversville.
It’s not illegal, but it should be. And that Nazi symbol- if we showed you a picture of it, you’d turn into a Nazi on the spot.
Schwartz said DPW is currently providing residents with a letter explaining the policy change, and bags for the collection, but he thinks fines might be the way to go eventually.
“That’s probably the road that we’ll have to go down,” Schwartz said.
Potential shitshow inbound.
I like having half my lot wooded. I just blow all the leaves into the woods and be done with them.
One might argue that for distressed, badly governed cities such as New Orleans and Atlantic City, courting casinos, and with them a few thousand additional jobs, is better than nothing, but that’s debatable.
One sentence mentioning the real problem – government.
I like big Firsts and I cannot lie…you other seconders cannot deny…
When I fisted your mom she said it was a real “punch in the gut:.
Wait- you said FIRST. My mistake.
But enough about Obama and Biden.
Lol
Seriously, how can anyone with a straight face justify making body armor of any kind illegal?
The guy with the gun on you can.
I think it was John at TOS who argued long and hard for that one.
If it makes it harder for cops to kill you, it’s obviously nefarious.
I remember that.
That was one of the many things that triggered him.
I don’t see how you could think Americans should be allowed to own something as dangerous as a gun if you think we should be rendered unable to protect ourselves by force of law.
Wanting to own and use purely defensive items means you are basically a terrorist.
“‘He let her die’: Boy, 17, to be tried for murder as an adult after girl, 16, he gave ecstasy laced with fentanyl is found dead in her bedroom by her mom – after pair met at church
Jacob Sayre, 17, is being tried as an adult for the suspected drug deal, and was booked on second-degree murder, endangering the welfare of a child, and delivery of a controlled substance Thursday in Ozark, Missouri.
Speaking out for the first time Saturday, the mom revealed that her daughter was not friends with Sayre and claimed that her daughter, with her dying breath, attempted to call Sayre as she began to feel the effects of the potent pain medication, but was ignored as she succumbed, alone, to its effects.
She is now demanding the teen face justice for his actions, writing Saturday after news of his temporary release was made public: ‘There is a special place in Hell for people that are this evil.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11550681/Boy-17-tried-murder-adult-16-year-old-girl-met-church-dead.html
CWAC
I thought “murder” had a specific legal definition that’s, you know, not that.
BUT DRUGS BAD!
Oh… OK, then.
Most of us here denounce drug laws, but they remain on the books, so boy’s gotta problem. Even if there isn’t discrete code on the books regarding this particular scenario in the state it occurred, possessing and distributing the drug is probably a felony, so any death that occurred due to or during the course of that first crime is arguably “felony murder” in most states, like a traffic death during the police chase after a liquor store heist.
Dealers are convicted of murder in overdose cases from time to time; the reason you don’t hear about it often is that it’s hard to get the dealer’s address from a cold body. Convictions have been won at every level including federal. Recently, prosecutors have started going after people for merely sharing drugs, so this isn’t a new or isolated case.
Given the governing law and the facts we have, it’s a fair charge and the job of a jury to weigh.
I offer this perspective only to reinforce the libertarian narrative that laws against consensual behavior naturally spiral all out of proportion. And, as always, I’d observe that right-libertarian culture warmongering weakens the brand, confuses the public, and reduces the chance that libertarian thought will help fix/reduce these kinds of governmental overreach.
If it weren’t for the law, ecstasy laced with fentanyl would not exist.
So selling the drugs makes one an adult, but buying doesn’t?
Yea I’m not sure why you’re allowed to charge children as adults. Has there ever been any evidence of 17 year olds going out and committing heinous crimes so they could get it out of their system before it was super illegal to do at 18?
How does her age affect how he is charged?
He’s only 17
“Minutes later, the interview was terminated a few minutes later at the request of the parents, as they wanted to be present for further questioning. ”
How about a lawyer?
Or an editor?
“Why queenagers go to work in their flatforms (unless they’re laid low by flurona): The bizarre new words and phrases that emerged in 2022”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11550253/Language-expert-ADAM-JACOT-BOINOD-reveals-2022-bizarre-new-words.html
Shockingly, it’s a pretty good list. Some of the words we use here, like lawfare. And it’s pretty entertaining. Obviously done by an expert, not some dipshit journalo.
Splooting
The act of lying flat on the stomach with the legs stretched out, to counter unusually high temperatures.
Does that work? I guess if you’re indoors on cool tile or something.
Lawfare isn’t a new word, it’s been around for decades.
New to me but I do live in the woods and rarely venture out. Seems like I haven’t missed a lot.
splooting is classic Australian Shepherd behavior and a word in use in that culture for I dare say decades
In the Keeshonden community as well. Probably others.
Nearly all dogs do it but these are people that believe when they come upon a word, it must be them that discovered it! Like my kids when they were young and claimed they made a ‘new’ song “Jingle Bells, Batman smells….”
Also see Budussy.
That word has been around for several years. It’s generally used to describe dogs in that posture.
Didn’t include my favorite new word (“boofing”), though.
“Enjoying Twitter jail! Controversial Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz grins as she confirms her ban from Twitter for ‘asking Elon Musk for a comment’ – as fellow banned reporter Ryan Mac waves in the background”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11550753/Taylor-Lorenz-suspended-Twitter-just-tweeting-Elon-Musk-seeking-comment-story.html
I’ll look into it later, but for now, I just assume she’s lying.
#metoo
Except I won’t look into it later.
She was probably banned for doxxing.
Tom Woods linked to this movie: https://www.anecdotalsmovie.com/. It’s about vaccine injuries. Anyone seen it? I’ll watch it this evening or soon and report back, unless I get drunk or something.
Will watch thanks. Woods also promoted Overpoliced last week too. That is a must watch also.
Cool, I missed that one, thanks.
Duly noted. Thanks, y’all.
The Glibs recommendations for TV and books is vastly superior to any other lists out there.
I need to thank Brooks for the recommendation of War Factories, but I’ll save it for some completely random unthreaded spot in the comments later on.
To the hoosegow with him
Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner predicted that former President Donald Trump might get up to 25 years in prison for committing offenses related to last year’s Capitol riot, after the House select committee investigating the attack decided to make criminal referrals to the Department of Justice (DOJ) earlier this month.
When asked during an interview on MSNBC’s The ReidOut on Friday about whether or not referrals have value, Kirschner said they did.
“The Department of Justice prides itself on exercising independent prosecutorial discretion but they can’t turn a blind eye to a coequal branch of government that has done such an exhaustive investigation when they pass all of that evidence over to [the] DOJ and they recommend criminal investigations and prosecutions,” he said.
The select committee is expected on Monday to consider a report reflecting possible criminal charges against Trump, two people familiar with the matter told Politico.
Some of the recommendations were made by a subcommittee that assessed potential criminal referrals. Proposed charges against the former president include insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the United States government, according to Politico.
Don’t forget “creating a nuisance”.
All of those things have an actual legal definition, and Trump actually did none of them. Fucking clown world.
Gotta keep the masses riled up.
Fun vid combining two of the best anime streaming this season.
Though Trump could face prison time if convicted for the alleged offenses related to the Capitol riot, Kirschner said that being prosecuted for insurrection is important.
“The important one….is insurrection…because the available sentence if you’re convicted of insurrection unlike those other charges is that you shall be prohibited from holding office under the United States. That quite frankly is the one I am rooting for,” he added.
Maybe we could banish him to a small island.
I really can’t believe how rapidly we became a full-blown banana republic.
It was before we ran out of living founding fathers if I recall correctly.
True. It does seem like in this moment normal people have gone from believing all the status quo myths to a kind a sad, defeated resignation about how corrupt things are and having no will to resist them pretty quickly, though.
We don’t even grow bananas.
Mahalo!
Maybe if East Atlanta got their shit together we would!
It actually happened a while back. Trump just broke the mask.
The proof positive came with things like Biden bragging about his actions in Ukraine as his son raked in millions. The complete lack of response, or even interest, should have been a huge clue.
But when discovery from the Flynn case came out and we learned that the President of the United States sat in a room with the Vice President, CIA director, FBI director and an assistant AG along with 2 FBI agents and plotted to frame the incoming administration’s director of intelligence… that was the “you cannot avoid this” proof.
It was confirmation of all of the stuff with the IRS, it confirmed that there was no defense of “good intentions” or “doing the best you can with flawed intelligence”.
And the fact that they openly did it in a large group that included 2 rank and file agents should tell you that it was neither surprising nor uncommon to do something this illegal.
If you look at the Twitter Monologues that Taibbi/Weis/et al are putting out right now, you can see this malefeasence in real time. And it is no wonder they went all apeshit over Musk buying it.
The Lois Learner “broken hard drives” thing was pretty blatant.
And then when Clinton (Bill) happened to meet up with Loretta Lynch on the tarmac and “chatted about their grandkids” they were really rubbing our noses in it.
I think they really believe the Dems had a permanent majority by then.
And then Trump came along and broke their brains.
“And then we can get back to the business of plundering the wealth of America and forget that this time of troubles ever happened.”
There is zero evidence to support the allegations. That said I hope the cuntes proceed because the entertainment value is limitless.
Two things stuck out for me in the NYP article:
Voters approved the proposal in 1976 after initially rejecting it, and Atlantic City got its casinos — but not the promised long-term economic benefits. In 1990, after slightly more than a decade of casino operations, and with the industry at its local peak, casinos employed 46,700 people. By 2019, the city claimed just 24,600 such positions, a drop of nearly half. Atlantic City had 3 percent fewer private-sector jobs overall in 2019 than in 1990, suggesting, too, that legalized gambling had no broader positive effect on prosperity.
Why the comparison from the peak in 1990, instead of the number of jobs pre-casino. And what other factors have led to the jobs exodus from Atlantic City?
Second, casinos do not create, on balance, high-paying jobs. Nationwide, the average gambling-industry worker earns $18 in mean hourly wages, federal data show — not much above New York’s statutory minimum wage of $15.
Comparing a casino worker in Biloxi or tribal New Mexico to the minimum wage in high-cost New York? Nice sleight-of-hand, there.
Average industry worker is weird metric too. How do you find the average hospital industry worker wage, add up CNAs who probably don’t make $15/hr most places, and average them with surgeons?
Also in the casino business I suspect the guys at the top with the Italian last names don’t declare every bit of their income.
Names like Pelosi (nee D’Alesandro) ?
Maybe they will stuff him and put him on display at the Griffith Observatory
P-22, a mountain lion who has spent years in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park, has been euthanized after likely suffering injuries in a “vehicle strike,” officials say.
The big cat made made headlines last month after he attacked and killed a resident’s leashed chihuahua. He was captured by authorities on Monday, who used GPS data from his tracking collar to locate and anesthetize him.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife made the decision to euthanize P-22 after a “comprehensive medical evaluation,” according to a news release Saturday.
He had a good run.
They could’ve given him a better name.
Italians and Greeks have a sad.
But I laugh about this stuff primarily because these groups are almost universally populated by idiots in the same vein as the Black Hebrew Israelites. And while they may be more prone to violence, they are certainly no threat to society, particularly when compared to the institutional power of those in DC who actively despise half the country.
Let me know when the Neo-Völkisch Volks stage big riots and arson festivals in a couple dozen cities.
That’s different! They were fighting for social justice blearggghh!!1!
Be prepared
The frequency and impact of pandemic-prone pathogens are increasing. Modest investments in PPR capacities can prevent and contain disease outbreaks, thereby drastically reducing the cost of response”
So begins a recent joint paper from the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), written for the 2022 meeting of the G20. The paper is seeking to justify a request for unprecedented international public health funding directed to the burgeoning pandemic preparedness and response (PPR) industry. The modest investments they refer to includes $10 billion in new funding; three times the WHO’s current annual budget.
In the century prior to the Covid debacle pandemics were not increasing and their impact was steadily diminishing, as noted in WHO’s 2019 pandemic guidelines. The cost of the Covid response would also have been far lower if these abandoned but evidence-based 2019 guidelines were followed. The WHO guidelines note that the approaches that comprised Covid lockdowns would be costly, especially to lower-income people.
However, the joint statement is not intended to reflect reality; rather it is intended to paint a picture through which the public will perceive a false reality. By triggering fear and deference, the wealth-concentrating response used against Covid can be normalized and then repeated. False assertions stated as accepted fact have proven very effective in increasing the industry’s share of the global financial cake. International agencies have no advertising standards to comply with.
What we need is a pretense of preparedness. The next “pandemic” will be even more of a clusterfuck than this one.
Invest in Plexiglas companies.
I know for a fact that State and other agencies invested heavily in $500 two foot by two foot Plexiglass tabletop dividers that went into ten by ten meeting rooms.
Ponder that one for a moment.
I have no idea how to interpret this insane story. For one, Ukraine is getting ground into sausage right now. Two, are they rhetorically creating a plausible scenario for nuclear escalation on our part? Are they just trying to gaslight Congress? What’s the point of the leak?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-official-told-congress-ukraine-can-retake-crimea-rcna61755
FTFY
No they do not. And none of this is our business anyway.
Need to make some posters featuring Zelenskyyyyy and NO BLOOD FOR FAME on them.
International public health organizations solely concentrated on addressing pandemics already exist, such as CEPI, inaugurated by the Gates Foundation, Norway and Wellcome Trust at the World Economic Forum in 2017, and the new Financial Intermediary Fund for pandemics of the World Bank. Others such as Gavi, and increasingly the WHO and Unicef, focus heavily on this area. Many of their sponsors, including large pharmaceutical companies and their investors, stand to gain very large profits off the back of this gravy train.
The average taxpayer, dealing with inflation, family life, jobs and myriad other priorities can hardly be expected to delve into the veracity of what ‘experts’ say in some far distant place. They must trust that a symbiotic, mutually beneficial relationship is still in place. They hope that the public health industry will do the right thing; that it is still on their side. Sadly, it is not.
White papers on pandemic preparedness don’t have detailed cost-benefit analyses, just as these were not provided for Covid lockdowns, school closures or mass vaccination. Cursory calculations suggest poor overall benefit, so they have been avoided. We now see this playing out through declining economies, rising poverty and inequality. Diverting billions of dollars annually to hypothetical pandemics will add to this burden. Yet this is being done, and the public is acquiescing to this use of their increasingly hard-earned taxes.
Heresy and defeatism. Of course we can keep everyone alive forever, or at least get very very rich in the attempt.
I suppose you should be prepared for the permanent plandemic that the powers that be are going to use to rule you.
“Why is political comedy SO bad?”
Because saying “Republicans are like so stupid and racist” is not funny.
Well, maybe it was the 9,562,734th time, but the 9,562,735th time was just too much.
And yet that’s the constant message the culture feeds low-information voters.
Gloversville leaf bagging policy leaves some confused, angry
I just mulch and collect them with the mower and toss them in the woods.
With gambling, marijuana, NYC’s new vice economy is set up for failure
Not as long as there are enough Doritos.
Murder, assault and homelessness are much better, it is known.
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Blech. Face diapers.
Based on my recollection (from 40? years ago)Gloversville is not exactly a bastion of highbrow society.
Pornhub has some great instructional videos on how to handle this situation.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/20788031/spanish-man-dating-sister/
Seems like a false flag.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/page-3-girl-humiliated-after-28739305
Suicide or murder?
European Union negotiators reached a political deal on Sunday to overhaul the bloc’s carbon market, cutting planet-heating emissions faster and imposing new CO2 costs on fuels used in road transport and buildings from 2027.
The EU carbon market requires around 10,000 power plants and factories to buy CO2 permits when they pollute – a system central to meeting the EU’s target to cut its net emissions 55% by 2030 compared with 1990 levels.
Under the deal agreed by negotiators from EU countries and the European Parliament, the EU carbon market will be reformed to cut emissions by 62% from 2005 levels by 2030.
The plan involves removing 90 million CO2 permits from the system in 2024, 27 million in 2026 and cutting the rate at which the cap on CO2 permits in the system falls by to 4.3% from 2024-2027 and 4.4% from 2028-2030.
Maybe they should put a tighter cap on food production.
“planet heating emissions”
Water vapor?
CO2 is not a pollutant. It is the foundation of life. And there is too little of it in the atmosphere right now.
Murder.
They are deliberately causing suffering that will likely lead to deaths. The Great Reset demands fewer, more docile humans to rule over.
This is literally what the WEF types, headed up by Karl Schwab, believe fervently and have amassed the means to execute the Great Reset.
Sod them all.
This pencil+necked, pedophile (allegedly…) cunte is still talking.
“I think that the evidence is there that Donald Trump committed criminal offenses in connection with his efforts to overturn the election. Viewing it as a former prosecutor, I think there’s sufficient evidence to charge the president.”
Of course Democrats never engaged in any shenanigans or questioned an election.
Observations from the outside:
So, I avoided social media for most of its history. I was on Facebook for about a month way back when. I never did Twitter or Instagram or any of those. Didn’t even make an account. My only presence outside of niche sites like this is on Reddit, where I made an account to follow rocket launches and connect with people to set up a boat rental for a Falcon Heavy launch. I stayed for a handful of science groups. No politics.
But Elon Musk changed that. After he bought Twitter and gave the biggest middle finger to the progressive censors, I had to step in. So I joined.
Here is what I learned after 2 weeks. It is pretty good. I followed the Substack group, Greenwald, Taibbi and Weiss. I followed Everyday Astronaut and Elon Musk.
And it was pretty good. Weird, with no complete thoughts. Just “hey, look at this”. Over and over. But pretty good discourse.
Then week 3. I dipped a toe in the political. I followed the threads on the Twitter dump and particularly the threads of journalists who were complaining about the banning of people for doxing.
Wow. What an eye opener.
Many of these journalists actually do live in an alternate reality. They were shocked that people were banned with no explanation. (Despite the detailed explanation provided by the CEO, the ban does not come with a personal note, as always)
They had no clue that this has always been the case. They had not the slightest idea that people have been banned and shadow banned for years, not for violation TOS but for whrongthink, without explanation. They had not the slightest idea of lawsuits over this very topic from people like Steven Crowder and outlets like The Blaze and Daily Wire.
At the same time they are livid and adamant that this is different. Because being a Nazi is dangerous and you should be banned, but nobody is endangered by posting the travel itinerary of your family after spending months villifying you.
They are worse than you thought. They truly believe. They see 5 lights. They truly love Big Brother. They are expert at doublethink.
They are are positive that Musk routinely censors anyone who disagrees with him. And that is dangerous. And simultaneously he allows white supremacists on Twitter. Which is dangerous and violent.
They are certain that the guy stalking his son’s car is fake… it never happened. Even after seeing the video… that is fake.
They do not have the slightest knowledge that Taylor Lorenz made her name doxxing people. They view her as an expert in social media and crusader against doxxing and for freedom from corporate control of media like Twitter. (Yes, the blue check mark crowd are all over her banning and insist that she is pure as the driven snow) in the same breath, they say that Libs of TikTok spreads lies and disinformation and violence and should be banned. Same guy, same thread, same blue check mark. (An account that simply reports videos that progressives post of themselves. “Them in their own words”)
They believe that Musk is desperate to silence criticism, and will do anything to do it. Even banning “legitimate Journalists” for a day or two. They do not realize that with his resources he easily could have made his point about doxxing by hiring private investigators and creating websites that posted the real time movements of the media personalities who thought it was an p0wn to post links to the tracking website when he blocked it from Twitter for doxxing. It would be trivial for him to make sites that tracked their kids drop-off at soccer, their dinner reservations, their air travel, their hotel stays. He could do it with pocket lint.
The lack of intelligence among the members of the press is stunning. So is their ability to rationalize anything. They never lose any points in an argument, because every fact is made of wet paper, and any evidence can be ignored. Any statement from the past is irrelevant. Their positions can shift endlessly.
I worried here about the malleability of the human mind. Going into blue checkmark Twitter was like “everything, everywhere all at once”. Reality just shifts and warps, the only constant being “we are right ” and “the enemy is wrong… and evil”.
Watching Taibbi and crew lay bare the conspiracy from inside the government to control speech, I was sure that we had finally reached the red pill moment.
Now I know better. We have congressmen responding to questions about allocating resources of the FBI to monitor political speech and instruct social media about who to ban with defensive denials. Questions about priorities and kiddie porn are violently opposed.
The bulwark against evidence is near bulletproof. It is demoralizing and frightening.
Yep
It’s why I believe that the only way this gets rectified is with some very hard times.
None of this surprises me.
I just think of the Progressives I knew when I was Swing dancing in the Boston area. They live in a different world.
I love Twitter (or did; I don’t use it much anymore), but my attention span markedly tanked and I’m still trying to recover it.
In my short experience, Twitter seems like an extremely female place.
Meaning, rooted in the female social experience, where social cliques and support of the group are not just important, but they are power. Playing the game of getting supporters and destroying contenders with personal attacks seems very much like the world of the middle school girl.
It feels like a huge virtual world based on the movie “Heathers”
They all love their dead gay sons.
I’ve met enough progressives in real life to find your observations completely accurate. Progressives are a distinct minority in the United States, even here in SF they only maybe get up to a third of the population, in most of the country probably half that. In terms of raw numbers, libertarians likely at least match them. The problem is they are very highly represented in government, media, and academia as they are naturally drawn to those and as they now control the levers of power in those areas, they restrict access to those of the faith. The Musk Twitter takeover has gotten them particularly ornery as that is a major front for them, and they really don’t like losing ground. As they have accomplished this long march over decades it is going to be difficult to rid them of them of their power entirely, but it is not by any means an impossible goal. In order for this country to continue in any way as “free” they will have to be vastly diminished in power.
CO2 is not a pollutant. It is the foundation of life. And there is too little of it in the atmosphere right now.
Maybe that’s why Gaia is belching it out. We’re not pulling our weight.
“BREAKING: Elon confirms the reason Taylor Lorenz was temporarily suspended was for “prior doxxing action.””
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1604488825899610112
This is a good example of what I was talking about.
Lorenz is speaking directly to a person she doxxed and tried to destroy, even visiting family members. She went to multiple outlets requesting that she be banned. And bragged about it.
Now, she lies about it with the victim right in front of her. And you can tell she really believes it. “I never tried to get you banned” she says, sincerely. Her followers support her in the comments. When libs points out that internal documents show that even inside Twitter they knew she didn’t violate the TOS, Lorenz just doubles down and denies their existence.
This is the river of information in their world. Reality is entirely malleable. It is like arguing with a 3 year old.
She knows what she’s doing.
Arguing with them is pointless. It only ends with you pulling your hair out in frustration.
Lorenz is at minimum, a sociopath, and more likely a psychopath.
Like with Fauci, you will never get her to admit to anything.
I had the same thoughts. She did not look like someone who had any feelings at all about lying about someone in a way that does serious harm, right to their face.
Not a psychologist, but it sure looks like classic sociopathy.
The sociopath is the more dangerous of the 2.
Arguing with them is to try to influence the people watching.
True. Mockery serves a purpose.
Which is why they must destroy humor. The Bee is dangerous in a way that Breitbart is not.
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1604334941470216192
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
I saw that joke from Elder last night… the blue checks went nuts. One guy said he reported him for making threats. Musk replied “it’s fine”.
They actually cannot understand humor. As in, this guy did not understand that the joke was aimed at woke cancel culture progressives. Just like the Babylon Bee making fun of Time Magazine for their “woman of the year” cover.
They have such bad wiring that when the razor edge of wit cuts their beliefs, they insist that the target was elsewhere in some oppressed minority that must be protected.
They know it’s humor; they just pretend not to in order to further the narrative.
I used to think so. But having watched them I no longer believe that.
I think upon the initial read they understand two things… it is am attempt at a joke. And they disagree with the target or teller.
Moments later, they completely believe that Elder is advocating for shooting Elon Musk. They use words like “Dog Whistle” to back up their feelings on the matter, but it goes in the other order. “I don’t like” — “this is racist” — “those were code words”.
I once was in the “they do this cynically” camp, but no more. I am quite certain that they believe their own lies, shortly after they make them up.
Just watch TYT or any of these other outlets. Read the blue checkmark journalists handwringing over the threat to free speech posed by Elon Musk. Even when confronted with their own words saying the exact opposite only weeks or months ago, they refuse to even acknowledge a contradiction.
Motivated reasoning works differently for a certain subgroup of people. I used to work for one. Total narcissist, and he had the sociopathy that goes with it. He would sit with me and make up a story that we were going to use…. not really a lie, but spin to sell our position to the bank. 10 seconds later he believed it like a born again Christian believing in salvation. And the key bit… the meeting where we made it all up never happened.
This is who they are. Orwell describes them well. I thought it was silly hyperbole when I read it, but now I know better. Doublethink is a real thing. And they live in that world.
Cyto, if you haven’t seen or heard it, check out the Taibbi vs. Gladwell debate that happened a couple weeks ago. Taibbi was argueing that currently the media is shit, and Glawell’s basic arguement was that if you want good reporting you are some sort of racist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vkgROIINEs
Wow.
So we don’t even pick the mask up anymore.
Pravda was way more subtle than these guys.
The ‘right’ and normal folks have a huge opportunity to show principles with the Elon Shift over at Twitter.
This Is More A Comment Than A Question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTRO09PaUTA
https://twitter.com/amazingmap/status/789135229399146496
Iceland has more metal bands than people.
At the same time they are livid and adamant that this is different. Because being a Nazi is dangerous and you should be banned, but nobody is endangered by posting the travel itinerary of your family after spending months villifying you.
They are worse than you thought. They truly believe. They see 5 lights. They truly love Big Brother. They are expert at doublethink.
Which brings us, as always, the the question, “Does a fish know it’s swimming?”
They are outraged because what they believe is by definition unequivocally correct .Anything which confuses or contradicts them is a lie. It is perfectly proper to ban right wing hate speech because hate speech is fundamentally right wing, and they don’t like right wing wrongthink. Banning reasonable people with whom they agree wholeheartedly is a a human rights violation. There is no such thing as a thoughtful disagreement with their catechism. It’s all heresy. Dissent is treason.
As has been pointed out before, they’re not hypocrites because their underlying principle is solely based on power. Lying is acceptable to reach their goal, violence is acceptable to reach their goal, the ends justify the means.
Which means that you cannot shame them into giving up their insanity.
Tim Poole had a rant about this…. he was pointing out that people who are not on the left have something to lose. So they opt out. They stay quiet. They cannot afford to lose their career. They have families. They have mortgages.
He ends asking people to consider the world they leave their children living in. But he says he understands standing down due to fear.
That is indeed where we are. Because they started winning… they win more. And because of that, the opposition melts away.
This was a good take on that very idea:
“ This means that dissident speech—true speech on censored and suppressed matters—can come with very stiff consequences. They may try to get you fired. They may expose embarrassing details about your private life or your past. They may ban you from social media. They may smear you with falsehoods. You may lose friends and dinner invitations. You might be passed over for an overdue promotion. Perhaps nothing so severe will happen. Perhaps they’ll just make you feel like you’re stupid—but that, too, is an emotional cost to bear.
Nevertheless, the fact of the matter is that we cannot reclaim America without cost. If we’re going to succeed in reclaiming our liberty, dignity, and inherited model of governance, we will each have to pay a price. The price paid will be different for all of us. But we will all have to pay. ”
https://americanmind.org/features/the-purge/what-have-you-got-to-lose/
Excellent
I have also never engaged with social media (aside from this place really and a bit of commenting on some other sites) but have recently been seriously considering getting a Twitter account, especially after Musk’s tweet about Fauci. At the same time I can’t discount the view espoused by trshmonster before he disappeared that it may be better just to completely disconnect. Do you think you will continue to spend any amount of time on the site after your initial foray?
I don’t know.
The lack of walls makes me suspect that it inevitably goes the way of HnR over at Reason, with professional trolls infesting any substantive conversation.
I suspect that the Reddit model is more suited to me, where conversations are organized by topic rather than by personality. You follow “space” rather than “Tim Dodd”.
I don’t really care about Barri Weis’s musings on stuffing and the addition of celery, I care about the Twitter files.
But…. I have been ranting about the death of free speech on the internet for more than a decade. So I kinda feel obligated to stick with it for a while.
It is my first time ever associating anything political with my actual name. And even then, only a few likes and a vanilla comment or two.
I dunno. Dude has plans. Payments. Meeting spaces. Secure messaging. Could transform Twitter into a useful tool.
I agree that Musk will inevitably transform it into a broader based tool. Twitter will likely become a money making powerhouse for him in about five years time. The progressive shrieks in the meantime will be fun to watch.
The price of EU carbon permits has soared in recent years, boosted by the expectation that tougher EU emissions targets would curb the supply of CO2 permits in the scheme. The benchmark EU carbon price closed trading at around 84 euros per tonne of CO2 on Friday, roughly ten times its value five years ago.
The EU will also launch a 86.7 billion euro fund to help consumers and small businesses cope with the CO2 costs and invest in energy-saving building renovations or electric vehicles – funded partly by revenues from the new EU CO2 market, and partly by national governments.
We’d really like to price “carbon” completely out of reach, but if we actually do that the peasants might burn down our fancy EU parliament building with us inside.
Good luck funding that stupidity when the ECB goes tits up.
It is silly…. tax carbon and creat a permit market to price externalities into the market.
Ok.
Then subsidize co2 permits if they get too expensive? Have you lost your minds?
He ends asking people to consider the world they leave their children living in. But he says he understands standing down due to fear.
I’m sincerely glad I do not have children. I have said that to quite a few people, including my brother and sister, who do.
There is no such thing as left wing hate speech. It’s not hate speech to merely point out the obvious truth: anybody who disagrees with them is an evil monster, and must be silenced and expelled from polite society.
Now you’re getting it.
One key point from the Twitter files that you may have missed.
The FBI responded to reporting that they had taken agents away from important work like tracking down child pornography in order to monitor political speech and tell outlets who to censor with a message that cleared things up.
They said they work with many outlets to give them information about things being posted that may pose a threat.
They thought they were putting it to rest.
If you were paying attention to the words, you heard a huge admission and confirmation.
They do the same thing they were doing at Twitter at “many outlets”
You knew it before the Twitter files, but they just confirmed it. They do it at Google. And Bing. And Facebook. And Instagram. And YouTube.
Of course they do.
The national security letters were an intro to those companies much earlier. Then the NSA was co-locating equipment in their server farms. Then parallel reconstruction. Then providers were selling server space directly to the government. Then the government was buying ads on their platforms. So on and so on…
It’s no surprise the agencies just assume they can call the providers and tell them to deep-six a dissident.
Right wing right wingers doing right wing stuff
Support for Castillo is particularly strong among the indigenous population, and his narrow win in the 2021 election was seen as a rebuttal of the political establishment. Efforts to remove him from office began almost as soon as his victory over far-right candidate Keiko Fujimori became apparent. Congress, which has a right-wing majority, had previously made two unsuccessful attempts at impeachment and instigated multiple corruption investigations into Castillo’s administration.
There may be a right wing angle to this story. Somebody should check on that.
I feel bad for the soccer haters.
Soccer haters have always made little sense to me. Fine, you don’t like the sport. You don’t have to watch.
I happen to think basketball is incredibly boring and repetitive but I don’t feel the need to throw myself on the ground and rend my garments screaming “BASKETBALL IS SOOPER CEREALLY AWFUL!!11!!!” anytime someone mentions it. But soccer haters are like progs; the MUST MAKE IT KNOWN TO EVERYONE how much they hate the sport to prove their bona fides.
Awww. I love you too sweet pickles.