Finally! The New Year’s holiday weekend is over. Lot of business over New Year’s. everyone wants to either end the old year, or start the new one with a bang. Either way I cash in on all these losers jerking it to me shaving my armpits.
Last year was shitty enough I might have enough to buy myself a boat next week! Now to celebrate with my favorite drink: Hennessy in a teacup!
What? Links? Fine I’ll put this aside for 3 mins for your clown fucks.
A motherfucking shark!
Philosophical reinforcement!
Zerohedge, is gonna Zerohedge!
Suspect was known to the FBI!
This broad has a standing job offer when she gets out of jail!
May 2023 bring anal warts for this fucking guy!
Imagine being so out of touch you think boomer cons give two shits about Hungry. They’ll be hungry enough by spring to eat each other!
Happy New Year assholes!
It’s a First out with your cock out kind of morning.
Harambe!
Did Winston’s mom laugh at that cock?
Well, that is what he paid for.
While she sat on balloons.
Laughing costs extra, and nobody pays for firsting.
“May 2023 bring anal warts for this fucking guy!”
Assumes facts not in evidence.
Please, I beg you, never put that into evidence.
Krugman is nuts Over-roasted, unsalted nuts.
That guy should be in some record book as the moron that has been wrong about things, drastically wrong, most often.
“One of the odder aspects of the Ukraine War has been Western Ukraine supporters embracing the Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion. ”
Well, on the upside they probably wouldn’t like Paul Krugman.
The fact that this cannot be spoken of in polite circles should be a clue that the US has no business sticking its dick in that morass.
But to make it palatable we get fairy tales about “freedom fighters” and “democracy!”
The post WWII American dick was made for sticking into crazy.
The Lockheed-Martin Global Dick has a range of 7000 miles and can transmit back teledildonics to an entire House of Congress or Joint Chiefs session virtually real time…
Just make me the leader of that area. The double O blast in Donbass.
I will vote for that!
Is Krugabe cheering for Hungarian price controls? I can’t tell.
It wouldn’t surprise me. ring back ration cards, too.
Certainly looks like “See? We need to centrally plan our economy to reduce inflation!” to me, yeah. Like that has ever worked.
More importantly, he thinks he’s pwning the populists who admire what’s-his-name (Orban?) there.
My first public statement of praise of Orban: He’s done less damage to the US than Krugman.
1) Get a bigger boat.
2) Don’t get out of it, man.
It’s Australia, probably safer to stick with the sharks than deal with what’s on land.
The headline is “Tiger Shark charging near swimmers”
But the video is “Tiger Shark swims aimlessly around some swimmers”
And who puts a shitty cover of Linkin Park on a TikTok video. I can’t even.
“He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, along with the two cops he injured — all three are expected to survive. ”
Lame.
His prison nickname will be “Noodle Arms Bickford.”
Is that quote from the Walrus story?
Goo goo g’joob.
It’s a good time to be the eggman…
Not in Hungary apparently.
Yeah, but we don’t (currently) have to deal with that.
They will be eating a lot of chicken there until they get those prices under control as well.
— surprisingly given Australia, it wasn’t out to kill everyone it could – unlike most other bits of nature Down Under.
And no motherfucking laser beams… what a gyp.
Unfortunately, Return of the Liberal did worse with test audiences than Jar Jar it seems. Sigh.
Re: Celebrating Pagans — well, as they continue to reject Christianity, all these schmucks have to replace it with something. For some, it is pure statism. For others, Gaia worship through Environmentalism or somesuch. Some revert to pre-Christian paganism if they can figure it out (one of the finest software engineers I ever worked with and a good person sincerely believed she was recreating Nordic worship in a small community of like minded people. No idea how accurate or close her version was, but it made her happy and I wasn’t going to dispute her). And yeah, yeah… everyone here knows this… I’m probably just virtue signaling that I read the links, I know… thinking out loud more.
:deadpan: This is my shocked face. No. Really. Complete surprise.
She was just researching things from the criminal perspective….
Happy New Year to you as well, Winston’s Mom! May all your ends be profitable this year.
She was denied bond. How uncivilized of them.
Alright, which one of you lardasses was this?
https://dailycaller.com/2023/01/01/walrus-wanders-into-harbor-masturbates-falls-asleep-ruins-new-years-fireworks/
LOL. That’s quite a headline.
Yeah, I hope that writer got an extra donut.
Not glazed though.
It just doesn’t have the pop that people were expecting.
O.o
Did he start a slow clap?
Power to the Walrus!
Brilliant! It’s gonna be tough to beat that headline
John Bolton?
How did he ruin the fireworks?
According to the article, they called off the fireworks because the noise might distress the walrus.
and there you have it, the Russian winter drops on the heads of the uninvited guests, their tanks are stuck in the mud, it is as if the soil is burning under their feet… And slowly, slowly… What are your Nordic runes compared to this grandmother’s lamentations?
Poetry.
Isn’t mud season different from winter in Russia?
‘Orning ‘ordles — starter round remains “Meh”, but actually pleased with my result for the Main Event. This is where the rest of you brilliant mugs show me up, of course. I’m suspicious someone will have LR as a seed word, frankly.
Daily Duotrigordle #307
Guesses: 34/37
Time: 05:23.08
https://duotrigordle.com/
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BL can blow me.
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Decent.
I slogged my way through that FEE thing. Nice exercise in academic prose. Riddle me this, professor- where was the Church?
They didn’t carry this one on the evening news.
So the Attorney General of the Virgin Islands filed a lawsuit against JP Morgan Chase for complicity in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes and got fired six days later by the governor without a reason and Joe Biden was by total coincidence visiting the islands while this occurred.
First twitter comment matched my thoughts…
Grab two heaping handfuls of Titty Tuesday!
https://archive.ph/qGQ5l
I liked Satanist girl…
Amongst others.
You definitely would not want her to know where you live, but yes.
In a hotel? In California?
Cuck.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/20921280/im-not-father-of-two-boys-dna/
Don’t look at me 👀
I was pretty sure you weren’t the father of those boys either.
spend whatever inheritance they were due on fine scotch and expensive ladies of the night
You are punishing the kids for your wife being an evil beta marrying, alpha fucking cunte? Not cool…
not your kids, don;t get your stuff
Agreed, why should they expect an inheritance anyway?
Pretty sure I’m getting zilch, that’s not ‘punishment’.
‘My wife was often “having friends over” when I was at work. ‘
What a maroon. Well, my son doesn’t look like me, kinda swarthy, and my wife often has getting over without me there… Ah, nevermind. This is like me myself and Irene levels of denial.
Do not try this at home.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/sex-starved-buddhist-monk-smiles-28861577
He got tired of just beating the baloney and decided to cut it off?
Da FUQ!
“I know this! This is a eunuch’s system!”
+1 Boston Corbett
Buffalo Bills players have returned to Buffalo. The game will not be played today. Perhaps not even tomorrow. I wonder if the NFL will be issuing refunds to fans here?
They say nothing else matters besides the health of the player injured. I’m sorry, but not really sorry to be that asshole to point out that these guys make millions of dollars to do their jobs, that this is one of the most important games of the regular season, and that this is setting a really piss poor precedent. Playing the game changes nothing about what happened. It is in no way disrespectful to the guy who was hurt. Saying his health is our top priority is an asinine position. It’s just an empty PR statement. Everyone in this country is too fucking scared to say man the fuck up to people. The NFL is too scared of the progs who run the sports media being even harder on them than they already will be because rest assured, no matter what the NFL does, there will be stories from the hacks in sports media outlets lecturing all of us stupid fat Americans on how stupid and vile we are for liking such a violent sport. Why can’t we all just play soccer instead?
How serious does an injury have to be for you to indefinitely postpone a game? The next time a guy is unconscious on the field, do you send one team home? How about the next time there’s a Ryan Shazier injury?
In 1971, players were paid peanuts. Nothing at all what these guys make today. A guy dropped on the field and died from cardiac arrest jogging back to the huddle. Players never left the field. Resumed play. In 2016, on the same field, a guy was paralyzed from a hit. Play resumed in about a hour.
I’m not as big an asshole but I do think the game should have been played today. Now it’s too late to fit it in the schedule somewhere. WTF are going to do?
Yeah. I was expecting it to be scheduled for this afternoon or this evening. Enough time to get a status update on the player, and to avoid issues and complaints about the teams needing to play on short rest next week.
Same, Its not like Tuesday-Sunday is any different that Sunday-Thursday, so playing on Tuesday night wouldn’t be an issue.
I’m sorry, but not really sorry to be that asshole to point out that these guys make millions of dollars to do their jobs, that this is one of the most important games of the regular season, and that this is setting a really piss poor precedent.
That ship sailed in sports years ago when car races started being cancelled when people died. I’ve grown ambivalent on the practice after starting out staunchly against stopping everything. It’s all fun and games until somebody dies. Then my heart’s not in it anymore.
So, that’s a no to the invite to the amphitheater for the gladiators, I guess.
I just can’t see myself enjoying the heartstopping action.
*narrows gaze*
Yeah, whoever is altering the youtube algorithm is showing their biases.
I watch science videos, gun videos, kitten and puppy videos, and music. I do NOT watch car crashes, brawls, pimple-popping, surgery, etc.
I suddenly have dozens of kill compilations in my recommendeds. I guess because guns = hunter = like to watch animals die.
Ha!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5jZQZ1GY7Q
This. It used to be the sentiment that “Our teammate would want us to finish the game, and win!” Now they cry on the field, stumble into the locker room., pack their shit and leave. Fuck that, go out and play.
The spirit of “win one for the Gipper” was long since banished from the country.
Victimhood pays a higher dividend these days…
Why can’t we all just play soccer instead?
Soccer did continue the match when Christian Eriksen collapsed on the field for cardiac arrest.
They just replaced that ballerina with another falling down performer?
This may be a vax injury – the team required him to get boosted a few weeks ago. If so, surprising it’s the first on field for the NFL.
But this isn’t unprecedented as all the breathless sports news people claim. October 24, 1971 Detroit Lions’ Chuck Hughes died on the field from a heart attack while Dick Butkus famously waived for help from the sideline. After the ambulance left, they resumed the game.
Games continued after players like Darrell Stingley and Devon Walker were paralyzed. I remember seeing Walker getting CRP on the field before he was carted off.
“Sick disgusting human beings”: Right-wingers use NFL player’s collapse to push anti-vax conspiracy
But some right-wing anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists used the incident to stoke a widely debunked claim that the COVID vaccine is causing young, healthy athletes to suddenly collapse.
widely debunked claim
TMITE
They are going to have to show their work rather than waving it away.
I think that’s expecting a bit much from Salon.
So what I heard is that the NFL wanted to continue and the coaches and players just said, “No, bruh. Peace out.” Not much the NFL can do if 200 people decide not to do their jobs at the same time.
The blurb I read said the NFL denies that.
Congratulations, everybody. You now have a shitshow on your hands.
Based on my read of the teams, if the NFL tried to push it, the Bills would have most likely been fighting with the Bengals to forfeit or agree to both forfeit and let it go down as a tie. Once the announcers said that CPR had been performed for several minutes on the field, I didn’t think the game would be continuing.
What I don’t get is, clearly safety isn’t the only priority, they’d never play a game of that were true. They just can’t admit it to themselves I guess.
Really the game was called off due to cognitive dissonance.
Had a meme go around Romancelandia a few years ago: “Fuck you, I like it,” based on the fact that lots of readers like “problematic” tropes. That’s gone the way of the do-do bird because while people still keep buying “problematic tropes,” nobody’s going to admit they like them in public.
That makes it hotter right?
Of course. Also, it can be therapeutic. The number of rape survivors who prefer to read “forced seduction” trope is surprisingly … quite a few. I don’t understand the mechanism of comfort, but apparently there is one.
And this is where intersectionality bites the bullet. You gonna tell a rape survivor who likes rape fantasies and forced seduction scenarios to stop it because it’s bad and wrong?
Intersectionality never bites the bullet. Of course they can tell a rape survivor that – because that survivor has false consciousness about it! She might not even be blaming the patriarchy instead of the individual!
Philosophical reinforcement!
“The classical liberal movement—”a mighty libertarian revolution” as Rothbard called it—overthrew the Old Order, inaugurated a New Liberty, and gave humanity a new hope. But the Old Order has returned in new trappings. The emperor has new clothes and the empire is striking back.
Only the return of the liberal—of the ideas of liberty—can save us now.”
Ah delusion…
I just can’t understand why our ideas aren’t faring better in the marketplace.
Decades of cradle to grave indoctrination?
Crippling the ability to think critically? Yeah, that would have an effect.
I think there is also something to be said about some fundamental human nature.
Too many people sell out their freedoms and liberties for the false promise of security. Especially against the bad consequences from their own bad choices. They don’t realize that sooner than later, the only way the machine can make sure the bad consequences become so large that the only solution is to stop people from making choices that are not approved…
Yep, be responsible for my own bad decisions? What fresh hell is this!
I mean, it’s no worse than the stupid shit that comes out of the mouths of progressives, neocons, or conservatives.
So Congress, then
I read this as “farting better” and was like, yeah.
[snort]
It will be interesting to see how Bumbershoot’s fanbase reacts.
https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/01/benedict-cumberbatchs-family-could-owe-barbados-amid-reparations-claims-18023751
I’ll pop the popcorn.
This shit is only to get more ridiculous from here.
I’m looking forward to California’s reparations debacle.
I’m sure they can name all the slaves directly owned by the living members of the family… right?
They are somehow responsible for the sins of their ancestors. Because reasons.
Marxist opportunism..
That’s the reason.
I fail to see why this is Lumberbitch’s responsibility.
He has money, and they want it.
Not to excuse the wrong doing of the past, but there is a reason no one goes after all the Africans who actually captured and sold the slaves in the first place.
I mean, a reason besides being historically illiterate, and racist.
I don’t see how they think they have the power to tax a citizen of another country.
They learned it from us?
Oh, Britain will play along. You can count on it.
The US could pay off the debt if we taxed all foreigners living abroad.
Considering how many of them are living in country’s whose welfare states are subsidized by the US taaxpayer directly and indirectly, I have less issue with that than Barbados trying to tax a wealthy actor whose great great great ancestors or older may have owned slaves.
Paging Tedses with red pen to the white courtesy phone…
“You and what army?”
https://twitter.com/PoliticsLs/status/1610049203782262784
tankie fight!
Under the banner of Karl Marx for peace and social progress!
https://twitter.com/RevAus199/status/1609942100526747648
Sometimes you have to wonder – was the world always filled with this kind of stupid?
after socialism was invented, yes
Socialism is a cult designed around the gentrification of basest and vilest of human sins and evils, while hiding behind the pretense that you are harping for that evil because you care about humanity and your fellow man…
We need another round of “The Great Society”
News you hopefully don’t need to use.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/just-jane/daughter-sex-crazy-slut-18263720
Related:
https://archive.ph/by5Em/e16ed5055122d780f4a9601ee92851d024055b36.webp
NOYCE!
‘You appear to be the one steady influence in their lives.’
… And in your daughter’s. Either she’s a born-sociopath or you’re a shitty parent. Maybe both. The author is wrong to call this immature behavior.
I also noticed the girl’s father was never mentioned.
“I have made a decision to come out. As we know humans are complicated and intelligent beings. We aren’t always simple. I have been with 6 dogs this past year and only 2 men my entire life. I am trans canine. I just want friends and a crowd that accepts and loves and cherishes me.”
https://twitter.com/AKnottyPrincess/status/1610033554569797640
https://twitter.com/crabcrawler1/status/1610119850952622082
No.
were the dogs over 18?
Elder abuse is not cool…
And is she enticing them with peanut butter?
Cause that is extortion…
“cum boy, cum! Cum here boy!”
/lazy
Why can’t I get this out of my head?
Can’t figure out if that’s an elaborate troll or not.
Is it rape if the dog enjoys it?
I take it as a troll job, especially when they start comparing themselves to trannies.
I read through her Twitter feed. I honestly can’t tell if it’s real or she’s a troll. I mean:
KnottyFairy
@AKnottyPrincess
·
6h
Get a real job. I bet you didn’t even go to college. You aren’t helping humanity at all. I am a scientist and I am a very productive citizen. If you want I can be your life coach.
Gotta be a troll.
Then again… we do live in 21st Century America so nothing’s too deviant.
“I just want friends and a crowd that accepts and loves and cherishes me.”
I just want to have a threesome with Mira Sorvino and an identical genetic clone of Mira Sorvino. My fantasy is probably more likely to happen.
🙂
That thread went all doggy style quick.
Kinda screwed the pooch tweeting that.
Rishi Sunak has come under attack for shelving plans for a major childcare shake-up designed to curb spiralling costs for parents.
The Prime Minister is said to have quietly dropped his predecessor Liz Truss’s idea for “big bang” reforms, which were due to include increasing free childcare support by 20 hours a week and scrapping staff to child ratios.
But the plan has been kicked into the long grass, with the scale of plans being considered expected to be much smaller, according to the Telegraph.
Labour branded the decision “feeble”, while several Tories expressed alarm at delays to reform for the crisis-hit sector.
The UK has some of the highest childcare costs in the world, according to the OECD, leaving some parents struggling to afford to return to work.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-branded-feeble-quietly-28856295
I knew a woman in England who wanted to go back to work but childcare was too expensive. She was a receptionist. I don;t want to be mean, but that is some great loss to the economy. But honestly, is it worth subsidizing childcare for a woman who earns less money then the one who is going to take care of her child?
Sorry, other people shouldn’t be forced to help foot the bill to take care of your child. If you can’t afford the costs of childcare, then don’t have one.
The problem is that it is government and government policies that have made the cost of having children ridiculous.
Canada would advise you to kill your child.
But why is the childcare so expensive? Is it insurance? Unionized childcare employees? Why not address that and get more people in the work force.
One issue I think there is a limit of max 3 children per carer. Plus some other regulations.
Recommended ratios
Notice that it recommends a maximum ratio of 1:12 for school age children which is stricter than the ratio for children in schools.
This should give you some idea why.
Same reason “free” health care is so expensive.
Big Bang Child Care?
Okay, groomers.
UFC chief Dana White apologizes for slapping his wife of 26 years in the face at a bar during booze-fueled New Year’s Eve party in Mexico: ‘There is never, ever an excuse… it is horrible’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mma/article-11593533/UFC-chief-Dana-White-apologizes-slapping-wife-bar.html
But was she asking for it? Also would it not have been more on brand if it was more grappling than slapping?
She does seem to slap him first is it self defense?
They were just training for his next career.
https://www.youtube.com/c/SlapFightingChampionship
If she slapped him first, then I don’t see the issue. I don’t buy into the idea that it’s okay for women to physically attack men with impunity because they are unhappy or angry about something.
You are almost definitely a straight white male so your opinion on when a man gets to defend himself against a women are invalid.
You are almost definitely a straight white male so your opinions
on when a man gets to defend himself against a womenare invalid.FIFY.
I find that greatly annoying as well.
In a vacuum, if a woman hits a man, she’s fair game. This is not a vacuum.
To be fair, women know more about vacuums.
He asked her to perform with the donkey for him, and she slapped him.
Yes.
It’s not like he punched her back.
I’ll believe it when I see it
One of the more daunting tasks for the new Congress will be to raise the country’s debt ceiling in 2023 to make sure the U.S. can pay its bills and prevent a catastrophic default. Wall Street is already spooked about the prospect of brinkmanship, particularly after the last Democratic president who faced down a GOP House came within days of breaching the debt limit.
Conservative lawmakers say a GOP House should block a debt limit increase without major policy changes to rein in spending.
“We need fiscal restraint, and we should demand it. And if we’re not going to get fiscal restraint, we shouldn’t vote to raise the debt ceiling. It’s that simple,” said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas. “Neither side of the aisle gives a s— about reducing spending. And we should. … You should not vote to raise the debt ceiling without structural change.”
C’mon, Charlie Brown. I’ll hold the ball perfect;y still. You run up here and kick it as hard as you can.
Yeah, there may be 5, 6 hell maybe even 12 Representatives who truly believe this. Their problem isn’t just the Republican party members in Congress – their problem is that there are only 5, 6 maybe 12 of them elected to office. You need to galvanize the voters into electing more so you aren’t just a lunatic fringe.
Voters don’t elect anyone the machine didn’t pre-approve. and when they try, the vote counters will fix that problem.
UFC chief Dana White apologizes for slapping his wife of 26 years in the face at a bar during booze-fueled New Year’s Eve party in Mexico
He forgot to yell, “Snap out of it!”
He apologized, indicated he was just trying to show what that famous Batman meme looked like.
A roundhouse kick would’ve won the match, no?
Price controls work great at keeping the price down, but they create shortages. What’s his point, Hungary is going to stop eating eggs shorty?
The point as, as mentioned earlier, conservatives who admired Orban.
Are there really many conservatives that admire Orban? Or is it just like labeling someone a racist? Nothing more than a leftist tactic to dominate the conversation.
They like his social policy, but on average, they do not like his foreign policy.
Your typical conservative doesn’t have an economic policy anymore. It’s a complete afterthought.
American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader.
American populists admire Orban because he actually seems to care about the people of his country.
Dabney – a Presbyterian preacher and defender of slavery. Awesome fucking source dude.
Was he wrong?
I was wondering how long the Republicans have been nothing more than the Democrats’ shadow when I read his article. The answer is “since at least the Civil War”.
How fucking many ways can one man be wrong?
You really want to defend someone indefensible? Did you even bother to look up anything about him? He was ignorant and superstitious – what a grand combination.
First off the “conservatives” after the war – and close to Dabney’s heart – were the unrepentant Democrats. As others have noted, the Progressive era infected both parties – first the Republicans (who eventually mostly got over it), and then the Democrats (who have never recovered). The Republicans post-WWII turned away from Taft in favor of Eisenhower. Something I was just reading earlier mentioned that the Reagan “revolution” would be better understood as the Reagan Restoration.
But even Reagan was a lot more talk than action.
Damn dude, chill. I was agreeing with one thing he said.
As for defending slavery in 1871 – much of the world was still practicing it and the U.S. had just ended it a few years earlier.
His defense of slavery was religiously based – that God had made blacks inferior to whites. You can certainly argue how wrong that was even in those times (given the abolitionists were religiously driven too).
As for what he has to say about conservatives – it isn’t relevant to Republicans and certainly wasn’t at the time.
American populists admire Orban because he actually seems to care about the people of his country – you need to be delusional top believe that
seems is the critical thing – the need to believe.
Are there really many conservatives that admire Orban? – at least on twitter, yes. And twitter is the real world, as much as one does not like that fact.
twitter
So fantasyland conservatives.
these days if you are not on the internet you don;t matter. Fantasyland is rural Wyoming or something.
Enjoy all the sustenance you can consume on twitter.
when it comes to government policy, food does not count. See Netherlands
Twitter, and by extension all of social media, is more real than you imagine. It is the future.
You seem to enjoy history, so here is something for you. In WWI, the airplane was the new thing. They were really, really expensive for the time, and in some militaries the casualty rate was over 75%. But, they gave you a third dimension to the battle field; shoot down balloon observations, a little bombing (hand tossed), checking on enemy troop massing, etc. So, that intensely expensive thing in both resources and manpower was totally worth it, much more than the old way of calvary charges.
The old soldiers hated that they couldn’t do calvary charges, and as we saw via the British, mass troops didn’t do anything either. But, those planes were the future, as we saw from Spain to Hiroshima.
Social media allows you to rally the troops, so to speak. Look at what it is doing for Ukraine. Look at how much money it helped raise for the Dems.
And Twitter got Trump elected in the first place – something the establishment was NOT going to allow again.
QED
wut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B-L_wfbhXc
This might have mattered if humanity actually had anything whatsoever to do with anything that is happening down at the border.
This is about demographic “destiny.”
Yeah, wherever did people get the idea about that nonsense replacement theory?
FWIW, the author is right about the right side of history bullshit.
Do you really think that if this was something government didn’t want happening that they would not have been much more active in stopping it? Shit, they have FBI showing up to fuck over parents concerned about their kids being groomed, but they keep missing the loons on their radar that go out and massacre people all the time.
How liberals lost the internet
https://www.1828.org.uk/2022/11/30/how-liberals-lost-the-internet/
“I attended a large panel discussion event organised by my university, where the main speaker was the then Finance Senator of Berlin. Berlin, at the time, was governed by a “Red-Red” coalition, i.e. a coalition of social democrats and socialists, which should, in principle, have been to the students’ liking. But the fashionable opinion of the day was that the Red-Red senate were a bunch of neoliberal sell-outs, who were left-wing in name only.
The event went accordingly. The Finance Senator could barely get a word in because every time he tried to, he was shouted down, booed and heckled. As the event went on, more and more people joined in, until nearly the entire audience had turned into a mindless, braying, shrieking left-wing mob.
The worst part, however, was the Q&A session because it was pure performative posturing. None of the “questions” were really questions. Everyone who got hold of the microphone simply used it to vie for applause by expressing crowd-pleasing left-wing platitudes. The applause-begging soon turned into a competitive bidding war, with every person who made a point trying to out-Left the previous one.”
“The internet was a game changer for people with niche interests and beliefs because it made it so much easier for them to connect with likeminded people. Moreover, it made it much easier to find out about those niche interests and beliefs in the first place. […] The Left did not need the internet, because they were already hegemonic.”
“Twitter, in contrast, has a clear system of punishments and rewards. Express a fashionable opinion, and you will get lots of likes and retweets. Express an unfashionable one, and you get “piled on” and/or “ratio’d”. So yes, your chances of discovering interesting ideas outside of the left-wing mainstream are much higher than they would have been in, say, 1992. But the conformist pressure to quickly reject those ideas, and go along with the left-wing mainstream, is also much greater. That second effect more than cancels out the former.”
This.
This is the key point. Sure, there are more alternatives available to everyone, but in reality the day-to-day discourse has contracted.
Meh. They say any space online openly practicing free speech will inevitably turn into a haven for rifht win nut cases.
Sort of like here.
Only the return of the liberal—of the ideas of liberty—can save us now.”
More salvationist claptrap.
“Save us!”
“Fuck that. Save yourself.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF8zxctevXc
Maybe being a healthy weight is good for people.
Losing weight, even if it’s for your health is fatphobic- unless you’re also a fat liberation activist
Go ahead, be fat, I don’t give a fuck.
Just don’t require that I celebrate it or expect me to put up with you lying to my kids.
Okay, whatever. I’ll put that fatphobic pin in the same drawer with my homophobic, transphobic, and white supremacist badges.
^^
The -phobic suffix left Tedious Station a while back. Now it’s on par with a 5 year old trying to insult you using their very limited vocabulary.
The difference is the 5 year old generally wants to learn to do better.
What’s cute when a 40lb kindergartener does it is very much not cute when a 400lb blue hair cat lady does it.
She just needs “drunk” for the Dean Wormer trifecta.
Is a fat liberation activist someone who wants to be liberated from fat?
Because that’s the only way that makes sense. Oh, wait. Its the internet. Nobody said it had to make sense.
@FatLiberationActivist is my new IG name
Gee, overweight, colored hair, glasses?
BINGO!
French police stopped a woman driving a car in someone else’s name on suspicion of drug use and discovered a wireless hacking device in the trunk. Professional looking build too.
https://twitter.com/hackerfantastic/status/1609917502242361345
why though
That’s a good question. Ever since I saw pwnagotchis being sold on Etsy, I’ve been struggling to find a reason for what hackers call war walking or driving. WTF is the point?
So Apparently Dacia became the best selling car in France after passing Citroen. I never understood why anyone would by a citroen.
The same reason one might buy a Trabant?
no, Trabant was only bought when there was no other choice
For the same reason the French cops pulled her over. They might not have found drugs, but she is in the thick of it, somehow.
I know of one in Oregon, so that was buy choice.
They have a zest for life?
No squeezing anything ridiculous out of this.
Dont be sour.
They wanted to build a lowrider on the cheap?
I like old Citroens. They’re pretty neat. Nothing special about the now though. May as well buy Peugeot. Not surprised about Dacia though, aren’t they just cheaper Renaults? Similar thing happened to Volkswagen and Skoda IIRC.
In the local news is Jeremy Renner suffering a snow plowing accident but no article mentioned what that means.
I think it involves cocaine and leather chaps.
Don’t know what sources they used — but someone mentioned yesterday that he was plowing with a Snowcat, got out for some reason and it started moving again and ran over his legs.
And local? You move to Modesto recently?
LOL. It must have been that because the overwhelming traffic to sno-cat.com blew up their servers.
I mean to say a newspaper from Bucharest… could have phrased it better
I see a lawsuit against the manufacturer
Yes. This will be as big as the Chekov – killing Jeep.
He had a German knockoff. Genuine Tucker SnoCats are still made in USA.
Iranian chess player was warned not to return to Iran after competing without hijab -source
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-chess-player-was-warned-not-return-iran-after-competing-without-hijab-2023-01-03/
She should start an only fans and play naked against the Botez sisters.
I like the cut of your jib, sailor!
Id watch that for a dollar
Strip chess?
Strip chess!
She’s cute. But, I have a thing for middle eastern girls.
In local defense news, a manager of a large government owned munitions plant is accused of receiving 7000 dollars and 13 lambs as bribe to give a favorable contract to some other small company.
He should have held out for veal.
Your typical conservative doesn’t have an economic policy anymore. It’s a complete afterthought.
Money grows on trees.
Good morning Ms. Winston’s Mom and the rest of you Glibertarian folk. Hopefully all of you had a great holidays this year. As is my custom, I stayed mostly offline during my extended break, so hopefully I didn’t miss anything important. It is of course very difficult to return to work today, even though my office is in the dining room.
I’m right there with you TOK. I managed to get through the 200+ e-mails (including the ones who just ignored the out of office messages), and the 250+ Teams notifications today. That counts as a full day, right?
Dam straight. I am ready for a nap.
In a diary entry on October 1st, 1861, Charles Darwin wrote: ‘I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.’
https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1609786948788396032
Apparently he had chronic severe anxiety and a nervous stomach 🤮. Thank you, Scott Stossel*: I did not know that.
*nephew of John
Pivot!
Dr. Zeke Emanuel: Covid vaccines don’t work against new variant, travel bans and testing are ”delaying tactics”; only thing that reliably works are “really high quality masks.”
Or we just let it spread because you can’t actually stop it.
That Malthusian psychopath hasn’t hanged himself yet?
Disappointing
“only thing that reliably works are “really high quality masks.”
Except when real people are the ones who have to actually wear them. These people are all idiots, if I’m being charitable.
“Imagine being so out of touch you think boomer cons give two shits about Hungry”
Is this an attempt to make price controls look good, or bad?
I assume krugnuts doesn’t realize not being scared shitless because Hungary is now a dictatorship (allegedly) that non-leftists somehow love Hungary?
Someone short and single is writing op-eds for The New York Times
https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1609935556594618372
Are we talking about height or length here?
Client: The ebook file you made me didn’t pass muster.
Me: That’s because you changed everything before you uploaded it.
Client: Will you fix it?
Me: The fix is to upload the one I sent you.
So the client doesn’t understand why you don’t share their vision?
Welcome to consulting.
Damn Mojeaux. That sounds like you are dealing w/ a freaking clown.
Client: Will you fix it?
Moj: Certainly. At an hourly rate of $________.
She still owes me a lot of money for the rush job I did over a holiday weekend. I just want her to stop fucking with it and calling it my work.
I give this recipe 1 star. I only changed the flour out for corn starch and substituted sugar for baking soda. It turned out awful. Do not use this recipe.
Question- wasn’t Cole Beasley of the Buffalo Bills put on ice by the NFL for refusing to take the vax?
Or am I thinking of someone else?
Sounds familiar. I know he was against the vax. Dunno if that’s even a thing or if it died a quiet death.
died a quiet death
Dude. Too soon.
Completely unintentional…
Bikini Try On Haul #Maarya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTRlphU6oe0
So the NFL hasnt commented on a re-play of last night’s game. And I dont really see how.
People on talk radio are brining up “are fans due refunds” and the show host made a brilliant point- sports gambling was just legalized in Ohio Jan 1.
Forget ticket refunds- what about people that put real money on the game as a bet. Does the NFL have any obligation to them?
*SLD- I didnt bet on anything. I was asleep.
Around here they won’t even do the replay “out of respect” for the kid’s situation. No, fuck you. Play it.
I will go sit by Charles Dickens upthread.
what about people that put real money on the game as a bet
The guy who put $1000 on “the game gets cancelled due to vaxx injuries” is now set for life.
“It was a million to one shot, Doc!”
I assume the bookies have to refund or else it applies to the next game, if there is one?
Dunno.
People on talk radio are brining up “are fans due refunds”
I would say they should be refunded, yes. Regardless of whatever weaselly loopholes may be in the ticket contract.
I don’t see how the NFL has any obligation to bettors. They have zero to do with the gambling transaction. I have no idea what the custom and practice may be in the gambling world for something like this.
If a game is cancelled the general standard is to refund all bets as invalid. If the game is rescheduled, then the bets apply to the game as rescheduled.
At least that’s my understanding.
I depends on the bookie. If you are at a sports book in Vegas, they will have something already in play that you “sign” when you place the bet. Same with any OTB type place. That Dude down at the local, who makes a little book? He is going to have to do some fast talking, get you to roll it over.
Hellow, fellow Glibertarians people, will you be joining me at Capital building on J6 for big memorial vigil peaceful demonstration?
Glow harder!
The future’s so bright
*dons sunglasses*
I gotta wear shades.
Oh, bravo.
Your PIN is expiring, you must set a new PIN.
Your new PIN Must
– be numeric.
– NOT contain numbers.
Haha I love this.
It was easier than listing out the real rules which more or less make it impossible to find a legal PIN for my RSA token. The minimum length is already longer than the number the fob generates. Pretty much anything that makes it easier to remember is against the rules. I already have enough passwords, passcodes to remember and need something to avoid trying to cram another arbitrary number into my brain.
The most secure system is the one nobody can use!
Passwords.txt
Preferably stored right on your desktop.
innumericacy
π
E.
“Society has grown corrupt and tyrannical and so is once again suffering stagnation and decline. But the ideas of liberty are eternal truths that always have the power to refresh and renew the world.”
A gray pill?
“The classical liberal movement—”a mighty libertarian revolution” as Rothbard called it—overthrew the Old Order, inaugurated a New Liberty, and gave humanity a new hope. But the Old Order has returned in new trappings. The emperor has new clothes and the empire is striking back.
Only the return of the liberal—of the ideas of liberty—can save us now.”
I hate star wars nerds. Way to end a great piece on a trivial and juvenile note.
always have the power to refresh and renew the world – just not in our lifetime but in 3220 maybe
The savior will come one day, just keep believing.
Maybe liberalism was a once in history type of event, a word combination of the end of serfdom and ascendency of a new economic and moral system that will never be attempted again, since there isn’t a true ancien regime to fight against. The liberal tradition doesn’t have the same power it once did by having so much to offer to everyone.
“What did the Romans ever do for us?”
Exactly.
They already have all that liberalism has to offer (or close to it). That doesn’t give anything to strive for.
“Please, Lonely One Sowell, you are our only hope!”
BCE/CE always feels like straight-up euphemism, a testament to how unsecular secular culture is. I feel like an actually secular culture wouldn’t care, would just keep using AD, treating the meaning of “Anno Domini” as basically a curiosity like the etymology of “Wednesday”.
https://twitter.com/azforeman/status/1609806943111057409
I think it’s silly. Also, AD is SO MUCH MORE BADASS.
I hope they start calling the days day1, day2, etc. Has as much soul as ‘common era’.
Portugal and Brazil wave “Hi!”
Yes, yes, and Esperanto is totally going to make a comeback.
I first saw that in the wild in an East German museum in 1985 – go figure.
BCE?
Makes sense since they were commies.
Its German equivalent but yes. “v. Chr. Zeit” or something similar.
And yes, I am sure that’s exactly why.
Around here they won’t even do the replay “out of respect” for the kid’s situation. No, fuck you. Play it.
For the first time all year, since the game was going to be on ABC (I don’t get espn) I turned on MNF. Haha. I switched it off about the time the ambulance was leaving the field.
After I had changed the channel, I this occurred to me: they said they were doing CPR on him, on the field. What if “the hit” was a total red herring, and his heart shorted out?
It’s all over YouTube.
Opinions are running toward “commotio cordis,” which is a freak heart thing. You get hit in the chest at just the right millisecond in your heart’s pump cycle and bam. You’re out.
With a chance like that he shoulda play MegaMillions, too
It doesn’t look like it because he got up after he got hit.
I hate to say it this way, but a person can do that for a (very) few seconds even after heart stops. Enough oxygen in the brain and muscles to keep processing for a bit, then woozy, then down.
By “red herring” I mean he could just as easily have collapsed on the way back to the huddle after covering a pass route.
That’s what it looked like to me, unless something really strange was wrong with him, that wasn’t a hard hit by my standards. Have they said definitively what was wrong with him?
Cardiac arrest is what I’ve heard reported. It looked like a general hit, and the guy got up, took two steps, and then just immediately fell backwards.
If the NFL schedules a do-over, do they start off at 7 – 3? (I think that was the score)
I believe they would continue from the time of the stop (same field position and score as well). But there aren’t exactly a lot of precedents for this.
Have they said definitively what was wrong with him?
I saw headlines with “cardiac arrest”.
For what that’s worth.
Hilarious review on Hurley’s translation of Suetonius on amazon, probably making sure sales are going up!
https://twitter.com/SPloeg/status/1609965425583919104
Why be an emperor if you can’t bang anything you want, when you want to, and how you want to?
Looks like some fake noose.
A hate crime investigation has been opened after a “noose” made from paper towels was found in the bathroom of a Michigan Panera restaurant.
The mayor of Gross Pointe, where the alleged “noose” was found, called the paper towels a “hate crime.”
“This is a hate crime that is unacceptable and will not be tolerated in our community,” said Grosse Point Mayor Sheila Tomkowiak in a statement. “The noose, which is a symbol of human oppression and violence, has no place here. Any attempts at racial intimidation will be dealt with to the full extent of the law.”
The restaurant’s assistant general manager Kareema Regular said that most of the staff there are black.
The mayor of Gross Pointe – Could be worse a couple of visiting assassins could have started a gun fight
That movie taught me never hold a highball glass by your neck.
Paper towel nooses are the future of white supremacy.
Hmm. Was the latch on the bathroom stall door broken, by any chance?
OFFS. People are still falling for this crap?
I think it’s hilarious.
Hellow, fellow Glibertarians people, will you be joining me at Capital building on J6 for big memorial vigil peaceful demonstration?
Why, yes. Yes I will. Last one to the Speaker’s Podium buys the vodka!
Or gets elected Speaker.
Thanks for the well-wishes on my GlibCar article last night. I caught up on the comments today.
Yes, that General Lee still has the Confederate Battle Flag on it.
19-year-old Trevor Bickford, from Wells, Maine, is the kid who injured three NYPD officers with a machete in an unprovoked attack in Times Square. He was on the FBI’ watchlist’ after being radicalized.
Wells, Maine and radicalized? By whom?
This screams glow op.
Do American conservatives know that Hungary — Hungary! — has been trying to hold down inflation with price controls?
Fuck Krugman.
the kid
No, the adult. The man, even.
This screams glow op.
He was known to the FBI.
Client: Will you fix it?
That depends. How badly did you fuck it up?
It’s pretty much a re-do from start to finish.
“The federal government is now funding an initiative to train AI to censor social media content. The NSF-backed program promises to “detect and intervene” in cases of “gendered microaggressions,” “dehumanizing metaphors,” and “disguised toxicity.”
Get ready: woke AI is coming.”
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1609954295767515136
Don’t they all turn Nazi after a couple of days?
This time will be different!
/Wokist
Only if they are exposed to real people. Apparently, there’s nothing like being exposed to humanity to make you want to commit genocide.
Is Krugman the one economist who thinks price controls are a good idea?
I didn’t think he had even gone that batshit crazy.
If it gives Dems more power, he’s for it.
What a dick.
Valerie Cipollina told the Mail that Kohberger has been taunting guards and that the guards were too afraid to enter his cell.
“I cut them, I’ll cut you,” Kohberger reportedly yelled to guards, said Cipollina, who was in jail for six hours on New Year’s Eve due to domestic violence charges.
“You come in here and I’ll cut you,” he allegedly yelled at the guard. “I’m going to pee on your face. Do what you want with me, I don’t give a shit.”
Aiming for an insanity defense I guess.
On Hamlin:
I wouldn’t read too much into the fact that he is listed in criticial condition. He’s in the ICU, because he’s intubated (the ICU is where you want intubated patients to be), so the “critical condition” may be more a reflection of where he is in the hospital than his actual prognosis.
The question in my mind is: since they got his heartbeat back on the field, why is he intubated? I’m not sure why a cardiac arrest would have impair your breathing that severely after they get your heart started again. It looked like a decent (and clean) hit to the chest, but nothing that would break ribs or otherwise interfere with respiration, so I wonder what’s going on.
And, yes, when Buffalo went home they effectively cancelled the game. If they had stayed in Cincinnati overnight, there would at least be a chance to complete/replay the game, but not now.
😮 Didn’t know that.
The one time I saw a guy collapse and they cancelled a match, his heart was out for 78 minutes – long after they carted him to the hospital.
78 minutes w/o oxygen to the brain?
Must have been a democrat.
Yeah, I have no idea how that works but that’s what they said.
When I saw it, my impression was that his hit to the ground (head? neck?) may have actually been worse than the chest hit. Dunno. But something that was a blow to his central nervous system could maybe do it.
And yeah, they hit the ground all the time, but stuff happens, odd positions, unreadiness because of the way he was falling from the tackle, etc.
I would assume broken ribs/sternum from the CPR.
And, yes, when Buffalo went home they effectively cancelled the game.
That should be a forfeit.
He’s intubated because intubating a patient is standard practice during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It secures the patient’s airway to make sure you can oxygenate and ventilate them as you try to get their heart restarted. Once they revive, controlling a patient’s breathing can help deal with the derangements that happen in the body secondary to being deprived of oxygen and other blood borne materials. Unless the arrest was extremely brief, patients don’t just sit up and start doing everything normally. Even with great CPR, the brain is still deprived of normal levels of oxygen until the heart restarts. Brain injury is very common.
Once someone has a tube down, you don’t take it out until you are as sure as you can possibly be that they are neurologically intact, you’ve dealt with the precipitating cause of the arrest (if you can), you’ve managed the initial severe complications, and the patient can breathe on their own.
Dr. Zeke Emanuel: Covid vaccines don’t work against new variant, travel bans and testing are ”delaying tactics”; only thing that reliably works are “really high quality masks.”
I suggest multiple layers of Saran Wrap, to establish an effective barrier.
He’s not entirely wrong. I think a properly fitted and worn N95 does reduce viral transmission, based on the relatively low rates of infection our COVID-facing staff had during the two peaks of the pandemic. The problem is, that’s not a public health solution, because the public doesn’t do “properly fitted and worn N-95”.
So true. It’s an ordeal to fit one of those right. You can’t just drop it on your face.
If you can smell the person next to you, the mask isn’t doing anything.
… And they’re not showering enough?
I was thinking perfume and the occasional cloud of flatulence.
Given how much trouble I have breathing with improperly fitted larger pore size masks… (though my doctor didn’t rule out anxiety as a root cause there) …I’m not wearing the damn totem of submission.
You wouldn’t believe the idiots at my work that have facial hair if not full beards and still wear a face-diaper.
Ive pointed out the flaw that air is just coming around the sides, but they dont care.
“The bad stuff is attracted to the mask material”
“Let’s test that theory:”
*squats
*PFFFFFAFFFFFF!
Not according to this RCT, which showed negligible differences between them.
https://reflectionsipc.com/2022/11/29/finally-an-rct-comparing-n95s-and-medical-masks-to-protect-healthcare-staff-from-covid-19/
Its anecdotal on my end, no question. Could have been the other precautions, as well – gloves, bunny suits, eye shields, none of which I would expect to do much at all for an airborne virus. The patients were also in negative pressure rooms with a ridiculous rate of turnover (had to be multiple times an hour, maybe even every few minutes), so maybe that was it.
Their infection rate was not much at all above the general public. As I think about it, its likely the negative pressure air turnover. Walking into one of those units, when you would open the door the amount of air being sucked in pas you was phenomenal.
Now I have a mental image of a tiny nurse trying to open the door but the pressure differential keeps pulling it closed…
Thinking about it, I don’t recall seeing tiny nurses. They seem to range from “average” to “could take down a grizzly”.
Yeah, sounds like an even better environment than being outside.
The obvious conclusion is that everyone needs to live in a pressure chamber.
*launches pressure-chamber start-up*
Clearly the public needs to be more obedient. A few more beatings should do the trick.
Lay your bets. Who were his benefactors?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bankman-fried-asks-judge-hide-identities-bail-guarantors
That was my question the moment he made bail.
Probably some Wall Street fatcats who are in up to their necks in money laundering.
DNC and other team blue PACs…
Why would a judge grant that motion?
If he does, then I think it adds to the case that there are already shenanigans.
Because he’s been advised to do so, for health reasons.
Suicide by double tap to the back of the head?
Opinions are running toward “commotio cordis,” which is a freak heart thing. You get hit in the chest at just the right millisecond in your heart’s pump cycle and bam. You’re out.
I saw that in a Bruce Lee movie.
Stan Stasiak says hi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgOyOAlyLOA
Five point palm exploding heart technique.
-1 Bill
(HA!)
I love that movie.
Five Fingers of Death had such a great soundtrack. It’s like someone had had gotten a Moog keyboard.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v5qP1XUct9A
You know who else looked good in front of a synth?
Zia Mccabe
I managed to get through the 200+ e-mails (including the ones who just ignored the out of office messages), and the 250+ Teams notifications today.
*select all: delete*
I take it you’ve been self-employed for a while now.
Self employed would diligently plow through them knowing that some were relevant. Corporate or government drone knows the one e-mail in there that might be relevant will be resent when it becomes important enough that you have to pay attention.
Yup.
If it is really important someone will DM me.
Yes – if it’s really important, it’s not an email.
I try not to give my personal cell out to clients. They get clingy. I also don’t like talking on the phone and will immediately send an email summarizing the discussion. I communicate by email because I need a paper trail.
Teams (at least the version we’re on) doesn’t allow you to clear multiple notifications at once. It’s one of my (many) complaints about it.
Great thread here:
“The theme of my reporting this year was ideological capture and its consequences. From hospitals and nonprofits to corporations and the courts, “wokeness” isn’t just stifling free speech or inventing dumb neologisms; it is determining policy that affects millions of people.🧵”
https://twitter.com/aaronsibarium/status/1609327834387841032
If you can smell the person next to you, the mask isn’t doing anything.
I pissed a few hard core mask-ians off when I suggested they try bear spray test.
“Put your mask on, and I’ll go get a can of bear spray.”
“Hellow, fellow Glibertarians people, will you be joining me at Capital building on J6 for big memorial vigil peaceful demonstration?”
I will not due to work obligations. However I’ve heard that my….umm….ahem….”twin” brother may make the trip. Sadly, he’s the evil twin. Separated at birth, we’ve only recently reunited in a way that involved no email, social media, or other electronic communications. Weird, I know. But he’s a luddite like that. So Ive heard.
/sorry Preet & NSA
Why are Republicans such corny dipshits?
What incentinve is there not to be?
Interesting explanation.
You mad?
Amy Klobuchar says social media companies should be regulated so they have “limits” on “certain kinds of speech” they deem as “misinformation.”
Someone is upset that deep state cuntes don’t censor Twitter anymore.
Can i be the one who decides what misinformation is?
Amy Klobuchar should be regulated by the people of Minnesoda, but that is less likely than what she is proposing here.
Thoughts are prayers are stupid and useless when someone shoots other people, but are kind and considerate when an athlete collapses and is taken to the hospital.
A thought: Lefties don’t swarm around athletic tragedies because there is no social signaling to make. So you only see normies comments.
I imagine several of the sports personalities (broadcasters/ESPN types) are of the left-wing variety.
Well, I see the NFL has already been accused of racism because they didn’t postpone the game for a whole hour.
That’s Dr. First Lady to you.
First Lady Jill Biden’s New Year message to Americans: “Go get that COVID vaccine.”
Nah, fuck off.
The replies are encouraging.
That’s a disrespectful reply to a Doctor’s orders.
Greetings, fellow kids.
For those of you who are proton mail users, are you now unable to access your mobile proton mail unless your phone is connected to WiFi? I’m not sure when it changed or if there’s anything I can do about it, but I can’t send/receive or even open older messages even on 5G. It insists I’m “offline” unless connected to WiFi.
Kind of a drag because I can’t get on the work WiFi with my personal phone, and I don’t want to get on unsecured public WiFi. Really decreases the appeal of ProtonMail.
I just turned off wifi on my phone, and it still seems to be working fine.
Right wing putsch
No matter how they resolve Tuesday’s vote choosing the next speaker of the House, Republicans appear poised to double down on the hard-edged politics that most swing state voters rejected in last November’s midterm election.
Stubborn conservative resistance to House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy has put the party at risk of precipitating the first speakership election that extends to more than a single ballot since 1923 – and only the second since the Civil War. But even if McCarthy ultimately prevails, the show of strength from the GOP’s conservative vanguard has ensured it enormous leverage in shaping the party’s legislative and investigative agenda. And that could reinforce the image of extremism that hurt Republicans in the midterm election, especially in the key swing states likely to decide the next presidential contest – Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia and Arizona.
Whoever Republicans ultimately select as speaker “will be subject to the whims and the never-ending leveraging of a small group of members who want to wield power,” said former GOP Rep. Charlie Dent, a CNN political commentator. “You’re going to have this group on the far right that is going to continue to push the leadership to go further right on issues.”
Nobody I know wants those guys (and gals) to have a say on policy or agenda.
Why can’t they be more like us, and just forget about what those dipshit hick voters want?
But the Dems in Congress are all about bipartisanship, right? So however many GOP “extremists” defect from “moderate GOP views,” there are certain to be enough Dems votes to offset them. /sarc
As the calendar turns to 2023, a reminder that we’re only 5 months away from Sundress Season . . . a reason for hope!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkYZu4YegUs