Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another amazing day and the links!
Biden 2024 launching seven-figure ad campaign in six key battlegrounds
Antony Blinken set up meetings with Hunter Biden using private email address
Tucker Carlson blasts ‘hysterical and aggressive’ elites following Fox departure
San Francisco Drops Its Boycott of Red States Because It Cost Them Even More Money
Arizona Democrat State Rep. Caught on Camera Hiding Bibles from Colleagues
Hearing Devolves Into A Series Of Grunts, Yelling After Vote On Hiding Gender Transitions
Brits Must ‘Accept’ They Are All Poorer Now, Bank Of England Economist Says
No prison yet for Elizabeth Holmes following last-ditch appeal
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Antony Blinken set up meetings with Hunter Biden using private email address”
Sounds familiar.
Just like he did with 50 some ex-intel heads to create a letter in the vein of the Steele Dossier to lie to the American people about how corrupt the inept scumbags the machine prefers in charge aren’t?
it’s depressing how dirty this whole government is.
And the only reason we know how corrupt and despicable, willing to go to any end to keep their power, they are, because the populous managed to vote past the margin of error they factored into their 2016 election fortification and a wild guy got in. The word is evil.
Words fail me.
MY aol account has been running since 1992. Never been hacked.
At this point, AOL and MySpace should be very secure under they “Why the hell would they bother” doctrine of security. 😉
“All visitors to the White House will be logged for transparency.” -> “Let’s meet someplace other than the White House.”
“I am a Presbyterian minister so I obviously don’t have a problem with the Bible,” she added.
Sure. Anything you say.
If it was a koran, she’d be beheaded.
That’s not particularly obvious.
Are Presbyterians still even Christian. I don’t know much about their doctrine, but the few Presbyterians I know are far from religious, despite still attending regularly.
Why wouldn’t they be Christian?
Some of them are part of the liberalizing churches, like the Episcopal, most Methodists, Lutherans, etc.
Some Methodists, one Lutheran group (ELCA).
Yeah, I know there are splits in each – even the Episcopal (where the conservative branch has aligned with the African church).
Short (biased) version:
– PCUSA is very, very iffy.
– PCA, OPC, RPCNA are basically “yes”.
Not sure what she is and didn’t bother to look it up. But statistically, the answer is probably “no”.
And this is NOT new. This started more than 100 years ago. See the Auburn Affirmation, Machen’s expulsion, and the origin of the OPC.
http://www.garynorth.com/freebooks/docs/html/gncf/appendix_a.htm
See Mencken’s obit of Machen at the link. It’s a must-read. Mencken is usually fun, and this is particularly good imOPCo.
Why we left a PC USA church and now attend an ECO Presbyterian one.
Well it’s not like they are Unitarians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzLS4O7YaUg
Fundie zoomer explains the Christinas, the nominal Christians, and the heretics.
7:25 might be most interesting.
Good video. Thank you!
Family tree of Christianity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzuYZi749CM
He is up to part 5, I think. There will be at least 7 parts.
I have started that series.
Loved the bit near the end about the Oriental Orthodox church, “yeah it’s completely different”.
A lot of the earlier church splits seems to be subtle word differences.
But that one made me laugh.
They are as Christian as Christmas holiday celebrations. They also seem to subdivide over money issues at a prodigious rate.
“Another testimony was offered up by “Mrs. T” who claimed she had been approached by 4th grade students asking whether she identified as a boy or a girl. “Should I really have shut that conversation down?” the teacher asked the committee. Mrs. T further claimed that after that conversation, five of the students in the class “came out.””
Mr. T wouldn’t have that problem.
What you talking about fool?
And I am going to say them kids asking that question is bullshit. 4th graders would only care about that shit if they were indoctrinated into thinking about it.
^ So much this. They would only do that if someone had been filling their heads with that crap in the first place.
The only thing I remember from 4th grade is “Is it time for recess?”
The kid from Hibbing knew what he was singing about 60 years ago. I can’t imagine what school must be like today. Our biggest worries in 4th grade was “long division” coming up in 5th grade.
Long division is racist and patriarchal. All math and reading is. What these kids need to learn is marxism.
/progressives
Yeah, why would anyone want to divide? We want to be inclusive.
And why would we multiply? The earth is LITERALLY dying because of overpopulation.
Marxcissism.
Fetch isn’t going to happen.
That movie is far better than it should be.
The “came out” part is complete bullshit.
The question of the teacher’s sex is not. My sister was scared to death of her first grade nun – not because the nun was violent or anything, but because of her facial hair.
(My sister is a far-left nutter – every time she spouts her lefty insanity I just say “It’s all because you were scared to death of an androgynous nun and got lost at the zoo once. Time to find a new therapist.” )
Though love is something I am finding most leftists, especially the ones with mental disorders (and amongst the college educated swath of these most have a problem) don’t get enough of.
Well when you make even love political…
“Should I really have shut that conversation down?”
Yes, you should have.
“after that conversation, five of the students in the class “came out.””
Assuming this is true, it’s amazing that some see that as a victory for all that is right and true and good, while others see it as proof positive of indoctrination and grooming.
Crank up the hormone to surgery pipeline.
Is that the devil reading his success ledger peddling evil shit to the world on today’s front image?
“No prison yet for Elizabeth Holmes following last-ditch appeal”
She is one of the beautiful people and part of the cabal, so they are going to look for a way to give her a pass.
I don’t know, she did a lot of damage to the narrative about strong women entrepreneurs.
She was a victim of the patriarchy, and only got pinched cause she has her plumbing inside!
Made into a hero again….
Of course. Look at the Thanatos board. No way are they going down.
The law is for the idiot plebes and political enemies. Especially when it comes down to consequences for criminal behaviors. The beautiful credentialed elite morons with the right progressive globalist beliefs and actions are above that shit. Even when all they do is plunder.
She wasn’t credentialed, she was a drop out. That narrative needs to be snuffed out. Only the credentialed may succeed.
She however was a big donor and a front person for the racketeers.
She might be the next girlboss of the minimum security ward.
“Brits Must ‘Accept’ They Are All Poorer Now, Bank Of England Economist Says”
And they are also to blame for that, right? Not the people that fucked their economy and their lives up, obviously. And they better not dare to demand those people be removed, let alone be held accountable.
Give it a year and they’ll be wishing for the wealth of today.
https://twitter.com/Gavekal/status/1651130380060336129
The working class there aren’t bond holders. So maybe the BoE economist was speaking to ALL of the British and not just the rabble?
Those losses will be socialized. The elite aren’t going to absorb that if they have anything to say about it, and they most certainly do.
That might work when you have a functioning economy and monetary system, not one or the other in collapse.
Who is “they”? The same populace still clapping for NHS? Or demanding more leftist solutions to leftist problems for the past 100 years?
“San Francisco Drops Its Boycott of Red States Because It Cost Them Even More Money”
Virtue signaling is easy when it costs you nothing. As soon as it does, even the people that can piss away tax payer money are forced to back the fuck off.
This is why I think the ESG investment scam will run its course.
My, aren’t you just the optimist?
No I agree with him. My investments are not dictated by any ESG nonsense, and when those tank, I’ll be sitting pretty.
How are you avoiding that shit? By limiting your investment to physical assets? I have gone to great lengths to avoid ESG in mine, but the reach of the crooks peddling this is wide and far.
My investment advisor asked if I had any such investing constraints; I said “no, I want returns”. So that’s how my portfolio is structured – for returns and not to play stupid games. I doubt that means I’m completely free of ESG risk, some companies in there might embrace it to one degree or another, but my entire portfolio isn’t based on it.
A lot of firms are publicly walking away from ESG because it simply doesn’t deliver.
Yeah, but the ESG cancer was/is so prevalent that it is hard to avoid.
As JI said, I chose my investment options for returns as well, but the mutual fund options you have are going to have some ESG shit.
Biden will have to impose a tax on well performing investments to subsidize the ESG investments.
Additional taxes are problematic…I am sure somewhere in the Leviathan that is FedGov there is a taking clause they can just use.
Is there any prexy ad campaign that isn’t “seven figures?”
Devolving into a series of grunts seems to be end stage of the great endumbening. Orwell would understand.
“Are you serious?”
Are we in the final stages? Is this it?
I am so grateful for the glibs/Glibertarians. At least an anchor (or cement block) to reality.
Leaving the matrix is a hard thing to do. That’s why there are so few of us…
Glibs links is a black pill bubble. But it’s fun to talk about the idiocies of the modern world. Walk around, go grab a beer at a bar, etc. There is an abundance of sanity to be found.
Darwin might too – and write a sequel about de-evolution.
I expected that story to be about Fetterlump.
We are all Fetterlumps now.
*performs “Young Frankenstein” “Puttin’ on the Ritz” dance routine*
/it’s pronounce Fronk-en-stine
There was that whole barking thing that started a few years ago. This does seem like the end stage to me, too. I feel like we’re sailing on the ship of fools.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Fools_(painting)
Karl Wallinger come on down!
There it is.
Love World Party. Karl had a brain aneurysm (and subsequent surgery) in 2001 and had to suspend all work for five years.
That is such a great song. It has aged like fine wine, unfortunately.
Agreed. Love it.
Room for one more, honey.
But yeah, the World Party one is great on another level.
Was expecting this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPyPT7fb0-Q
Meanwhile in Washington, they passed a law that said they can take away your kid and cut off his dick, and you go to jail if you try to stop it.
So no, this ain’t over.
I don’t live in Washington. And neither should you.
This may or may not be an endorsement for a natty divorce.
We skipped right past the mix of hillbilly and street slang.
“Hearing Devolves Into A Series Of Grunts, Yelling After Vote On Hiding Gender Transitions”
When I was a kid, everyone of my peers and even those much younger, knew that if any adult told you that you and them had to hide something, that it was something 99.999% likely to be considered disgusting and illegal.
Bring back state asylums.
That just might happen with the backlash they are building.
Just think about that. The article ran with their name as big gay baby and not “Maxwell, also known as…”
It isn’t just asylums that need to be brought back
Big gay baby should be the name of anyone screaming to block debate. Just put that on as a subtitle when a protester is shown screeching.
Don’t kick gay people that don’t suffer from a mental disorder like this in the privates, brah…
Their numbers may be a smaller fraction than the general population, but they don’t need to be lumped with the crazy.
I am not. You took that wrong.
I was not picking on you, brah…
It was about focusing on the crazy whinners.
Sorry I was not clearer.
Unless Big Gay Baby has kids in the school, or is a teacher, they have no business in that meeting. Apparently the people in charge also saw it that way.
He’s had kids in school
What about everyone who pays property taxes?
PAY plebe! Do not bother you betters. Pay.
“Disney sues DeSantis”
The left’s most powerful weapon after lies and damned lies: lawfare.
They really can’t sue the governor unless for defamation, and I’m not sure tortious interference would fly against any govt entity.
The merits of the lawsuit are never important with these people. They count on control of the legal system’s mechanism and use the cost of the process as the means to cause pain and punish their enemies. In this case it is unclear to me if DeSantis can just use government funds to defend (which they will make big hay about) or it is personal and they are going after his finances. Thew chance or ability to win or lose matters not a bit.
Its more like “harrassment via government power”. They are technically suing the office of the governor. I don’t really see them having a case. The legislature set up a special board for Disney. The governor has a say in the board’s makeup. The governor pursued changes in the board’s makeup to get the type of people he wanted on the board, the board made decisions Disney didn’t like. The reasons for doing so are political in nature, but the reasons for creating the special board in the first place were… political in nature. Disney doesn’t have a whole ton of options, since their alternative is to move Disney World. The Mouse has long been the tail that wagged the dog in Florida government, and they don’t like that someone is changing that.
Seems like the kind of suit that could bring sanctions for being frivolous.
I saw the commercial last night from Never Back Down. I thought it was a Modelo commercial for the first half before I realized it was a political ad.
“The alleged “fiscally conservative” party narrowly passes bill in the House to borrow more money in order to pay our bills”
At this point anything that rocks that sinking ship will have seriously deleterious results, so stick to more of the same.
A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon…
Not only is there nothing left to cut – not increasing spending will literally kill billions of people.
It certainly might cause problems for career crooks.
We are talking Meals on Wheels people…wait…why is that funded by the government?
Old people votes count the same as all the others but can be harvested much easier
Especially when they can’t remember if they did vote or not…
Meals on Wheels
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/523543525424799600/
Yeah — I’d be much happier if they locked spending at 2019 levels (even better 2008 levels) — but I’m willing to give them some credit for not just rolling over and showing their bellies and writing PPP’s administration a blank check like every stupid fucking Congress before it when it came down to this. Maybe they still will (the White House sure shows zero sign of accepting anything beyond unconditional surrender [limit raised with no attached conditions… blank check]), but at this point any sign of a gorram spine is better than nothing.
How is this time different than the usual pinky-swear to cut spending later? Someday. Maybe.
Not increasing spending year after year is “cutting”. Even reducing the year over year increase is “cutting”.
We are not a serious people or country.
If we start cutting soon we’ll look like Haiti. Haiti needs to spend, eerr, print more.
“Yellowjackets’ nonbinary star Liv Hewson will NOT compete for an Emmy Award due to gendered categories: ‘There’s not a place for me'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12018219/Yellowjackets-star-Liv-Hewson-NOT-compete-Emmy-Award-gendered-categories.html
OFFS!
Hmm… :checks gauge:… nope, sorry. zero fucks left to give there, Liv.
Robin Williams won best actor (Golden Globe) for Mrs. Doubtfire.
You saying this racket has already been played out?
And both Patrick Swayze and John Leguizamo were nominated for To Wong Foo… for best male actors/supporting
And all of them, plus Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie) were more convincing as women than Dylan Mulvaney.
Because they were playing someone actually trying to pass as a woman, and not some absurd caricature.
I’m surprised all the award shows haven’t already de-sexed themselves. It is the obvious endgame.
Desegregate then complain that women have to compete with men?
She (?) would win hands down in a new non-competitive category.
But didn’t she accept a role that was meant for an actress? Shouldn’t she have turned it down?
No way will categories decrease. Keeping separate actor and actress categories means more chances for nomination and wins.
These people don’t think that far ahead. They can’t see past their own narcissism. Someone needs to sit down and tell this bitch that she’s just an moderately unattractive woman (by Hollywood standards). That doesn’t make her so special she has her own gender.
These idiots stump for communism non-stop and they’re too dumb to realize that the only way the whole thing works (theoretically, nothing makes it work in practice) is to be collectivist. This sort of radical gender individualism would be correctly identified by Marx as a Bourgeois indulgence.
Which is why it is laughable to talk about these people as Marxists, other than Marxcissist.
I thought that was great when you used it earlier. It really is a perfect descriptor.
Do you have a vagina? Then you go into the woman box.
End of story.
“go into a woman’s box?”
OK I’ll take that as good advice
Don’t sugarcoat it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ex-us-army-psyops-expert-fox-news-fired-carlson-maintain-semi-lobotomized-quasi-retarded
He would have been a real problem for the people planning to “fortify” the 2024 elections. His penchant for going against whatever narrative the criminal class wants to tell the lemmings in the matrix to believe successfully makes him a real problem. Unfortunately, I think they might not have thought this through because unless Fox tells him he has no show but he can’t go nowhere else because he is under contract, he is going to be fine and an even bigger thorn in their side.
Given a lot of folks just watched his videos passed around by tweet or whatnot – I strongly suspect he could just keep doing that.
Of course, then they’ll aggressively go after any funding source he has most likely (credit card providers, backend networking… crowdfunding sites are historically useless because they roll over). The lawsuit from a booker that never met him that insists he was sexist, antisemitic, etc.. and the reports alleging he used the “c-word” (gasp!) in tweets could easily be spun to their stock “no platform for hate speech!” crap.
Bleah.
The fortification will occur. Populism must be blocked or the scum calling the shots might not get things their way. And that’s a non starter.
Republicans are already on to ballot harvesting. Any play in the game is never exclusive to one side, including cheat moves. It delegitimizes the process of course but that doesn’t really matter, just winning matters.
Ballot harvesting is one spoke of this multifaceted wheel. Having powerful people commit crimes and tell mountains of lies they will get away with, to tip the balance in favor of the candidate the ruling class wants to win, becomes harder when they control old media. And while most of us see legacy media as dying, they have a point that their audience is still mostly getting their programming from that source.
Should be “when they don’t control old media”
Well, let’s remember that the Republican establishment is just as much a part of the ruling class as any of the Democrats. The fringe players on both teams are just that – fringe.
I specifically used the ruling class and not team blue or democrats for that specific reason JI. The uniparty is the problem we are battling.
The 2020 election fortification was not uni-party, it WAS Dem only.
In Pennsylvania team red went along and allowed it. Same thing in Georgia and other areas. The Bushes & McConnells preferred to lose and be out of power than to have the crazy guy that actually tried to do what people wanted in charge.
The fuck they did in PA. It was the rotten State SC that fucked us. Busting a compromise that had been enacted by the Repub legislature and signed by the Dem governor. And which included a non-severability clause that the SC ignored and said “FYTW”.
Where was the republican resistance to that usurpation of power when it became obvious how it was abused? Most, if not all of the establishment types, sided with team blue in censoring people.
It all depends on what’s in his contact. Can they keep him off the air by paying him? Can he refuse the payout to be a free agent? Or does his contact require they air him if they want to restrict his activities?
Or he could just run for President or VP with one of the other Florida guys. Watching him debate Kamala would be great fun even if the whole thing is rigged.
I can’t imagine signing a contract that basically leaves me unemployable for some period if we “part ways”.
I can’t imagine signing any contact for $20 million a year. If they want me to stay home and just mail me the checks, id still sign unless I already had F-You money.
They are still paying him so the contract is not being breached. The parties can negotiate a buyout but then non-disclosure agreements become bargaining chips. I can imagine Carlson and R Murdoch not caring about NDAs, but the Fox board would probably want one.
A few years ago this would seem like such a wacko conspiracy theory.
“The former US army psyops officer suggested that Senator Chuck Schumer had threatened to utilize the CIA and the FBI to deploy secret government operations against Tucker to get him off air unless he was fired.”
But it is well know now that the US is using psyops against its own people. Nina and her disinformation board are still alive and kicking.
While it is true that Tucker will find another outlet, it won’t be a major network. My gut is telling me there will be a big crack down on non-MSM sources of news under the guise of stopping “disinformation”. Europe just passed censorship laws that apply to Facebook, Twitter, etc. That’s coming here. Anyone other than the MSM will at least be marginalized, and might be outright banned.
“The intelligence community has six ways to Sunday to get at you.” – Chuck Schumer
The former US army psyops officer – self proclaimed. Let’s consider him a very dubious source at best.
Fox News ratings crater.
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1651379914946347010
Hannity (-44%)
Couldn’t happen to a nicer piece of shit.
Also reveals just how much of his ratings were due to Tucker leading in and the boomers just leaving the TV on.
I wonder how it will go with Fox Nation. From what I understand that whole thing was basically surviving on Carlson’s back.
Is Fox Nation their streaming/web services? I hear cancelations were brutal.
Yes, it is. I’ve seen a lot of talk about cancelations, but not actual numbers.
Those don’t get reported daily like the daily viewership numbers, but when they do at the end of the monthly cycle, I bet they will have a cratering effect.
Yep. The only reason to subscribe was Tucker’s long interviews with all sorts of interesting people – Kid Rock, Elon, Rosanne…
Today was very good. The most interesting were ordinary people. Also showed a side of him very different from the nightly outrage stoker.
Zerohedge is scraping the bottom of the barrel…
That’s from a court opinion rejecting his plea. His book.
A 2LT? That’s his military career?
A senior 2nd Lt
Or mustang or psyops exercise.
His little Twitter video has 47.7 million views in about 14 hours.
They can’t govern and do things to solve problems (or at least mitigate the damage) so all they do is manage perceptions. All their efforts are going into how to bamboozle the masses. That’s why they can’t even do the most basic things and the problems keep coming.
Yep. Bamboozle the masses and vanquish their political enemies. Gone are the days of earning votes by doing a good job.
If the masses are so easily bamboozled, they deserve to be bamboozled, and this whole conceit of self-government tossed into the trashbin of history. We would bamboozle the masses too if we were influential is what this line of argument says.
The problem is that too many people no longer see government as at best a necessary evil to be watched and limited, but as a way for them to not have to bother with life’s big problems by offloading responsibility to government.
Well, there’s your problem – as much those folks as the ones at the top. So the really hard question is – was it ever any different?
I think there was some Greek guy that already said the same thing more than 2300 years ago…
So the only real surprise is that we’ve lasted this long.
Aiding in my overall grumpy mood — I really crapped the bed on the ‘Orning ‘Ordles today…. too many instinctual “surely it is this!” moments… I really, really should know better. (TL;DR — I am such a frakkin’ moron some days).
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WCC Update, round 13:
Draw. So the match remains tied going to Saturday’s final round. Tiebreaker, if necessary, takes place on Sunday, I think.
Most notably, McCarthy agreed to make changes to one of his provisions that would repeal tax credits on clean fuels after concerns from some Midwestern lawmakers, particularly from Iowa.
What a surprise.
Those self-sufficient farmers rely on government subsidies.
Xi really did win the 2020 election….
LOL
I’m sorry… how precisely does the Executive branch just get to give waivers against gorram laws now? “Prosecutorial discretion” writ large?
Really wish Congress would find its balls and cut funding when they do this shit. Stupidly ridiculous.
Congress doing its job would make congress critters vulnerable to the voters if dissatisfaction occurs. Much easier to pretend it was the other branch that did it to keep your stinking job and plunder the treasury.
I’d grant a blanket waiver if they sent only hotties as CI adjunct faculty. Although teaching Mandarin with a northern accent should be seen as an act of hostility.
From Biden’s campaign ad:
Two things:
* However you feel about abortion and its legality, quit calling it “freedom of women to make their own healthcare choices.” If aborting a fetus at will is nothing to be ashamed of or judged for, why not call it “freestone eliminate inconvenient consequences of your actions” or even “freedom to get abortions on demand at any stage of pregnancy”?
* The reality of abortion having completely been swept under the rug is followed immediately by handwringing over the threat to “OUR children” from gun violence. So once the child clears the hurdle of passing through the birth canal alive, it becomes community property? Ok. Sure.
I propose we make abortions legal at any point in a woman’s pregnancy with the stipulation that the abortion can only be done by firing an AR-15 at the fetus once it’s removed from the womb.
All you have to do is give them the bill for the procedure. Once tat shit ain’t free (meaning paid by tax payers and other people), you will get a lot less of it.
My congressman is one of the republican NO votes. No idea which end of the spectrum that puts him on, the good NO or the bad NO.
Burchett appears to be in the Gaetz camp on that.
Tucker needed to be “silenced” because he represented too big a threat to the “powers and principalities, institutions and agendas that seek an unenlightened uninformed semi lobotomized quasi retarded population that do not question, do not research, do not analyze but simply digest and follow instructions,” according to Bennett.
Thank a teacher.
The thing about Firsting is that you are pleasuring yourself to me pleasuring myself to bringing pleasure to you.
It is a euphoric cycle.
You need better spank-bank material, man..
I miss Agile Cyborg.
The reality of abortion having completely been swept under the rug is followed immediately by handwringing over the threat to “OUR children” from gun violence. So once the child clears the hurdle of passing through the birth canal alive, it becomes community property? Ok. Sure.
The child then becomes a stage prop for the big minstrel show.
Good morning, Banjos!
I’m not sure it matters any longer what the dumb fucks in congress do. Inflation is going to crush us until unemployment steps in to take a few swings, finally ushering in the coup de grâce
Happy times.
I don’t think a
recessiondepression will go as gracefully as the last few times. Enough people know who is at fault.I don’t know if that matters. Human history repeats itself so well.
“Enough people know who is at fault.”
It’s Trump’s fault, correct? B/c that’s what all my proggie friends believe. They’re in raptures that Biden has cut inflation, inflation that was caused mostly by Trump but also by Putin – who is really a Russian Trump.
I’m old enough now and with little enough left to live for that killing someone for pissing on me and telling me it’s rain seems personally justifiable.
Same.
I wish I shared waffles optimism.
When you stop assuming good intentions and begin working with the assumption that the Biden administration works for Davos, it becomes more understandable. This is vandalism.
Davos can’t have their global “liberal” order empire unless all vestiges of classical liberalism are thoroughly discredited and destroyed in the US. The neocons are useful idiots, but Yellen and gang are true believers, intent on destroying the American banking system.
Just ask yourself, who were the biggest donors to the Democrats in 2020? Then you know who controls the party.
The party that claimed to represent the common man back in the 1990s today is completely and totally owned and run by the billionaire woke globalist class.
Shut up and eat your crickets.
Exactly this. And that class is seeking to rewrite the entire system in the aftermath of a global financial apocalypse, but they can’t do it if they don’t completely take out the US dollar in the process.
I don’t look at the insanity of these proposals on their own merits anymore. I look at them as being intentionally designed to undercut the American economy and political system. They want chaos. Soros didn’t underwrite the most insane people he could find for DAs in major cities because he believes in what they believe. He did it to wreak havoc.
^This.
The “stupid” party shit gets old. So does calling the Dems retarded. Neither party is stupid or retarded. The correct adjective is evil.
All of their actions are intentional and the consequences are not just foreseen, but desired.
Pssst… it always was.
It’s completely out in to open yet so few people talk about it. And there is always Klaus, in his devil robes, at his podium. This should be on billboards along with the phrase “You will own nothing and be happy.” That fucker wants us all dead.
https://weliveinamadworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Klaus-Schwab-freemasonic-robe-768×432.jpg
Schwab is just a front for the old European elites and the banks. They’re the ones who stand to lose everything as the old colonialist systems come flying apart.
There’s a reason why Russia and particularly China are tacitly encouraging third world countries to just default on their debt to the IMF and World Bank. Those are the financial systems which are used to keep the developing world under control.
I think “double” is too optimistic. We’re talking tech that no one has productized yet, after all. Much less at the scale it would require. Insanity.
This is how they get “green” energy to be “cheaper”.
Lose money on every sale, and make it up in VOLUME!
Not a problem. Detroit already found a way to help people that are struggling to pay their water bill. Just need to do a similar program nationally for power bills.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2023/04/19/detroits-water-affordability-program-could-see-changes/70115498007/
“Of the more than 15,000 households in the Lifeline Plan, 2,183 missed their payments, according to the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD). “
whaddup doh’
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Good news, Jimbo. No, great news!
Now he can be a little kid again
Weaponized
The US dollar’s global supremacy is reportedly eroding at an exponential rate, with countries backing away after witnessing how America used USD to impose sanctions against Russia.
In a recent Bloomberg report, Stephen Jen and Joana Freire of asset management firm Eurizon SLJ Capital reveal that in 2022, the US dollar’s market share in global reserves plunged 10 times its average speed of the past 20 years.
The US dollar’s global supremacy is reportedly eroding at an exponential rate, with countries backing away after witnessing how America used USD to impose sanctions against Russia.
In a recent Bloomberg report, Stephen Jen and Joana Freire of asset management firm Eurizon SLJ Capital reveal that in 2022, the US dollar’s market share in global reserves plunged 10 times its average speed of the past 20 years.
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According to Jen and Freire, the dollar now accounts for 58% of global reserves, drastically down from 73% over two decades ago when the currency was considered as the “indisputable hegemonic reserve.”
Although the dollar’s dominance appears to be on the decline, Jen and Freire note that the USD’s status as the world’s reserve currency is unlikely to change in the near future as emerging economies continue to depend on the greenback to settle international trades.
However, the duo warns that the developing countries’ reliance on the US dollar is not “preordained,” and it is possible that more nations hop on the trend of de-dollarization
Russia today, you tomorrow?
the US dollar’s market share in global reserves plunged 10 times its average speed of the past 20 years
What kind of fucking argle-bargle is that? It is pure and utter nonsense.
Here is what LCDR_Fish linked to last night. Granted nothing lasts forever but from what I understood in the video the US Dollar is still used in something like 70-80% of all international transactions. I am assuming not counting intra-Euro zone transactions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWcJVRznD5E
I’m saying that the specific language used was gibberish, not that the dollar isn’t at risk of replacement as the reserve currency of the world. Though that risk is very much mitigated by the currency of China being even less reliable.
It’s Trump’s fault, correct? B/c that’s what all my proggie friends believe. They’re in raptures that Biden has cut inflation, inflation that was caused mostly by Trump but also by Putin – who is really a Russian Trump.
Don’y forget the fastest economic recovery in history.
“Biden added 10 million new jobs!” Like bragging about your new car when you get your old one home from the repair shop.
The green/AGW movement is a racket that makes those driving it a lot of money. That’s why things like this will be labeled not green despite being 100% carbon neutral.
The little village my grand daughter and husband teach in has a diesel generator. The fuel has to be imported, maintenance crews flown in.
If the green movement was for real and not a money making racket, we would be doing this all over the developing nations to help them avoid burning coal.
THE IMMIGRATION INTEGRALISTS
Another great essay from IM1776.
I suppose I should have guessed that the immigration thing was a huge grift for churches, but I had no idea of the extent.
Catholic Charities has a long history of gorging on government dollars. The stories I’ve heard about some of their retirement homes are hair-raising.
Me neither. But it sure fits the “march through the institutions” pattern.
I need to get a new job that will be safe from ChatGPT
Based on the pic, I don’t know why wearing a bird costume is required. I think it is secretly a zoo for pervs with bird/latex fetish.
Seagulls are highly intelligent. That will fail within a week.
Train a team of anti-seagull Corvids.
That would be so cool.
Explained: https://lifehacker.com/how-to-befriend-crows-and-turn-them-against-your-enemie-1849393502
That was covered in an episode of Spirit. Having a young daughter teaches you these things.
Befriending crows is like befriending a biker gang. Sure you have some muscle to back you up, but your new posse consists entirely of raging assholes. Good people will befriend neither.
My dad had a great story about one of his probationers getting in trouble with the local law because he was shooting crows out of season. The judge noted that crows could be shot at if they were engaged in depredation of crops or on their way to depredate crops. “I have never known a crow to be in neither of those states, so case dismissed”.
Also that author didn’t like his baby ducks because they quacked too much, but now he wants crows?
I’ve got crows in my backyard and the cawing is insane. I have to stop it every morning by stepping out on my deck and staring at them. (This works because I have plunked a few with my pellet gun over the years). It amuses me because my wife can step out on the deck and they continue on with their racket. I tell her that they won’t shut up because it is a case of “birds of a feather”
I’ve always liked crows and similar but at a distance. They’re loud as hell up close and they’d caw you to the point of insanity if they came to associate you with food.
I bought some plastic owls that are supposed to keep crows away from the garden. We’ll see, in a few weeks.
In a week they’ll be perching on the plastic owls.
Or raping them.
GangMurder-rape more likelyAt my office, we have a couple of plastic coyotes that are supposed to scare the Hate Birds away from the building. That doesn’t seem to be working so pretty good, as there was an HB uncomfortably close by when I approached the back door this morning. 😳
🦢*honk*
(Yes, I know that’s a swan, the computer only has so many pictograms)
Yeah, it was either that or a 🦆, and I’m down with the ducks.
I have a plastic owl, but it is to use as a lure when crow hunting.
Works once per murder of crows. After that, they are onto the whole trick, proving they are smarter than the average voter.
At work we have plastic coyotes during hate bird migration times and predator calls playing through a PA near the kitchen. The latter seems to be effective.
I had a pet crow as a kid. It was a great companion and very intelligent. Also was VERY protective. When a stranger would show up at the house that made my mother uncomfortable (we lived in the country far from neighbors down a long driveway) the crow could somehow sense her discomfort and would literally dive-bomb them back into their vehicle. It would never mess with anyone else. It was very consistent behavior so I would have to say that crows are quite high on the intelligence scale for animals.
England probably has quite an excess, too, of wannabe actors with useless degrees who would rather put on a costume and act the fool than do something useful like serve tables or pick up dust bins.
So here’s a nice hunk of red meat to chew on — TMITE.
A fun video side by side would to use the leaked US intel too especially with the Russian bots…geesh. Also didn’t realize that MSNBC was tying them to a school shooting too.
I type good.
“Chicago man, 26, is arrested at Boston airport for trying to carry a 10-inch VAMPIRE STRAW hidden in his hand luggage through security”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12017911/Chicago-man-arrested-Boston-airport-trying-carry-10-inch-VAMPIRE-STRAW-security.html
Odd weapon.
That looks like a tube used by felchers…
I love the way Daily Fail capitalizes the words they consider key so their clientele of GODDAMN IDIOTS doesn’t concentrate on the wrong thing.
Still wondering why he was arrested…I guess I should tell my wife to leave her metal straw at home when we fly today.
Resource nationalism
Chilean President Gabriel Boric’s pitch last week to enshrine greater state control over lithium is emerging as the latest test for the resource nationalism embraced by Latin America’s ascendant left but which has proven tough to implement in practice.
While the former student protest leader’s proposal to give the government a majority stake in all future lithium projects faces an uncertain path in Congress, its mere introduction shook one of the mining industry’s most lucrative corners.
The push from Boric, 37, also highlights the long-running regional tension between governments’ hunger for control of coveted commodities and future profits versus their ongoing need for private sector capital and know-how.
“In Chile, its probably going to be the most significant case,” said Carlos Pascual, top energy executive with IHS Markit, referring to other regional efforts to exert more government control over the mineral seen as key to a greener future and citing Chile’s outsize role in the global metals market as the world’s top producer of copper and No. 2 in lithium.
“This is seen as an opportunity to ensure direct revenues to the state just as many countries decided to make the decision to nationalize oil in a different era,” he added.
They just need the IMF’s benevolent guidance. Mercedes limos and Swiss bank accounts for the government officials, and empty promises for the peasants.
Well… until China takes it over.
It will still be state-controlled!
Without looking it up, I can get in one guess whether the AZ Rep is PCA or PCUSA.
I already put it in the replies up-thread where nobody’s gonna see it, but I like it so much I’ll do it here too… Below is a link to Mencken’s obit of J.G. Machen. The utter fall of the PCUSA was basically a whole century ago. The barbs he throws at it in this article are (Mencken) fun and very appropriate – even moreso today.
http://www.garynorth.com/freebooks/docs/html/gncf/appendix_a.htm
Thanks that was really good. I mean, duh, it was Mencken.
Although he didn’t attend Columbia Journalism School, so how good could he have been?
Reminds me of why Nietzsche made his famous declaration that God was dead.
The alleged “fiscally conservative” party narrowly passes bill in the House to borrow more money in order to pay our bills
It doesn’t matter. The mask was dropped, yet again, when McConnell worked to get the spending blowout passed right before the GOP majority took control of the House. No reason at all do that unless if the eGOP and Dems are actually two faces of the same team. It’s all smoke and mirrors.
In other currency news…
Argentina will start to pay for Chinese imports in yuan rather than dollars, the government announced Wednesday, a measure that aims to relieve the country’s dwindling dollar reserves.
In April, it aims to pay around $1 billion of Chinese imports in yuan instead of dollars and thereafter around $790 million of monthly imports will be paid in yuan, a government statement said.
The decision aims to ease the outflow of dollars, Argentina’s Economy minister Sergio Massa said during an event following a meeting with the Chinese ambassador, Zou Xiaoli, as well as with companies from various sectors.
The decision comes as the South American nation battles critical levels in its dollar reserves amid a sharp drop in agricultural exports caused by a historic drought, as well as political uncertainty ahead of elections this year.
They’ll be sorry when all they can buy is cheap Chinese crap.
You are NOT the father
America’s Redneck Oprah dead.
RIP
This is gold!
Sheik is the best.
I joked with my wife early on, if she ever said we were going on the Springer show, I’d kill her before we got there.
I used to have an Iron Sheik
dollaction figure. I don’t remember getting rid of it, but I have no idea where it is now. I used to keep it in my office.I was never a fan but the man was an icon. RIP.
Yup.
I tuned in a lot during a spell of unemployment a few years ago and it’s so entertaining but you feel like you need a shower when it’s over.
Unreal.
DeSantis signs bill in Israel to fight antisemitism
Fuck you, clown.
Proving he can pander with the best of ’em!
His Achilles heel is this pandering to Israel bullshit. Cracking down on the speech of your own populace to protect the sensibilities of another is fucking pathetic. Looks like I’ll have to root for Rummyswammy now.
Looks like I’ll have to root for Rummyswammy now.
His interview with Malice was quite good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVAPNtTHoC0
Much better than Stepford Candidate Kari Lake.
Without having watched that, I know he can talk circles around any other candidates, that’s for sure.
I do like him. And I like Kennedy. But I’d be shocked if either one of them is ever on a debate stage or a ballot.
Me too but especially this goaround he’s pretty much a meme candidate. As Tundra says, his above interview is quite good. Maybe once he gets some years and some local experience under his belt he can give it a serious shot.
Woke: Not Dead Yet.
“Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that would increase penalties for intimidating or threatening someone based on religious or ethnic heritage”
There are already crimes on the books. He’s Cathedral-adjacent.
Of course he is, he wants the keys to the kingdom. You don’t get them busting down the door.
What kind of fucking argle-bargle is that? It is pure and utter nonsense.
Welcome to the world of “business journalism”.
Yeah, most of that stuff sails over my head but even I paused at that, wondering WTF that was supposed to mean.
Banking Problems May Be Tip of Debt Iceberg
Interesting look at the effect of higher rates on Shadow Banks.
Let’s blame it on billionaire tax cheats
It’s growing more likely that the US could default on its debt as soon as early June if Congress doesn’t act, according to a trio of new analyses.
That’s because tax receipts are running much weaker than expected so far this season. The Treasury Department is counting on that infusion of funds, along with several “extraordinary measures,” to continue paying the federal government’s bills in full and on time until lawmakers raise or suspend the debt ceiling.
FAIR SHARE! FAIR SHARE!
Those thousands of new IRS agents will squeeze it out of us. For our own good.
We are never leaving this planet. Our only hope now is SMOD but lets see if we can slow it down a bit…
Okay, at least the school is reaching out to parents…
Still good, that is what health class/sex ed should be…teach about the human body…
Never mind…come forth sweet death.
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2023/04/27/school-district-nixes-boy-for-10-year-olds-replaces-it-with-person-who-produces-sperm-n737581
The Catholic Church at it’s medieval worst wasn’t as anti-science as these ridiculous fucks.
In 6th grade the girls all got to go to the gymnasium for some secret meeting. Us boys were super interested in what it was all about. At the time none of the girls would tell us. They were ashen faced and tight lipped about what had happened in the gym.
By 7th grade they had started to talk. It was all about periods and that they were about to start having them.
Since we were knuckle draggers back then all of us hadn’t even heard of such things. It was pretty shocking to everyone.
We were so lucky to have grown up when we did. A lot to be said for ignorance and naiveté.
Same happened here. One boy pushed the issue and the teacher offered a private screening of the film for the boy and his mom. That shut him up.
It just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?
Why not dehumanize it more? “Sperm factory” and “egg factory” seem sufficient.
Sounds like false advertising once you put them all on puberty blockers.
Luddites destroying the factories!
Complicated
On Monday, after 17 years at CNN, Don Lemon said that the network had fired him. Lemon joined that network after anchoring at NBC Chicago and working as a correspondent for NBC News, the “TODAY” show and “NBC Nightly News.” It was a shocking fall from grace for the star anchor. Lemon had built up a loyal following as one of the few Black and queer anchors in prime-time cable news, but he had recently been accused of a pattern of on-air sexism as well as serious gender-based harassment behind the scenes of his shows. Unlike the firing of Tucker Carlson, his evolving legacy feels a little bit more complicated, and so are my feelings about it.
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… allegations of Lemon’s sexism appear to stretch back to 2006 — and his remarks about Haley were made months ago. This is where it gets more complex. We must also question the racial politics at play given that Lemon spent one of his final days at the CNN desk pushing back against conservative presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s lies about the civil rights movement. Ramaswamy was pushing the falsehood that the NRA championed gun rights for Black people.
The optics of Ramaswamy, the U.S.-born son of Indian immigrants, lecturing Lemon, a queer Southern-born Black man, about the history of Black struggle were striking.
Whatever reasons CNN may have for letting Lemon go, the decision to fire him shortly after that interview went viral has helped fuel the perception that there isn’t much appetite among media executives for Black folk simultaneously calling out racism and pushing back against the gun lobby. It will also suggest that a Black male journalist rejecting “alternative facts” in real time can be wrongly miscast as “the angry Black man.”
Tucker Carlson is a racist conservative, the embodiment of evil.
Don Lemon is a complex, even occasionally fallible, human being who deserves to be allowed to express his ideas, even when they make some people uncomfortable.
Ramaswamy was pushing the falsehood that the NRA championed gun rights for Black people.
Ah, so the truth is a lie and lies are the truth.
Oh, of course.
In fairness, it does seem to be historical record that the NRA supported the Mulford Act in California, signed by then-Governor Reagan, which outlawed carrying a loaded firearms in public. The law passed shortly after a peaceful armed demonstration by members of the Black Panthers. This seems to be the lynchpin (pun intended?) of the argument that the NRA hates blacks.
Nonsense, it means the NRA is too squishy on gun rights.
Why not dehumanize it more? “Sperm factory” and “egg factory” seem sufficient.
“Property of the State”
Biden agrees
“And we should all be allowed to cuddle and sniff as many of them as we want, as often as we want without everyone getting all uptight about it.”
Up until last year, there was a reason Lemon meant a lot to cable TV viewers and to Black viewers in particular. Lemon didn’t just bring the news. He also brought personality. Viral clips of him abound. A particularly hilarious one captures him bursting into laughter with guests Marc Lamont Hill and Angela Rye, much to the chagrin of stony-faced conservative pundit Paris Dennard, after Dennard suggested that a Black man wearing a red MAGA cap to The Cheesecake Factory “shouldn’t be verbally accosted.” And who can forget Lemon’s annual appearances at CNN’s New Year’s Eve celebration? Whether he was drunkenly recounting the state of his romantic life or getting his ears pierced on live television, Lemon was always must-see TV.
Leave Uncle Tom alone? Hilarious.
It’s ironic that one of cable TV’s most reliable voices against racism was let go the same day as one of cable TV’s most reliable voices in support of racism.
Ultimately, Lemon’s charisma seems to have convinced CNN to keep him around despite his female colleagues reportedly complaining about him for years. But he got fired a few days after he called out a conservative’s made-up nonsense about the NRA’s advocacy for Black people. What an awful message to send to women and, though the two groups obviously aren’t mutually exclusive, what an unfortunate message to send to Black people.
It’s like a dadgum Greek Tragedy.
She can of course produce a clip of Tucker actually saying a racist thing. No? I thought not. Just dog whistles that I never seem to hear.
Assert, assert, assert, then scream racism when challenged.
Just dog whistles that I never seem to hear.
You’re just so racist you can’t even see how racist you are. You’re like a racist fish swimming in a sea of racism.
That’s pretty much “systemic racism” and “white supremacy” in a nutshell.
You can’t parody this shit.