This movement for self sufficiency has gotten me into gardening. Particularly this broad on YouTube. My only issue is I don’t have any work clothes but thus far I’ve been able to make due.
The retards decided to continue draining the oil reserve in an attempt to control prices.
Yes, the retards are still corrupt.
Ayn Rand was a cunt, but you can still be a cunt if you’re right all the time.
Fun fact: the word lunatic means moonstruck.
Hellyeah! Now they’re getting it!
ZeroHedge gives their audience exactly what they want to see.
This fucking guy for real? Not an expert on markets…
“Not an expert on markets…”
Well, at least he admits it.
A Nobel prize winning economist disclaiming any expertise on markets is like a physician disclaiming any expertise in biology. FFS.
You can fully expect that with the current crop going through medical school. Kruggie is just ahead of his time.
That is the most correct statement he has made in probably 20 years.
Stopped clock and all…
The retards decided to continue draining the oil reserve in an attempt to control prices.
It’s not like we’ll need it once the Green New Deal is implemented.
Biden Family Business Received over $10 Million from Romania, China for Unknown Work
I didn’t know Pie was on the take.
Why would he be on the take? Pie is clearly a ringleader!
My computer was hacked again!?
Paying for services is for plebs.
He lives off the kindness of strangers.
Why has Pie been funding the Bidens?
Just to troll us probably.
I knew something was off when he showed up at the last European Glibs meet-up wearing a big fur coat and a ton of gold chains.
No, no. Pie au naturel.
Well, if he was French, he would be Pie A La Mode.
“Woe to the freedom-haters when the lion they think they have tamed turns its fury on the liberal society that soothsayers like Zelikow and Lipstadt still imagine they are defending!”
Seems overly optimistic.
That young lady has a very nice garden.
Do you suppose she would show me her secret garden?
only at night
It’s not so secret anymore.
I’m trying to see the wicked garden.
That reminded me of a movie I saw as a kid and forgot existed until today. Weird.
It’s a lovely children’s book. IIRC, same author as Little Lord Fauntleroy.
And A Little Princess!
Not for free.
The garden’s in her front yard.
https://youtu.be/5ng78zXZG08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEH5jReEkSk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9WMncHTtEI
Careful, it could be poisonous!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujm-MjDJr3M
IRS data only tell us so much. If you want to better understand those costs, pick up Atlas Shrugged.
I can understand state migration patterns without reading a tedious 1,000 pages.
Most of it isnt tedious. About 65 pages are, but the rest is a pretty good story.
One philosophical monologue per character would have been sufficient to sell the points while still maintaining the story, but it’s not nearly as tedious as some people make it out to be. I put off reading it for a long time because I heard it was such a long slog, and when I finally read it I remember thinking “Oh, this is it?”
Truly intellectual giants follow the Krugman. Cut fucking spending is something they can’t even conceive of it, and it’s actual fucking terrorism to even suggest the thing.
The disingenuousness of the left is astounding on a daily basis. Just once I’d like to hear one of them explain why a debt ceiling exists if not for the sole fucking purpose of forcing congress to actually negotiate over future spending.
It’s not a fucking ceiling if you just keep raising it every time you get close to it, dipshits. Just delete it altogether; it’s nothing but a distraction at this point.
It wouldn’t be a distraction if the conservatives, who already do nothing but lose anyway, just bit the bullet and actually determined to win the game of chicken. They’re so scared of being tarred for the results by the media that they cave every time. With inflation being what it is and with a recession already looming, the time is now.
Paying the debt isn’t optional. The massive amounts of discretionary spending they keep signing off on is.
Why would the Republicans want to do that? The GOP is not scared and aren’t losing the game to the Dems. They are equal co-conspirators in spending. The GOP just mouths empty slogans against it as controlled opposition.
McConnell went on a spending spree with the Dems right before the GOP took over the House. Waiting would have given the GOP House a great deal more leverage in this debt ceiling talk, but the GOP rammed the spending bills in beforehand. That tells you everything that the whole thing is fiction, and there isn’t even a fight for the GOP to lose.
That would be the best argument the left has when the issue of spending comes up, but the House GOP is under no obligation to continue to rubber stamp. Will they rubber stamp? Yes. And They will agree to future spending deals as long as that sweet defense money keeps flowing because that’s all that matters, no matter what other concessions have to be made. At least to McConnell.
Do you think the House GOP leadership is on a different team than McConnell? If not, I’m not sure I’m following your point. There are some GOP rebels in the House, but I don’t see any daylight between McCarthy and McConnell. Or McCarthy and Pelosi for that matter.
It’s not a concession for the House GOP to rubber stamp non-military spending. It’s not a concession for the Dems to rubber stamp military spending. Neither party cares about reducing spending. The GOP is happy to let the Dems spend all they want. It’s not a tit for tat thing. Just presented as that so the public buys it. Like a WWE staged fight. The illusion of fiscal responsibility is purely a talking point for controlled opposition purposes.
There is more nuance to the question then just spending. It is painfully obvious both parties have racked up debt, but the debt has gone up considerably more when one party has gotten control over the other. IT’s about more than just total dollars, and about who is getting the money and for what. McConnell didn’t care about those two questions as long as he could get more military spending out of it. Even the manner in which it was passed shows that there was real squabbling.
McConnell’s leverage increased because he could point to the incoming GOP majority in the House and say give me what I want now or you won’t get as much cake later, either.
The GOP is going to cave. I have no doubt on that subject. We can argue about the reason or reasons why. There’s likely several. But the point made was that GOP could do something and should do something.
As far as out of control spending goes, I’ll still take what the GOP shovels out there than what the Dems are pushing. One party’s spending is far more corrosive in general.
The GOP does have a legit wing of fiscal hawks it sometimes needs to placate to get its agenda pushed through, which the other side lacks entirely, so there’s a little bit more accountability, but as far as the leadership goes it’s absolutely kayfabe.
If there is a real contingent of actual fiscal hawks, they are usually the ones being slander in the media (remember just in January where reps were being called “terrorists” for refusing to confirm McCarthy who is hated by their constituencies?) and have money from both parties coming in to campaign against them. There’s barely any of them left and certainly not enough to make an impact while they dwindle to nothing. Even Amash, who I don’t actually think is that great on most things, had to bow out because he didn’t have the endurance to put up with the ceaseless hysteria and disfunction. No reasonable person can succeed or endure in the current paradigm.
That’s about the size of it. Let’s face it though, the “Goldwater wing” of the GOP was always a tiny minority. As “terrorists” they can still have a little leverage here and there, even if the effort is ultimately futile.
“…with a recession already looming…” I’ve got news for you…we’ve been in a recession.
Depression.
I’ve already seen the battlespace prep stories setting up the Repubs to take the fall for the recession if they play games with the debt ceiling.
It has been reduced to an administrative technicality.
It’s probably been 30 years since negotiations on the debt ceiling resulted in any spending “reductions” (I’m thinking the Gingrich House and Clinton), and I’m not even sure that wouldn’t have happened anyway.
Like so many of our Constitution protections, it’s a dead letter.
Refusing to spend what we want is violence. /you know that has to be coming
Hell, the story about the French open had some bint saying that the ball girls wearing the tradition tennis skirts (agreeably short, I will admit) and midriff-baring tops was “sexual violence”. The word has been drained of any real meaning.
Peter Shor
@PeterShor1 May 9
The question is: which is worse, using your credit card to pay your mortgage or declaring “I’m not going to go any further in debt”, and abandoning your house and living under a bridge.
Well Peter. Most people confronted with this situation eventually turn to bankruptcy as a way of clearing out their debts in an organized fashion. You might loose your McMansion, but you won’t wind up under a bridge. Of course, no one is going to lend you money for the next 10 years. But you can recover from it.
Government on the other hand, will take out the whole economy when it defaults.
So your analogy is not quite accurate.
“One can see the cyclical nature of this phenomenon. As cities and blue states become more confiscatory and hostile to property rights, they drive out wealthier people and wealth creators. And as prosperous people leave, the politics become more confiscatory and hostile to property rights. And the cycle continues.”
And these states are still part of the country.
“IRS data only tell us so much. If you want to better understand those costs, pick up Atlas Shrugged.”
No.
I’m going to guess that “unprofessional” will include “critical of the regime”.
The White House has proposed new rules to determine who qualifies for access to its press briefing room on a regular basis — and who can be thrown out for behavior officials determine isn’t “professional.”
The rules represent the Biden White House’s attempt to establish a code of conduct to avoid the legal jeopardy that the Trump administration ran into when it banished CNN reporter Jim Acosta and journalist Brian Karem from the White House complex in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
Courts later ruled that officials violated the journalists’ due-process rights because they had acted without a set of written standards.
Well, the written standards will just say “no one who challenges us” and it’s all good.
Its a narrative ploy to buttress the calls for a Code of Ethics in the SCOTUS
We reserve the right to deny access to anyone for any reason. Them’s the rules.
They needn’t have bothered, Karine Jean-Pierre could pull a M249 out from under the podium and spray down the entire press corps and the very same D.C. court would sign off on it.
Wait….
…and who can be thrown out for behavior officials determine isn’t “professional.”
Didn’t they just grovel to the Tennessee Three or whatever the silly name was for the reps who were kicked out for….not being professional.
Time to rein in that unruly White House press corps. Remember this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tknWsvZ3Gp4
Most of them just want to give Biden a handjob. Why won’t Biden let them stroke him off?
Yeah, sure.
As Democrats coalesce around him as their inevitable nominee, President Biden still narrowly leads former President Donald Trump in a 2024 general-election matchup, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.
Yet the results also expose significant vulnerabilities for Biden — including his advanced age and the widespread perception that his running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, would not be “ready to assume the presidency” if necessary.
That narrow lead is your margin of fraud.
“coalesce” – calcify, fossilize…
They’re going to manufacture a win regardless, why even bother with the narrative pump priming anymore?
There’s an older couple in Peoria who still things elections are legit.
The Soviets had elections. What does that prove exactly?
The bill hasn’t been passed, but it’s never too early to panic,
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/people-arent-showing-up-to-work-south-florida-workers-already-feeling-heat-of-immigration-bill/
Also, free healthcare!
The bill also has a crackdown on healthcare, saying that hospitals must report the patient’s immigration status if they are using Medicare.
They’re all on Medicare or Medicaid. Damn near all of them, at least. The newest thing with Medicaid is giving them money every month they can use to buy “health” items and sometimes grocery items.
And don’t forget the EBT for food.
It’s the reporting that’s the rub.
The transfer payments are well known to anyone that cares to know.
The Medicaid to Medicare ratio is probably 10:1. Medicare is for oldsters and has premiums attached. Medicaid is income based with no age restrictions. Old Hispanic immigrants are economically useless for the Rs and politically useless for the Ds. You gotta get those young Latino pool boys and construction laborers and their activist, citizenship-creating baby mamas.
Also, I wonder what’s changed…
FDA advisers endorse making birth control pill available over the counter
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/05/10/birth-control-pill-over-the-counter-fda/
Certain pharma companies upped their lobbying cash, and the medical interests who might lose out on that are now getting that sweet “life-affirming child health care money”, so they’re cool
with it.
Crap. s/b “gender affirming”
I love that this is being framed so the FDA gets the credit, and nobody mentions that Repubs have supported this, and Dems opposed it, for years.
What an interesting and yet unsurprising bit of trivia.
“Her grandfather, Calvin Taylor, who has legal custody of the child, agreed that the boy’s “behavior had changed [for the better] in the classroom” before the shooting.”
https://nypost.com/2023/05/10/mom-of-boy-who-allegedly-shot-his-teacher-abby-zwerner-breaks-her-silence/
So, her grandfather is basically the only stable male in the kid’s life. So that’s two generation of males not present, from the sounds of it.
A 6yo with an anger management problem, no decent dad in the home, a mother who’s pretty much powerless over the kid AND has bad judgment, a (great?) grandfather who’s probably frail and also powerless, poverty-stricken home (I’m guessing) — this is not a child with free will. When I say that “free will” is circumscribed, this is what I mean. There is no salvaging this kid.
I didn’t know they lived in the apartment below me.
While I can understand the appeal of her gardening show, I’ve been enjoying this crazy New Zealander’s channel. He’s doing practical stuff that I’ll be trying shortly.
https://youtu.be/yQFB9M2UdK0
Why do they always do this
We have to add a million mouths to feed in order for us to eat.
Because they know how the large part of the American population is going to react to video footage of hordes of South Americans flooding to the border. The appeal to cheap labor is the only somewhat rational argument they have for their border policies. Then it’s right to cheap appeals to emotions. We might have a more honest discussion on the economic situation if “migrants” or “refugees” were subject to the same labor standards as Americans. Instead, you have the Dems on one hand pretending they are championing the working class with regulations and minimum wages and labor laws while opening the floodgates to millions of laborers every year whose only real appeal is that they aren’t subject to those same policies.
They create a black market, and then use the black market’s existence to justify this other policy they have over here…when it’s all really about getting future voters. It is demographic change based on the conceit that brown people will vote largely Democrat.
Is it really a conceit if it holds true for ~70 years and counting?
It makes me wonder who’s more out of touch, them or me. I’ve been hearing the same shit about immigration since 2005 when I first started deep-diving the subject for a college research project. “Who do you think is gonna work on farms or do construction, huh?!?!?!” I mean, I dunno, I come from 5 generations of white trash who’ve been working on farms and in construction for the last century. I guess I must be the only white lowlife left in the hinterlands.
“Without them we wouldn’t be able to pay millions of Americans to sit around watching Jerry Springer every day.”
I may being work on a flow chart that shows just how fucked up all of the incentives and results of progressive policies are. The interaction is completely toxic and destroying the country.
The trickle down effects of one awful policy decision lead to another awful policy decision. All of it just designed to give the Dems more power.
Because neither side wants high walls with a wide gate.
The more cynical side of me is that the Dems want more illegal immigrants because they are “illegal”. That gives a means of control and a way to get rid of the ones who aren’t thinking/voting/acting like the Dems want.
I thought maybe the fact that a huge proportion of the new wave are Venezuelans running away from a Marxist paradise would give the Dems pause. We’ll see if their voting patterns replicate Cuban-Americans’.
People often flee the results of bad policy; much less often the policy itself. It’s magical thinking to imagine that brown people from South America would behave much differently than domestic white Massholes. Few of the commie scumfucks running the place got their in military coups. People voted for it.
“got their”
Jesus Christ, seriously?
TedS’ had an embolism and died.
Illegal immigrants are definitely more reliant on free shit. That’s the game. You bring them over, force them to become black market labor with the caveat that they will get a bunch of free shit to compensate. They are naturally going to lean to voting for the party of free shit.
Legal immigrants have a tougher time getting free shit ironically enough. They’re also coming from a different pool of immigrants in general because they are favored for sensible reasons like they are less likely to end up on welfare.
Badnarik was the last LP candidate with a policy proposal I can remember. He was high walls/wide gate and treat anyone crossing illegally as a foreign invader and shoot on sight.
Exactly. It’s more than giving out free shit. Their pitch is, we’ll look like the good guys and we won’t stop any of you from coming in. But those mean Republicans, if they win down the road, they’re going to want to ask your for proof of citizenship for your free stuff, not let you vote, and they may even ***gasp*** make you go back to your country of citizenship until you’re able get here by legal means. It creates complete dependence on their rule.
I was also thinking of the Rand quote about not being able to rule an innocent man.
Fuck that, let ’em all in. Julian Simon was right.
For spherical immigrants in a vacuum, anyway. There’s so much extant market distortion that free market population growth theories cannot hold; the self-limiting actions of the market have been disengaged.
Prime Minister Sanna Marin, 37, and her husband of three years, Markus Raikkonen, shared on Instagram Stories that they had jointly filed for divorce.
Instagram Stories FTW!
I’m sure this is unrelated.
…just a few months after she came under fire for partying on the job and dancing “intimately” with another man.
I can save her bros…
It’s an amazing world we live in. Someone can go from Jr High School straight to being the PM of country.
I thought she interned at WEF in between.
“New York City isn’t some dystopian wasteland where no one can see their future,” writes Jerusalem Demsas.
Seems legit.
Yet.
Hey, Winston’s mom, what happened to your kid?
Ask him
That son of a bitch never calls!
And if he does show up tell him to fucking call his mother!
I’m sorry – what an ungrateful little man.
“Pork roll sandwich-sized meteorite that smashed into New Jersey home could’ve come from a comet more than 3BILLION miles from Earth
The black metallic object, which shot through the roof of a residence in Hopewell, measures six inches by four inches and weighs four pounds”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12069001/Pork-roll-sandwich-sized-meteorite-smashed-New-Jersey-home-couldve-come-comet.html
That’s a heavy sandwich.
Americans will use anything except the metric system…
Agreed I wouldn’t touch the metric system with 10 subway sandwiches.
An inch is defined as 2.54 cm. So we are using the metric system.
Negative. 2.54 cm are defined as an inch, so they are using the correct system.
Taylor Ham.
A brand of pork roll. Unfortunately the only brand in the stores down south. I preferred ShopRite tangy pork roll.
ZeroHedge gives their audience exactly what they want to see.
Huh. They forgot to mention the airstrikes in Gaza.
The comments didn’t disappoint.
Those comments are exactly what I expected.
Late breaking news that’ll matter to some of us.
Ohio lawmakers vote to set Aug. 8 election for controversial 60% constitutional amendment proposal
August 8th election will contain a constitutional amendment to make it harder to amend the state constitution by raising the threshold for amendments voted on by the people to 60% instead of 50%+1.
On which side do you come down? I’m honestly not sure which way I’d be inclined to go.
I’m 60/40 on it.
You know where those 3/5th’s compromises end.
I want it to be harder to change the state constitution. I see it as the only bulwark against really dumb voters making really dumb decisions (one of which would be pegging the minimum wage to inflation years back).
It’s petty that they’re doing it now, as they’ve said it’s just to make it harder for pro-abortion people to enshrine a right to abortion throughout pregnancy in the state constitution. At the same time, it’ll make it harder for recreational marijuana to pass.
I generally come down more on the side of making constitutional amendments require a solid majority as well, but at the same time, good policy is rarely popular, particularly as the blue/red divide deepens, so it makes me cautious of excessive majoritarianism.
Right now, Ohio is in a weird place, where the rural Republicans have power over the urban Democrats. As an example, the urban areas keep trying to slam in more “common sense” gun control that’s more restrictive than the state laws. They have consistently been smacked down by the state Supreme Court, and the state legislature has passed laws saying to stop it, but they don’t.
There have been similar back and forth fights over items such as plastic bag bans, traffic cameras for enforcement, property tax, schools, and several other things.
Dumb voters have as much right to decide their own laws as smart voters, this is why democracy and republics are in the end anti-liberty. Anarchy is looking more an more like the only right course.
Laws do not = constitutional amendments. If anything can be amended in a constitution by a simple majority, there are no minority protections.
You’re assuming that the existing constitution protects minorities, making it harder to change any given constitution may or may not help them (and as there are more then one minority group some changes may protect one and harm another). You’re falling for the flaws in Chesterton’s fence or Pascal’s Wager or something very close to them.
There are few rights that I support that should be enshrined in the constitution with any chance of actually passing. A simple majority should not be able to do away with basic rights that are already protected by the state constitutions. There are always scenarios that could arise where my support of a larger majority to change a constitution could end up producing a result I disagree with, but that has nothing to do with what I am arguing.
If 51% of the population wants to clamp down on free speech, they have no right to do that and requiring a larger majority makes that far more difficult.
Jesus was a carpenter. So not only is there a god, he could have built that fence.
See the first vignette:
https://www.glibertarians2019.link/2019/02/25/qs-brain-toilet/
I don’t disagree, and a utopian philosophy it might well be but it’s at least consistent so I’ll hang my hat on that.
I love ya, Hype, but your consistency with consistency is unsustainable and utterly devastating for anyone but the psychopathic tyrants.
Sorry Hype, you’re no kbolino.
As a matter of principle, a constitution doesn’t mean much at all to me if a simple majority can amend it.
+60
Yeah, constitutions are supposed to represent some kind of societal consensus. They should be hard to amend. I like the approach of requiring an amendment to be approved in two separate elections, myself.
They are supposed to put boundaries on the whims of fleeting majorities. If a fleeting majority can amend a constitution, well, that works against the purpose of the constitution.
Although, as someone who believes the Constitution is mostly a dead letter, it’s hard for me to get too worked up about it.
Now all we need is the threshold to remove a law or in this case an amendment to be 40%. There’s no reason for a law to be as difficult to remove as it is to enact it.
Remember those women who were charging wealthy, guilt-ridden white women $2,500 per head to have dinner with them, during which events they would berate the white women for being racist? One of them is helping to lead a sit-in to get Colorado’s governor to sign an executive order banning firearms…
https://www.westword.com/news/guns-here4thekids-saira-rao-white-women-power-colorado-repeal-second-amendment-16786759
“”I’m planning on wearing a diaper,” says Wolf Terry, one of the white women who will be at the Capitol on June 5.”
Some people have really weird kinks.
That one’s not so weird.
Here’s hoping she glues herself to something and is left to wallow in her own filth.
Sounds like an insurrection. A very moist insurrection.
Now that’s fucking weird. You sick fuck.
Stop flirting. You are supposed to get paid for that. Shouldn’t have to teach you how to be a whore.
The lady doth protest too much.
… using their political clout to force governors across the country to sign executive orders banning guns.
Not constitutional much, eh?
They don’t call ’em AWFLs for nothin’.
I’m still disappointed Saira Rao isn’t a parody. But she’s got her new grift, looks like. Good for her I guess, going after the Bloomberg money.
Ass Wednesday presents you with a universal vaginas through which femaleness can be accessed.
https://archive.is/IEgE5
So, is there a point?
Someone at work scheduled a meeting for 7PM and when I got on, I heard that one of the participants double-booked himself into another meeting and would I kindly return at around 7:30 or 7:45.
WTF.
Tell him the Panthers are playing an to fuck off.
So I saw the action pick up around 7:45, waited on mute doing some other work while some jokers installed some network certificate crap that’s not in my wheelhouse, only to fail at the end because nobody really knows what they’re doing.
Why the vendor of this software isn’t providing the support we need is a mystery to me and it’s a question I’ve had for awhile now.
Why are tonal languages so piercing? Woman speaking, I assume, Chinese and I can hear her 20 feet away.
OTH, I had class tonight at my Japanese school and sat down at a table full of Japanese moms waiting for their child’s Japanese class to end.
I wonder if they realized the old white guy knew what they were discussing. (It was cosmetics, nothing even vaguely interesting.)
Cantonese can sound worse to my ear than Mandarin with some speakers. More sing songy.
Agreed. Mandarin is somewhat pleasing in comparison.
PS. Until recent decades what most Americans heard on the street was always Cantonese, because that region is where most of the Chinese settlers came from historically. And that is where Hong Kong is, so movie influence too.
Eh, they all sound alike anyway.
As if all looking alike wasn’t bad enough.
One of my top 10 South Park lines from Randy:
I’m sorry I don’t speak Asian.
JFC…
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nyc-closing-city-streets-shelter-illegal-immigrants-title-42-expiration
NYC you voted for it, I just have to deal with it.
I think it’s time we start a non-profit that focuses on getting glibertarians out of these abusive relationships they have with their cities. We have the resources. We can help. If it isn’t financial, we can get you the counseling and support you need until you make the right decision.
I’ve just got to hang on for a few more years.
Like waiting until the kids leave.
Let me know when you can transplant about 2000 acres including climate.
I’m in. Counseling and business plans that show how easy it is to escape an abusive city. The ties that bind are in your mind.
We can call it the “I Told You So Foundation”.
I’m curious how many hotels they’ve already commandeered for this purpose. It seems strange that the information isn’t widely available.
Don’t panic, Glibsters. OF COURSE there will be a Glibs Humpday AutoZoom kicking itself off at 8:00 PM Eastern.