Likely going down
The hockey conference finals matchups are set. It’s Florida-Carolina in the Wales Conference (and nobody could have seen that coming). And in the Campbell Conference, Vegas will take on Dallas (in what I think most saw as a very possible matchup). They should be fun. The PGA is this week, and I have no idea who is hot and who is not, so I’ll pick Jon Rahm to win. And across the pond, Liverpool thumped Leicester to keep a bit of pressure on ManUre and Newcastle, but unfortunately receive a bit of pressure on Everton at the bottom of the table. And that’s it for sports.
Here’s a takeaway: Every single person involved should be removed from their government office and shamed to the point they never show their face in public again. They attempted a soft coup and then perpetuated it after it failed in order to undermine the office of the president. I know there will be no prosecutions, but these people should never be seen or heard from again.
A metaphor!
Really? I mean…REALLY?!?!?! Could they not find a more dull, unimposing person? This will last until the first primaries, if even that long.
I see no problem at all. You just write it into the budget and give some people pink slips. It’s what happens in the real world all the fucking time, you idiot.
Gee, who couldn’t have seen this coming? I like his stated reasons for failure though. And I laugh at his inability to accept reality.
I thought this was illegal. But laws don’t matter anymore.
RETVRN!
Sometimes I hate this country. This completely goes against the purpose of the project. We need to reject this kind go modernity and embrace tradition.
He ain’t lying. But I’m sure he’ll just be vilified rather than the local officials and residents take a long, hard look at why he said what he said.
Good. He needs to keep pushing. Because Texas taxpayers and children deserve more than this watered-down crap.
This ought to get your blood pumping. That song doesn’t get enough airplay. And here’s another under appreciated masterpiece. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
WebDom has pushed and pushed and we’re back up, friends. Everybody be sure to thank her because without her quick reaction, we’d all be doing something else this morning. Something less fun than this.
Thanks WebDom!
Thank you WebDom!
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Thanks! I was having withdrawal- but then I opened another beer.
Muchas gracias, WebDom!
👍
Work is indeed less fun.
When I kept getting the database error, I was afraid someone had to push the big red button. Thanks WebDom.
That wasn’t a NSA MITM error?
Which one? Diet Coke or Ice Cream ?
Thanks WebDom! And everyone else that makes this hive of glowie reprobates run.
Much appreciated.
I guess I should get off my ass and finish my next post.
Which reminds me, I have one sitting in pending unless the editorial staff mean to kick it back to me.
Also thanks WebDom!
Thanks, WebDom!
PROFUSE thanks, WebDom! 😅
Thanks WebDom!
Many thanks, WebDom. I always get a little nervous when I get a page error here.
“The Toronto shop, which opened in March 2022, will close on May 30, its owner announced in a statement, blaming a “lack of generational wealth/seed capital from ethically bankrupt sources.”
It would take a heart of stone, etc. I do admire his pursuit of money from ethically bankrupt people, though. Honestly, they do have quite a bit.
“Sims-Fewer ended his announcement to patrons by writing: ‘F*** the rich. F*** the police. F*** the state. F*** the colonial death camp we call ‘Canada.”
‘It’s been an amazing experience, connecting with so many great community members, sparking desperately needed debate, raising the blood pressure of Conservatives (that includes you, ‘anarcho-capitalists’ and ‘Libertarians’),’ he wrote.
‘Fulfilling the dream of most service workers by not having to tolerate the presence of professional class-traitors (pigs and military), and experimenting with living and working in ways that don’t enthusiastically embrace the pure misanthropy of Capitalism,’ Sims-Fewer continued.””
LOLOLOLOLOL
That guy sounds like he needs to relax.
Fortunately he will have a lot of free time to do so.
F*** the police. F*** the state. F*** the colonial death camp we call Canada.
He’s not wrong about that.
Well damn, they could have used this as their in house theme music. (NSFW – Lyrics)
“F*** the colonial death camp we call ‘Canada.”
LOL
Then again, my great grandfather did do time in a Canadian Concentration Camp.
I liked the bit about he just let randos off the street hang out there. The atmosphere must have been inviting. 🙄
I only hope a bunch of wealthy people ate there daily and didn’t pay anything. Then asked if they would validate their parking.
/\ Antisemitic dog whistle detected.
A self-described “anti-capitalist” café and coffee shop in Canada named The Anarchist
Um.
Look, the guy is clearly an idiot. He couldn’t figure out the basics of covering expenses, getting into the political donctrinal differences is beyond him.
I can see a great future for him in government.
I was just thinking this was Bernie Sanders as restaurateur.
Nah, he would have to have a chain of three shops, paid for by the gov’t, at that point.
Or University lecturer/faculty
Does that mean he’s saying that his business , essentially, was set up as a charity?
Not only that, but a charity that berated the chumps who contributed to it.
That’s not unique.
It is in fact, ubiquitous. I’ve often said that the philosophical underpinnings of Progressivism boil down to, “Be the biggest asshole to others that you can possibly be.”
It would work better as a Monty Python sketch.
Mornin’, reprobates. Good to see the site is back…
The Toronto shop, which opened in March 2022, will close on May 30, its owner announced in a statement, blaming a “lack of generational wealth/seed capital from ethically bankrupt sources.”
Why would an anti-capitalist cafe expect/want seed capital?
Martha Stewart in the SI swimwear edition? Wendy’s had this covered a long time ago
Why would you want it from ethically bankrupt sources?
Well, it was too hard to source free range organic seed capital.
The chickens got there first?
I remember the Soviets complaining to the US Embassy about that ad.
“And now… Tsar Bomba! Very nice.”
It always seemed more German Democratic Republic to me.
Eh, commies all look alike to me, anyway.
In a better world we’d be running similar ads featuring the Chinese.
Now I want a double-cheese-everything combo and a small chili to dip my fries in.
You dip the fries into the Frosty.
Nah. Chili is the only way to go. Especially with their new fries.
Also, order their new fries with no salt. That’s the only guaranteed way to get them piping hot and fresh. Then salt them yourself.
You will soon be able to get the chili at home.
Years back Mrs. TOK found a home recipe for Wendy’s chili, and that’s the recipe she always uses. It is surprisingly good for you.
I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to go with Sloopy has finally gotten something right food-related.
You don’t stick your potatos into the sugar cream
Why come you no follow the science?
Because it’s not science, it’s just more people being wrong.
Now I’m remembering when Wendys had a salad and baked potato bar.
I had the chicken and fries basket at Dairy Queen last night. It comes with buttery Texas toast and white gravy to dip your fries in.
So good. So bad for me.
These euphemisms!
Fries go in the Frosty.
Then, in my belly!
That reminds me – strawberry Frosties for a limited time.
No. Fries. In. The. Frosty!!!
“Police rescue man who claimed he was kept chained inside a bedroom at an Argentina home for THREE days by his girlfriend so he wouldn’t cheat on her”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12086461/Police-rescue-man-kept-chained-inside-bedroom-Argentina-home-days.html
She sounds a bit clingy.
If the house in the article picture is the actual residence, it wasn’t a nice one.
I’m pretty sure that in south/central America, “house” can be kinda vague.
Hmm… No picture of her face, I wonder where she is on the crazy/hot matrix?
Safe to say her crazy score has to exceed her hotness score.
I don’t wonder at all.’
She’s on the wrong side of the line.
Late but great. Thanks Webdom and Sloopy.
The Biden Circus just keeps on rolling, with the DOJ, IRS and any other agency all on board. Seems like the runaway train continues to be a Sunday afternoon drive around the park.
They’re going to fight reform tooth and nail. The only real solution is complete eradication of the institutions.
So we finally enact the French Revolution?
We need a Napoleon for afterwards.
Maybe Robert Reich or Jerry Nadler.
Jerry Nadler, and he could wear a shart skin suit!
Hold on, who’s our Robespierre?
Probably Adam Schiff.
And the bizarre thing is, the Dems are going on the record and being totally, 100% against doing anything against corruption.
You leave Martha Stewart alone!
Gladly, so long as I can resume forgetting she exists.
I sent that article to a friend. His reply “Chloris Leachman isnt available”.
Dunphy sucks dick?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12087277/Woman-accuses-Rudy-Giuliani-sexual-harassment-files-lurid-legal-documents.html
She looks cray-cray.
I guess after the Carroll Trump lawsuit payout bonanza, it’s open season on the politically unfavorables.
Yup.
Eyes like that are a warning sign.
Getting loonies to accuse opponents of rape is standard Democrat playbook. I can’t believe anyone is stupid enough to still take it seriously, never mind the memory-holing of Tara Reade.
Now that they’ve established you don’t need a criminal conviction and you get can get a large payout, they’ve really got a way to sell it to the nutjobs.
Be very careful who you hire and go the Mike Pence / Billy Graham route. Never be alone with them.
And what really blows my mind is that Carroll sued Trump for defamation because he denied her accusations, while in reality it was she who was defaming him by accusing him of actual criminal activity.
She should sue the jury for defamation for not believing her rape allegation.
Never be alone with them.
Doesn’t matter. I can absolutely guarantee that Trump was never alone with Carroll in a department store. Which is why she never specified a date or even a year for the accusation, so he had no chance to prove he was actually elsewhere.
Evidence doesn’t matter if you get in front of a rigged NYC or DC jury.
A NYC or DC jury isn’t “rigged”, it’s just naturally made up of dumb and/or insane people.
Statutes of limitations exist for a reason. This character assassination decades after the alleged activities is bullshit.
Uh, this litigation is about what happened in 2019.
Oh crap. When they call him the ex-mayor in the title, I assumed it was from back then.
That’s a rambunctious 78. Good for him, and bad of course.
“February 11, 2022 – Durham filing reveals Clinton paid to have Trump Tower and White House servers hacked to ‘fabricate’ ties between Trump and Russia.”
Lock her up?
Are we still doing “nobody is above the law”?
Unfortunately, we’ve never done that.
I think we’re still doing “what difference, at this point…”
Depends on what letter is next to your name.
Pretty sure Durham was careful to let the statute of limitations run before his “investigation” was “complete”. We’ve all known the essentials for years and years, after all. Why it took him 10 years to “get to the bottom of it”, well. . . .
Yep, his job was to run out the clock. Mission accomplished.
Another amusing AI ad. Beer this time.
https://vimeo.com/821962936
Speaking of beer ads, has anybody seen this bit of retardation yet?
https://twitter.com/mythinformedmke/status/1658105536972218369
I think that was not a recent ad, but it flew under the radar until the Bud Light fiasco.
It was from March, IIRC. Before the Bud Light fiasco.
Tundra dropped a link to that yesterday. I did some digging, and the ad was released a couple months back. It looks like they’ve already taken down the URL referenced in the ad as well. I think they were hoping it snuck under the radar, until it popped up again.
Looks like the majors have picked it up.
https://nypost.com/2023/05/15/miller-lite-silent-on-woke-ad-following-bud-light-disaster/
Going for the underserved Billie Jean King market.
I scrolled down and I guess this is the actress, Ilana Glazer, I looked up her Wikipedia, can anyone square this circle?
All that matters is what you say, not what you do.
Queer has essentially devolved into meaning a progressive ally of the QUILTBAG movement.
I’m guessing he’s getting cucked, and when she says she’s out with her girlfriend, she’s really banging her boyfriend.
I’d get a DNA test on the kid if I was him.
There’s an awkward conversation. “Sweetie, I’m going to need a DNA test to prove our little bean is my get.”
Really, if that’s where you’re at in your relationship, maybe it’s time to move on.
I used to work with a guy with 4 kids, and he bragged about getting a paternity test for every kid.
I don’t understand people.
This guy also argued that some NFL player with multiple kids from multiple women was a good father because he paid child support.
We are indeed living in strange times.
Daily Quordle 477
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m-w.com/games/quordle
Blossom Puzzle, May 16
Letters: E I M P O R S
My score: 308 points
My longest word: 10 letters
💮 🌸 💐 🌷 🌹 🌼 🏵 🌺 🌻 💮
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
Ugh BL is another rhyming dictionary.
Daily Quordle 477
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Daily Quordle 477
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on the line
Daily Quordle 477
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Blossom Puzzle, May 16
Letters: E I M P O R S
My score: 372 points
My longest word: 11 letters
🌷 💮 🏵 🌺 🌻 💐 🌸 🌹 🌼 🌷 💮
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
but these people should never be seen or heard from again.
Lamp posts would ensure that they would be seen but not heard from.
Pence allies launch super PAC to support a potential candidacy
This milquetoast cunte has zero chance. Might as well back JEB!.
Maybe he figures the establishment R’s owe him after he served them as agent provocateur inside the Trump admin.
He’ll have to compete with neo-con-Nikki, Tim Scott, and slew of other establishment types for the middle-of-the-road Boomer vote.
Who will drop out before the primary? That’s the real question. First out may get to be the VP
“IRS removes ENTIRE team probing Hunter Biden’s tax returns, as whistleblower claims move is retaliation after he accused agency of working to cover-up first son’s financial ‘crimes'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12087671/IRS-removes-ENTIRE-team-probing-Hunter-Bidens-tax-returns.html
“Outrage at Durham report for finding Hillary Clinton committed ‘no provable criminal offense’ despite APPROVING plan to ‘vilify Trump and stir up scandal between him and Russians prior to 2016 election”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12089463/Hillary-Clinton-DENIED-trying-vilify-Trump-2022-interview-John-Durham.html
Anyone notice a slight trend?
Could Trump sue her and the DNC for defamation? Could he also sue anybody who was briefed on this but perpetuated what they knew was a lie?
I think he should do so. And file the suit somewhere in the Texas panhandle or perhaps rural Wyoming.
Sure and it would be dismissed. Even in TX panhandle. Or maybe after discovery was used to try to embarrass or goad him.
Why would it be dismissed?
Orange Man Bad.
Hats off to WebDOM, and a word but not a thought; I now respect John Lydon more that Joe Strummer.
Rotten’s alright.
A young Kathy Ireland held a very special place in a young robc’s …umm…heart.
Yes. The SI swimsuit issue used to be a wonderful event in my youth.
WOOT! US Men’s National Team lands very promising striker!
Nice. They do play fast and loose with those national eligibility rules.
Well he is a U.S. citizen, for tax purposes, anyway.
His parents were “conveniently” on vacation visiting family in New York when he was born.
That sucks for him.
Balogun has enjoyed a breakout season in France’s top tier, on loan from Arsenal
Gross.
Yesterday morning had tattoo age limits linked her. When I got home from work, the wife mentioned the same thing from one of the radio shows she was listening to in the afternoon. Funny how quickly certain things get picked up (or are pushed).
WSJ still holds influence on the MSM talking points of the day.
Martha Stewart looks good for 81, and a lot better airbrushed than the silicone and tatted “models” that have had free run of that issue for years now.
Target selling “tuck friendly” swimsuits to children.
Tucking in your junk? No wonder trannies seem so angry all the time.
Will they get a dude to be their spokesmodel or go the safer route and use Hope Solo?
If they had balls, it would be Peter North as the spokesmodel.
She seems a like a better fit for pushing a line of barware.
There is no way.
There cannot be a market for this. It is a parody, right?
Nope. Real
https://www.tiktok.com/@sarahbruin0?_t=8cMqGzIZg0U&_r=1
The market is being fabricated by the transgender cult that wants to groom and mutilate children.
Misery loves company.
Some good news: dozen eggs was $1.69 (nice) yesterday.
BREAKING: Accountant Invents Time Machine
Anti-capitalist ‘pay what you can’ café in Toronto closes after one year in business
It’s like one must make a profit in business.
Oh, that’s what I was doing wrong. I thought I needed to predict future trends, but always failed to make a Prophet.
Try being a poet, your writings are good
The skwerls semm a bit sniffy today, but I’ll give this a try.
According to my model…
Researchers behind the study came to their conclusions using a method that scientists have relied on in recent years to quantify how much of a role the climate crisis is playing in extreme weather and environmental disasters: They took actual climate data and compare it to an idealized, modeled version of the world where there was no fossil fuel pollution from the 88 companies.
Now that we have conclusive proof, we can round up the klimate kriminuls and put them where they belong.
Faked data and models pulled out your ass is how you fucking science.
extreme weather and environmental disasters
Never happened before the industrial revolution…
modeled version of the world where there was no fossil fuel pollution
The fuels are not from fossils and they do not “pollute”.
Did they also model the lack of machines and plastics?
So that we’re all doing backbreaking labor and global slavery is probably still around?
A thought on the Durham report:
I think this was mostly intended to make damn sure Hillary doesn’t run again. Some faction in the Inner Party wants her off the field for 2024.
As near as I can tell, he said there should be no criminal charges against anyone (including the FBI and DOJ participants) and that no further “reform” was needed as procedures had been reviewed and fixed since this happened. So it’s basically a whitewash for the Deep State, as well.
Funny that this and the IRS reassigning the whistleblower team happen at the same time.
I was thinking the news of Rudy Guliani playing grab-ass was the deep state drop to avert attention.
How do I discern the difference between what she is doing and extortion?
Asking for Michael Avenati…..
Yes it’s a whitewash. Hell, half the people champing at the bit for the results at the beginning have forgotten the investigation was even taking place or thought it was over already. It was essentially a delaying tactic to let people cool down and move on to something else. Durham’s not lazy or incompetent, he was complicit-just a slightly more respectable iteration of Trust the plan.
“I think this was mostly intended to make damn sure Hillary doesn’t run again.”
Was that even a possibility?
Has she been banished to the outer dark and her material form purged with fire? If not, the it’s still possible.
I hear if you don’t bury some of her fingernail clippings with some dried parsnips and a minibottle of hot sauce in a leather bag under an oak tree by the light of a new moon she’ll rise from the politically dead and run again.
…that’s not how banishing rituals work. Do you even SCIENCE?
Is she still breathing? As long as she is breathing, it’s a possibility.
Does that actually matter?
Maybe not for voting, but I think you have to be alive to run for office.
Of course, if she hides in her basement and campaigns from there, how would we know?
This is all part of a bigger trend. Those agencies are corrupt as hell, and anyone who is not a brain-damaged Dem can plainly see it. The Hunter Biden laptop, the Biden bank accounts, Crossfire Hurricane, dropping the investigation into Hunter’s taxes… each of those looks EXACTLY like a corrupt conspiracy. There is no other explanation. Yet in each case there is no “smoking gun”. No meeting on film, no memo that says “Hey guys sign this list if you’re up for doing some illegal stuff!” And there never will be. So that’s what the (also corrupt) media goes with. NO DIRECT PROOF! NOTHING TO SEE HERE! It’s all very frustrating and insulting. But I’m not sure what else can be done.
Yeah, to me the biggest “in your face” was the original Burisma bribe.
Dude brags about getting burisma prosecutor fired. Son gets millions. Business partner says they cut 10% off the top for dad.
“Trading on his father’s name is unseemly, but nothing is really wrong with it.”
That is the equivalent of a Fortnight kid teabagging you after a kill.
His entire presidency has been one case after another of shoving it into the face of the average American. The fortification next year to install whatever warm body they come up with is going to have to be epic.
And remember, they impeached Trump for trying to look into it.
“But I’m not sure what else can be done.”
I think we’re at the point where reform is impossible. There’s no fixing these agencies. The problem isn’t the org chart and policies and procedures. The problem is the people, and until that is widely accepted, wheels will be spun on trying to go down the blind alley of incremental reform. I wouldn’t even waste time trying to separate the wheat from the chaff – I don’t buy that its strictly a top leadership problem and the rank and file is full of good solid folks who just want to the best for their countrymen. The best I would offer would be an amnesty – you all lose your jobs and your pensions, but you don’t go to jail.
I just read a big MSNBC thing on the Durham report. Maybe It’s just an indicator of cognitive decline, but when I finished it, I had no idea what it was about; no grasp of what happened, or who did what to whom. It was as if the whole thing was in code.
Shorter MSNBC:
Republicans evil and delusional. Orange man bad.
This proves it.
NYT (Paywall) coming to terms with reality.
At the same time, the pattern highlights a major problem in many large U.S. metro areas: Housing has become so expensive that even professionals with relative high salaries are choosing to leave. Emily calls it “a pretty grim indictment of these places.” It is arguably the Democratic Party’s biggest failure at the local and state levels, given that the most expensive regions tend to be run by Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/briefing/cities-yimby-exodus-college-graduates.html
They just didn’t Democrat hard enough with social Justice and affordable (apartment) housing. Not to worry, those Blue refugees will remake the deplorable areas into civilized cities soon enough. You’ll need a perpetual moving van lease to keep fleeing as some would have it.
Nothing an avalanche of illegal immigrants won’t fix.
given that the most expensive regions tend to be run by Democrats
Curious…
Tens of thousands are “fleeing” NYC and the rents are higher than ever. The NYT should be happy to take credit for pushing policies that had the exact desired outcome.
Speaking of that…
Inflation Is Fake: New Car Prices Aren’t Dropping Despite Rising Supply
A bunch of us were saying the Durham investigation was just a cover up way back at the beginning.The reason was that we already knew in facts to indict several people. And if they were not running the same playbook they did in the Mueller investigation, you knew it was a cover up.
They could have turned over every stone on some of the small players to get then to roll on Comey and Brennan. They did not. They prosecuted Roger Stone for “lying” about something he didn’t do. He was bragging about how important he was, and there actually was no underlying crime. But to get him to lie for them, they put him in a vice.
Meanwhile, Durham had contemporaneous notes pf a meeting in which Obama ordered the FBI to frame Flynn for a crime… at the behest of Comey and with the involvement of Biden.
You have a criminal conspiracy charge involving the former and future president, as near as an Iron lock as you are gonna get unless she recants her email to herself. And he doesn’t even interview these people?
Pathetic.
“A republic, if you can keep it.”
Yeah, it is looking like that ship has sailed….
They didn’t even get cooperation from most of the key players.
Climate scientists have said human-caused climate change plays a key role in making these extreme fire events worse and more likely to happen. Jennifer Marlon, a research scientist at the Yale School of the Environment, said that’s why this study is so important.
“It shows how quickly the science about climate change causes is moving and gives us vital information about the very real harms to people from pollution from burning coal, oil and gas,” Marlon, who is not involved with the study, told CNN.
They are getting better and more open about finding ways to work backward from their frefabricated conclusions.
SCIENCE!
Good morning, Sloop!
Yes, l’m looking forward to the finals. You know what I’m not looking forward to? California fucking up transportation once again:
Highway to Hell
Dipshits.
Great article. Well, more of an informed rant. But still great.
It’s been entertaining hockey.
I was hoping the Wild would do better than they did.
The penguins didn’t make it and all the teams I hated (Bruins, Islanders, and Rangers) didn’t make it out of the first round, so I don’t care who wins, so I always root for game 7’s.
“Incorporation of features like engine idle shutdowns, where the engine automatically switches to battery power at idle”
Yeah, about that…doesn’t something like ninety percent of engine wear happen shortly after startup while the oil’s down in the pan? What’s the carbon footprint of a fuckton of prematurely dead diesels I wonder.
That was a cheerful read.
Housing has become so expensive that even professionals with relative high salaries are choosing to leave.
Are you sure those high rents are what is driving people away?
Housing in south Florida is out of control…. and yet the influence is massive. Kinda like those are linked around these parts.
Cost of living including housing.
Crime is an issue, but costs are the biggest driver from my viewpoint here in the metro NYC area.
News you can use: 3 Dead Giveaways You’re Dealing With A Wokefisher, According To A Psychologist
They might profess belief button their hearts hearts they have doubts. Beware the heretics and apostates in our midst.
Wow. Not sure if that sentence was the jet lag, my wife trying to distract me or Apple’s oh so helpful auto correct.
Probably autocorrect, Apple’s in particular is maddening.
Forbes is in the business of promoting successful woke hookups now? The hell happened to them?
I didn’t read the whole article; my brain hurts enough.
Just reading the highlighted 3 issues, they all seem like normal SJW thought patterns.
The one upside is, once they find each other they will never reproduce.
When the economy goes down the shitter and any/all attempts to inflate (no other choices) fail, what will be the outcome? It has to happen, even now Biden’s solutions are the printing press and the Repubs are in the race as well.
/Inquiring minds and all
Tom Luongo has an interesting perspective on the global economic situation. His take is that Jerome Powell and some key people in the Fed aren’t playing by the Great Reset playbook (interest rates low forever; let the plebs choke on hyper-inflation). While things aren’t good for us they might get infinitely worse (keeping the dollar on top) for the ECB and Europe at large if the Fed wins out over the Davos cabal. It isn’t going to fix our problems but might offer a reprieve for a while.
Plant lots of potatoes and veggies in the backyard?
“The failure of fossil fuel companies to abate their emissions after recognizing the climate risk of their activities in the mid-1960s is even more reprehensible,” Buch told CNN. “The continued greenhouse gas emissions due to these companies’ products in the late 20th century resulted in loading the dice for the western US climate toward a hotter and drier future with a higher likelihood of catastrophic wildfires.”
Phillips said the key message they want people to take away from this study is that fossil fuel companies need to be held accountable for exacerbating extreme climate events like wildfires, which are putting lives at risk.
“It didn’t have to be this way,” she said. They “should pay their fair share of the costs of these climate impacts.”
We should go back to whale oil.
Only after we punish the wrongthinkers first. That is the most important part of the process, after all.
I’m genuinely furious. Open AI is at the top now. I love their tech. Now they’re lobbying for licensing which will effectively halt new innovation except from… them. Or other top firms. This is atrocious, blatant rent seeking.
https://twitter.com/senatorshoshana/status/1658465060233019393
The PGA Championship:
I’d love to see a LIV player win it to see the announcers try to talk around it. Their tournaments are much more fun to watch.
Brooks Koefka, Dustin Johnson, and Cameron Smith are the hottest players from that tour who are in the PGA.
Signs that the culture war is turning:
I have kids in middle school and high school. Their friends are the united nations.
Race humor and sexuality humor is huge.
Taking my daughter and her (black) best friend to the mall the other day. Friend says “I hate this neighborhood” as we pass a subdivision.
My daughter, without hesitation: “you just don’t like it because black people live there. You hate black people. That’s racist”.
They laugh… “shut up, cracker. Crackhead cracker.”
More laughter….
They are fed up with the woke bullshit, they don’t even know they are pushing back against it.
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“I was so disgusted by the Jan. 6 riot that I deleted my Twitter account. I wrote introspective pieces on wanting to be part of the solution. (And I never liked Trump, and I thought Biden beat him.)
The Durham Report is 100x worse than Jan. 6. It didn’t reveal a handful of nuts getting out of hand & stealing a lectern.
It revealed our highest law enforcement agency trying to undo an election on ZERO evidence.
It didn’t disrupt a formal nomination proceeding for 3 hours. It disrupted a presidency for 3 years.”
https://twitter.com/politicalsock/status/1658245445183762433
“The national security agencies ran a soft coup against the sitting President of the United States, disrupting 3 years of his administration but promise they had nothing at all to do with Jan 6”
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1658423320813903875
So the two biggest stories about Trump, that went on for years, ad nauseum, were fake shit staged by the government.
Decline of Faith?
The importance of religion in the lives of Americans is on the decline.
However, for people who do still attend religious services, they say they’re optimistic about the future of their house of worship. Those are among the findings of a new report from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI).
Just 16% of Americans surveyed said religion is the most important thing in their lives, according to the PRRI study, down from 20% a decade ago.
Melissa Deckman, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, says that this data reflects another trend in American religious life. “Americans,” she says, “are becoming increasingly likely to become religiously unaffiliated.”
Or perhaps they have changed their allegiance to a different form of emotionalism and a priori belief. They now have accepted politics as the way to salvation and tribal affiliation.
This is a pretty good analysis.
And I have a feeling it is entirely intentional.