Milei
I attended a holiday banquet on Saturday thrown by my son’s HS band (tromboner). I came across a gentleman from S. America during the cocktail hour. Nice guy. He opened up the conversation by noting we were the darkest people in the room. Originally from Peru, he made the ex-pat rounds living in Chile, Argentina, and Columbia before immigrating to the US. Somehow or another we got into discussing events in Latin America which made me happy I do this once a week so I wasn’t a total idiot. Naturally, I asked him what he thought about Milei:
”Who?
”The new Argentine president. Crazy hair, running around with a chainsaw saying he’s going to cut the government.”
…He didn’t know who Milei was.
¡Enlaces!
Gov. Kari Lake mobilizes the AZ National Guard….wait Gov. who?
AMLO threatens to mess with Texas.
Cross-border rail services suspended due to the influx of migrants. Which is probably bad since we trade a shitload of goods from Mexico by rail.
Chileans vote down another constitution, this one crafted by “conservative” delegates. The government as left by Pinochet, remains.
Of all the trade organizations, if the OECD is saying you are an impediment to global corporatism, you are probably an impediment to global corporatism. Lula responded saying to give him a fucking Nobel Prize.
Crazy train, bagpipes, redheads. Whatever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“He opened up the conversation by noting we were the darkest people in the room.”
LOL
“Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs said she issued the executive order because “the federal government is refusing to do its job to secure our border and keep our communities safe.””
Gee, I wonder who she voted for President.
“U.S. Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, who represents southern Arizona, said he disagreed with Hobbs’ executive order.
“But I do appreciate that Governor Hobbs has rejected the brutal and cruel tactics of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Texas Governor Greg Abbott who have taken advantage of this crisis to inhumanely and illegally use migrants as political pawns and to politicize and pander instead of working on real solutions,” Grijalva said in a statement.”
CWAC
By shipping them where they want to go? Oh, the humanity!
Someone should inform that guy that Biden is shipping tens of thousands.
Minor ass covering – she is trying to protect down-ticket TEAM BLUE. They are only calling up a handful, and they are barely support roles. She just wants Title 32 money.
Yup.
Efforts to replace Chile’s existing constitution, adopted in 1980 under the Pinochet dictatorship, began in 2019 following anti-government demonstrations.
The protesters – many of them left-wing students – called for measures to address inequality and the cost of living crisis, as well as social and political reforms.
This is good. College students are idiots and they should never be listened to for any question more serious than “Do you have enough room in the toe?”
I wonder why no country has thought of “addressing inequality” before.
Equality is also achieved when everyone is digging in the mud for grubs to eat.
Whoa! But what if your patch has more grubs than someone else? Unfair!
“President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who took office in January, has argued for raising the minimum wage more than inflation as a priority to boost families’ disposable income.”
What could possibly go wrong?
Kind of reminds me of this. Only worse.
“Cross-border rail services suspended due to the influx of migrants. Which is probably bad since we trade a shitload of goods from Mexico by rail.”
We import a lot of bads by rail from Mexico and never export any.
When I was in the National Guard they asked for volunteers to do a border mission back during the W Bush Admin. I volunteered along with a bunch of guys in my unit.
Then they told us no weapons would be issues and personal weapons forbidden. We all immediately un-volunteered.
The “mission” obviously has nothing to do with protecting the border and neither will this one in Arizona.
You are correct, sir.
I remember when the Marines assigned to JTF6 capped a US citizen there.
January the fucking 6th?
I was on W’s Operation Jumpstart in Yuma, Title 32. They gave us M16’s and a full basic load. Task Force FORSCOM Border Support on the north border was Title 10, and no weapons initially. A couple months in they got around posse comitatus by deputizing the INS-assigned guardsmen as US Marshalls, and making the Customs guys honorary customs agents. Then we all got M9’s.
posse comitatus
the US is exactly like all the other countries: we strictly adhere to the clear meaning of our laws except in those cases when we don’t
I tend to think that keeping the border secure is in a zone where the military has some traditional remit.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday said Mexico was preparing to challenge a new Texas law allowing state law enforcement to arrest suspected migrants, which he called “inhumane.”
Dismissed for lack of standing.
“inhumane”
Most laws are.
“Mexico’s president, a leftist, often criticizes Republican Abbott as well as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, also a Republican, in his morning press conferences. He has urged Mexican-Americans to not vote for either.”
Foreign election interference! Also: Hey! All you people my corrupt administration ran off! I have a suggestion on how you should help shape the running of your new country.
Also, he might be on a little firmer footing on the charges of inhumanity if his country’s immigration policies were those of an open-border paradise.
Imagine your signature issue as el presidente is to argue in favor of shipping out as many of your subjects as possible.
Makes perfect sense:
1. Send ambitious potential troublemakers out of the country–the kind of people who might demand conditions for a better life.
2. Remittances come back, quelling some economic dissatisfaction plus an opportunity for skimming.
3. Regime stability enhanced.
Fidel Castro’s ghost nods, smiles, and strokes his beard.
It’s actually different than that. The illegals now mostly aren’t Mexicans. They are people Mexicans would rather go somewhere else, so shoving them over our border is likely pretty popular there.
Yeah, it makes me wonder if all the Mexicans who wanted to, have already jumped across.
(tromboner)
Yeah sometimes it’s hard not to be pervy around a bunch of HS girls.
I was disappointed in the number dressed like whores. Its a fundraiser not “the club”.
You’re all a bunch of ephebophiles.
pics or it didn’t happen
Its a HS. What you are asking me to do is illegal. You freak.
So you are saying they were naked?
Maybe he’s into really dumb chicks who are in their 7th year of high school.
There are people this retarded in marching band? I
Majorettes?
Baton twirlers.
Majorettes are the baton twirlers, no?
Apropos
“EXCLUSIVE Over 170 of Jeffrey Epstein’s high-profile associates will be NAMED in court documents set to be unsealed in the first days of 2024
Judge Loretta Preska wrote ‘unsealed in full’ next to the names of 177 Does who are Epstein’s friends, recruiters, victims and others whose names will be revealed when the material is released within the coming weeks.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12881277/Pedophile-Jeffrey-Epstein-associates-named-unsealed-court-document.html
If there is anybody important on that list, it won’t happen.
If there are more than 177 people associated with Epstein, then it will happen as nobody who counts will be on the list. Bets that Trump will be on that list?
Trump and 169 people associated with Trump.
The Deep State might have someone important they want to throw under the bus.
There must be plenty of people who travelled to his island and were not involved in anything compromising there.
Right. Next you’re going to say that there were people in the Capitol on Jan 6th that were not trying to overthrow the government.
“I got a POTATO as my Christmas bonus – and the vegetable is being TAXED on my next paycheck
US-based Amanda J Panda shared a post on X, formerly know as Twitter, that revealed she would not only be getting a vegetable as her work bonus this year, but that it would also be taxed in her next check….
She went on to inform her followers that the potato has a $15 value that will be taxed as she comedically asked users: ‘Does anyone need an assistant so I can just quit right now?'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12878653/Christmas-bonus-potato-company-tax.html
But what was she wearing?
That can’t be real.
I could throw a potato pretty hard.
Amanda J Panda is a perfectly cromulent name.
A potato retails for $15?
It was from Harry and David.
Ha!
It was Yukon Gold.
👏 Golf 👏 Clap 👏
As the comments note the employer shouldn’t be taxing it.
Smash hit.
Just needs some cheese with the bacon for the spud.
I.. don’t know if Spud would like to be covered in cheese and bacon.
Depends on whose wielding the bacon and cheese.
She’s just bitter. Classic case of sour
grapescream.Bet she calls them a chive turkey next.
“Holly Marie Combs CONFIRMS long-standing rumor that Alyssa Milano got Shannen Doherty fired from Charmed by making a ‘her or me’ ultimatum”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12879291/Holly-Marie-Combs-confirms-Alyssa-Milano-got-Shannen-Doherty-FIRED.html
America’s sweetheart.
I hope they can kiss and make up.
Charmed Inferno?
What did she do to earn her ire?
As a kid in the 80s, i had a crush on Alyssa. Never saw Charmed though.
https://youtu.be/lh32C7zKyGw
She’s an attractive awful person.
Today in “Golly, never could’ve seen that one coming…”
She wasn’t even a school teacher.
Dude’s shoulder surgery got canceled by the hospital for “technical issues.” WTF. This is going to cost a boatload of money next year because we’ve met our deductible this year. Come to find out, our hospital got hit with the same computer virus that’s taking down several hospitals around the country. I do work for Springfield Clinic in Illinois and two of the hospitals it’s associated with got taken down in AUGUST and they’re STILL not 100% yet. Meaning, the clinic can’t access their records.
Yikes!
Sorry 🙁
Sorry.
That sucks. Deductibles are retarded.
Speaking of commies….
St. Paul’s Commie mayor declares gay-rone-teed income program a huge success!
They cut off all other public assistance to them, right? Right?
I might be in favor of UBI if it replaced all other forms of support, but we know that wouldn’t happen. It’s also too likely that politicians would use it as a means of vote buying. “Vote for me and I’ll increase your allowance!”
You mean exactly what they are doing now?
Yes, but with wider reach.
Maybe, just maybe, a good plan would be to not have kids out of wedlock at a young age? I noticed that Damara’s age was not mentioned. The fact that she has a kid (with a baby) who is still in high school makes me think that she isn’t very old herself.
Ya know, I got a girl pregnant at a young age. And you know what I did? Buckled down and worked my ass off! I put my dreams on hold and did what you need to do.
A kid with spina bífida and her concern is diapers and college? Ok…
Also note that malnutrition is contributing factor to a kid born with it. Child #4…
The time periods studied there may have been just a wee bit misleading.
The way they report it, six months after the program ended, it could also be that it was getting off welfare that caused the improvements.
It was definitely due to the UBI. Would the Center for Guaranteed Income Research lie to you?
It’s a little odd that they don’t report it at the end of the program, especially the “got a job” metric. And why do I suspect that the ones who are more financially stable and have more well-being are the ones that got a job?
*The number of people employed increased from 49% at the start of the program to 63% six months after the program ended.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the program started when ‘non essential’ jobs were shut down, and ended after Covidbux checks from the feds stopped coming.
More importantly what’s their control group?
Never saw this coming.
Aside from the Brits what other nation’s navies will be providing more than incidental fig leaf covering services?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/19/us-announces-naval-coalition-to-defend-red-sea-shipping-from-houthi-attacks
Bahrain (no ships, just bases) Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles (wut?) and Spain.
The NATO ships should all have something to use. Now, resupply…probably going to be thanks to the US taxpayer.
Where I trust nobody to be telling the truth.
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/attorney-videos-taken-at-bar-pm-contradict-st-louis-police-story-41477984
‘I Am One Quarter Cherokee:’ Nikola Founder Gives Unhinged Statement After Being Sentenced To Prison
“A Hindenburg Research report claimed that the Nikola One truck was made to look functional by just rolling it down a hill, and that was later confirmed by Nikola itself.”
The suffering of native Americans caused me to commit a bunch of types of fraud.
Finally. You can finally watch Star Wars in its original Ojibwe language.
I wonder if there will be any additional footage added? Like how the Tuskan Raiders used every part of the Bantha?
Will Han shoot first like the Bro?
STEVE SMITH WAITING SASQUATCH TRANSLATION OF STAR WARS. ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE SHOW WOOKIE RAPE JABBA THE HUTT. AND LUKE. AND PRINCESS. ANd HAN. AND EMPEROR. AND HIM ALSO RAPE NOT-MOON-BUT-SPACE-STATION.
I’m tempted to buy this book for my go-to christmas present for everyone this year.
Whelp, I just bought that.
A stocking stuffer to accompany your book:
https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Butt-Cookie-Cutter-inch/dp/B09FX9B8QT/
All they have for sale are new. I don’t like paying full price, I would be interested in a used copy or a return
Nice you want to recycle. Most people are just throw their copy anywhere once they are done reading it. Real litter bugs.
“Gov. Kari Lake mobilizes the AZ National Guard”
You do realize that they will be assisting the Border Patrol in filling out paperwork and helping disperse illegals all over the country, not keeping them out, yes? Very many of the illegals who the Border Patrol “detains” aren’t in detention pending deportation; they are merely being processed before getting on their bus or plane to the American community of their choice.
No shit?
Cats In Therapy
Oh boy. Fun times with GM’s first new mass market platform from an EV enthusiast.
https://insideevs.com/reviews/701169/2024-blazer-ev-stranded-broken/
The Consumer Reports piece about EV reliability confirmed my biases. It also ended any thoughts of getting a plug-in hybrid (worst of all).
Tesla is a great second car, but even as a primary pretty good.
I’d never have any of the others including Porsche and Lucid as anything but around town cars. Third party charging is awful.
Uhh… nope.
The ever shifting word choice continues. Saw the mention in the last thread but good lord it’s taken over. My guess is that immigrant implies that the person intends to come here and and assimilate into the current culture. Migrant is just a temporary visitor who can move on or return without any obligation (but has full right to be here and extract all citizen benefits).
Migrant is actually a good term for this, as it rings the bell for “migration”, a mass movement of population. Immigrants can come in ones and twos. Migrants come in crowds.
Have you people seen this? If not I assume it will amuse many of you.
Oh and NSFW (cartoon nudity and such)
For some reason, slick Willie is right next to Hilldog but he’s raring to go. Would not have thought that possible.
It appears that Billdog is eyeballing the mysterious woman in the blue dress walking off in the distance.
Totally disrespectful to those who sacrificed so much serving the public. I love it!!
He replies with a meme “me seeing all the people asking why Trump is at the center of the picture”
“I think you’re missing the point”
Uh….
Can someone explain it to me? Because it went flying over my head too
President Lula of Brazil sugests he and his team should win the Nobel Prize of Economics because of their government policies.
Didn’t Krugman win it? Then why not Lula?
No because Lula’s a sack of shit and an asshole which, well, I guess Krugman is too. Nevermind.
This should be fine. I can’t think of a single thing that could go wrong.
https://www.newsweek.com/germany-will-deploy-troops-first-time-since-world-war-ii-1853409
“beginning in 2024, with most troops deployed in 2025 and 2026 and full-operation capability expected by 2027.”
That is the Bundeswehr I know and love – go a couple of hundred miles away and can’t get a brigade’s shit together for 3 years.
Thought of you when I read that earlier today.
All the paperwork has to be in Ordnung. That takes time.
Ally the Piper: any of you try to appropriate our North Sea greatness, I’ll lop ye in twain with my claymore
So… rumor has it that Colorado Supreme Court is blocking Trump from being on the ballot
So… trying to have an actual civil war?
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/colorado-trump-14th-amendment-12-19-23/index.html
Worse than you think
The Colorado Supreme Court had “little difficulty” in determining that the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol was an insurrection.
The court, in its ruling, found there was “substantial evidence” that Trump laid the groundwork to claim the 2020 election was rigged in President Joe Biden’s favor even before the election and worked to pressure Republican officials in various states to overturn the results.
BTW, I called the rigging based on comments from democrats in August.
When Trump was down 16 in August, they said he “would appear to win in a landslide on election night, but by the time the recounts and court cases were done, Biden would win in a landslide”.
Any DNC analyst saying that when their guy is supposedly up by double digits knows the fix is in.
also…. that is not the definition of insurrection… colloquially or legally
Who will take up arms?
I heard this before “If they charge Trump with anything, there will be blood in the streets.” *crickets*
I secretly kinda hope the other 49 states do it next.
What do you like so much about Uniparty candidates?
I don’t really care for Trump and he’s proven himself worse than or equal to establishment. locked up the country and turned it over to Fauci because it seemed popular, spent trillions because it seemed popular, etc. All while doing absolutely fuck all that we hoped he would do.
That would be a much longer rant, but I me almost prefer anyone over him except his likely running mate Nikki Haley.
The right doesn’t have a violent paramilitary ready to spring at a moment’s notice the way the left does. Maybe the right will just absorb barbs until there’s a cumulative effect and then it violently takes to the streets. I doubt it, though. The right’s efforts at political violence seem to be mostly unarmed, unorganized loudmouths who get swept up in a moment, but nevertheless fail to inflict any damage.
my guesses
a/ this gets appealed to federal circuits who disagree (admittedly, this would need to happen soon)
b/ then resolution ends up on the USSC shadow docket
c/ USSC rules president is not an officer of the US government, so Trump can run
is this the process?
he’s got eleven months to make this happen
I generally question Trump’s coherence and managerial alacrity, but with appeals being announced immediately one presumes an adult somewhere is at the wheel
The ruling is in regards to the primary which happens in about 2.5 months.
I get that, but
he doesn’t care about that primary other than the signalling this decision creates
he won’t be rehabilitated in 11 months; meanwhile, unfriendly gyres in CO will be turning and turning: why wouldn’t expect a double play from a hot grounder?
ok i see
I am hearing chatter though that if the courts don’t overturn this quickly other blue states will follow the example.
From the article I linked:
“The court stayed its decision until Jan. 4, or until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the case. Colorado officials say the issue must be settled by Jan. 5, the deadline for the state to print its presidential primary ballots.”
That’s a tight turnaround. What happens in the Colorado GOP primary isn’t really of great consequence. What could be of consequence is if courts in other states issue similar rulings.
If contesting an election disqualifies you from standing for office, we have a serious catch-22 with election integrity. (We already have the “standing” and “moot” catch-22)
This ruling reads like it was written by an editor at Jezebel
Expedited USSC rulings lead to bad law.
This is a terrible mistake all the way around. The only way to make sense of any of this is through the lense of communist activism and the cwpa plans to destroy society in order to remake it.
We need a savior to sweep this away. Maybe Tulsi can pull it off. We have lost our GD minds.
And only “far right ” fringe people and the fringe libertarian leaning left seem to see it. (Taibbi and Weiss types, not Reason folks)
Expedited USSC rulings lead to bad law
no one would argue otherwise, but that’s all he has time for
The Democrats bringing these suits had time to realize this was a bad idea.
The Colorado courts had time to decide this was a bad idea.
Now, they shove it in the US Supreme Court where anything they say is going to change and define US law in ways that will have unpredictable consequences. No way go avoid it now. Just like indicating a former president for perfectly ordinary occurrences. Once that seal was broken, everyone wanted a piece.
Now, even Trump can’t stop this travesty by backing out. A new level of corruption has been opened up and normalized. Without a rebuke from above, this Colorado decision becomes the defacto standard because Orange Man Bad.
Of course, this applies equally to Hillary and Gore…. and so also to most high ranking democrats who participated in those campaigns.
Short sighted.
** shrugs **
I’m just walking through the logistics and wondering if other Glibs have better insights into the process
I don’t have a dog in the fight: I ain’t voting for any of those autocratic clowns, and all the likely outcomes are in a narrow range of evil
I too have a habit of voting for someone with no chance of impacting the governance of our nation.
I have yet to see so much as a single elector say a name on my behalf.
Someone should tell the Colorado Supreme Court that winning a Presidential primary mean doesn’t mean you hold any office in the U.S. government.
Just in: Colorado Supreme Court blocks Trump from 2024 ballot
https://kdvr.com/news/politics/trump-insurrection-lawsuit-ruling-colorado-supreme-court/
… Shouldn’t you get convicted in a criminal court of treason or something before taking away your rights?
Sorry, I forgot we’re in amerikkka now.
Due process is only for the innocent.
This is an aside, but polls have shown that other Republican candidates do even better head to head against Biden.
If they somehow denied him the nomination, they would be truly fucking themselves.
Democrats need Trump to run again for their best odds of another Biden victory.
But they are not very worried about a republican president.
They are worried about a “drain the swamp” president.
You think they would care if Christie or Haley won? Mildly different arrangement of the deck chairs.
A populist? They have to destroy them.
Hence the reaction of Big Tech when Tulsi had her moments, or the violent counter offensive when Ramaswamy started getting attention. Or the attempted shutdown of people like Tucker and Rogan.
Heck, they would gladly cede the white house to Christie if it erased the populist threat. What are a few millions in bribes shifted around compared to the hundreds of billions in corrupt spending?
We all watched Trump fail to do anything noteworthy to drain the swamp the first time and the next 4 years would be an equal failure.
But Trump also has a the biggest chance of not winning — which would make this the 4th election in a row he’s cost Republicans.
I think it’s purely motivated by spite.
Just in: Colorado Supreme Court blocks Trump from 2024 ballot
Is this a great country, or what?
Win for the new banana republic!
That’s the way Iran’s, er, Our Democracy works.
“Let’s ban him, so mote it be.
Fuck due process and all of that shot.”
-The Colorado Supreme Court in closed chambers (presumably)
Our “legal system” is finished.
Update on the hospital situation.
Rumor is it’s a ransomware attack. The hospital’s effectively shut down, diverting all new patients to other hospitals and transporting ICU and other patients to every other hospital in town.
Anyway, my husband contacted a reporter and said, “Hey, this is going to cost us personally thousands of dollars [subtext: because hospital wasn’t secure enough].” Now reporter is going to meet him at the hospital tomorrow to get a taped segment.
taped segment
I wouldn’t: risk/reward profile sucks
YMMV
good luck
In this case, hubby is sympathetic against evil big business.
(Well, that’s the obvious way for idiot TV journalists with political biases to frame it.)
I”m probably missing something
there’s some upside I’m failing to appreciate?
I don’t understand what you think is the downside.
Pissing off somebody who may decline elective surgery.
My impression was that Don thought it would be bad for Mojeaux’s hubby.
That sucks, Mojeaux. Hopefully some publicity will shame the hospital into covering your costs.
This also reenforces my previous decision to avoid healthcare IT – simultaneously burdened with onerous requirements and being populated with people who are not very good (because they don’t pay enough).
IT is like plumbing – you don’t think about it at all until it goes horribly wrong.
That. What you said.
Funny… after a recent hospital stay I was convinced that the big hospital in our area desperately needed me to come in and clean up their systems.
Yes, yes they do. Also, it pays $52,000 a year for a senior systems engineer.
Well…. you just tell them that Mojeaux is one of Cyto’s favorite people. And any husband of Mojeaux is a husband of…
Wait.. no. Strike that. That doesn’t sound right.
Hold up… lemme think.
Well, you get the drift. Just write what I should have said and pretend it was me.
Hey from Wyoming
WRT Alyssa Milano- brah, she got man arms
So you know what a mess that pink-sink is. Prolly have to blow on it just to find the seam.
/I miss the 80s
That’s her arm? She perfected the no-look autograph signing?
she looks pretty hawt there.
Seguin vs Neu Braunfels made a recent list of greatest football rivalries
split the difference and you find a sweet little pistol range
Wut?
Are you OK?
Tres lived in those parts: just passing on some frivolity that only he would understand
there’s also a tight little golf course in that same bottom
+ Schlitterbahn
She’s Italian extraction my man, what did you expect?
I expect that in her prime the hot and the crazy were at dangerous extremes.
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1737136571672072313?t=pB8bZc-uwO95ezrAINhAPQ&s=19
Epstien names coming….