Good morning one and all to another blessed day and to the morning links!
Illegal Aliens Entering at Rate of 4.6 Million a Year
Texas begins flying migrants to sanctuary cities with first flight to Chicago
Delta, American Airlines Fly Illegal Aliens To U.S. Cities
Biden backs Colorado Supreme Court claims that Trump ‘supported an insurrection’
California Lt. Gov. Kounalakis urges removing Trump from the ballot
Millions of student loan borrowers still aren’t paying their bills
Americans Are Turning To Even More Financing Options As Savings Run Dry
More Than 75,000 People Left California This Year, Census Estimates Show
If there is still a country by then
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Illegal Aliens Entering at Rate of 4.6 Million a Year
But if you notice you’re a racist.
I like that more and more of the American people that vote for free shit for themselves are getting madder and madder at this… They will be the ones to stop it as those of us that want to stop it because of its illogic will always be forbidden from making that argument and making the crooks look bad.
I cannot wait until Chicago tries to seize the plane.
Can the airlines bump “flyers of size” for “migrants”?
*Pulls out grievance card* Uh…seems we have an infinate loop sir.
Only “migrants of size”
How the fuck did any migrants of size make that voyage and not lose that size?
We don’t ask about the missing children in polite company, but you’re here so it’s ok.
+1 Fat Bastard
The other, other white meat.
Long Pork Al Pastor.
Seems low.
But then again, the Census bureau has been trying to inflate blue state populations at least since 2020. We need to fire the current Census bureau people and find unbiased autists who are obsessed with accurate data.
Maybe California is running low on the middle class.
Under this administration I have zero confidence in government numbers, because they have been repeatedly lowballing or high balling shit to claim they are doing good.
That article ignores the best part — where the Lt.Gov says you need to be 40 to be eligible for President.
If you’re not taking shots at your political opponents you’re doing “partisan media” rong.
Nothing like persons in power actively calling for a (now) private citizen to be barred from engaging in the political process of our (D)emocracy
But, but, but those illegals don’t have proper ID, how can they get through the thoroughness of our TSA protectors?
…patiently waiting for illegal orphans to deplane at Podunkville International…
How good are your welfare benefits there?
We offer all orphans free housing, food, and guaranteed work for life.
Typically this time of year I take off from Christmas until after New Year but with the move and being the new guy I wanted to pay it forward some. When I first joined and had young kids, the ‘old’ guys didn’t care. They had ‘seniority’ and by darn it, they will take it. I understand but that made holidays really tough when the kids were only 8 or 9 and a single dad at that point really tough.
My gift to the younger techs here at my new location is telling them to take the time off to be with family and your young ones. Mine are grown and it is just myself and Mrs. OBE and Ill cover.
You’re a good man, Charlie OBE
That’s good of you.
I’ve got the week off since I need to use the PTO or lose it.
Previous company I worked for had the week between Christmas and New Year’s as a mandatory PTO period. If you were part of certain departments, you were mandated to take the 4 days of PTO during that period (my department was not part of that). Always wondered how that would hold up if challenged in court.
It’s already been adjudicated, and yes, they can require it.
We shut down the company starting at noon today. Doesn’t keep some of the workaholics from working, but I’m not turning the laptop back on until Jan 2.
That aint teaching those whippersnappers work ethic.
Yu saying he is making these soft younger people even softer?
What better way to fuck em over when it comes time?
Amen brother.
I remember that BS when I was a single dad. I would put in my VACA request a year in advance, get it approved and, lo and behold, something would come and F it up.
Sick days for the win! I don’t care if I lost holiday pay, I would do my dad job.
I’m off today doing errands, then working the rest of the year. Things are going to be quiet next week. I might be doing some of that coffee badging you guys turned me on to.
Good plan
Millions of student loan borrowers still aren’t paying their bills
Why would they? Incentives…how do they work?
Note that not a single miniscule fraction of anything related to this effort is about changing the way this corrupt system enslaves and wrecks young people’s lives while funneling massive amounts of money to institutions that are there just to brainwash these kids into progressive idiocy. No accountability. No change to make these kids wasting piles of money for useless degrees. Nothing. Just free money from the productive (which more often than not made the right choice to avoid this money pit or if they attended paid it off) to buy votes. The people doing this are evil.
“Just free money from the productive (which more often than not made the right choice to avoid this money pit or if they attended paid it off) to buy votes. The people doing this are evil.”
So just a normal day at the office for FedGov.
Salvadoran Immigrant Who Fled Civil War When He Was 13 May Have Written Roadmap For SCOTUS To Overturn CO’s Ruling
But the 14A is self-executing!!!!!
So the constitution isn’t a suicide pact, but the 14th amendment is.
Got it.
But Epstein wasn’t.
Can we get a #1 gif here?
I second this request. Right on target GT.
Winner, Winner, Cheese Fondu Dinner!
(just for you, Red)
In some ways, Aidan’s act mirrored that of Anne Frank, who dared to express her honest thoughts and feelings even as she hid from rabid insurrectionist-style death squads.
I call parody site.
I think they think they’re for real https://afru.com/about/
Thier logo is a taijitu with a T-shirt and brain on it.
AFRU is funded in part by Google LLC, the Ford Foundation, and the Kingdom of Norway.
has to be parody
The headlines scream parody but the whole site really takes itself seriously
If could be a Kaufman-esque commitment to staying in character, to really nail down the absurdity.
The merch shop is a mish-mash. I don’t see how Marilyn in cat ears advances any cause. Maybe furry solidarity.
Kaufman esque, you say? So, it is the work of the Brochettaward!
My favorite article there.
Condoms are always a good idea and the ideal first line of defense, but because Black sperm can be very powerful, it’s important to be well-versed in other birth control options for backup.
“But we only did it once”
Maybe it’s the Cacophony Society?
In honor of the day, a lovely rendition of Ring Out Solstice Bells.
And a carol for our times: I Believe in Father Christmas.
Wishing you all the best for the new year!
To bring it back to you Beau.
Carol of the Beers
Santa Lost a Ho
Santa, on the witness stand, being angrily confronted by a trial lawyer, while the aggrieved looks on:
You called my client a ho! Not once, not twice, but 3 times! Have you no sense of decency sir?
I always thought the cartoon needed a second panel with Santa looking straight at the lawyer and saying Ho! Ho! Ho!
But then, I’m easily amused 😉
For those who like TSO, have a metal band doing instrumental covers of Christmas songs
the TSO is an excellent gun, but I can’t justify buying it.
https://cz-usa.com/product/cz-75-tactical-sport-orange/
Unimpossible! Just this morning on the TEEVEE the morning shows were proclaiming a joyous holiday as consumers spend spend spend! Never noting just how they are spending or what financial avenues they are utilizing. Like the above student loan borrowers, I suspect the general citizenary are banking on a credit card bailout if Biden retains power.
If it looked like a credit card bailout was about to happen for real, who wouldn’t max out with luxuries?
Hmmm, do any gold bullion places accept plastic?
Yes. Yes they do (usually with a service charge).
Illegal Aliens Entering at Rate of 4.6 Million a Year – that explains all the UFOs I suppose
Texas begins flying migrants to sanctuary cities with first flight to Chicago
Delta, American Airlines Fly Illegal Aliens To U.S. Cities
I mean isn’t that the point? I don;t get the complaint in the second link.
The beauty of it is the planes can back haul full, there will be lots of volunteers trying to get out of Chicago.
Nonsense on Christmas Chicago is a winter wonderland
“Just the fax ma’am.”
It’s also MAGA country.
Speaking of work ethic, I really don’t feel like working. Just wasting time. And I also have tomorrow. I mean I am working from home and poured a scotch while watching youtube, but I am online if anyone at work needs me…
But I did bang out a short travel post on Chapmanshaven so there is that. More images than text though. I have some political in my head stuff but did not get in the writing mood.
Greetings, Pie! I woke up at worktime (5:30 AM) and prepped for a Jeep tour on the Mexico coast. I would join you in a scotch but I have to drive the Jeep.
True one must drink beer or gin tonics while driving a jeep
Wait, RJ! I thought you were on a boat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU
I wish I didn’t have anything to do. /continues procrastinating
Whiskey distillers cheer as EU, U.S. strike deal to avoid 50% tariff on exports to Europe
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/20/eu-and-us-reach-agreement-to-avoid-50percent-american-whiskey-tariff.html
Some good news, though the good stuff never reached Romania. But if I understand enough about allocation and secondary markets, the good stuff does not reach most Americans. But maybe if I was an engineer in America I could afford the secondary market to try something interesting.
I still can’t get my Colonel E H Taylor here in PA. 🙁
Is Old Carter different than OLD CHARTER? questions….
Yes
I’ve got a customer who manages a liquor store. She pulls a bottle and let’s me know everytime the Col comes in. I just grabbed a bottle of small batch Saturday, and at $52.99, not the markup I see at some stores. Although I’ve gotten it as cheap as $45 at the local big chain, but very hit and miss on when they have it.
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Well I did just win a bottle lottery the other week and picked up a bottle of this. The OHLQ also announces when special bottles are being released (and which stores they’ll be released at), and do bottle lotteries for the scarcer stuff.
A new venture just opened near me to help people get their hands on other rarities. They’re starting by bringing in single barrels, and filling it for guests there, with plans to distill their own product for future release.
Or the state could just get the fuck out of the way and let retailers and consumers determine the availability and distribution of spirits? Ha ha I laugh to stop from crying.
let retailers and consumers determine the availability and distribution of spirits – isn’t that sort of the secondary market?
That’s what Watershed distillery was doing, a bottle lottery for the opportunity to buy a bottle. The only part that the state was involved in that one was the licensing/taxing side of things. There’s an interesting dynamic going on, because the distilleries don’t want to set the price point too high (and get themselves put into the “high end” category), but if they price it too low, they can’t produce enough to keep it on the shelves.
While I would prefer free market liquor (which would probably introduce a whole new level of middleman buying single barrels at auction), the OHLQ is light years ahead of most of the state liquor agencies.
I find it discongruous that New York has a small, fairly apathetic liquor authority that just issues licenses and penalties for selling to underage persons.
They make up for it in taxes.
I bought a 1L bottle of Rittenhouse Rye BIB in OH for less than the price of a 0.75L in NY.
Well, it’s New York, I figured everything was overtaxed
The tariffs provide a good example of how to screw the consumer and the seller. Now the US consumer pays more for Euro steel and aluminum, resulting in lower sales/use here, Euros pay more for American booze while producers take it in the shorts.
Adam Smith, where are you?
Politicians are good at photo ops, piss poor at economics
They should be doing this shit to China. Not everybody else.
Of all the bad ways our wealth is stolen, tariffs are low on my list.
‘maybe if I was an engineer in America I could afford the secondary market to try something interesting.’
What is stopping you? Plenty of Indians make it in.
I am not really sure I want to leave Romania for a far away place, never was sure of migrating.
Also they don’t do semiconductor Physical verification / CAD / EDA stuff in America.
You have been watching too many of those About Rumania videos you link here and they have influenced you not to leave…
Given our current political climate, I wouldn’t be in a rush to get here.
If Romania were to completely collapse, the Romanians would get together a make a new nation called “Romania”.
If the U.S. were to collapse and fracture along racial, religious, and political lines, no telling how ugly things get. Because diversity is our strength.
Workers for a Free Palestine
@Workers4Pal
Health care workers, striking doctors and supporters are shutting down Palantir’s London HQ.
https://twitter.com/Workers4Pal/status/1737739415290593772
Peter Thiel want to turn the NHS from the envy of the world to a third world non-functioning system like in the US where no one gets any healthcare except Peter Thiel
When they burn it down, I’ll take them seriously.
Everyone wishes they could kill babies like the NHS does, but we just don’t have the right people in charge.
Everyone wants to be like Germany, but do we really have the pure strength of will?
Christmas, Berlin 1961
https://twitter.com/slowberlin/status/1737534635226132815
Interesting photo. It is good to know that condition no longer exists in Germany.
Is fair for Jacobin to have 100x the followers of the average Tweeter if it doesn’t work 100x as hard as the average Tweeter?
https://twitter.com/cafreiman/status/1737483118838227054
Like ‘The Young Turks’, leftists can’t help but name themselves after murderous assholes. Anyone who willingly follows these nincompoops is going to get everything they deserve.
When your cult requires that make excuses for murderous butchers and evil fucks like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the Kims, Castros, and the Venezuelan and other genocidal evil leftists cuntes, a good tactic is to pretend they are actually cool. See Che.
Yeah, the veneration of Che is really alarming, and has been ongoing for at least my lifetime.
But he was so dreamy!
They’re really that shallow.
I was in a shop once that had Che shirts prominently displayed. I mentioned to the clerk how wonderful it was to see they sold T-shirts celebrating vicious murderers and did they have a Hitler shirt too. Clerk didn’t get it.
If I get a time machine, I’m not going back to kill Hitler, someone else would just be the linchpin. Instead, I would go back, and with great detail explain to Che the meaning behind this shirt. So that he can live the rest of his life knowing that his face is an emblem for the QUILTBAG community.
JFC. The cluelessness behind that shirt.
“Che would have executed you”
Ironically hate speech?
Never kill Hitler
“In Samour’s dissent, he argues Congress passed a law in 1870 allowing for both civil and criminal enforcement of Section 3, though the law was repealed and replaced in 1948. The new law, 18 U.S.C § 2383, says an individual can be banned from holding office if they are charged and convicted under the law. Trump has not been charged under said statute, as pointed out by Samour.”
Is the CO Supreme Court that severely riddled with TDS that they made such a blatant error in law? If so this may come back 9-0 against the court’s ruling from the SCOTUS.
The dissents were brutal and barely even mentioned except for ‘right’ sites/pundits/talking heads. The majority whistled over the failure of the district court to follow CO Election Laws timelines, failed at providing due process, etc. Im predicting 8-1 SCOTUS overturn with diversity appointee being the only one somehow seeing this as valid.
Out of the Rittenhouse LawTube crazy, Viva is by far my favorite given his journey to America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw4wdRs8080
Might have some language in it so maybe NSFW but he tries not to.
I forgot about Jackson… I honestly don’t have a good read on her, but her testimony was terrible. As execrable as many of the Justices are they do mostly try to follow the law, whatever flawed, and motivated reasonings and methods they may be using.
“Is the CO Supreme Court that severely riddled with TDS that they made such a blatant error in law?”
Yup.
^^^THIS^^^
It is about power. They do not want the American voters to take it away from them. They will stop at nothing. And if they are not able to abuse the existing systems t get what they want, well they will resort to force. Dark, dark times are coming…
I don’t know that Trump-related stuff will be the thing to kick-off bad times, but this is certainly a pretty bad precedent that could lead in that direction.
Its pretty unnerving.
⚠️BREAKING NEWS // Following a legal challenge by campaigners, Birmingham City Council have agreed to reconsider the Planning Committee decision for demolition of the Ringway Centre.
A welcome step from the council and a huge milestone in the battle to save this Brum landmark!
https://twitter.com/C20Society/status/1737157860100821187
That is Ug Lee
No one should be allowed to challenge destruction unless they Have an economic interest in it. Fuck off, preservationist slavers.
Unless you pay the taxes and upkeep fees, you shut the fuck up and stay out of it.
Glad it’s not in my backyard. Don’t know what it is and extend sympathies to those in Birmingham
The Swiss about to become super-productive. And Our Swiss about to move to the home office.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12885559/Switzerland-consider-legalise-cocaine.html
I saw that they were making a Paranoia video game and I was happy.
Then I saw it was Cyanide Studios, and I was sad.
Fuck you, Cyanide. Stop ruining things!
The Happiness is Mandatory game? It was released a while back, and then pulled off the market due to a rights dispute.
It did not get good reviews the brief time it was available.
It came back. I didn’t see it the first time around. But Cyanide Studios fucks up anything it touches.
Today in Evil:
In the local news there was a piece about the records of a communist era orphanage. THose were known as hellholes because commies care about people obviously. But details were not always available.
Between 1978 and 1989 the orphanage had 840 children come in, 468 of which died while in the care of the orphanage. I don’t think the worst of medieval Europe was that bad.
Well, those kids were not strong enough to survive and work towards becoming the new communist man (or woman with a penis)….
Wouldn’t be surprised if those were similar a similar ratio to orphanages during the black plague.
That is pretty catastrophic. I assume this is for just one orphanage and not the whole system?
Yes one for one county
I recall hearing that AIDS ran rampant through Romanian orphanages in that period at least in part because sometimes the children were given blood transfusions in lieu of food.
Ceaucescu got off way too easy.
That’s almost as bad as a Canadian school.
It’s fun that has become something “everyone knows”. The whole “whoops, nevermind – those weren’t bones and there’s no evidence of mass deaths” just got glossed over.
Biden probably thought they were talking about the senate sex tape kid and his act of inserterection in the capitol.
No trial and conviction. And no, that shit done in the media don’t count. Neither does the left constantly exaggerating and lying. but hey, move beyond that and presto? Fuck these people.
State courts can now deem you violated federal law and sentence you accordingly.
*Texas DAs sharpen their pencils on immigration.*
Just declare all Democrats are insurrectionists and kick them off the ballots.
I mean… historically that is probably validated, unlike the deal With Trump. They are a white supremacist organization that supported a full scale rebellion against the legitimate government of the united states (160 years ago, but still…)
Democracy is four judges in Colorado deciding if you are even allowed to seek nomination for office.
Another reason I think Biden is at least somewhat in charge. When he rails against Mega-MAGA he’s not reading off a teleprompter. He’s an angry, vindictive asshole.
He’s an angry, vindictive asshole.
He always has been.
I think that is spelled inserterection.
Oh, hello! Are you new? Welcome!
Hawkeye there looks familiar.
Hawkeye? *zoom in on avatar* Oh, HAWKEYE!
He may have been here before. My remembery is shot.
In an attempt to regain their cool factor among Millennials and Gen Zers, NASA has successfully streamed a cat video from space:
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nasa-successfully-streamed-8k-cat-video-over-18-million-miles-with-a-laser-transmission-averaged-267-mbs
Elon Musk responds by sending a humpback whale to the moon and having sex with it.
Whale fucking is no small task
*McAfee enters the chat*
Stay away from that stuff, it always ends in incarceration and “suicide.”
The one time I did it on a dare, she followed me around for almost 9 months until I left…
Oh wait… not talking about land whales.
Never mind.
(It’s funky fresh Alex CT new kid on tha block
And already got a fat girl on my jock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8AEt6Msl0A
(NSFW, obviously)
Life imitates South Park?
Sometimes in all their silliness, Matt and Trey can really highlight the “Don’t listen to kids ideas dumbass!”
A new special just dropped yesterday: Not suitable For Children. Goes after influencers, marketing items to children, Onlyfans, and affinity groups.
Fair warning… Randy starts an Onlyfans page.
Olivia London swimwear EP-2 in Slow Motion | Miami Swim Week 2023 | DC Swim Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcEtkkmCSZ4
The most breathtaking church from every state in the US – a thread
https://twitter.com/Culture_Crit/status/1737519588609343976
The Mormon church on the south side of Ft Collins is more impressive than the one in Denver. Especially at night, the way it is lit up. {{They}}* have more money than I would expect to pay that electric bill.
*wasnt sure of the proper brackets for LDS.
[[[they]]], iirc.
https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/fort-collins-colorado-temple/photographs/
The outside is pretty, but damn, that inside is fugly.
If I was considering [[[them]]], that would be an instant nope.
Back in the ’80s, I remember reading somewhere that the LDS church was the wealthiest corporation (or whatever) west of the Mississippi. I’m sure that’s no longer true, but they’re probably not poor.
Meh on the KY one. I would go with the Friendship Community Church in Alvaton, but I might be biased, as I was married there.
Since I don’t have an X account, I just see the NY one.
I’ll guess the Old Stone Church was not the Ohio one.
The Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus, Cleveland (1891)
Thank you. I’ve driven by that one, never gone inside.
The local Cathedral is quite nice as well.
The list seems to have been interrupted by numerous replies. Does Ohio ever get its mention?
see directly above, unless a reply intervenes.
👍
I saw a continuous list…
Threadreaderapp version
I thought our sacred U.S. Capitol building would win for Washington DC.
Huh, figured I’d pop on over to the other site and see how the commentariat was addressing the Colorado stuff. Lord have mercy, what a fucking dumpster fire.
I recently took a look at TOS comments too, maybe on this issue specifically.
People there are a bunch of crazies. /hesaysfromhisechochamber
Something I’m a little surprised that they don’t know over there:
“sqrlzy one” or whatever his name is a reference to being kicked out of the Church of Scientology. Which can only happen if you are both extremely batshit and also poor.
I heard about that CO dissent last night on the radio and I found it encouraging. All 7 justices were appointed by Dems, and 3 dissented. The dissent was basically, “Even though we’re sure Trump did something bad, there was no due process. If you allow this, then other states will keep other candidates off their ballots without due process and chaos will ensue.”
It’s encouraging to see at least some Dems realize things are going too far. And the SC can just say “We agree with the three Dem judges” and call it. Hopefully that’s how this plays out.
All the sane judges were non Ivy League. Those hoity toity law schools are going to be the end of US.
But there was a process. The state judges decreed he violated a federal law so they can sentence him in accordance with that law. /d
A federal law for which there is neither been a trail nor a conviction, mind you…
Evil vd good
For migrants, SB4 will mean more suffering, more mistreatment and an improper abridgement of their right to an asylum hearing and due process. Since the law curtails access to lawful humanitarian relief, it could drive more migrants to attempt to enter the country with smugglers and cartels, which is hardly a desirable outcome for anyone.
True, there is a crisis at our southern border. But Abbott is wrong when he says that Biden is doing nothing on immigration. Biden has ended Title 42, a Trump-era public health regulation used to turn migrants back at the border. He has granted Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan nationals; and set up a new mobile app that asylum-seekers can use to apply for appointments. Biden is taking action on immigration – just not the kind of action that Abbott wants. Nor are our borders “open”; this year, the administration has been ramping up deportations.
Let Biden handle it. He’s doing a terrific job. Everything is under control.
More “don’t believe your lyin’ eyes” talk from Honest Joe. I’m seeing a pattern.
Does anybody seriously believe Elena Hagan would vote to overturn that Colorado ruling?
I do, she is a political actor and a shitty judge but she’s not crazy. She has voted the right way when things were obviously against what her personal beliefs may be in the past, though if you asked me ‘when specifically?’ I wouldn’t be able to tell you, I just remember being surprised by what side she ended up on in some cases.
Surprisingly good on 4th Amendment issues if I recall. This has 1st, 5th and 14th amendment implications along with some original article clauses at play and of course OMB; so who really knows how some of them will break.
Yeah, but Trump is HITLER!
They are not using that tactic by chance. There is an agenda here. At a minimum they hope this serves to turn public opinion against him. That is not only failing, but people are realizing how corrupt our government is, and people are actually gravitating to Trump because of that. But I think there is also a plan B. If they do a good enough job convincing the usual mouth breathing marxists that Trump is illegitimate, they will have an army of “violent but mostly peaceful protesters” to basically make life hell for everyone else as a means to keep the new Trump administration from doing them too much damage.
I guarantee you if Trump is not killed and the fortification fails, that they will get violent almost immediately.
That is my fear. We’ve all heard “If you had a time machine it’s your moral duty to kill baby Hitler.” They’re setting that up here. If someone truly believes Trump is Hitler, they have a moral obligation to stop him at all costs. Election cheating, violence, whatever. And none of that has to be directed from the top.
The SC for the most part seems to take itself seriously. Not sure about the new ones, who tend to argue that something is a “good idea” instead of using actual legal arguments. But a majority seem to want to be independent and resent outside interference.
Kagan, Hagan, what the fuck ever.
Stupid fingers.
I got preview of the Epstein client list. In a Glibs exclusive, I am able to give you a partial list here.
Donald Trump
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Ouch, tag fail:
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Donald Trump
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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I like how they waited until the very end to drop the key point.
Was it her lesbian lover pissed that she had been sleeping on the side with a woman with a penis?
Funnier.
Look, just because she had to step down last time because she was embezzling money is no reason not to vote for her again.
Something something conviction something something
Travel agencies
The migrant surge overwhelming US-Mexico border authorities is being driven by pseudo-legitimate travel agencies and organized transportation networks that are advertising travel to the US southern border and ultimately connecting migrants to smugglers, according to a US Customs and Border Protection official.
Long befuddled navel gazer about the giant clusterfuck on the southern border. If only CBP had a bigger budget.
Not mentioned: NGOs and non profit “immigrant advocacy” organizations.
There is a huge lack of curiosity about those NGOs/nonprofits, who I’d think could be charged with human trafficking (a charge that’s been rhetorically leveled against governors bussing illegals north).
Not mentioned: NGOs
No, they mentioned the organized transportation networks.
Is anyone else thinking that the same idiots that thought in 2015/16 that to get Hillary and her 51% disapproval rating over the finish line the answer was to straddle the republicans with a Donald Trump because he wouldn’t have a chance to win that election, are again at it, thinking that if they use the legal system and abuse it to make it appear in the court of public opinion that Trump is an evil dictator wanna be, they can suddenly force people not to vote for him?
They ma be thinking they are playing 3D chess, but instead are playing retard checkers…
They’re actually trying to move forward with these court cases. If it were about public opinion, they would just slow walk these court cases and spend the next year talking about how Trump has been indicted for 91 crimes. But I get the sense they are hoping some of this sticks.
Did you notice they were slow walking all this legal shit and just doing the daily photo op of the shitshows until Trump started trouncing Biden in the polls with a margin too high to fortify in swing states? The accusations of him being a Hitler wanna be is now Plan B so they can hopefully have some lunatic take a shot at him or if that fails to happen, give them grounds for violent riots and criminality to protest the illegitimate president. And you know the deep state, the same one that spent years censoring and silencing anyone that pointed out they stole the 2020 election, will work hand in hand with them to prevent a Trump admin from running things.
The mug shot was a turning point. It backfired spectacularly. And now you never see it. But the more they throw at him, the better he polls because they are proving him right, they really are going after him.
I still feel kind of paranoid saying this, but the CIA has been orchestrating elections in other countries, and studying mind control and propaganda for decades, and it seems they are now directing that at our own country.
Nope. It was a brilliant stroke by our intellectual betters. Surely.
I think we tend to overestimate how shrewd Democrats are.
Why remove him in New York and California? No chance of winning.
Unless this is about the primaries. But the next two candidates poll better head to head than Biden.
I would agree that this is pure spite mixed with the erroneous belief that all of this legal maneuvering is going to hurt T Dog in the general. The Dems have been making some massive tactical mistakes over the past year and this is another one of them. The embrace of anti Semitism, thinly disguised as anti Zionism is another massive one. That one is going to likely end up costing them for decades.
It provides cover to the purple swing states who have the apparatus in place to do the same, prods them to do so even. That’s my takeaway: Knock him off the ballot in Wisconsin for instance and one or two similars and he’s unequivocally done.
Yeah… haha. Exactly what I’m taking about. We give them so much undeserved credit for 3d chess.
I agree with you that removing him from the ballots is the plan, but it is already starting to backfire. I don’t think they expected the dissents, and that SCOTUS could bootjack them on this. They are so used to having the power that they don’t think clearly all the way through things. Doesn’t mean that they can’t fuck things up in the long run, but there are too many players with no single coach, so to speak.
I think the Dems didn’t expect he would get this far to start with, and that they would have knocked him out already. But, things like that mugshot and the Jew hatred are not what they expected to happen.
I don’t think they expected the dissents
I guess we know who isn’t on Epstein’s client list.
I struggle to accept this explanation. They have smart people whose sole job is to think this stuff through. They have an endpoint in mind and have thought through 2nd and 3rd order effects.
These smart people also thought the idea of reparations for blacks was a good idea and went so far as to get commissions at state and local levels. All of a sudden there have been crickets about this brilliant idea as they figured out how supremely unpopular this bullshit was, most especially with Hispanics and Asians.
Thats for public consumption of their base and to shore it up. However, I think a quantity over quality is at play regarding these. It gives Biden (or any other Dem/Repub) fodder for campaigning against Trump and/or any of his endorsements that may come in the next 10 months.
Another is the Uniparty signaling the distaste for the half of the country that won’t get in line so they will ensure we do by ridding them of their choice candidate.
The best* timeline would be that the GOP VP candidate is listed on the ballot in CO, wins the state, and the electors all vote for Trump instead.
Of course, if the Ds don’t win Colorado, its a landslide anyway and wouldnt matter.
*actually, second best. The best timeline is the one where the LP candidate wins.
Surprisingly good on 4th Amendment issues if I recall.
You might be thinking of Sotomayor.
Yah, the wise latina is actually good on the 4th. Kagan just sucks.
I thought that was Harris?
*golf clap*
I always thought Sotomayor was kind of a cool
sounding name.
“Salvadoran Immigrant Who Fled Civil War When He Was 13 May Have Written Roadmap For SCOTUS To Overturn CO’s Ruling”
He achieved prominence by being the judge in the Aurora theater shooting case.
Horrific oppression
Minister of Human Capital Sandra Pettovello announced on Monday that anyone who promotes, instigates, organizes, or participates in a protest that interrupts public transit will be unable to communicate with the ministry or access its benefits. She also affirmed that the Milei administration will begin auditing social organizations that apportion government support as part of an effort to eliminate any intermediaries in the distribution process.
“The mission of President Milei and the entire government is to defend mothers, children, and families who need assistance during these difficult times,” Pettovello said in a pre-recorded address. “If the people have a right to protest, they must respect the rights of others to move freely to go to their jobs.”
“We also want to provide calm to the beneficiaries of these programs,” she continued. “They have to know that no one can obligate them to attend a march under the threat of being kicked off their plan.”
Further to this, Pettovello vowed that the government would be cracking down on organizations that condition their support for members.
“We are especially concerned about mothers who attend these protests with kids,” she added. “It’s unnecessary to expose them to the heat and violence of these demonstrations. This is a situation that needs to end in the new Argentina.”
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Earlier in the day, public sector employees in the State Workers Association (ATE, by its Spanish acronym) announced that they would be striking against Economy Minister Luis Caputo’s steep spending cuts and Bullrich’s new “security protocol.” The public demonstrations, the first of Milei’s presidency, are scheduled to take place this Friday in provinces across the country.
Last week, Security Minister Patricia Bullrich authorized federal police forces to break up political demonstrations as part of a controversial new anti-protest initiative. The protocol, which the human rights non-profit Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS, by its Spanish acronym) has called unconstitutional, included creating a registry of social movements and their spokespeople, among a raft of other measures.
Next stop: mass executions.
Great ideas by him. These leftwing orgs that wash government money have a lot of unnecessary power. This happens in the US too for various programs. Grants are evil.
| More Than 75,000 People Left California This Year, Census Estimates Show
I was thinking there is no way the population has gone down here even that small a number and the second sentence mentions that the foreign born population of California increased 126k the past year. That is likely an undercount as it is, despite the best attempts of the Dems that rule here, a highly desired place to be. You can make all the poo jokes in the world, but it doesn’t change the fact that enormous numbers of people want to live here.
Are they leaving the big cities but the smaller/rural areas are growing?
Twin City population is rather static over the years but suburbs and rural surrounding areas continue to grow.
Locally, Cleveland is losing population, but the suburbs have been booming.
There was definitely an exodus in the cities during the Virus Panic, and yes lots of people moved to rural or exurban areas, most especially the most scenic. Lake Tahoe area for example got a big increase. I see (through my work) lots of apartment move ins this past year. All the bullshit drove down rents about 15 percent so lots of people coming in to take advantage of a cheaper living situation.
Yeah, there is a huge part of me that wants to move back. I loved it there, with the exception of the politics.
I liked the produce. Hated the crowds, traffic, expense, and petty bullshit of day to day getting by.
One good thing about NY is the quality of their agricultural products.
If you do decide to come back Z, there are surprisingly some relatively good deals in real estate in rural areas. I’m thinking of buying a second house in the Sierras south of Tahoe in the next year or so.
I don’t get the appeal. I only see downsides that I’ve already got from where I am.
If you are in non NYC New York you have likely about all the same downsides with the additional downside of shitty weather. The upside is your real estate is far cheaper.
My house was $82,000. 1k-1.3k sqft (depends which document you’re looking at. I suppose some don’t count the enclosed front porch and some do)
East Coast real estate is generally far far cheaper than most stuff in the West. How many years ago was that? We bought our similar size house for 500k just over 11 years back and I’d say we could get 1.4 or above for it right now.
I bought in 2016.
The tax assessor claims my valuation has passed 100k since, but I call bullshit on that.
(My rent was going to be >$900/mo, the mortgage had a $650/mo required payment, plus I wouldn’t be renting anymore, so I moved)
My entire family is originally from California, and during covid a few more trickled out to Texas where I live now.
My niece is an amazing volleyball player who was being recruited by colleges, but California wouldn’t let her play during covid. Texas, naturally, didn’t give a shit.
It begins
Protests began Wednesday against the austerity and deregulation measures announced by Argentina’s newly elected President Javier Milei, whose government had also warned against blocking streets.
For years it has been common for protesters in Argentina to block streets for long periods of time; while Milei’s administration has said it will allow protests, it threatened to cut off public aid payments to anyone who blocks thoroughfares.
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Milei, a right-wing populist, is facing the first test of how his administration responds to demonstrations against economic shock measures, which he says are needed to address Argentina’s severe crisis.
The shocks include a 50 percent devaluation of the Argentine peso, cuts to energy and transportation subsidies, and the closure of some government ministries. They come amid soaring inflation and rising poverty.
Protesters “can demonstrate as many times as they want. They can go to the squares .. but the streets are not going to be closed,” Milei’s security minister, Patricia Bullrich, told local media.
Bullrich announced a new “protocol” to maintain public order that allows federal forces to clear people blocking streets without a judicial order and authorizes the police to identify — through video or digital means — people protesting and obstructing public thoroughfares. It can bill them for the cost of mobilizing security forces.
Some groups say the protocol goes too far and criminalizes the right to protest.
Those “shocks” are a response to “soaring inflation and rising poverty” but the liberal American press will do everything possible to portray them as a vindictive attack on the good working people of Argentina.
As far as identifying protestors via video or digital means goes, maybe the Argentines can ask the FBI and the J6 Committee for some pointers.
It was mentioned before but removing an artificial peg is not devaluation
You can make all the poo jokes in the world, but it doesn’t change the fact that enormous numbers of people want to live here.
California is a fantastically beautiful place, as long as you stay away from Greater LA and San Francisco. That is what makes it so tragic.
San francisco could be ok if you replace the population
It would be nice if not for the people
It’s absolutely tragic and has pissed me off to no end. Especially as I was born here and watched (largely outsiders) fuck it up. I will say that there are some surprising real estate deals here because of it. One of my hobbies is perusing real estate from the West of the Rockies. You can now buy rural land in many places in California for less money than nice spots in Montana, Wyoming, Utah and such. Nice spots in the west are becoming increasingly spendy.
Yep 80s/90s Cali was a rocking good time and great place to grow up. By 2000 it was clear I wasn’t going to lay a foundation in that state.
Mostly because assholes from California are cashing out and spending way too much on land elsewhere.
^^^ One of several reasons we left Vegas. I don’t fault those who inherited homes that were only 45K and then upwards of 1mil when sold, but unearned wealth (or how they handle it) is very rampant in Southern Nevada.
Mostly due to far too little single family housing being built in the vast majority of this country.
Come to the Ohio! Or don’t… I’m not your supervisor.
Single family homes are being built all over the place here. There’s a bunch of new construction going on around the corner from my house, completed were several 3 bed/2 bath houses, and what look to be 2 bed/1 bath houses (they’re not completed yet, nor on the market). That’s not counting the HOA developments that are being built out in the exurbs.
I liked growing up there. I left because it was changing for the worse.
Another airbag recall in the works
Major automakers including General Motors (GM.N), Toyota Motor (7203.T) and Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) and two air bag makers said on Tuesday they oppose the U.S. auto safety regulator’s bid to require the recall of 52 million air bag inflators.
Officials with the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) argued at a hearing in October that inflators produced by the two air bag manufacturers, ARC Automotive and Delphi Automotive, should be recalled because they may rupture and send metal fragments flying.
The issue is linked to one U.S fatality and seven injuries, NHTSA said, following an eight-year government investigation. If the recall proceeds, it would be the second-largest in U.S. history.
Automakers and manufacturers said the risks from the issue were exceedingly small and questioned the agency’s analysis and rationale for seeking a recall.
ARC said under NHTSA’s estimated failure rate there would be less than one new rupture over the next 33 years.
Make Airbags Optional
But that means fewer airbag chips sold. I dont see that working.
Let’s have a fuel pump recall too!
https://www.thedrive.com/news/2-6m-hondas-and-acuras-recalled-for-faulty-fuel-pumps-yes-even-the-nsx
Zion Williamson played just 29 games last season, and that lack of durability could cost him down the line.
According to Mike Vorkunov of The Athletic, missing more than 22 games triggered a clause in his contract that means the final three seasons on his deal that runs through the 2027-28 campaign are no longer guaranteed. In essence, the Pelicans could waive him following the 2024-25 season and face no financial repercussions for doing so.
The Duke product’s availability has been a major focal point since New Orleans selected him with the No. 1 overall pick of the 2019 NBA draft.
Not his fault the new orleans food makes him fat. He will move to los angeles and be ripped
I thought Duke’s was called Hellman’s in New Orleans.
In too local news, it was ransomware.
It’s a shame the FBI is too busy investigating parents attending school board meetings.
Yeesh. What a nightmare…
OTOH..Ray Liotta lives apparently.
Yes. We’ve met our out-of-pocket this year. if my husband doesn’t get his shoulder fixed before Jan 1, it’s going to cost us a lot of money.
Sorry you two are going though this.
Looks like they are a Cerner emr. The big one in the southwest was a different one.
Also looks like they must use some Allscripts components.
St John’s Hospital in Springfield, IL got hit, too. Not sure if it was the same group of hackers.
I would guess it is. Probably found an exploit that was common in hospitals and started targeting as many as they could before the flaw got patched.
Unless it was just someone who violated the security policy partnered with poorly configured/managed security permissions that allowed it to spread.
They’re an Epic emr (based on looking at their customer portal).
Also, Cerner is based here, so if it’s a Cerner problem, that’s also a big too-local issue.
Also, these may not be central to the actual emr system they use. Lot’s of infrastructure between the world and the emr that could prevent them from using the emr even if the emr itself wasn’t compromised.
Random procedural question:
Does this Colorado state decision have to go through a federal district court, or can it be fast tracked directly to the Supreme Court?
I believe it falls under the original jurisdiction clause cause the State of Colorado was party to the case. “Respondent-Appellee: Jena Griswold, in her official capacity as Colorado Secretary of State,”
But I am just a simple technician so who knows.
SCOTUS has original, non-exclusive jurisdiction over “All actions or proceedings by a State against the citizens of another State or against aliens.”. So SCOTUS could take it or let it go through federal courts.
“‘This ends when we kill these f***ers’ – Colorado Supreme Court justices are given death threats after disqualifying Trump from ballot: Judges targeted with warnings about being beheaded and shot”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12890061/This-ends-kill-f-ers-Colorado-Supreme-Court-justices-given-death-threats-disqualifying-Trump-ballot-Judges-targeted-warnings-beheaded-shot.html
“More than HALF of Americans approve of Colorado disqualifying Trump: New poll shows a quarter of Republicans also back the bombshell Supreme Court decision that has sent shockwaves across the US”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12888651/More-HALF-Americans-approve-Colorado-disqualifying-Trump-New-poll-shows-quarter-Republicans-bombshell-Supreme-Court-decision-sent-shockwaves-US.html
Civics is dead.
Argentine labor, social and human rights groups on Tuesday signed a petition asking the United Nations and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to intercede against the new public order procedures. The document states that the security protocol is “incompatible with the rights to free assembly and association, freedom of expression and social protest” recognized in the country’s constitution.
Let the sternly worded admonishments begin.
“incompatible with the rights to free assembly and association, freedom of expression and social protest”
It doesn’t affect any of that. It just says they can’t be assholes and blockade the streets.